Join us for a film screening, art-making activities, and snacks at the ICA’s Seaport Studio to activate the exhibitions in the teen galleries—Chronicles from Castle Square and As You Are: Beauty and the Human Form.
Questions or requests for accessibility assistance? Email teens@icaboston.org or text or call (339) 236-3039.
Image by Teen Digital Cooperative Member Janet L.
Stop Motion Commotion is an event led by the teens from the Teen Digital Cooperative program at Seaport Studio where teens from across the Boston area can learn stop motion animation!
Join Teen Digital Cooperative in creating unique and affirming stop motion animations! Explore your personal identities and connect with themes from our Wordplay exhibition. Drop by and experiment with different materials to create your own animations.
This workshop was organized by the ICA’s Teen Digital Cooperative, a group of teens that work collaboratively to create animation and short stop motion videos.
Questions? Email teens@icaboston.org or text or call 339-236-3039
Photo by Kemani A.
Chronicles from Castle Square is an exhibition of artwork by teens from the Change Creators program at Castle Square Tenants Organization (CSTO). These artists focus in on stories that are of significance to them. Their photography is arranged into three categories: “Beauty in the Small Things,” “Hidden Stories/Layers,” and “Past, Present, Future.” The final section of the exhibition, called “The Ballad of the Backgrounds,” is a collection of nine short films by the same artists.
The exhibition was organized by the ICA’s Teen Exhibitions Program, a group of teens who work together to plan, organize, and install exhibitions in the ICA Teen Galleries. It will be on view in the Teen Galleries at the ICA’s Seaport Studio through May 29, 2025.
The opening is free and open to all ages.
6:00 PM
6:30 PM
6:45 PM
7:45 PM
Jellycats are taking over the ICA Store! Celebrate Jellycat’s 25th birthday featuring new Summer 2024 introductions, a Jellycat giveaway, and more fun surprises! Be there, or be jelly!
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.
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.
Photo by Quajay Donnell
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!
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.
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.
Photo by Lauren Miller
Teens take over the museum with art-making, performances, dancing, games, and fun!
Photo by Lauren Miller
Join us at the ICA Watershed for a day of family fun featuring activities in connection with the themes of Hew Locke: The Procession. Learn about gardening practices from Eastie Farm and take home your own seeds and a nature-inspired artistic creation! Reflect on how growing food can be another way to sustain and celebrate communal traditions. For our final summer Play Date, we groove and grow together! Reserve free admission tickets online in advance*. All activities are drop-in, first come first served, space is limited. Tickets will be available for members beginning on July 10 and for the general public on July 17.
Stay tuned for a full schedule of activities!
*On Saturday, August 31st, museum admission is FREE for families when accompanied by kids ages 12 and under, with up to 2 adults per family. Timed tickets must be reserved online in advance for Watershed shuttle boats. Use the code PLAYDATE when reserving your ticket(s). Advance tickets are strongly recommended; day-of tickets are not guaranteed. For access to the ICA Watershed from Seaport, visitors should select the General Admission + Water Shuttle ticket. Admission to the Watershed is always free.
The Watershed is located within the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina in East Boston at 256 Marginal Street. Accessible parking is available at the Watershed. Limited street parking is available nearby. Visitors can also reach the Watershed by public transportation – the building is 0.5 miles from Maverick Station on the Blue Line.
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.
+1 Membership is generously supported by Vertex.
Hew Locke: The Procession was originally commissioned by Tate Britain for its 2022 Tate Britain Commission. The ICA Watershed presentation is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Anni A. Pullagura, Consulting Assistant Curator, in collaboration with Tate.
Support for Hew Locke: The Procession is provided by David Feinberg and Marina Kalb, and an anonymous donor.
ICA Watershed programs are supported by Eastern Bank.
Photo by Mel Taing
Join us at the ICA Watershed for a day of family fun exploring Hew Locke: The Procession. Consider what it means to be in a procession: What do processions celebrate, commemorate, or challenge? What do you bring, wear, or do during one? Who would you invite to join you? Make a dazzling flag to carry and fly, read stories of journeys and celebrations, and explore the incredible characters and details of The Procession! Reserve free admission tickets online in advance*. All activities are drop-in, first come first served, space is limited.
*On Saturday, June 29, museum admission is FREE for families when accompanied by kids ages 12 and under, with up to 2 adults per family. Timed tickets must be reserved online in advance for Watershed shuttle boats. Use the code PLAYDATE when reserving your ticket(s). Advance tickets are strongly recommended; day-of tickets are not guaranteed. For access to the ICA Watershed from Seaport, visitors should select the General Admission + Water Shuttle ticket.
The Watershed is located within the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina in East Boston at 256 Marginal Street. Accessible parking is available at the Watershed. Limited street parking is available nearby. Visitors can also reach the Watershed by public transportation – the building is 0.5 miles from Maverick Station on the Blue Line.
Harbor Room, Watershed
Create a flag that represents you! People often use flags to tell something about their identities, interests, or communities. Using decorative paper, punches, trim, and stencils, tell a story about yourself through your own flag. You can also find inspiration from Hew Locke’s exhibition and discover the meaning behind the many flags in The Procession.
Harbor Room, Watershed
Discover new books, characters, and learn more about the Boston Public Library’s free resources! Families will be able to meet BPL staff from the East Boston branch, sign up for library cards, and read specially selected books based on the stories and themes of The Procession.
4th Floor Galleries, Seaport
For those visiting the ICA at the Seaport, enjoy staff-led readings of family-friendly books in the galleries! Afterwards, pick up a Summer Family Gallery Guide, and explore the exhibitions on view.
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.
+1 Membership is generously supported by Vertex.
Photo by Lauren Miller
Please note: Play Date in June, July, and August will take place at the ICA Watershed, located in East Boston! Water Shuttle tickets are sold out, but you can still visit the museum with your family for free!
Join us at the ICA Watershed for a day of family fun featuring activities in connection with Hew Locke: The Procession. Enjoy a live musical performance, learn about Caribbean Carnival’s history and significance, and create wearable art inspired by the costumes of Carnival. Get ready to parade and party!
*On Saturday, July 27th, museum admission is FREE for families when accompanied by kids ages 12 and under, with up to 2 adults per family. Timed tickets must be reserved online in advance for Watershed shuttle boats. Use the code PLAYDATE when reserving your ticket(s). Advance tickets are strongly recommended; day-of tickets are not guaranteed. For access to the ICA Watershed from Seaport, visitors should select the General Admission + Water Shuttle ticket. Admission to the Watershed is always free.
The Watershed is located within the Boston Harbor Shipyard and Marina in East Boston at 256 Marginal Street. Accessible parking is available at the Watershed. Limited street parking is available nearby. Visitors can also reach the Watershed by public transportation – the building is 0.5 miles from Maverick Station on the Blue Line.
Harbor Room
Families can learn about the history and traditions of “Playing Mas” (participating in Carnival) and create wearable costumes inspired by Mas (short for Masquerade) with BSOCCAH! After learning and making, visitors can explore how symbols and characters of Carnival are reflected in Hew Locke’s sculptures all around the Watershed. Artmaking is drop-in on a first come first served basis.
15 minute sessions
Harbor Room
Ideas, Not Theories- Bicycle Beats is a short musical performance of a solo percussion piece written for bicycle, which incorporates theatrical elements in the form of physical theater. Composed and performed by Reynaliz Herrera, the mini performance features different sections of music, each exploring the different sonorities of the musical bike (frame, wheel, chainwheel, spokes, etc) and each of them inspired by world rhythms such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian, and some composition techniques such as polyrhythms. The piece is a through-composed work, intertwined with some physical theater elements.
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.
Founded and directed by Reynaliz Herrera, IDEAS, NOT THEORIES is a theatrical percussion company for unconventional percussion instruments that offers several programs featuring Reynaliz Herrera’s original music and compositions for bicycles and other unconventional instruments.
The Boston Society of Caribbean Culture and Heritage (BSOCCAH) is a collective body composed of community stakeholders working to expand the representation and celebration of Caribbean culture in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through the curation of thoughtful and engaging public events and activities.
Questions? Reach out to us at familyprograms@icaboston.org.
+1 Membership is generously supported by Vertex.
Hew Locke: The Procession was originally commissioned by Tate Britain for its 2022 Tate Britain Commission. The ICA Watershed presentation is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Anni A. Pullagura, Consulting Assistant Curator, in collaboration with Tate.
Support for Hew Locke: The Procession is provided by David Feinberg and Marina Kalb, and an anonymous donor.
ICA Watershed programs are supported by Eastern Bank.
