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All ICA members enjoy:

Unlimited year-round admission
Invitations to exhibition openings
Subscriptions to ICA member eNews and magazine
Up to 50% off ICA-produced public programs, performances, and film screenings
Free entry to First Fridays
10% discount at the ICA store
Discounts at select area businesses

Individual $65

All of the above, plus:

Free admission for one year

Dual + Family $95

All of the above, plus:

Free admission for two for one year (children under the age of 18 are always free)

Associate $135

All Dual + Family benefits, plus:

4 guest admission passes
Invitation to an exclusive member party
Free admission at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Friend $250

All Associate benefits, plus:

Two additional guest admission passes (total of 6, a $90 value)
VIP invitation to an exhibition opening reception
Free admission at more than 90 modern and contemporary art museums nationwide

Patron $500

All Friend Membership benefits, plus:

Two additional guest admission passes (total of 8)
An additional VIP invitation to an exhibition opening reception (total of 2)
Complimentary tickets to ICA-produced public programs, films, and performances of your choice (limit 4 per year)*

Advocate $1,000

Value of benefits: $299

Patron Membership benefits plus:

Free admission for two accompanying guests per cardholder anytime
VIP invitations to all exhibition opening receptions
Annual recognition of your gift to the ICA
Member rate when purchasing additional tickets to ICA-produced public programs*

*Subject to availability

Director’s Circle $2,000+

Director’s Circle membership offers a deeper experience for those with a special interest in contemporary art, performance, film, and new media by providing unparalleled access to the artists and minds behind the ICA’s acclaimed programs. From After Hours with the Curator—keeping members in pace with the expanding scope of our exhibition program—to private collection tours and special art-related travel opportunities, Director’s Circle events provide members with greater access.

Special Memberships

Basic memberships at special rates.

Student $45 (available onsite only)
Teacher $50
National Associate $70**

Special memberships may be purchased on site or over the phone. For more information on discounted membership rates for students, seniors, and teachers, please contact the membership department at 617-478-3102 or membership@icaboston.org.

**Designed for members living outside a 200-mile radius of greater Boston

ICA Memberships are non-refundable. Individual to Patron level memberships are not tax deductible.

Member Events

After Hours with the Curator: Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design
Tue, Jul 16, 6–8 PM

Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design opens today. ✨ See this massive survey exhibition that calls for a reappraisal of maximalism with its emphasis on design and materiality and its playful posture. The exhibition includes paintings and sculptures as well as textiles, wallpaper, fashion, and more. #LearnMore about the artwork: in painter @kehindewiley 'The Sisters Zénaïde and Charlotte Bonaparte (2014),' curator #JenellePorter writes, 'Wiley poses the two sitters after the 1821 painting of the same title by Jacques-Louis David. Characteristic of his work, Wiley’s subjects are real people, discovered by the artist in sometimes elaborate social exchanges and rituals, in this case, a casting call for his ongoing series World Stage, this one focused on Haiti. The women sit side by side attired in elegant bright blue dresses, immortalized within a tropical flower–patterned setting. As in all of Wiley’s work, the “trappings of power” typical of an Old Master painting are replaced with allover decorative patterning that here and there creeps across the sitters’ bodies, pulling pattern into real life and life into flat pattern.' 💐 . Kehinde Wiley, The Sisters Zenaide and Charlotte Bonaparte, 2014. Oil on linen. 84 x 63 in. (213.4 x 160 cm). Private collection, New York; courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles. Photo by Robert Wedemeyer © Kehinde Wiley

Opens tomorrow! ICA Director Jill Medvedow (@jillmedv) says, '#LessIsaBore asks us to reconsider artworks by well-known artists like Sol LeWitt and Jasper Johns in a new light and alongside artists like Howardena Pindell and Miriam Schapiro who, in the 1970s, used materials and techniques long associated with craft, domesticity, and women.' Discover more when Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design opens June 26. Don't be a bore, come see it for yourself! Thank you @skinnerauctions for supporting opening night! — Miriam Schapiro, Mexican Memory, 1981. Acrylic, glitter, and fabric on canvas. 48 x 96 inches (121.9 x 243.8 cm). Collection of Kathleen and Douglas Landy, New York. © Miriam Schapiro

@BostonGlobe art critic Murray Whyte (@murrayscottwhyte) calls #JohnAkomfrah's “Purple” 'stunning, tragic, gobsmacking beauty.' The artist's 'six-screen magnum opus now unspooling at the #ICAWatershed in East Boston, engulfs. It’s a breathtaking precis of a planet-threatening scourge: Like the slow-motion terror of climate change itself, nudging sea-level human settlements toward the unlivable (that’s you, Boston), ‘Purple’’s presence is inexorable, its impacts incremental. There are no outright cataclysms here, no thorough, planet-blighting disasters. ‘Purple’ instead mirrors the world we now know, with its insistent rumble of change, and not for the good.' — Regram 📸: @olgakhvan #icaboston #contemporaryart #contemporaryfilm #bosart #bostonart #eastboston #waterfront #bostonharbor #climateaction #climatechange

More #Pride voices from LGBTQIA+ staff members at the ICA. Today, we hear from Visitor Assistant Erin Wagner, who shares what Pride means to her: . 'Pride is in the soft spaces, it stretches and holds the tension. Pride is knowing your history and the work of all the people that came before you, and being able to see the love and passion and deep community in the struggle that's still going on today. It's being able to grab hands and say, 'These are my people,' and loving all that you hold. Pride, like love, is vulnerable, audacious, reckless, and necessary.' Erin is pictured here with one her favorite works in the museum, #NinaChanelAbney's powerful art wall (@ninachanel). . Follow along all month long as we continue to share more staff voices in honor of #BostonPride #PrideMonth and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. #LookingBackLovingForward. — #icaboston #contemporaryart #bosart #queer #lgbt #lgbtqia #bostonart #bostonseaport #waterfront #bostonharbor