Sports and Recreation, Visual Arts and Crafts

Curator Horace D. Ballard closely examines a work of art that speaks to the shifting contexts of American art.

Join your host Mayor Siddiqui for Cambridge-centered trivia with a feminist touch! Free snacks and non-alcoholic drinks! Adults 21+ are welcome to attend.

Learn about and remake the first synthetic blue pigment in history with art conservators Lisa Barro and Carolyn Riccardelli.

Learn how to upcycle clothing over four sessions!

Welcome springtime's longer daylight hours by decorating a paper stained glass suncatcher.

Delve deeper into ancient sculpture, from a time when Celtic and Classical cultures clashed, with art historian Kimberly Cassibry.

Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall.

Kids in 6th, 7th and 8th grade can come to the Library to make designs with fuse beads! Snacks provided. No registration necessary.

Play the classic ball game of four square with other teens at the library!

Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.

We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Come to the Library for games and a different activity each week! Kids of all ages can hang out and do crafts or STEAM activities. No registration required. 

Ricardo Fernandes Garcia will explore how representations of innocence have enabled painters to address conflict and war.

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

Join the Watercolor Painting Workshop

Come to the Library for games and a different activity each week! Kids of all ages can hang out and do crafts or STEAM activities. No registration required.

Join us in the Children's Room for a fun craft and related stories. For more information, call 617-349-4010. This program is recommended for ages 5-10.

Join us at the Valente Branch for a simple craft. This month we will be making beaded earrings.

Supplies are limited. Registration is required.

Bring your project and come join other fiber crafters in your community!

If you're looking to shake your sillies out before bed, join us for thirty minutes of music and movement!

In this workshop, you’ll learn about scent as a sensory medium in Japanese Buddhist funerary and memorial rituals and craft your own incense.

Join Leigh Raiford and Teju Cole to examine photography’s role in social justice movements and national memory

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

Join local artist Brooke Lambert for an introduction to the printmaking process of linocut.