ArtsArlington had a remarkable year bringing public art, performances, and creative community experiences to life across Arlington. From Arlington 250 projects to murals, festivals, and hands-on programs, your support helped make the arts visible, accessible, and meaningful for all.

Global Voices in Verse looks back on its first year of creating a shared cultural space where poetry lovers can celebrate their languages, voices, and heritage through the poems of their own homelands.

Featured artist Kathleen Doyle has been exploring the medium of basket weaving for the past ten years. Kathleen’s chosen art form is grounded in tradition yet feels very contemporary.

Participants will create winter-themed paintings to brighten storefront windows in Arlington Heights on Saturday, December 6.

Three Bikeway bridges between Arlington Center and Arlington Heights feature new murals by artists Renee Majkut, Raksha Amrit Soni, Kathy Lobo and Maria Lobo.

The Grants Committee of the Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture offers grants annually that typically range from $150 to $1500 to fund arts, humanities, and sciences programs benefiting the community of Arlington. Organizations, agencies, schools, non-profits, libraries, and individuals may apply for grants that support activities in culture, humanities, arts, and sciences benefiting the […]

Lighting the Way: Honoring Women’s Power On July 26, 2025, the third Global Voices in Verse event brought together poetry lovers for an evening of cross-cultural unity. The gathering opened with Sonal Shah Jee lighting the ceremonial lamp, symbolizing the sacred Triveni—the merging of Ganga, Yamuna, and Sarasvati, or metaphorically, the divine feminine forces of […]

Arlington’s newest public art exhibition honors the ordinary people of Arlington — then called Menotomy — people who faced a choice in times where an increasingly autocratic king and parliament were creating tensions that careened toward a breaking point. Unseen/Unforgotten is an installation of 5 pedestals that resemble the neoclassical pedestals familiar from commemorative sculpture […]

The second gathering of Global Voices in Verse took place on May 31, 2025, at the Fox Library in Arlington. The event began with a traditional lamp-lighting ceremony led by senior community member Pushpa Karna, symbolizing knowledge, peace, and the illuminating power of poetry. Welcoming Words and Global Connections Founder Dr. Parmit Singh introduced the […]

Join ArtsArlington’s Public Art Curator Cecily Miller and Commissioner Laurie Bogden, together with featured artists, for Public Art Commemorating the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution in Arlington — a free talk and reception on Tuesday, May 27 at 7pm at Old Schwamb Mill (17 Mill Lane). Miller and Bogden will be joined by artists […]

Poetry proved once again that it speaks the universal language of the heart during the launch of Global Voices in Verse at Fox Library in Arlington on April 26, 2025. Rooted in the belief that verse can transcend borders, this community event welcomed poetry in any language and from all ages, uniting voices from India, Pakistan, […]

Hear ye, hear ye! On this 250th anniversary of our country’s quest for freedom, Arlington’s Cyrus Dallin Art Museum honors our country’s revolutionary history. On Monday, April 21, starting at 10 a.m., experience Arlington’s revolutionary history and Paul Revere-inspired poems, brought to life by Arlington locals. The Dallin Museum has held this event for the […]

The Arlington Jazz Festival has been held annually since 2012, usually in April, a timeframe that has become known internationally as Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM). Festival originator/organizer/producer and Arlington-resident Dan Fox initially dubbed his vision as the A-Town Jazz Festival, when it was more of a relatively small but ambitious experiment. Fox’s first efforts proved […]

It’s an annual tradition! Arlington residents are invited to participate in the Fourth Annual Arlington Heights Spring Window Painting Event, which will take place on Saturday, May 3, from 9am to 1pm. Paint a window by yourself or grab your friend or family and paint a window together in one of 60+ designated storefront windows […]

Poetry is thriving in Arlington, and now you can read for yourself the works of 55 poets in our town, as well as 6 who lived in the late 19th & early 20th centuries, in The Silver Note: Poets of Arlington, Mass, published recently by Ibbetson Street Press. You’ll read works by Fred Marchant, Steven […]

Regent Theatre — Arlington’s beloved 450-seat theatre — announced David J. Malan as the theatre’s new operator. Under Malan’s direction, the Regent will remain Arlington’s “Showplace of Entertainment,” with live music and dance concerts, theatre, family entertainment, comedy shows, film events, and cultural events. Under his plan to expand the theatre’s reach, Malan will introduce […]