The Umbrella is pleased to welcome our new Artcubator Resident, Hillary Kane! Kane is a ceramicist and painter who has studied and worked all around the world. In 2010, Kane founded the Gaya Ceramic Art Center in Ubud, Bali, and continues to live a bi-hemispheral life between Bali and New England. 

Dear friends,

The Umbrella Arts Center relies on your support to make art and arts education accessible for our whole community. With just one week left in our fiscal year, will you make a gift today to ensure that The Umbrella comes out of this pandemic stronger than ever?

For those who prefer to continue classes from home, look no further than The Umbrella's virtual painting classes with popular painting teacher Kat O'Connor! These classes are for intermediate to advanced painting students in watercolor painting and oil and acrylic painting.

As the Ceramics Studio continues to re-open for our community this summer, The Umbrella will resume its month-by-month independent drop-in access to the studio to use our wheels, handbuild, or glaze. This program is for experienced ceramics students who have taken at least one ceramics class, and are automatically included for students enrolled in semester-long classes. Clay is available for purchase, and you can reserve your time slots for June, July, and August now!

This year, The Umbrella Arts & Environment is partnering with OARS to host fun outdoor activities for Riverfest 2021! Join us at The Old Manse on Sunday, June 20 at 1PM to make fish and turtles out of recycled materials. Pick up the One Revolution Art Challenge, copresented by The Umbrella and Minute Man National Historic Park, using our activity sheet to fill in an imagintive drawing of the nearby Old North Bridge.

Umbrella Artcubator artist Jeff Kasper has been hard at work during his 2021 residency. A new series of flags he designed are currently on view at the Queens Museum in New York City as part of the exhibition Art As Social Action. If you are interested in participating in a digital flag-making workshop with the artist he will be holding a free event June 2 from 6:00-7:30 PM via Zoom.

In recognition of Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, in a year that has been particularly trying for so many members of our community, The Umbrella appreciates and supports the work of AAPI artists who have shared their talent with us before and especially throughout the pandemic.

As we slowly work our way back towards in-person classes and workshops again, The Umbrella is happy to announce three new and unique photography workshops with Brent Mills! 

Brent is a professional photographer and videographer, and the owner of Brent Mills Photo and Video based in Cambridge, MA. He has taught photography and videography classes both in the States and internationally, and has displayed his work in galleries around the world.

Here Comes The Sun is a collaborative mixed media and lighting installation conceived by Umbrella board members and artists Ellen McHale and Gail Burr. For this installation, community members are invited to contribute origami doves made of recyclable Tyvek and inscribed with messages of hope, wishes, and dedications to the heroes around us.

As a bustling nonprofit organization with many public programming areas, The Umbrella Arts Center depends heavily on the generosity of volunteers to help deliver performances, public art installations, classes and workshops, community celebrations and more all throughout the year.