Week of Events
New Arts Center presents: Outdoor Landscape Painting
New Arts Center presents: Outdoor Landscape Painting
This class for acrylic and/or oil painters will explore the unique challenges of landscape painting and provide students with the skills to render space two-dimensionally. We will be working outdoors, or if the weather is bad, working indoors using photographs and books. Students will learn composition, light, and shading, and the effects of light on…
New Art Center presents: Art Education as Self Care
New Art Center presents: Art Education as Self Care
Art education + creativity exercises + stress relief + group discussions = this workshop series! If you’re looking for intellectual stimulation that doesn’t feel hard, if you’re hoping for a burst of creativity in the middle of your workday, if you’re looking for the soothing effects of art — look no further. Join a small…
Historic Newton presents: That’s Entertainment – Norumbega Park’s History of Fun
Historic Newton presents: That’s Entertainment – Norumbega Park’s History of Fun
Learn about popular American entertainment by following Norumbega Park from its start as a “trolley park” at the end of the Commonwealth Avenue streetcar line through its heyday as an escape for young people to explore independence and love at the Totem Pole Ballroom. Images from "Norumbega Park and the Totem Pole Ballroom," a book…