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Student Activities
Hunakai Studios

16 Chestnut Street Chestnut Green Suite 410, Foxboro, MA 02035,   (508) 543-5665

Hunakai Studio of Fine Arts actively encourages lifelong involvement with the visual arts for people of all ages, backgrounds and ability in Southeastern New England by offering a quality program of curriculum-based art education in a nurturing environment and by sponsoring a wide variety of cultural events for local communities.

http://www.hunakaistudio.org/ 

Pottery Place

127B Old West Street, Walpole MA 02081       508-668-0363

The Potters Place is a co-operative, not-for-profit pottery studio located in Walpole MA.  It offers a variety of hand-building and wheel-throwing programs designed for children, teens and adults of all levels.  

http://www.pottersplace.info/PottersPlace/Welcome.html 

Local Museums
Attleboro Arts Museum

86 Park Street, Attleboro, Massachusetts, 02703

The Attleboro Arts Museum involves audiences of all ages and backgrounds in the visual arts through diverse educational programs and engaging arts experiences. We work to support the creative and artistic development of both promising and professional artists. The Museum is a privately supported, non-profit arts institution whose core commitment to Arts for Everyone guides the Museum’s programs and operations.

http://attleboroartsmuseum.org/ 

Fuller Craft Museum

455 Oak Street
Brockton, MA 02301     508-588-6000

Fuller Craft Museum is a dynamic environment where craft is experienced through exhibitions, education, outreach and collaboration. The museum explore the materials, techniques and artistic expression that challenge the perception of craft, while honoring the achievements of the past.

http://www.fullercraft.org/ 

Worcester Art Museum

The Worcester Art Museum is acclaimed for the quality of its collections. European and North American painting,prints, photographs and drawingsAsian artGreek and Roman sculpture and mosaics and Contemporary art. The collection is organized geographically except for Western prints, drawings and all photographs which are organized by medium and Contemporary Art which is defined as the international art of the past ten years in all media.

http://www.worcesterart.org/ 

Higgins Armor Museum

100 Barber Avenue, Worcester, MA 01606  (508) 853-6015

Constructed in 1930 by John Woodman Higgins to house his elaborate and eclectic collection of arms and armor, The Higgins Armory Museum opened to the public in 1931 in a sleek state-of-the-art glass and steel building. Today, artifacts are arranged gallantly in a spectacular two-story Medieval Great Hall arranged with more than 35 suits of armor and a stunning array of arms amidst tapestries, stained glass, and soaring ceilings.

http://www.higgins.org/ 

Peabody Essex Museum

East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA 01970-3783 USA,  978-745-9500, 866-745-1876

The mission of the Peabody Essex Museum is to celebrate outstanding artistic and cultural creativity by collecting, stewarding and interpreting objects of art and culture in ways that increase knowledge, enrich the spirit, engage the mind and stimulate the senses.

http://www.pem.org/ 

deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum

51 Sandy Pond Road, Lincoln, MA 01773

Established in 1950, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is the largest park of its kind in New England encompassing 35 acres, 20 miles northwest of Boston. In 2009, deCordova changed its name from deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park to deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum to emphasize its renewed focus on sculpture and to support the institution’s goal of becoming a premier Sculpture Park by 2020. Providing a constantly changing landscape of large-scale, outdoor, modern and contemporary sculpture and site-specific installations, the Sculpture Park hosts more than 60 works, the majority of which are on loan to the Museum. Inside, the Museum features a robust slate of rotating exhibitions and innovative interpretive programming.

http://www.decordova.org/ 

Museum of Fine Art

Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

The MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world; the collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art. We welcome more than one million visitors each year to experience art from ancient Egyptian to contemporary, special exhibitions, and innovative educational programs.

http://mfa.org 

Institute of Contemporary Art

The ICA is located at 100 Northern Avenue on Boston’s waterfront, a short walk from downtown and easily accessible by public transportation.

The Institute of Contemporary Art strives to share the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, provocation, and imagination that contemporary art offers through public access to art, artists, and the creative process.

The primary activities of the ICA are threefold:

• To present outstanding contemporary art in all media, including visual art
   exhibitions, music, film, video and performance, that is deserving of public
   attention and has not been presented in depth to Boston audiences
• To provide innovative experiential learning opportunities for people of all ages
   through direct encounters with artists and art making
• To design interpretative programs that provide context, develop appreciation,
   and add meaning to contemporary art and culture

http://www.icaboston.org/ 

Harvard Fogg Museum

Harvard Art Museums, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138     617-495-9400

As an institution, we have experienced a great deal of change in the last three years: We closed our building on Quincy Street for a major renovation and expansion, moved most of our collection and staff to an off-site location, and reinstalled the Arthur M. Sackler Museum with works of art from the collections of all three of our museums. A vast amount of planning and strategic thinking went into each of those projects.

Now that we’ve caught our breath, we’re looking again toward the future. Our focus is on upcoming temporary exhibitions at the Sackler, as well as preparations for the eventual opening of our new facility across the street.

http://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collection/fogg/ 

Peabody Museum

11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Mass., within the Harvard University campus.

 Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology and houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere.  It has a beautiful glass flower collection.  It’s amazing!

 

http://www.peabody.harvard.edu/ 

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers this historical view of Art through the ages.

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ 

New York Museums
The Whitney Museum 
http://whitney.org/ 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 
http://www.metmuseum.org/ 

The Guggenheim 
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york