Teen Exhibitions Program presents a unique gallery event celebrating the nostalgia of comics and childhood cartoons. Indulge in freshly popped popcorn while enjoying a movie on the big screen, and challenge friends to video games that will transport you back in time. Explore the gallery’s interactive exhibits, featuring original comic art and vintage memorabilia, to relive the magic of yesteryear.

This event is inspired by the exhibitions Lost and Found and Crossroads created, curated, and activated by Teen Exhibitions Program.

Questions or requests for accessibility assistance? Email teens@icaboston.org or text or call (339) 236-3039.

Celebrate an amazing summer of sharing, honoring, and amplifying meaningful stories through digital illustration with Teen Digital Cooperative (TDC). See what they’ve been working on, eat delicious snacks, and get creative with art-making activities designed by TDC.

At Seaport Studio

Join Teen Exhibitions Program to celebrate the opening of Crossroads, an exhibition featuring work by the young artists in Chapters of Choice, a ten-week-long comic-making program led by Urbano Artist-in-Residence Maria Fong in the spring of 2025.

Urbano is a nonprofit organization that brings together visual artists, local youth, and community members to learn and experiment through opportunities, workshops, projects and more! Chapters of Choice used storytelling, performance, and peer-led learning to support youth in untangling the question: “Do you feel like you have a choice?” The artists explored autobiographical comic-making to not only reflect upon how they have made decisions for their lives in the past, but also to think about how they can render self-led choices in the future.

This exhibition was organized by the ICA Teen Exhibitions Program (TEP), a group of teens who work together to plan, organize, and install exhibitions in the ICA Teen Galleries. It will be on view in the Teen Galleries at the ICA Seaport Studio through May 26, 2026.

The opening is free and open to all ages.

Event Schedule

6:00 PM 

  • Art Making
  • Snacks + Drinks 
  • Photo Booth 
  • Activities

6:45 PM 

  • Welcome by Teen Exhibitions Program and Artists 

7:45 PM

  • Closing Remarks

Questions or requests for accessibility assistance? Email teens@icaboston.org or text or call (339) 236-3039

Teen Arts Council presents Teen Night. Enjoy a night where teens take over the museum inspired by the exhibitions Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, Christian Marclay: Doors, and Portraits from the ICA Collection.

Dress in your favorite hues.* First 50 people to arrive get a surprise.

Want to sail to teen night? Sign up here for a free 5 PM group sail from Pier Park Sailing Center (95 Marginal St., East Boston, MA 02128) to teen night.

HAPPENINGS

*Avoid bringing props, weapons, and costume masks.

Questions or requests for accessibility assistance? Email teens@icaboston.org or text or call (339) 236-3039.

Join us in the Mayor’s Neighborhood Gallery in Boston City Hall to celebrate Special Focus: Self Portraits. Self Portraits is an exhibition of photography by teens in the ICA’s Special Focus program, a four-day intensive in February 2025. With support from teaching artist Feda Eid, members of Special Focus worked together to create these unique and conceptual self-portraits. Whether these photographers chose intense set creation, intricate post­production work, or other processes, these portraits allowed them to push boundaries on how they are seen.

The reception is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be provided.

Directions: Please use the entrance located on Congress St, across from Faneuil Hall. Pass security and take the elevators to the 2nd floor. The Mayor’s Neighborhood Gallery will be to your left.

This exhibition will be on view through July 18th, 2025. Learn more

Calling all teens! Teen Exhibition Program presents Open Notes, an event that will activate all of your senses. See exhibitions of art by teens, hear the Open Mic, smell fragrances as you mix your own custom scent, and taste delicious food and mocktails.

Want to perform in the Open Mic? Sign up now.

Join us for a night of amplifying teen voices and celebrating this creative community. Experience new and exciting work by young people through a photography exhibition, film screenings, a music production showcase, and more! Immerse yourself in art making and other creative experiences. Connect with other people. Enjoy light food and drinks.

This event will celebrate and showcase the work of members of the Photography Collective, Fast Forward, AMP: Music Production Intensive, Special Focus: Photography Intensive, Teen Arts Council, and Teen Exhibitions Program.

Calling all teens! Join us for a showcase by teens in AMP, our music production program. Dance, listen, and mingle. Connect with other creative teens interested in music, explore the ICA’s Seaport Studio, and enjoy beverages & snacks!

Calling all teens! Join us, Fast Forward teens, for a free night of food, film, and family stories. We will screen The Seltzer Factory by local director and filmmaker, Paloma Valenzuela, and host a Q&A with her right after. We invite you to bring stories from your own families or communities to share through an interactive activity we will lead. Free food and beverages too!

More about The Seltzer Factory in Paloma’s words:

The film is a short documentary (hybrid in a way with narrative parts as well) that traces back a family story from my mother’s side: a story that set off a series of events that led my great grandmother to Cleveland ultimately saving her life, as just years later the rest of her family were sent off and killed in concentration camps in the Holocaust. I want to tell this story because I think this is a powerful story that many families can relate with — in terms of looking back, tracing back and finding those moments that led us to even still being here today. There is no doubt in my mind that if my Great Grandmother, Jewish-Hungarian woman from the town of Marghita wasn’t thrust into a move to the United States before the war took millions of lives – we would not be here today.

As a Jewish woman of color, and one of only 2 in my family on my mother’s side, I
also want to tell the story from my perspective- giving myself permission to
tell this story, even if I can feel sometimes “othered” as a Jewish
woman, I am a proud Jewish-American who is also part
Afro-Caribbean/Dominican/Latina and this is my story too.

Teen Arts Council presents Teen Night. Enjoy a night where teens take over the museum inspired by the exhibitions Portraits from the ICA Collection and Sara Cwynar: Alphabet. Don your most vibrant, colorful attire and get ready to shine.* 

*Please leave costume props, weapons, and masks at home.   

Happenings

Questions or requests for accessibility assistance? Email teens@icaboston.org or text or call 339-236-3039