Visual Arts and Crafts, Utilities

Come to the Library for games and a different activity each week! Kids of all ages can hang out and do crafts or STEAM activities. No registration required.

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

In this drop-in workshop, we invite families to make photographic artworks. With your permission, your process of making this creation may be later displayed at the Harvard Graduate School of Education gallery.

Join a discussion about 18 design drawings created in 1876 by John La Farge for Boston’s Trinity Church, which recently entered the collections.

Sachi Laumas will explore how three works of art engage with illness and the healing process.

Come to the Library for games and a different activity each week! Kids of all ages can hang out and do crafts or STEAM activities. No registration required. 

Wiesenbauer will explore the relationship between art and the natural world on this tour that takes you from the galleries to nearby grounds.

Join the Watercolor Painting Workshop

Jade Xiao will explore how art accommodates the fleeting nature of time.

Join us in the Children's Room for a fun craft and related stories. For more information, call 617-349-4010. This program is recommended for ages 5-10.

Join us for a day of presentations by guest speakers exploring Celtic art.

What's a zine?

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

Treat yourself to an afternoon of fun, creativity, and community while a local artist guides us step-by-step through the process of creating a beautiful acrylic painting.

Have clothes to mend or craft projects to work on?

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

British artist Stuart Semple will explore the role of artist material developers and how color can serve as a vehicle for powerful ideas.

In honor of Earth Day, spend your afternoon at the Library creating your own terrarium.

Create your own scratch art tiles. Begin with a black square and scratch a design to reveal the magical colors hidden beneath.

Recommended for children ages 6-12 and their caregivers.

In honor of Earth Day, spend your afternoon at the Library creating your own terrarium.

Using embroidery hoops, participants will hand-stitch words of affirmation while learning basic sewing techniques.

Come join us and sample a selection of books about the our environment and the natural world.

Join us for stories, songs and rhymes followed by a craft. Recommended for children ages 3-7 and their caregivers.

Come to the Library to create something special!

This year’s lecture will trace the iconographic development of Celtic coinages, exploring their visual language and sociopolitical role.

Celebrate the start of summer with friends (new and old), classmates, neighbors, colleagues, and family from the Cambridge, Kendall, and MIT communities!