Visual Arts and Crafts

Join us for the Sardis Biennial Lecture, with field director Nicholas D. Cahill sharing recent excavation results and discoveries.

Kids in 6th, 7th and 8th grade can come to the Library to make buttons and magnets. Snacks provided. No registration necessary.

Join Ivorian artist Joana Choumali to discuss her photographic textiles featured in our special exhibition.

Free Hybrid Lecture

Peter Girguis: Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

Chet Van Duzer: Lazarus Project, University of Rochester

Seth Estrin will examine the relationship between sculpture and emotion through an ancient grave stele for a young girl from Athens.

Bring the kids when you come to the Cambridge City Growers Seed Swap! Children will be able to draw gardens from their imagination. You do not need to bring seeds to participate.

Join a Straus Center conservator in a discussion about techniques and materials in a selection of works featured in our special exhibition.

Join us for an artist talk with Joana Choumali and her conversation with curators Ilisa Barbash and Mitra Abbaspour.

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Jade Xiao will explore how art exists both within reality and makes its own realities.

Madeline Murphy Turner will discuss a new installation of contemporary drawings that address ecological crises.

Priya Allen will explore the design and politics of historical drinking vessels and containers.

You and your child are invited to an afternoon of hands-on art activities. Unleash your inner artist and connect with other families as we celebrate NAEYC’s Week of the Young Child on Artsy Thursday.

Looking for a space to unleash your creativity?

Bring your project and come join other fiber crafters in your community!