Resources for Teens
Staying Creative: Infinity
While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us. Get inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room LOVE IS CALLING (1st image). Find or create the largest infinity in the smallest space. Snap a photo. … more
Staying Creative: Communication in Our Time
While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us. Watch this video by artist Rachel Perry where she lip-syncs to voicemail messages left in error. Create your own video that expresses something about communication in our time. To… more
Staying Creative: Short Film, Two Characters Challenge
While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us. Find a collaborator. Write a short film with two characters. Following social distancing guidelines, shoot your character’s scenes and have your collaborator do the same.… more
Staying Creative: We the People Challenge
While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us. Watch this video of us with artist Nari Ward installing his work We the People (made of hundreds of shoelaces). Find some shoelaces. Make something that expresses how you feel about… more
Staying Creative: As Far As I Could Get Challenge
While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us. Grab a camera or camera phone. Set the self-timer button for 10 seconds (grab a helper if yours doesn’t have one). Run away from the… more
Harvard Photo Installation
On December 17th, the ICA’s Special Focus digital photography class traveled to Harvard, to prepare their photographs for exhibition in the Monroe C. Gutman Library. Led by teaching artist Marlon Orozco, these teens have been working hard to… more
Fast Forward Trip to Zumix
On November 21st, the Fast Forward beginner film-making class traveled to East Boston to present their audio projects, Sounds of Home, to play on Zumix Radio 94.9 FM! To get to Zumix, we left our home in the… more
Harbor Collective: A Collaborative Exploration of Interdisciplinary Art by Zumix and ICA Teens
With work by Arthur Jafa at ICA/Boston and an installation by Diana Thater inaugurating the Watershed in East Boston, a group of ICA Teens decided to link up with their neighbors at Zumix and dive into an exploration of interdisciplinary art. Using… more
ICA Teens Photograph East Boston
On July 4th, the ICA will open its East Boston-located civic and art space, the Watershed, to the public. As part of the developing relationship between the museum and East Boston, the ICA Teens Digital Photography class was… more