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While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us.

Get inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s infinity room LOVE IS CALLING (1st image). Find or create the largest infinity in the smallest space. Snap a photo. 

To share, email them to teens@icaboston.org and/or tag us @icateens on Instagram.

(Examples by Betsy, Director of Teen Programs, featuring a hat by amazing alum Ren enhanced with polka dots by Betsy)

While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us.

Watch this video by artist Rachel Perry where she lip-syncs to voicemail messages left in error. Create your own video that expresses something about communication in our time. 

To share, email them to teens@icaboston.org and/or tag us @icateens on Instagram.

While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us. 

Find a collaborator. Write a short film with two characters. Following social distancing guidelines, shoot your character’s scenes and have your collaborator do the same. Edit them into a single film.

To share, email them to teens@icaboston.org and/or tag us @icateens on Instagram.

Examples:


While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us.

Watch this video of us with artist Nari Ward installing his work We the People (made of hundreds of shoelaces). Find some shoelaces. Make something that expresses how you feel about where you live.

To share, email them to teens@icaboston.org and/or tag us @icateens on Instagram.


While the ICA is temporarily closed, stay creative and connected with us.

Grab a camera or camera phone. Set the self-timer button for 10 seconds (grab a helper if yours doesn’t have one). Run away from the camera and into the shot. Repeat. Inspired by photographer John Divola’s series As Far As I Could Get. 

To share, email them to teens@icaboston.org and/or tag us @icateens on Instagram.

Examples:
1: Alaska
2: Brian
3: Emmett

On December 17th, the ICA’s Special Focus digital photography class traveled to Harvard, to prepare their photographs for exhibition in the Monroe C. Gutman Library. Led  by teaching artist Marlon Orozco, these teens have been working hard to perfect their skills with a camera! 

The young photographers were enthusiastic, engaged, and helpful to one another. One could say that they were laser-focused throughout! Leading up to this event, the Special Focus class developed their editing abilities, learned advanced forms of digital photography, and learned about image composition.

This presentation was the culmination of the workshop; and was  what they prepared for throughout the semester. They had learned so much from where they started and now they’re able to do amazing things with photography! It has been a long journey for these ICA teens.


On November 21st, the Fast Forward beginner film-making class traveled to East Boston to present their audio projects, Sounds of Home, to play on Zumix Radio 94.9 FM!

To get to Zumix, we left our home in the Boston Seaport, traveled by boat, and arrived on the shores of East Boston.

Although it was a long and arduous journey, the students of Fast Forward were able to manage themselves, and we all made it to Zumix.

    When we arrived, we were greeted by our friends who showed us around the studio, and introduced us to Ike. He’s a dog. 

 Ike is even instagram famous!

    The Fast Forward students entered the on air radio booth, confident and prepared to discuss their projects. We were hosted by Gabi and Davien, who are members of the Firehouse radio program at Zumix. 

The projects presented by Fast Forward ranged from interviews about movies to siblings screaming about video games, and even to parents asking why they were being recorded! The students were all quite proud of their work, and they answered many probing questions from our gracious hosts, and helped to make it a lively environment.

    Thank you Fast Forward and Zumix for coming together, and making this such a wonderful experience!

Also, follow Ike and Zumix on instagram @thoughtsofike and @zumixinc respectively.

With work by Arthur Jafa at ICA/Boston and an installation by Diana Thater inaugurating the Watershed in East Boston, a group of ICA Teens decided to link up with their neighbors at Zumix and dive into an exploration of interdisciplinary art. Using Jafa’s collage of music, sound, and image “Love is the Message, the Message is Death” and Thater’s work with light and space as jump-off-points, the group met for seven weeks in June, July and August to discuss and learn and work together on the question of pushing boundaries in art.

By trading hosting duties, Zumix and ICA teens got know each other and check out different learning and activity spaces. To aid our thinking, we made zines, black-out poems, and played improv games. The project culminated in a teen-led performance to reflect on the experience together, which was shared on August 3rd at a Zumix workshop graduation. 

Check out photos of our fun time, and join upcoming workshops for Teens @ the ICA and @ Zumix! 

On July 4th, the ICA will open its East Boston-located civic and art space, the Watershed, to the public. As part of the developing relationship between the museum and East Boston, the ICA Teens Digital Photography class was invited to take and submit photos of the area — and selections of their submissions will be exhibited in the community room of the Watershed!

To facilitate the project, we set up a field trip to the historic neighborhood. The attractive seaside environs of Piers Park, the industry and art on the wharf, and the liveliness of Maverick Square inspired eagerness and excitement — both from the large number of East Boston students and residents in the class, to whom the sites were familiar and meaningful, as well as those crossing the Harbor for the first time. As one student puts it: People, the beach, views. . . East Boston has it all. 

Check out students’ work below and learn more about our digital photography classes!


Last week, 5 ICA Slam Team members took part in the competition for the Massachusetts Brave New Voices team — and our poets Victoria and Sydney made the team! We’re so proud of them!

That means this summer they’ll be going all the way to Houston with the rest of the MA BNV team to compete with teams from across the country and around the world.

Check out pictures from the event below.