Get creative on select Free Thursday nights with art-making activities designed by local artists. Plus, visit the galleries, grab a drink from the ICA Wine + Coffee Bar,* and connect over creativity. No experience necessary.
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.
Art-Making After Dark: Coloring our Histories | April 16
Share your stories of color and be a part of an ongoing project by artist Destiny Palmer!
Coloring Our Histories is a participatory archive which invites all people to share the colors that speak to who they are, where they’ve come from, and what they’ve lived through. Guided by the artist, you will choose a color that represents a meaningful part of your story and create a monochromatic, mixed-media collage. If you choose, you can have your collage photographed and added to the Coloring Our Histories Archive!
About Destiny Palmer
Destiny Palmer is trained as a painter but her work explores the intersections of painting, history and color, allowing it to blur the lines of painting, sculpture and installation. Palmer explores and investigates what it means to be an artist, educator and advocate for the arts. She has worked with various communities to create public art projects ranging from traditional murals to community engaged/lead mural to digitally created murals. Some of her murals can be found at the Gallivan Community Center in Mattapan, Kendall Square Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Navy Yard in Philadelphia. Destiny Palmer had the privilege to collaborate and envision a new Codman Square Park as their finalist artist. Palmer has participated in exhibitions at Antenna Gallery, The Colored Girls Museum, Automat Collective, Ely Center for the Arts, Vandermoot Gallery, and Landmark College. Palmer received her Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and Bachelors in Fine Art in Painting at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Destiny Palmer currently is working at Thayer Academy. Previously an Assistant Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
This program is inspired by Derrick Adams: View Master.
Art Making After Dark: Layers of Memory | May 7
Get introspective with an evening of memory and color!
Boston-based painter Raquel Philippe reflects on the fragmented nature of early memories depicting them through vividly colorful, layered images that both hide and reveal their detail. Guided by Philippe, learn how to use watercolor to create your own patterned paper inspired by a treasured memory.
About Raquel Philippe
Raquel Philippe (she/her/hers) is a Boston-based painter, originally from New York. Her practice currently investigates early lived experiences as fragmented, layered impressions. Through vivid colors and transparency, she buries and traces over her memories that then reemerge in altered States. In her paintings, organic, leaf-like silhouettes move across the surface as both markers and camouflage, echoing the way memory hides details as much as it reveals them. Philippe’s current work continues to refine her inquiry into memory, perception, and the visual structures through which formative experience is reconstructed. She holds a BFA from the Fashion Institute of Technology and is currently pursuing her MFA in painting at Boston University.
This program is inspired by Derrick Adams: View Master.