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Don’t Close Your Eyes: Ukrainian Artists Respond to the War

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord

Curated by Hanna Melnyczuk, a Ukrainian-American artist, and Halyna Andrusenko, an artist from Kyiv, The Umbrella Arts Center’s iteration of the traveling exhibition Don’t Close Your Eyes features the work […]

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Sing Hanson Selected Works

The Umbrella Arts Center 40 Stow Street, Concord

On display in The Umbrella’s Second Floor Gallery from January 18 – February 24, 2024 are selected works by the late photographer and long-time Umbrella Studio Artist Sing Hanson. The […]

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Ongoing

Exploring the World of Fibers

LexArt 130 Waltham Street, Lexington

January 6 - February 4, 2024 11am-5pm Tue-Sun Opening Reception: Sunday, January 7, 2024; 2 - 4 pm Doug Masury Workshop - Exploring Color: Saturday, January 13, 1 pm Exploring […]

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John Quincy Adams: Reluctant Abolitionist

The Depot 13 Depot Square, Lexington

As a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, U.S. President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced […]

$10 – $15

The Power of Truth: Early Diversity in a Medford Neighborhood

Charlotte and William Bloomberg Medford Public Library 111 High Street, Medford

Learn about the Revalyon family, free Black Bostonians, who moved their family to Medford in 1828. Speaker and Local Historian Dee Morris will tell us about Thomas (b. 1777) and […]

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