The Arlington Center for the Arts is thrilled to be presenting the fourth annual Arlington Porchfest on Saturday, June 8, 2019! Each year Arlington Porchfest unites live music with community participation in a day-long celebration of the arts in Arlington. Porchfest is a grassroots music festival where bands play on front porches across town and […]
The Jam’n Java Open mic at Kickstand Café, which takes place on the first Friday of every month from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm, is celebrating its tenth anniversary on Friday, June 7, at Kickstand Café, 594 Mass. Ave., Arlington, MA. The Jam’n Java Open Mic provides a free, live music venue for the Arlington […]
Arlington Community Education is accepting submissions of artwork for their cover art contest. The deadline is June 28, 2019. Winning artists will receive $250 and exposure to an audience of more than 50,000 in exchange for use of their artwork. All mediums are welcome, including watercolor, acrylics, prints, photography, oil, collage, quilting, assemblage, stained glass, […]
The Town of Arlington seeks a dynamic, self-motivated individual to serve a one-year term as Poet Laureate. The Poet Laureate acts as the Town’s leading poetic voice and ambassador for poetry, encouraging the reading and writing of poetry throughout Arlington. This honorary, voluntary position aims to enrich the lives of residents by sharing and promoting […]
Friday, May 24, 2019 7:30 p.m. at the Arlington Town Hall (730 Mass Ave) Menotomy Concert Series presents Duo Amie and friends featuring works by Arlington composer Seth Hamlin Program includes the world premieres of Hamlin’s Cello Sonata and Poptet And Art Suite by Stephen Paulus. Duo Amie is a Boston based cello and piano […]
The Arlington Center for the Arts is pleased to be presenting New England’s first-ever annual jug band festival, which highlights traditions from the 1920’s and 30’s, and the modern evolution of this good-time music. With roots from Appalachia, New Orleans, and Africa, jug band music started in the south (notably Louisville Kentucky and Memphis Tennessee) […]
FILM: REUSE, BECAUSE YOU CAN’T RECYCLE THE PLANET & MEET THE FILMMAKER 7:15 PM, Regent Underground, 7 Medford St, with Arlington Zero Waste, Sustainable Arlington, & DPW A 60-minute thrill ride on a 48-state journey in search of reuse solutions to our waste problems. Following the film there will be discussion and Q&A with the […]
Disarming: Memorial Quilts for Mass Shooting Victims | April 20 – June 10, 2019, Opening Reception April 27, 4-6pm Arlington, MA – The Arlington Center for the Arts is pleased to be presenting Disarming: Memorial Quilts for Mass Shooting Victims, a quilt exhibition on view April 20 to June 10, 2019. Throughout the history of […]
Overview: Musicians wanted for the Magnolia Park Summer Music Series. Concerts are held on Tuesdays and rain dates on Thursdays with exception of the week of the 4th of July. Submission deadline: May 1st, 2019. Submit via email to: friendsofmagnoliapark@gmail.com Organizers: Friends of Magnolia Park Amplification: No amps are allowed. Musician criteria for submission: -Be […]
Our annual fundraiser and temporary art installation of re-imagined chairs will take place on Saturday, June 8 from 11 to 6 pm, Uncle Sam Plaza, across from Whittemore Park in Arlington Center. We will be part of Porchfest, an event sponsored by the Arlington Center for the Arts. The deadline for applying to Chairful Where […]
The newest crop of banners from our 2018 Youth Banner Project have just been hung by DPW on light poles along Mass Ave in Arlington Center. The theme this year is TREES, and each of the 20 images celebrates trees in many different ways, including photography and painting. The banners will up for several months. […]
Use the exhibit space at the former Sunbug Solar (1319 Mass Ave) to display your work. Successful proposals may include any artistic medium including installation, painting, sculpture, photography, light and sound, as well as poetry or prose (for example, part of a poem or essay that is enlarged and cut out of adhesive vinyl and […]
We are thrilled to honor this years’ recipients of grants from the Grants Committee (formerly the Arlington Cultural Council) of the Arlington Commission for Arts and Culture on Tuesday, April 23 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. The public is invited to this free event that will feature music by the Arlington High School Jazz Trio, […]
A reception was held at Arlington High School’s Media Center on Thursday, March 21, to celebrate the twenty young artists whose work will be featured on vinyl banners along Mass Ave. in Arlington Center this spring. For the first time in four years, three of the artists were chosen to receive an award of $200 […]
Almost 100 Arlington secondary students submitted designs in the 2019 Youth Banner Project and twenty of these were chosen to become large vinyl banners. These banners will be hung outdoors along Mass Ave. in Arlington Center in April and May, 2019. The theme this year for the banner design Arlington Public Art competition was “Trees”. […]
For the second year in a row, The Arlington Cultural District (ACD) has won the maximum $5000 grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council to grow the ACD. Officially designated in September 2017, the ACD is a walkable stretch extending from East Arlington’s Capitol Square to the Civic Block in Arlington Center that is rich with […]
A spring inspired, three dimensional art work by artist Kaitlin Longmire has just been placed in the windows of the Music Studios of Arlington, located next to Helena’s on Mass Ave. near Arlington Center. This is the fifth art installation in a series begun last March, and made possible by a grant from the Arlington […]
ARTISTS LIVING OR WORKING IN ARLINGTON (ages 18 and up) are invited to submit designs for a new series of artwork to be painted between on transformer boxes along Mass Ave. The theme this year is IN MOTION, interpreted in any way you would like. Examples: transportation modes like feet, bikes, or buses; birds in […]
CALL FOR ART Chairful Where You Sit is a temporary outdoor art installation and fundraiser for Arlington Public Art featuring reimagined chairs. We invite you to find an old chair and creatively transform it. Images from previous years’ Chairful events. This year’s event will take place on June 8 from 11 to 6 pm, concurrent […]
Emily Shea, owner of Kickstand Cafe, has offered the windows of the beloved Arlington cafe as the backdrop for 10 of the haiku selected from this summer’s community public art project. Composed by Arlington residents and others who enjoy the Minuteman Bikeway, the haiku have been printed out in white adhesive vinyl lettering and adhered […]