The Umbrella Arts Education Program is excited to announce we are embarking on a significant redesign and expansion of our highly popular Umbrella Ceramics Studio Program.

The program has experienced increased and robust demand since reopening in 2020, with classes reaching maximum capacity within hours of opening registration each semester, and storage space strained for our thriving independent studio community. 

Middleton Heights follows Meena and her Filipino family as they assimilate to life in a fictional Midwestern suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.

There’s just ONE DAY LEFT to bid in the Artrageous 2023 Art Auction! This year’s auction is our largest to date, with contributing artists from all sectors of The Umbrella community and including the donation of an original oil painting by French Post-Impressionist landscape painter, Lucien Bleyfus (1878-1953).

Our annual Umbrella Open Studios is a wonderful Concord tradition, a free and family-friendly opportunity to meet some 55+ working artists here at 40 Stow Street, learn about their process, and share in celebrating their work.

For this year's Open Studios, March 18 & 19 from 12-5PM, our Studio Artists have mixed things up with a lively program including a live music both days, a schedule of hands-on artist demos, a Ceramics Studio sales, and a beautiful gallery exhibition of new works, Openings.

The First Parish in Concord social action community and Concord Public Schools are pleased to host Bill McKibben to speak in-person on Climate Change, Migration and Racism. For over 30 years, McKibben (website) has been at the forefront of climate activism, having founded the organizations 350.org and ThirdAct.org, and with numerous books beginning with The End of Nature (1989) to his most recent The Flag, the Cross and the S

As Tony Award Winner and Broadway superstar, Laura Benanti, is heading to Concord, MA for two-nights only here at The Umbrella Arts Center, she sat down for a frank and charming phone interview with Emelia Aragon, host of WERS' Standing Room Only. Excerpts of the interview will air on S.R.O. throughout the show, Saturday March 4 and Sunday March 5, during the station's ticket giveaway.

2023 Earth Month Exhibition

April 5 – 23, 2023

The Umbrella Arts Center Main Gallery

Reflections: Listening to Nature 

As we prepare for the long awaited return of The Concord Film Project, we met up with Kim Burns, CFP co-founder and 2022 Stewardship of the Arts Awardee, to get insight into how she curates her films and what she hopes the return of CFP will bring to the community.

The Umbrella Arts Center: It's been almost three years since The Concord Film Project has shown a film at The Umbrella. Thinking back to the films that you've shown here, are there any that standout as favorites? 

The Umbrella is pleased to welcome our new Ceramics Artist in Residence, Katie Bosley Sabin! Katie is a talented ceramicist who earned her MFA in Ceramics from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and has previously been a resident at the Archie Bray in Helena, MT, Mudflat Studios in Boston, MA, and Northern Clay Center in Minneapolis, MN. 

The Umbrella has collaborated with Mass Audubon  on a new entry to the 2022 Go Out Doors - Neighbors project by longtime friend of The Umbrella, artist William Turville!