For 2024, we’re delighted to welcome you back to our studios and beautifully renovated galleries! Our annual Open Studios is an incredible opportunity to meet our artists, learn about their process, and share in celebrating their work. 

FEATURING

• Kaleidoscope: Changing as We Change exhibition in the Allie Kussin Main Gallery

February 28 – March 20

New Work by Umbrella Studio Artists, inspired by the poem Kaleidoscope by fellow Studio Artist Max Payne 

• Three Floors of Open Studios Participating Artists ready to share their process

• Live Music by Backwards Hats (Saturday) and Them City Ducks (Sunday)

• Saturday, March 16, 2-4pm: Family Craft Activity inspired by Linda Booth Sweeney’s book, Apart, Together: A Book about Transformation
• Sunday, March 17, 2-4pm: Spring-themed Family Craft Activity
• Live Arts Demos
  • Saturday 3/16
    • Jean Lightman, Oil Painting/Studio 306A – 1:30-2:30pm
    • Jill Goldman-Callahan, Cold Wax & Charcoal/Studio 303 – 2:30-3:30pm
  • Sunday 3/17
    • Paul Ruhlman, Woodworking/Studio 206 – 2-2:30
    • Suzanne Hill, Ceramics/Studio 113 – 3-3:30

ALSO OF INTEREST @ THE UMBRELLA

• • Portraits in Red: Work by Nayana LaFond, on view in the second floor gallery

• Greater Boston play premiere of The Minutes, in the Main Stage Theater 144, 8PM Saturday and 3PM Sunday

The Umbrella is ADA accessible and provides free parking and free admission to its visual arts galleries. For hours, directions, parking, contact and accessibility info visit https://theumbrellaarts.org/contact