Middle and High School Opportunities, Visual Arts and Crafts

A FREE festival of fun math games and puzzles for kids in grades K-8 and their families. We'll have 10+ stations of activities and each activity takes approximately 15 mins. Win prizes for completion!

Join us for a workshop to make a small quilted potholder or trivet. Using the ‘assembly line” quilting method, you will plan, cut, and sew a quilt using our sewing machines.

What might be learned about a work of art by looking at its verso, or reverse side?

Grab your sketchbook and pencil to join an instructor to draw a live model! Advanced-level artists will be more comfortable in this program.

Join curator Lynette Roth to look closely at a recent gift to the Busch-Reisinger Museum by ZERO group co-founder Heinz Mack.

Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Make your holiday season more festive at the Harvard Art Museums! Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, prizes, and more.

Hangout with other teens in the Valente Branch Community Room after school: socialize, unwind, play a game, make some art - your choice!

We are hosting events distributing free fruits, vegetables, pantry staples, and more!

Come join us for decorating party and a cookie exchange!

Young people ages 10 to 14 who love to write are welcome to share their ideas and writing.

Creative Colorful Creations on Fabric with Phyllis Wadlington.
Discover your creative side, working with different fabrics. Explore the possibilities of what can be painted on fabric.

Join the Watercolor Painting Workshop

Join us for a relaxing afternoon of cozy card making! All supplies included (except stamps) – but feel free to bring materials of your own to add to the fun.

Join Nature Linc Staff Member Lily Gordon to learn how to design, carve, and print your design onto cards using soft, easy to cut linoleum blocks.

Need help with a class?

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Please join the Cambridge Public Library and the American Repertory Theater for an afternoon of Wonder!

Join us for a game of chess at the O'Neill Branch!

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

An exhibition curator will lead this talk exploring how and why artists choose specific materials to express their ideas.

In this class you will be introduced to painting with watercolor, including techniques in

Join the Central Square Branch Library and Food not Bombs Cambridge for an end-of-year Community Supper.

Creative Colorful Creations on Fabric with Phyllis Wadlington.

Discover your creative side, working with different fabrics. Explore the possibilities of what can be painted on fabric.

Join us for stories and a craft project! This month we will make paper dolls. 

For children of all ages and their grown-ups. 

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Join us to craft homemade gifts this holiday season.