The Community Art Center

Nothing better than taking a moment for yourself during the busy work week to slow down, enjoy delicious sips, catch up with friends old and new, and flex your creativity 🎨 🥂✨

We had a completely full Paint & Sip last week at Urban Park Rooftop Garden during our summer picnic still-life session 🍉🧺☀️💐💕🍋🍍

Didn’t get a chance to join us yet this season?! Don’t worry, there are two more opportunities for Paint & Sips! 🔗Check the link in our bio for all the registration details

Summer bucket list: go kayaking ✅🛶🌊

We had a perfect day out on the water… many of us kayaking for the very first time!! Thank you to our friends at & for showing us the ropes & guiding our adventure out on the Charles 💙

Healthy fruit-inspired collages by the Pop Artists during our Healthy You, Healthy Me week 🍓🍋🍒🥭Drop an emoji of your favorite fruit in the comments!

This week, the Super Stars leaned into their craftivism by refilling the little libraries around town 📚 😍✨ 📖

Future Olympians 🤸🏽‍♀️🥇✨ See you in 2028 👏🏽

Collaging, painting, crafting…. and a quick trip to the sprinkler park in between!
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We 👏🏿 Are 👏🏾 Young 👏🏽 Creatives 👏🏼 At 👏🏻 Play!

Aren’t these pieces by our Pop Artists spectacular!?!? Led by teacher Ashleigh, and assistant teacher, Kayleen, children in the Pop Artists created these gorgeous macrame necklaces with rose quartz, shells, obsidian & beautiful cyanotype totes, dyed by the sun 🌞. Well done Pop Artists! Do you think they should set up a shop???

The Creators, guided by lead teacher, Jordan, created these intricate assemblage art pieces. In monochromatic colors, each one becomes its own scavenger hunt of treasures. Perfect for a game of I SPY 🔎 🎨

Summertime bliss ☀️🫧✨

From ocean inspired print drips to crafted fishes we are fully embracing our under the sea theme this week! Stay tuned when our Art Rocks! Campers head to the aquarium later this weak

Check out the walls in lead teacher Cky’s room… a reminder to young craftivists and creatives, that big or small, your voice matters

Walking into the weekend like 💕✨

Day 1 of ArtRocks Summer camp! (We all now covered in paint!) can’t wait to see everyone tomorrow for another day of art, learning and community building with our friends!

Beach Vibes! 🏖️☀️🍉🐚 Tuesday’s Paint & Sip was phenomenally fun! Sometimes it’s just good to take a break from the busyness of life and get good and focused on slowing down - Take a look at a few of the masterpieces from this weeks still life session 🎨 Don’t forget to check out our other activities on the Urban Park Rooftop Garden… Links in Bio!

We had a blast at the River Festival!! Thanks to everyone who stopped by and explored their creative side!! 🎨🪨. Hope to see y’all around soon.

The count down to the 27th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! Youth Film Festival continues! 🎉🎬 Swipe to learn a little bit about our next four of our 11 talented youth filmmakers and films! Come out this weekend Friday 6/7 and Saturday 6/8 to see their films, hear their voices, and enjoy other fun activities and free food at this year’s festival!

For more details including registration please check the links in our bio! You don’t want to miss this!! ⏰ ‼️
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Let’s count down to the 27th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! Youth Film Festival begins! 🎉🎬 Swipe to learn a little bit about four of our 11 talented youth filmmakers and films! Come out this weekend Friday 6/7 and Saturday 6/8 to see their films, hear their voices, and enjoy other fun activities and free food at this year’s festival!

For more details including registration please check the links in our bio! You don’t want to miss this!! ⏰ ‼️

Can you believe it? We are four days away from the premiere of the 27th Annual Do It Your Damn Self! National Youth Film Festival 🎬. Talented young filmmakers from all over the country have created an incredible film showcase that you won’t want to miss! For screening details, check out the links in our bio. 🎞️🎊

Happy Friday! We spent a busy week making things together and having fun. We finished off the week making this collaborative art project and enjoying some delicious Have a great weekend everybody 👋🏽🎨☀️

What are your weekend plans?

We take painting VERY seriously 🩵✌️🎨

We are only THREE days from all the fun and festivities of Port Arts Festival! Move to the beat of the drum and join Jean Appolon Expressions for a FREE outdoor Haitian Folkloric Dance Class 🇭🇹 from 11:00AM-12:30PM as part of Port Arts Festival featuring Mural Masters. Meet us at 119 Windsor Street on Saturday, May 18th and dance to live drumming - bring a friend! This class is free and open to the public.

Port Arts Festival is a celebration of the vibrancy of the Port community and of the families and neighbors who live here. Come celebrate with us through art-making, dance, music, and food - we can’t wait to see you there! 🎨💕☀️🍔

The countdown to Port Arts Festival featuring Mural Masters continues… we are only 5️⃣ days away from all the fun and festivities 🎨💛‼️✨ Introducing 2024 Mural Masters artist… Phoebe Warner!

Phoebe “Crazypants” Warner is a Boston-based interdisciplinary artist who has been creating murals, paintings, design, and illustration in the area for many years. Much of Phoebe’s work is inspired by hiking in the mountains, mindfulness, and cultivating community. Pheebz has extensive experience working with youth organizations and other community non-profits and specializes in collaborative art-making ⛰️✨💕🎨

See you at Port Arts Festival featuring Mural Masters THIS Saturday, May 18th!

You never know what kind of unusual & wacky creatures you’ll find in the Ultimates classroom… enjoy some pics from Thursday’s play with polymer clay

The countdown to Port Arts Festival featuring Mural Masters continues 🎨✨‼️ Introducing 2024 Mural Masters artists… Curtistic!

Curtis Williams, A.K.A. Curtistic, is a Boston-based artist originally from Orlando, FL. He uses multiple mediums to express the breadth of his imagination, creating everything from vast cityscapes with giant robots and dinosaurs, to abstract paintings with vibrant colors and calligraphic line work. Several of Curtistic’s murals can be seen throughout Cambridge as well as the Greater Boston area 😍🤖🦖

Come join the fun at Port Arts Festival on Saturday, May 18th!!

The countdown to Port Arts Festival featuring Mural Masters continues 🎨‼️💛✨ Introducing 2024 Mural Masters artist… Mattaya Fitts!

Mattaya is an artist and muralist born and raised in Boston and currently living in Brooklyn, NY where she mentors youth artists as part of Artists for Humanity’s NYC studio. Over the past five years, Mattaya has created many colorful & vibrant large-scale murals around the Great Boston area and beyond. Her artwork can be described as “vibrant and fantastical imagery in which fiction and reality meet, meanings shift, and past memories fuse with the present and future.” Her murals touch on themes of connection, community, self-care, nature, and healing 🫶🏽💞🌱

Join the Port Arts Festival celebration on Saturday, May 18th!!

Join the Port Arts Festival celebration on Saturday, May 18th 🎉‼️☀️ Shop local with artists and vendors in the Port Market, vote for your favorite mural as local artists and the Public Art crew goes head-to-head in a live mural painting competition 🎨✨ enjoy food from & Frosty’s ice cream🍦🥤🍛 move your body in outdoor Haitian Folkloric Dance Class 🇭🇹 and enjoy activities for the whole family! We can’t wait to see you there! 💛

Let the countdown to Port Arts Fest featuring Mural Masters begin 🎨💕✨ Introducing 2024 Mural Masters artist…. Michael Talbot!

Michael describes himself as a Jamaica-born, Boston-based freelance artist and visual story-teller. Over the past decade, Michael has illustrated children’s books, written and illustrated graphic novels, and created many exhibitions and murals. He has created several projects in collaboration with young people and includes the voices of youth and local communities in much of his work. In Michael’s words: “I don’t see myself as anything more than the typical artist who enjoys his craft and seeks to make an impact on someone’s life. With all that is going on in the world, I acknowledge that it is necessary to have a chorus of voices bringing light to what is important and what us as a people will always need: unity, justice, and love.”

See you at Port Arts Fest featuring Mural Masters on Saturday, May 18th‼️

TONIGHT!! Join us at Community Art Center to check in with nurse practitioners from Boston Children’s Hospital 🩺… We’ll talk all things heart health & get healthy tips for Spring wellness 🧘🏽‍♀️🌱🌷We look forward to gathering & connection 💛

ATTENDANCE IS FREE & CHILDREN ARE WELCOME!

Looking for high energy, responsible, reliable, creative youth workers for Community Art Center’s ArtRocks! Summer Program! 🤸🏽‍♀️☀️🎨🎭🌱

Do you share a passion for the arts? For creative youth development? For high-octane summer activities & playful learning? You might be just who we’re looking for…

ArtRocks! Summer Program is hiring group leaders for its 9-week summer session. To inquire or apply, reach out to:
School Age Child Care Program Manager, Jada Alleyne
📧 [email protected]
📞 617.868.7100