MassArt Auction

As MassArt’s largest annual fundraiser, the Auction plays a vital role in providing an accessible, top-tier education to the next generation of artists, designers, and educators. With curated access to world-class contemporary art from emerging and established artists, adding to your artwork collection is a powerful investment that shapes the Commonwealth’s artist community and beyond. Every winning bid directly supports student scholarships and academic programs that foster creativity, innovation, and the future of the arts. For more than 35 years, this iconic event has elevated and energized Boston’s vibrant creative culture and economy. Join us in person or online on Saturday, April 11, 2026, and be part of a tradition that transforms lives through the power of art and design!

Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation

MassArt Night Market @ Downtown Crossing

Experience the MassArt Night Market! Join us for an evening of creativity, innovation, and celebration. This event unites the very best of our student and alumni-run businesses, offering an exciting showcase of art, design, fashion, homegoods, and more. This Night Market is more than just a market, it's a celebration of creativity and community at MassArt. Try your hand at an artist-led booth, purchase work difectly from the artists, and explore artwork and performances by the next generation of creative talent. The market will take place in Downtown Crossing on Summer Street Plaza and Washington Street between Summer and Bromfield. This event is made possible with support from the <a href="downtownboston.org">Downtown Boston Alliance</a>.

Downtown Crossing

May Stevens: My Mothers

May Stevens (Painting '46) believed that politics and artmaking were inexorably intertwined. Through figurative paintings, photocopied and collaged works, colorful political pop canvases, and somber efficient sketches, she criticized American patriarchy, championed the Civil Rights movement, and imbued Marxist ideals into everyday life. Stevens was a self-proclaimed feminist and a leading voice for women’s rights.  Born in Dorchester, MA in 1924, Stevens grew up in a working-class family. In My Mothers, the artist has paired her birth mother . These works are tender explorations of both public and personal struggles; celebrations of revolution and public life; and demonstrations of the mundane and overlooked aging process. A founding member of both the Guerrilla Girls and the collective feminist journal Heresies, Stevens understood class and gender as a fundamental, and often unspoken, element in art history and liberation movements. An alumna of MassArt, the nation’s only public freestanding college of art and design, Stevens’s work is provocative, beautiful, and distinctly contrarian.

MassArt Art Museum

Jace Clayton: They Are Part

Jace Clayton creates multisensory experiences that explore the unexpected and conversational nature of music from around the world. Interested in how sounds have and define social meaning, Clayton pens musical compositions, creates new audio instruments, and constructs participatory installations. They Are Part brings together three of Clayton’s works that interweave memories, sound, and public spaces, to create what he describes as “those waves of magic that happen when the human spirit joins with technology.” MUSEUM HOURS Thursday, 12-8pm Friday, 12-5pm Saturday and Sunday, 11am-5pm

2023 MassArt MFA Thesis

The Graduate Programs are pleased to announce The 2023 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions.   Join us at <a href="https://sowa.massart.edu/">MassArt x SoWa</a> for an exhibition in two parts. Curated by <a href="https://maam.massart.edu/about">MassArt Art Museum Executive Director Lisa Tung</a>, the exhibitions feature the culminating work of twelve Master of Fine Arts candidates, each in the final semester of their respective graduate programs in Photography, 2D/3D Fine Arts, and Film/Video.   2023 MFA THESIS // Part I   <ul><li>On View: April 29 – May 14, 2023 </li><li>SoWa First Friday Reception: May 4, 2023 | 5-9pm </li><li>FEATURING:</li><li>Yukai Chen (MFA Photography)</li><li>Catherine LeComte Lecce (MFA Photography)</li><li>Dara Morgenstern (MFA 2D Fine Arts)</li><li>Yana Nosenko (MFA Photography)</li><li>Ashley Pelletier (MFA 2D Fine Arts)</li><li>Katalina Simon (MFA Photography)</li></ul>  2023 MFA THESIS // Part II   <ul><li>On View: May 20 – June 4, 2023 </li><li>SoWa First Friday Reception: June 2, 2023| 5-9pm </li><li>FEATURING:</li><li>Kierra Crenshaw (MFA 2D Fine Arts)</li><li>Hadis Karami (MFA 2D Fine Arts)</li><li>Lucie March (MFA Photography)</li><li>Yuxiao Mu (MFA Photography)</li><li>Piyu Somani (MFA Film/Video)</li><li>Tiffany Wang (MFA 3D Fine Arts)</li></ul>  All 2023 MFA candidates will present Public Artist Talks on Friday, May 26, 1:30-3pm EST, via Zoom. In addition to the MassArt x SoWa exhibitions, the twelve graduates will present an on-campus, student-curated companion exhibition at the Doran Graduate Gallery, on view from May 1 to June 2, with a reception and theatrical screening on May 26.   Questions? Contact <a href="mailto:gradprogram@massart.edu">gradprogram@massart.edu</a>. GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday – Saturday // 11am-6pm Sunday // 11am-4pm And by appointment

MassArt x SoWa | Suite C-8

Linocut Printmaking Demo Booth at SoWa

Join Danielle Richard, graduate student in the MFA 2D program, for a printmaking demo at SoWa. Learn the process of hand carving and hand printing on linoleum, and craft a relief block of your own! Printmaking on linoleum requires little prep or previous knowledge and is easy to carve, store, print and clean--all levels of skill are welcome! In this demo you will learn the basics of carving while exploring experimental methods of relief from Edvard Munch's master prints and from here can make a custom stamp of your own to bring home and reuse!

SoWa Open Market

Chopstick Demo Booth at SoWa

Try out woodworking yourself! Spend ten minutes to hand plane a pair of luxury wooden chopsticks start to finish in this activity guided by Furniture Design Certificate alum Stephen Thrasher. Check out the <a href="https://pce.massart.edu/section/wooden-utensils-workshop-3/">Wood Utensils Workshop</a> taught by Ellen Adams on July 22 and July 29, 2023. In this introductory, course participants will learn how to design and carve wooden utensils. Students will be shown how to safely and efficiently use the bandsaw as well as hand tools such as gouges, rasps, files, scrapers, and a variety of handsaws. Whether it’s spoons, spatulas, forks, knives, or something completely new – students will leave with a small collection of unique tools. Great for those who are new to woodworking or interested in getting started in wood carving. No shop experience is necessary. Connect with your inner artist. For all levels.

Performance: Ceremony of the Steps by Jace Clayton featuring the Boston Choral Ensemble

Ceremony of the Steps, a performance piece by artist Jace Clayton, highlights two ways in which people join voices and come together – in celebration and in protest. On May 18, the Boston Choral Ensemble, under the direction of Dr. Katherine Chan, will perform a selection of their regular standards as well as a new arrangement composed by Clayton in partnership with the chorus. Through its melding of harmony and incessant repetition, Ceremony of the Steps features both a capella song and ambient loops of electronically-altered voices that blend the structure of choral compositions with the recurring chants for social change.  This performance will occur at MassArt Art Museum in the Stephen D. Paine Gallery, currently featuring the exhibition <a href="https://maam.massart.edu/exhibition/jace-clayton">Jace Clayton: They Are Part.</a> Free. Advance registration required.  Performer Bio:  Boston Choral Ensemble offers engaging musical performances that push the boundaries of what a choral concert looks like. The Ensemble performs compelling, musically-challenging repertoire in new contexts, untraditional locations, and in innovative ways. Concerts encourage audience interaction and create a lively conversation between musical pieces from different eras and backgrounds. Members are passionate about choral music because it creates community between singers and between the choir and its audience members, if it is done in the spirit of inclusion and harmony. To that end, BCE focuses on exploring and promoting an increasingly diverse range of choral music, on supporting new artists and composers whose work links this ancient art form with modern concerns and values, and on lowering the barriers to participation for our audiences.

Communication Design Senior Portfolio Night

ABOUT THE EVENT You are invited to the MassArt Communication Design Senior Portfolio Event!   Come meet our seniors, laud their hard work, and congratulate them on making it through their BFA experience. This will be our first time back in person for portfolio night after doing remote events over the pandemic, please join us in celebrating this talented group of lovely seniors.   WHEN &amp; WHERE The event will take place on Tuesday 5/16/23 5:30–7:30 PM, in-person in the Design &amp; Media Center Atrium, please enter through the glass doors at MassArt on 621 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 across from the Green Line E Train station.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, DMC Atrium

Gelli-Printmaking Demo Booth at SoWa

Celebrate spring, flowers, mothers, and the creative spirit. Watch Stephanie Stigliano demonstrate Gelli-printing and make cards for you to take home. Stop by SOWA on Mother’s Day, May 14th, between 11am-4pm and collect your card.   Stigliano will be teaching <a href="https://ane.massart.edu/week_two/prints-to-books/">Prints to Books at MassArt New England</a> July 16-22, 2023. Connect with your inner artist. Using printmaking and book structures, we will explore color, form, and storytelling. Join us for this intensive and social week-long course in beautiful and historic western Massachusetts. For all levels.

MassArt Fashion Show 2023 "Revival"

Massachusetts College of Art and Design will showcase the work of Fashion Design students in its annual fashion show, entitled "Revival," on Saturday, May 13, 2023 in the Design and Media Center at MassArt. There will be two presentations that evening, at 5:30pm and 8:00pm. Doors will open thirty minutes before each show.   Established in 1907, the MassArt’s <a href="https://massart.edu/node/901">Fashion Design Department</a> has been devoted to educating fashion and textile designers with a unique and compelling vision for the industry.   Ticket Information: General Admission $40 MassArt Faculty/staff $20 (2 ticket limit) MassArt student= $7 ( 1 ticket limit)   <a href="http://massartfashion2023_530.eventbrite.com/">Purchase Tickets for the 5:30pm Show</a> <a href="http://massartfashion2023_800.eventbrite.com/">Purchase Tickets for the 8:00pm Show</a>

Dummy Roll: A Moving Image Program | Film/Video Senior Thesis Show

J﻿oin us at the historic Coolidge Corner Theatre for a screening of Thesis work from Massachusetts College of Art and Design's film/video graduating class of 2023. This year's program curated by and featuring students features a total of nine moving image shorts followed by a reception next door at Parlour Restaurant and Bar post-screening.   A﻿dmission to this event is free! Click this<a href="https://dummy-roll.eventbrite.com/"> link</a> to reserve a FREE ticket on our eventbrite page to be added to a check-in list at the theater’s entrance. No virtual ticket required for entry.    P﻿lease contact <a href="mailto:sga.filmvideo-group@massart.edu">sga.filmvideo-group@massart.edu</a> with any questions. Hope to see you there! MassArt Film/Video Class of ‘23

Coolidge Corner Theatre

Senior Reading & Reception for Creative Writing Minor: 5 Years of the Minor!

Two nights of student readings! Come celebrate our seniors &amp; the 5-year anniversary of the Creative Writing Minor.   Tuesday, May 9, 2022, 5-7pm, with intermission/reception Thursday, May 11, 2022, 5-7pm, with intermission/reception   Food &amp; Drink provided    Tuesday, May 9, 5-7 pm Phoebe Cox, Film/Video A Elkerdany, Animation  Marietta Esquerdo Perez, Photography  James Johansen, Animation Katie Punchard, Illustration Tina Rea, Painting Maverick O'Meara, Communication Design Jenylies Suárez Rodríguez, Illustration  Parker Yarasitis, Illustration    Thursday, May 11, 5-7 pm Angela Agnello, Illustration Malaya Barr, Illustration Katherine M. Burke, Animation Esra Cetin, Communication Design  Ches Doyon, Illustration Sarah O’Neil, Animation  Dylan Reid, Sculpture Melissa Santos, Illustration

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Huntington Room, Third Floor

MEMORYHOUSE (​​​​​​​Opening Party)

Open May 9th - 11th Opening Party May 9th 6-8PM (with snacks) Arnheim Gallery   A group exhibition by an interdisciplinary group of art educators: with Lucas Amaral, IZ//HALL, Olivia DiBella, Jessie Jenkinson, Aryanna Martinez, Paris Stone, Sasha Torres, and Evan Wilson.   There's a famous line by Joan Didion: "we tell ourselves stories in order to live." She calls out a reminder; that the stories we tell are a mirror reflection of specific values. The group exhibition, MEMORYHOUSE, similarly calls out stories about personal significance; to live. We present sharings of childhood trauma, the craft of learning, decolonial gaming, spiritual growth, and glitch. We focus on homage, of musical communion, a poem written for a loved one, and a postindustrial home. Real or a dream, we search for an in-between. Hear us now.    MEMORYHOUSE is supported by MassArt, Art Education’s Capstone studio. We'd like to thank Julia Harrington, Rachel Oswald, Erik DeLuca, and Beth Balliro.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Arnheim Gallery

Two nights of student readings! Come celebrate our seniors &amp; the 5-year anniversary of the Creative Writing Minor.   Tuesday, May 9, 2022, 5-7pm, with intermission/reception Thursday, May 11, 2022, 5-7pm, with intermission/reception   Food &amp; Drink provided    Tuesday, May 9, 5-7 pm Phoebe Cox, Film/Video A Elkerdany, Animation  Marietta Esquerdo Perez, Photography  James Johansen, Animation Katie Punchard, Illustration Tina Rea, Painting Maverick O'Meara, Communication Design Jenylies Suárez Rodríguez, Illustration  Parker Yarasitis, Illustration    Thursday, May 11, 5-7 pm Angela Agnello, Illustration Malaya Barr, Illustration Katherine M. Burke, Animation Esra Cetin, Communication Design  Ches Doyon, Illustration Sarah O’Neil, Animation  Dylan Reid, Sculpture Melissa Santos, Illustration

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Experiences

MassArt Auction

MassArt Night Market @ Downtown Crossing

May Stevens: My Mothers

Jace Clayton: They Are Part

2023 MassArt MFA Thesis

Linocut Printmaking Demo Booth at SoWa

Chopstick Demo Booth at SoWa

Performance: Ceremony of the Steps by Jace Clayton featuring the Boston Choral Ensemble

Communication Design Senior Portfolio Night

Gelli-Printmaking Demo Booth at SoWa

MassArt Fashion Show 2023 "Revival"

Dummy Roll: A Moving Image Program | Film/Video Senior Thesis Show

Senior Reading & Reception for Creative Writing Minor: 5 Years of the Minor!

MEMORYHOUSE (Opening Party)

Senior Reading & Reception for Creative Writing Minor: 5 Years of the Minor!

massart

Experiences

MassArt Auction

MassArt Night Market @ Downtown Crossing

May Stevens: My Mothers

Jace Clayton: They Are Part

2023 MassArt MFA Thesis

Linocut Printmaking Demo Booth at SoWa

Chopstick Demo Booth at SoWa

Performance: Ceremony of the Steps by Jace Clayton featuring the Boston Choral Ensemble

Communication Design Senior Portfolio Night

Gelli-Printmaking Demo Booth at SoWa

MassArt Fashion Show 2023 "Revival"

Dummy Roll: A Moving Image Program | Film/Video Senior Thesis Show

Senior Reading & Reception for Creative Writing Minor: 5 Years of the Minor!

MEMORYHOUSE (​​​​​​​Opening Party)

Senior Reading & Reception for Creative Writing Minor: 5 Years of the Minor!

MEMORYHOUSE (Opening Party)