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Please Take Our Survey!
The Dorchester Center for the Arts (DCA) in Cambridge is developing a three-year strategic plan and we are looking for community input to inform it. Our mission is to provide and support programming in the visual, literary and performing arts to connect people, cultivate creativity and catalyze curiosity. It’s a big mission with a modest […]
Support the 2023 Annual Appeal!
Please support the DCA 2023 Annual Appeal! We believe art is essential, and we know you do, too. Everyone should have access to life-long learning opportunities that inspire, uplift, and transform. Our commitment to providing accessible and diverse artistic experiences sets us apart, but we can’t do it without your gifts. Can we count on […]
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Drawing for Beginners – Learning How to Use Line and Value
Drawing for Beginners – Learning How to Use Line and Value
This class is for the beginner or artist that wants to learn about the basics of drawing that underpins artwork. The class will include learning essential skills – line, value, perspective etc. and will transition participants from being able to create simple line drawings to producing more complex and realistic 3D artwork. The class will […]
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Open Studio
Open Studio
Intended to foster creative collaboration and encourage artistic experimentation. No instruction, just use of the classroom as communal studio space. All mediums welcome. Clay studio will be open as well. Length – Ongoing Thursdays (5:30-8:30pm) Free for DCA Members, fee for non-members.
Open Dance
Open Dance
“Open Dance” – Building a strong dance community in Dorchester County Open dance is a new and unexplored idea, whose purpose is to provide a safe space for people to perform, learn, and teach. This new weekly program premieres in the George B. Todd Performance Hall at the Dorchester Center for the Arts on January […]
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Fiber Fridays
Fiber Fridays
Bring whatever project you are working on, from knitting to rug hooking to needlepoint. Enjoy the time with like-minded others. All are welcome! This group is facilitated by advanced needle artist Windy Karpavage. Ongoing Fridays. Free. No registration needed.
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Drawing for Beginners – Learning How to Use Line and Value
Drawing for Beginners – Learning How to Use Line and Value
This class is for the beginner or artist that wants to learn about the basics of drawing that underpins artwork. The class will include learning essential skills – line, value, perspective etc. and will transition participants from being able to create simple line drawings to producing more complex and realistic 3D artwork. The class will […]
3 events,
Open Studio
Open Studio
Intended to foster creative collaboration and encourage artistic experimentation. No instruction, just use of the classroom as communal studio space. All mediums welcome. Clay studio will be open as well. Length – Ongoing Thursdays (5:30-8:30pm) Free for DCA Members, fee for non-members.
Open Dance
Open Dance
“Open Dance” – Building a strong dance community in Dorchester County Open dance is a new and unexplored idea, whose purpose is to provide a safe space for people to perform, learn, and teach. This new weekly program premieres in the George B. Todd Performance Hall at the Dorchester Center for the Arts on January […]
Open Dance
Open Dance
“Open Dance” – Building a strong dance community in Dorchester County Open dance is a new and unexplored idea, whose purpose is to provide a safe space for people to perform, learn, and teach. This new weekly program premieres in the George B. Todd Performance Hall at the Dorchester Center for the Arts on January […]
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Fiber Fridays
Fiber Fridays
Bring whatever project you are working on, from knitting to rug hooking to needlepoint. Enjoy the time with like-minded others. All are welcome! This group is facilitated by advanced needle artist Windy Karpavage. Ongoing Fridays. Free. No registration needed.
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Drawing for Beginners – Learning How to Use Line and Value
Drawing for Beginners – Learning How to Use Line and Value
This class is for the beginner or artist that wants to learn about the basics of drawing that underpins artwork. The class will include learning essential skills – line, value, perspective etc. and will transition participants from being able to create simple line drawings to producing more complex and realistic 3D artwork. The class will […]
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Beginning Watercolors with Diana Evans
Beginning Watercolors with Diana Evans
True beginners will see the progress they can make with even one class with Diana. Students will learn which brush to use, the proper water to paint ratio, how to set up a palette, how to mix colors, and whether to use wet on wet or wet on dry techniques. Students will experiment with several […]
Open Studio
Open Studio
Intended to foster creative collaboration and encourage artistic experimentation. No instruction, just use of the classroom as communal studio space. All mediums welcome. Clay studio will be open as well. Length – Ongoing Thursdays (5:30-8:30pm) Free for DCA Members, fee for non-members.
Open Dance
Open Dance
“Open Dance” – Building a strong dance community in Dorchester County Open dance is a new and unexplored idea, whose purpose is to provide a safe space for people to perform, learn, and teach. This new weekly program premieres in the George B. Todd Performance Hall at the Dorchester Center for the Arts on January […]
1 event,
Fiber Fridays
Fiber Fridays
Bring whatever project you are working on, from knitting to rug hooking to needlepoint. Enjoy the time with like-minded others. All are welcome! This group is facilitated by advanced needle artist Windy Karpavage. Ongoing Fridays. Free. No registration needed.
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Open Studio
Open Studio
Intended to foster creative collaboration and encourage artistic experimentation. No instruction, just use of the classroom as communal studio space. All mediums welcome. Clay studio will be open as well. Length – Ongoing Thursdays (5:30-8:30pm) Free for DCA Members, fee for non-members.
Open Dance
Open Dance
“Open Dance” – Building a strong dance community in Dorchester County Open dance is a new and unexplored idea, whose purpose is to provide a safe space for people to perform, learn, and teach. This new weekly program premieres in the George B. Todd Performance Hall at the Dorchester Center for the Arts on January […]
1 event,
Fiber Fridays
Fiber Fridays
Bring whatever project you are working on, from knitting to rug hooking to needlepoint. Enjoy the time with like-minded others. All are welcome! This group is facilitated by advanced needle artist Windy Karpavage. Ongoing Fridays. Free. No registration needed.
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Linda Harris and David Cole – Songs of Freedom
Linda Harris and David Cole – Songs of Freedom
“Songs of Freedom, Journeying the Underground Railroad" performed by Linda Harris, vocalist and narrator and David B. Cole, guitar. Honoring the code songs used on the clandestine journey along the Underground Railroad by Harriet Tubman and the Freedom Seekers in 1849. NOTE from Linda Harris, Director of Events and Programs at the Harriet Tubman Museum […]
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Open Dance
Open Dance
“Open Dance” – Building a strong dance community in Dorchester County Open dance is a new and unexplored idea, whose purpose is to provide a safe space for people to perform, learn, and teach. This new weekly program premieres in the George B. Todd Performance Hall at the Dorchester Center for the Arts on January […]
3 events,
Open Studio
Open Studio
Intended to foster creative collaboration and encourage artistic experimentation. No instruction, just use of the classroom as communal studio space. All mediums welcome. Clay studio will be open as well. Length – Ongoing Thursdays (5:30-8:30pm) Free for DCA Members, fee for non-members.
Open Dance
Open Dance
“Open Dance” – Building a strong dance community in Dorchester County Open dance is a new and unexplored idea, whose purpose is to provide a safe space for people to perform, learn, and teach. This new weekly program premieres in the George B. Todd Performance Hall at the Dorchester Center for the Arts on January […]
Open Dance
Open Dance
“Open Dance” – weekly program in the George B. Todd Performance Hall at the Dorchester Center for the Arts Founder Binny Olsen developed this concept out of her love for dance and her deep gratitude for the emotional and physical healing it provides individuals and communities. The idea of open dance also stems from her […]
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Fiber Fridays
Fiber Fridays
Bring whatever project you are working on, from knitting to rug hooking to needlepoint. Enjoy the time with like-minded others. All are welcome! This group is facilitated by advanced needle artist Windy Karpavage. Ongoing Fridays. Free. No registration needed.
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Open Dance
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