Visual Arts and Crafts, Older Adult Services

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

Due to the popularity of Sifu Diaz's classes, we expect participants to attend all sessions and participation in this program will be decided by lottery.

Join the Watercolor Painting Workshop

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

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

Put on your dancing shoes to improve flexibility and balance, strengthen muscles and have fun!

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

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.

This program, led by Zeenat Potia, will introduce and utilize mindfulness techniques to help us examine and regulate everyday life changes with a focus on aging.

Join the Acrylic Painting Workshop at our North Cambridge location and unleash your artistic talents with the guidance of a skilled instructor. You'll also get to take home your very own masterpiece!

Turn paper cut-outs into animations with the Gif-O-Graf machine!

Join us for our Kazakhstan Independence Day celebration on December 14

Come to the Library for games and a different activity each week!

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

Come get creative at Collins!

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.