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Visit the ICA during school vacation week for hands-on artmaking in the Bank of America Art Lab! Inspired by the exhibition Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, create a colorful painted keepsake using bold colors, abstraction, and musical inspiration found in Whitney’s artwork. Participation is drop-in on a first-come, first-served basis. Last entry 30 minutes before closing. 

Free Admission for Youth

Youth 18 and under always receive FREE museum admission. The ICA is committed to providing access to the art and artists of our time—and we do this with the incredible support of our community. Explore the +1 Membership: a free ICA membership program for youth 0-18.

Questions? Reach out to us at familyprograms@icaboston.org.

Your support helps keep programs like this free and accessible! If you are able, please consider becoming a member or making a one-time gift to support the ICA. 

Calling all teens! Join us at the Bank of America Art Lab for an exclusive after-hours look into Boston-artist ponnapa prakkamakul’s new mural and interactive art making experience, Playing Together. Explore play through creating your own art and engage with other visitors through playing with the new interactive mural! 

This is a free event for teens. RSVP is required to participate.

But wait… there’s more!!! Do you hope to stay connected to the art industry? You will have the amazing and limited chance to be interviewed and featured in a documentary on themes of joy and play! Volunteers are being taken now!

Create and collaborate in Playing Together, an interactive installation by Boston-based artist ponnapa prakkamakul in the Bank of America Art Lab. Join others in a life-size game of Snakes and Ladders and explore ponnapa’s reimagination of this ancient pastime. Make your own artwork that reflects on the role of play in your life—create a game, share a joyful memory, or build from your imagination. Using wooden square tiles and a variety of sculptural, textured, and colorful materials, participants can create a “Joy Connector” to take home or add to a mosaic of visitor creations.

About the Artist

ponnapa prakkamakul (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist and landscape architect based in Massachusetts. Her place-specific installation explores the relationship between humans and their environments, aiming to create a sense of place and belonging. Inspired by landscape and people at the sites of her projects, ponnapa’s works tell stories of place and amplify voices from people in those locations. Her projects often take the form of bright, colorful sculptures and murals that respond to human scale, inviting passersby to engage with, touch, sit, or even hop on them. ponnapa holds a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Free Admission for Youth

Youth 18 and under always receive FREE museum admission. The ICA is committed to providing access to the art and artists of our time—and we do this with the incredible support of our community. Explore the +1 Membership: a free ICA membership program for youth 0-18.

Questions? Reach out to us at familyprograms@icaboston.org.

Find your muse with an evening of experimental printmaking and collage. With the guidance of Boston-based printmaker Louis Meola, play with collage and printmaking using found objects to make one-of-a-kind abstract portraits. No experience necessary, just come ready to get creative and try something new. Grab a drink from the ICA Wine + Coffee Bar* and get creative together! 

While all experience levels are welcome, this workshop is designed for adults. Supplies are limited; first come, first served. This program is inspired by the exhibition Sara Cwynar. 

Artmaking is free and meets in the State Street Corporation Lobby. While all experience levels are welcome, this workshop is designed for adult audiences. Participation is drop-in on a first-come, first-serve basis as space allows. *Refreshments available for purchase.   

About Louis Meola:

A person with a shaved head and a beard, donning a white shirt and blue apron, stands near a large metal printmaking press 

Louis Meola is a Boston local who received a BFA in printmaking from Emmanuel College and an MFA from SMFA at Tufts University. An avid printmaker who will “literally print anything”, Louis has made prints with a multitude of nonrational matrices. Materials like discarded metal or flattened tomato cans all have a story that connects Louis’ practice with family, tradition, and everyday life. 

As we near the spring equinox, join us for an evening of celestial-themed printmaking. With the guidance of Boston-based printmaker Louis Meola, learn the art of trace monotype to create prints inspired by the night sky. No experience necessary, just come ready to play, experiment, and leave with your own one-of-a-kind artwork. Join us as we explore the stars together through the magic of print! 

Grab a special themed drink from the ICA Wine + Coffee Bar* and get creative together!   

While all experience levels are welcome, this workshop is designed for adults. Supplies are limited; first come, first served. This program is inspired by the exhibition Charles Atlas: About Time. 

Art-making is free and meets in the State Street Corporation Lobby. While all experience levels are welcome, this workshop is designed for adult audiences. Participation is drop-in on a first-come, first-serve basis as space allows. *Refreshments available for purchase 

About Louis Meola:

A person with a shaved head and a beard, donning a white shirt and blue apron, stands near a large metal printmaking press 

Louis Meola is a Boston local who received a BFA in printmaking from Emmanuel College and an MFA from SMFA at Tufts University. An avid printmaker who will “literally print anything”, Louis has made prints with a multitude of nonrational matrices. Materials like discarded metal or flattened tomato cans all have a story that connects Louis’ practice with family, tradition, and everyday life. 

Cozy up this January with art-making and hot chocolate with family and friends at the ICA. Celebrate the final month of South African artist Igshaan Adams’s tapestry Lynloop by exploring the textures and materials of the woven piece. Feel a sample of the artwork at our Art Cart, and then explore how you would represent a memory through texture, color, and form by creating your own fiber sculpture with yarn, wire, and beads.

Plus, warm up with cookies and a hot beverage at a pop-up hot chocolate bar with all the fixings!*


Art-making is free and meets at the Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall in the Upper Lobby. Participation is drop-in on a first-come, first-serve basis as space allows. *Refreshments available for purchase. 

Please note the Bank of America Art Lab will be closed for the month of January and will reopen the second weekend in February.  

Calling all teens! The ICA Teen Arts Council invites you to come together to create a space of care. We will explore care for self, your communities, and the environment. 

Happenings 

  • 6-8 PM 
  • Button making 
  • Coloring pages 
  • Create your own care package 
  • Plant a seed bomb, take a seed bomb 
  • Snacks, including fresh fruit  
  • Drinks  
  • 6:30-7:30 PM  
  • Open Mic – Interested in performing? Sign up.

Questions or requests for accessibility assistance? Email teens@icaboston.org or text or call (339) 236-3039

Visit the ICA during school vacation week for hands-on artmaking in the Bank of America Art Lab! Decorate and fill a Care Container using paint markers, clay, and other sculptural materials, or design a Care Reflection with mirrored paper, washi tape, shape punches, and more. Don’t miss the final week of our installation, Courage to Care! Participation is drop-in on a first-come, first-served basis. Last entry 30 minutes before closing. 

Free Admission for Youth

Youth 18 and under always receive FREE museum admission. The ICA is committed to providing access to the art and artists of our time—and we do this with the incredible support of our community. Explore the +1 Membership: a free ICA membership program for youth 0-18.

Questions? Reach out to us at familyprograms@icaboston.org.

Your support helps keep programs like this – both virtual and in-person – free and accessible! If you are able, please consider becoming a member or making a one-time gift to support the ICA. 

Learn, play, and create in this beginner-friendly, drop-in watercolor class. Relax by the Boston harbor and let the colors of your environment inspire you. With the guidance of Boston-based watercolor artist Lisa Goren, participants will be encouraged to get messy, embrace mistakes, and create something uniquely their own.  

While all experience levels are welcome, this workshop is designed for adults. Supplies are limited; first come, first served.  

This series has been organized to accompany the exhibition— Firelei Báez. Báez’s exuberant, colorful artworks contain intricate motifs, ornamentation, and stylized forms that intertwine with symbols stemming from Afro-Caribbean cultures.  

About the Instructor

Lisa Goren was born in California, raised in New York City, and has been working out of Boston, Massachusetts, for the past 25 years. Her watercolors show unfamiliar polar landscapes in a new light. By using vibrant colors and taking risks with different surfaces, she makes the viewer reevaluate their understanding of these landscapes and their beliefs in the potential of the medium. Her works raise questions about the nature of abstraction and our planet, as many of her pieces are representations of unfamiliar, threatened terrains. 

Lisa is Vice-President of the National Association of Women Artists (Massachusetts Chapter). Her place on the 2013 Arctic Circle Residency was chronicled in an article she wrote for the New York Times and led her to the next phase of her Polar work. She had two pieces in Gaia – Les femmes et l’ecologie in Paris to coincide with the COP21 Climate talks. She recently completed a 2-week residency in Iceland and is currently working on paintings inspired by that landscape. 

Get creative with us in Courage to Care, an installation by Boston artist Sabrina Dorsainvil in the Bank of America Art Lab. Explore characters and stories brought to life through a mural designed just for the ICA! Each story reveals an act of care and serves as inspiration for reflecting on the ways you give and receive care in the world. What does care look like for yourself?  How do you care for your community?

Join us for an immersive hands-on art-making experience and create physical artifacts that hold memories, manifestations, and movements of and toward collective care. Take your artwork home or add it to a display of visitor reflections and creations! 

About the Artist

Photo by Nick Surrette

 

Sabrina Dorsainvil (she/they) is a Boston-based public artist, civic designer, and illustrator. Sabrina uses creative approaches to navigate issues around public health, civic participation, care infrastructure, and the built environment. They served as the first Director of Civic Design for the City of Boston’s Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics and continues to work with local community-based organizations, non-profits, large institutions, and startups on issues regarding social, spatial, and environmental justice.  

Sabrina is captivated by people and how we interact with one another and our everyday spaces. As a muralist, they play an active role in their local creative community using their art to tell stories, unpack complex ideas, and find simple yet vibrant ways of celebrating people and their humanity. Sabrina holds a BFA in Industrial Design from Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) and an MS in Design and Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design. 

Free Admission for Youth

Youth 18 and under always receive FREE museum admission. The ICA is committed to providing access to the art and artists of our time—and we do this with the incredible support of our community. Explore the +1 Membership: A free ICA membership program for youth 0-18.

Questions? Reach us at familyprograms@icaboston.org.