New Bedford Art Museum

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608 Pleasant St
New Bedford, MA 02740 United States Get Directions
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  • Summer Art Program

    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    About The Program This summer, the New Bedford Art Museum invites young artists to take part in an 8 week creative experience designed for exploration, skill building, and artistic discovery. Makers Playground: Summer Art Program is structured as eight individual weekly sessions, each available for separate enrollment. Families can register for one week or multiple weeks, with each session offering a unique theme and experience. Students will explore drawing, painting, mixed media, digital illustration, and clay while engaging directly with the Museum’s exhibitions and the surrounding arts community. iPads are provided so students can learn and create using Procreate alongside traditional materials. Each week includes a guided walking field trip to a local cultural or historic site where students sketch, observe, and collect inspiration from real world environments. These experiences will include visits to nearby museums, galleries, public art, libraries, waterfront spaces, and historic landmarks such as the New Bedford Glass Museum and the Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum. Walking field trips and observational exercises encourage students to think like artists by observing, analyzing, and responding to the world around them. Clay will be offered as a rotating feature across select weeks depending on studio availability. By the end of […]

    $270.00 – $300.00

  • WHEEL THROWING: The Classes for All Levels

    WHEEL THROWING: The Classes for All Levels
    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Whether you are an enthusiastic beginner or an experienced pro with the wheel, you are welcome in this class, which will cover all aspects of the ceramics process. You'll learn how to throw on the potter’s wheel and you will practice new throwing techniques and hone specific skills. An Instructor will help students increase the amount of clay they can handle successfully, throw thinner and taller, and throw new shapes. We will practice attachments such as handles, as well as pulling handles directly from the side of the cup. The class will focus primarily on tableware shapes – mugs, cups, bowls plates, etc, but all ideas and forms of expression through clay are encouraged! Classes meet 1 day a week for 4 weeks. (July 7, 14, 21, & 28) All necessary materials are provided for this hands-on experience.

    $210.00 – $235.00

  • Creative Canvas Club

    Creative Canvas Club
    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Join us for Creative Canvas Club, a fun and welcoming series designed for young artists who are new to painting or looking to build their skills. Led by artist Devin McLaughlin, this beginner-focused class encourages creativity, exploration, and confidence through paint. Each session offers a guided painting experience for those who enjoy step-by-step instruction, while also giving students the freedom to experiment and create their own original work. Whether following along or free painting, students will develop foundational techniques while exploring their own artistic voice in a supportive, low-pressure environment. *All materials are included.*

    $50 – $55

  • Night at the Museum Art Night & Pizza Party

    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Night at the Museum: Art Night & Pizza Party is a free, after school event designed to bring middle school students into the museum for a fun, creative, and social experience during AHA Night. Students will explore two new exhibitions through a guided, youth-friendly tour and the participate in hands-on art activities that focus on mixing materials, imagining future worlds, and expressing big ideas through art. The night includes pizza, art making, and time to connect with other young creatives in a relaxed, welcoming environment.

    Free

  • ReelTALK: FILM CLASS Stories and Their Humans: Tales of an Anthropocenic World

    ReelTALK: FILM CLASS Stories and Their Humans: Tales of an Anthropocenic World
    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    As scientists (and politicians) debate the veracity of the Anthropocene, an age of human centered activity that, if declared a new epoch, will forever alter the chemical composition of the rocks and fossils beneath our feet, the climate changes, animals disappear, and shorelines advance. Regardless of nomenclature, the planet is shifting. Smart money says it’s the humans with their cars and coal mines. The films of this series present vivid, imaginative, nature centered imagery to explore a human centered world that is harrowing, but also surprising; Maybe just maybe even hopeful…. JUNE 18 WILDING (David Allen, 2023; 75 min) “We can save our world if we want to” is not just a platitude in WILDING (David Allen, 2024). The film documents the true transformation of an English country estate allowed to run wild, entrusting the farmland’s future to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. The “avant garden” conservation project is no less than miraculous, returning fauna and flora to a land once drenched in chemicals and sadness. JULY 9 FLOW (Gints Zilbalodis, 2024; 85 min) A wondrous journey through realms natural and mystical, FLOW follows a courageous cat who teams up with a capybara, a lemur, and […]

    Free

  • Figure Drawing Open Studio

    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Drawing from a live model has been an important part of many formal artistic practices since the Renaissance. Our open figure drawing studio is intended to provide artists of all levels a relaxed environment and a dedicated space where they are able to continue the tradition of working from a live nude model. Sessions are three hours long, and will start with a series of short gestures and ranging from 5-10 minutes before moving into longer 30 minute poses. Each class typically concludes with an hour long pose. There will be no formal instruction during the class; artists are encouraged to work from the model independently, in any medium they wish to bring.

    $20

  • Sketchbook Club

    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Every Other Friday | 6:00–8:00 PM Upcoming: June 13 Tickets: $10 Whether you use your sketchbook to creatively brainstorm a work project, capture daily observations, imagine a fantasy world, or just mindfully doodle, it can be a unique record of your day or your life. Join other sketchers at our informal gathering, led by local artist and illustrator Isiah Botelho. Each session will kick off with a prompt to inspire discussion and drawing, and participants will be able to share their work comfortably. Bring your sketchbook and preferred materials; we will have some basic supplies available. No pressure, no judgment, no guilt -- just community.

    $10

  • KidZone

    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Join us every Sunday in the Art Museum for family-friendly activities for kids ages 4-12 and their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends. Learn about our exhibitions and make art, get creative, and have fun! Drop in anytime. (Children must be accompanied by an adult.)

    $5

  • WHEEL THROWING: The Classes for All Levels

    WHEEL THROWING: The Classes for All Levels
    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Whether you are an enthusiastic beginner or an experienced pro with the wheel, you are welcome in this class, which will cover all aspects of the ceramics process. You'll learn how to throw on the potter’s wheel and you will practice new throwing techniques and hone specific skills. An Instructor will help students increase the amount of clay they can handle successfully, throw thinner and taller, and throw new shapes. We will practice attachments such as handles, as well as pulling handles directly from the side of the cup. The class will focus primarily on tableware shapes – mugs, cups, bowls plates, etc, but all ideas and forms of expression through clay are encouraged! Classes meet 1 day a week for 4 weeks. (July 7, 14, 21, & 28) All necessary materials are provided for this hands-on experience.

    $210.00 – $235.00

  • Creative Canvas Club

    Creative Canvas Club
    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Join us for Creative Canvas Club, a fun and welcoming series designed for young artists who are new to painting or looking to build their skills. Led by artist Devin McLaughlin, this beginner-focused class encourages creativity, exploration, and confidence through paint. Each session offers a guided painting experience for those who enjoy step-by-step instruction, while also giving students the freedom to experiment and create their own original work. Whether following along or free painting, students will develop foundational techniques while exploring their own artistic voice in a supportive, low-pressure environment. *All materials are included.*

    $50 – $55

  • Figure Drawing Open Studio

    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Drawing from a live model has been an important part of many formal artistic practices since the Renaissance. Our open figure drawing studio is intended to provide artists of all levels a relaxed environment and a dedicated space where they are able to continue the tradition of working from a live nude model. Sessions are three hours long, and will start with a series of short gestures and ranging from 5-10 minutes before moving into longer 30 minute poses. Each class typically concludes with an hour long pose. There will be no formal instruction during the class; artists are encouraged to work from the model independently, in any medium they wish to bring.

    $20

  • Sketchbook Club

    New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St, New Bedford, MA, United States

    Every Other Friday | 6:00–8:00 PM Upcoming: June 13 Tickets: $10 Whether you use your sketchbook to creatively brainstorm a work project, capture daily observations, imagine a fantasy world, or just mindfully doodle, it can be a unique record of your day or your life. Join other sketchers at our informal gathering, led by local artist and illustrator Isiah Botelho. Each session will kick off with a prompt to inspire discussion and drawing, and participants will be able to share their work comfortably. Bring your sketchbook and preferred materials; we will have some basic supplies available. No pressure, no judgment, no guilt -- just community.

    $10