Career and Employment Support, Visual Arts and Crafts

Learn about our Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) Training Program for English Language Learners. Classes start in September!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Looking for some basic computer or mobile device guidance?

Susan Anderson will look at how artists working at the turn of the 20th century used dry media as a means towards abstraction.

Teens, don't let the cold weather get you down. Come to the Teen Room for pizza, snacks and crafts and relax. Bring your friends. And it's FREE. 

Looking for some basic computer or mobile device guidance?

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

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.

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.

Learn about our program that supports you in starting a new career!

Explore ancient coins and learn how a team of museum staff and students is trying to harness the power of AI to recover stolen coins.

Learn how to be safer online with accounts and passwords.

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

For children of all ages and their grown-ups. 

Looking for some basic computer or mobile device guidance?

Free event at the Cambridge Public Library.

Looking for some basic computer or mobile device guidance?

Join us to craft homemade gifts this holiday season.

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!

Looking for some basic computer or mobile device guidance?

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

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