A Prescription for Winter: How Light, Color and Creativity Can Help Us Feel Better by Joan Clifford, Executive Director By the time you read this, we’ve passed the winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year, and the light has already begun its gradual return. Short days and long nights affect…
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Merry Music, a First Friday event, December 5th, 6-9pm, has become one of the Milton Art Center’s favorite evenings of the year. People return year after year to hear this wonderful mix of holiday punk-rock favorites, blues rock classics, folk-inspired carols, and timeless classics everyone loves to sing along to. This event is open to…
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by Joan Clifford The Milton Art Center is proud to present an exhibition of hand hooked rugs, featuring the Charles River Rug Hooking Guild in November, with a reception opening on First Friday, November 7, 5-9pm. Nine members of the Charles River Rug Hooking Guild, Susan Barry, Jennifer Friesen, Kimberly Hokanson, Bernadette Jordan, Jean MacQuiddy, Eileen…
Read MoreThe term emerging artist implies youth; some esteemed art organizations use the age of 30 as a cutoff point when applying for prestigious grants and prizes. At the Milton Art Center, for exhibiting art, we use the term emerging artist to describe someone who has committed/recommitted to creating art seriously for many years, has created…
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Joan Clifford, Summer Camp Director Summer Art Camp gives children confidence in their ability to create new worlds One of the most valuable things art offers children is autonomy. In a world where so much of their day is structured; school rules, sports drills, screen prompts – art invites kids to make their…
Read MoreJoan Clifford, Executive Director Poets, Eve Lyons, Anastasia Vassos, and DeMisty Bellinger will be reading selections from their published work from 6 -7:15 pm. The three poets met at author Marge Piercy’s juried workshop. Eve Lyons, a local poet, fiction writer, playwright and expressive arts therapist, is the author of “Tikkun Olam: Repairing the…
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by Joan Clifford, Executive Director LIMITLESS This May, the Milton Art Center celebrates Teen Month as teen visions and voices take center stage – on the walls and behind the mic. The Teen Art Exhibit, “LIMITLESS,” welcomes the public to an art reception Friday, May 9, 6-9pm. Come early at 6pm to view…
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by Joan Clifford, Executive Director Meet Artists Shay Culligan and Frank Susi, Figuratively Peaking, First Friday, April 4, 6-9pm The next First Friday reception, April 4th, 6-9pm, at the Milton Art Center features the art of Shay Culligan and Frank Susi, Figuratively Peaking, Representational Art. Music will be Rhythm & Blooms, a night of…
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Questions by Joan Clifford, Executive Director Interview with Artist, Daphne Confar Daphne Confar is an artist living in Milton with her wife and two sons. Daphne’s art is on exhibit at the Milton Art Center and featured at the next First Friday, a reception on March 7, 6-9 pm. First Fridays are free,…
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The Milton Art Center invites you to experience an unforgettable evening of music and romance, as talented local musicians take the stage for Love Songs, the universal language of the heart, at First Friday, February 7, 7-9pm. Whether you’re a longtime supporter of these talented neighbors and friends or new to local music, this is…
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