Brick Island Studios BLOCK PARTY
Please join the artists from the Brick Island Studio Collective in Hyde Park for Neighbors + Makers Block Party on Saturday, June 20 from 12-5 pm! Held in the parking lot of Brick Island Studios at 1476 River Street in Hyde Park, this celebration will feature a live DJ and dancing, hands on art making activities led by Brick Island artists, and free ice cream from Ron's Homemade Ice Cream (while supplies last). Come meet your neighbors and try your hand at puppet making, tapestry weaving, inner magic collage and more!
Brick Island Neighbors + Makers is free to the community, funded by a Neighborhood Activation Grant from the City of Boston. It's our way of giving back to our community and spreading joy through connection and creativity.
Repair + Renewal: Connecting our stories through mending
Cloth and Ceramic Mending Workshop
Mending can mean many things, and its definition offers layers of interpretation. An age-old tradition, an art form and a response to throw-away culture, mending is also a form of community care,
connection and healing.
Join artists Sam Fields and Josephine Burr of Hyde Park’s Brick Island Studio Collective for a free workshop to learn and practice the art of mending both textile (cloth) and ceramic objects.
Learn about the art of “visible mending” including the Japanese practices of boro(decorative stitching and patchwork) and kintsugi (repairing broken ceramics with gold or other colorful material to highlight the repair).
Bring an item in need of repair (a broken favorite cup, a moth-eaten sweater, etc.) or just come learn; we will provide materials for practicing techniques. Mending supplies and instruction will be provided.
Funded by the Neighborhood Activation Grant from the City of Boston.
ABSTRACTION IN ACTION
A free meditative workshop to encourage play and self expression
The Pryde Community Center
59 Harvard Ave, Hyde Park, MA 02136
Discover through creative improvisation in this community-centered art making workshop. Visual artists Leila Simon Hayes and Joanna Muehleisen guide participants through abstract art practices,using simple exercises in drawing,collage, and remixing.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
• Improvisational art-making
• Support in letting go of perfectionism
• Creating and connecting in community
• Exploring internal experiences through spontaneous creation
This workshop invites you to surrender control and embrace uncertainty. Through gentle, guided exercises, you’ll build confidence and connect to yourself in community.
FREE and open to the public. No experience necessary. All ages and backgrounds welcome. Materials provided.
Register at: tinyurl.com/abstraction-workshop
Funded by the Neighborhood Activation Grant from the City of Boston.
ABSTRACTION IN ACTION
A free meditative workshop to encourage play and self expression
The Pryde Community Center
59 Harvard Ave, Hyde Park, MA 02136
Discover through creative improvisation in this community-centered art making workshop. Visual artists Leila Simon Hayes and Joanna Muehleisen guide participants through abstract art practices,using simple exercises in drawing,collage, and remixing.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
• Improvisational art-making
• Support in letting go of perfectionism
• Creating and connecting in community
• Exploring internal experiences through spontaneous creation
This workshop invites you to surrender control and embrace uncertainty. Through gentle, guided exercises, you’ll build confidence and connect to yourself in community.
FREE and open to the public. No experience necessary. All ages and backgrounds welcome. Materials provided.
Register at: tinyurl.com/abstraction-workshop
Funded by the Neighborhood Activation Grant from the City of Boston.
Meditate + Create Open Studio Series
10am-1pm every Thursday, Jan. 8-29
Enjoy a month of quiet sanctuary + open studio time with facilitated sacred space. Deepen connection with your inner self through authentic, quiet, communal creativity in a beautifully peaceful studio space~*
Brick Island Studios Fall Opening
Join the entire Brick Island Studio collective for our annual Open Studio event as well as our group show in our gallery. Bring family, kids, friends, neighbors. There will be art, music, snacks, drinks. We'd love to welcome you to our very special, creative community.
Meditate + Community Create Fall Series 10/2-10/23
Relax, unwind, create, reflect, and connect with community~*
Bring your own sketchbook, journal, and/or small project to this sacred creative community space. We will begin with an embodiment exercise, meditation, and reflective journaling. Participants will then enjoy peaceful, sacred, open studio time working on their own projects together in community. Each session will close with group sharing.
Watercolor Meditation
Saturday, Sept. 20, 10am-1pm, Hyde Park (Reservation Road Park + Menino Arts Center) - FREE (Registration required)
Explore the subtle language of Water through guided meditation, flower offerings, and singing bowls with the waters of Mother Brook. Integrate this healing experience through reflective journaling and intuitive watercolor painting with these sacred Waters at the Menino Arts Center.
Connect to local Waters and your embodied water
Rebalance through guided meditation to the sound of singing bowls
Reflect through journaling
Offer blessings of flowers to the Water
Relax and replenish through intuitive watercolor painting
Share and connect with community
Enjoy delicious snacks
WATER MEDITATION: 10-10:45 at Reservation Road Park, 140 Reservation Rd., Hyde Park (park in football field parking lot)
Guided visualization will be accompanied by the healing singing bowls of Gillian Miller / Mindful Mavens. After flower offerings and reflective writing we’ll head to the Menino Arts Center for watercolor painting. *Fully accessible, chairs and cushions provided
WATERCOLOR PAINTING: 11-1 at Menino Arts Center, 26 Central Ave, Hyde Park
Continue the meditation through watercolor painting with local Waters. Share and connect in community.*No experience necessary, all materials provided. Elevator available (please email or text direct for wheelchair accessible services)
Funded by the Neighborhood Activation Grant from the City of Boston
Art + Meditation workshops
Relax, unwind, create, reflect, and connect, at the Roxbury Branch of the Boston Public Library lead by Brick Island Studios artist Faith Johnson.
Each class begins with an embodiment exercise and meditation followed by an exploration of a different medium. Click button to learn more.
Moonapause Ceremony + Mini Retreat
This creative ceremony honoring the divine feminine is for women who are perimenopausal, menopausal, and post menopausal. We will honor this transformative threshold space as we shift into becoming wise(r) women through ceremony, embodiment exercises, reflective drawing/writing, and sharing. Learn more and sign up HERE.
Brick Island Studios Fall Opening
Explore a diverse array of artistic spaces and learn more about the different artists and their inspirations and techniques. Free workshops for all ages.