Holiday Hours

The ICA will be closing early at 3 PM on December 24 and will be closed on December 25. Learn more about holidays at the ICA

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The Teen Arts Council presents The Current, an event that will center creativity and raise awareness for caring for ourselves, our communities, and our climate. Details will be added as the date gets closer.

Join us at Seaport Studio to eat snacks, snap a photo in our photo booth, and explore and make art in our teen galleries. Find out about paid opportunities to be creative, build career skills, and connect with community in our photography, film making, music production, and creative leadership programs.

First 50 teens receive a pair of Converse to customize.

While you’re in the neighborhood, check out Youth Fest! presented by Boston Music Project.

The Teen Exhibitions Program, in collaboration with Boston Caribbean Fashion Week, presents Teen Fashion Night Out. Join us for workshops led by fashion and beauty professionals, enjoy free snacks and beverages, watch or take part in a fashion show, and connect with each other.

About Boston Caribbean Fashion Week: BCFW is a multi-day diverse series of festive fashion events founded and produced by Althea Blackford. BCFW focus is about Beauty, Culture, Fashion and Style. It’s a time to celebrate the Caribbean culture through fashion.

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 exhibition Charles Atlas: About Time. Dress to be seen.*  

*Avoid bringing props, weapons, and costume masks. 

Happenings:

  • Art-Making 
  • Performances  
  • Gallery Activities 
  • Snacks 
  • Giveaways 
  • Dance Party 
  • Quiet Space 
  • and More!

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

Join us at Seaport Studio to eat snacks, snap a photo in our photo booth, make a beat in our digital studio, and explore and make art in our teen galleries. Find out about paid opportunities to be creative, build career skills, and connect with community in our photography, film making, music production, and creative leadership programs.

First 50 teens receive a pair of Converse to customize.

Join us in the Mayor’s Neighborhood Gallery in Boston City Hall to celebrate Rewriting Our City: Unsettled Accounts, an exhibition of portraits by teens in Photography Collective. During the fall of 2023, these young people partnered with Northeastern University through the Unsettled Accounts Project, exploring the impact of urban renewal and planning on Black homeownership in Boston. Photography Collective explored the ideas of home and displacement, browsing archival materials that contextualized these concepts for people of color living in Boston. The teens met with storytellers from the Unsettled Accounts Project and created portraits of them, using photography to capture their stories and preserve their histories.

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

The exhibition will be on view through Sep 5, 2024.

Calling all alums of the ICA’s teen programs! Join us at Seaport Studio to catch up, meet new people, eat good food, and shape together the future of how we gather. Current and former staff members will be there to connect or reconnect. Guests are welcome.

Join us for a film screening, art-making activities, and snacks at the ICA’s Seaport Studio to activate the exhibitions in the teen galleries—Chronicles from Castle Square and As You Are: Beauty and the Human Form. Come dressed in something that makes you feel beautiful or fits the theme of beauty and the other things.

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

Stop Motion Commotion is an event led by the teens from the Teen Digital Cooperative program at Seaport Studio where teens from across the Boston area can learn stop motion animation!

Join Teen Digital Cooperative in creating unique and affirming stop motion animations! Explore your personal identities and connect with themes from our Wordplay exhibition. Drop by and experiment with different materials to create your own animations.

This workshop was organized by the ICA’s Teen Digital Cooperative, a group of teens that work collaboratively to create animation and short stop motion videos.

Questions? Email teens@icaboston.org or text or call 339-236-3039

Chronicles from Castle Square is an exhibition of artwork by teens from the Change Creators program at Castle Square Tenants Organization (CSTO). These artists focus in on stories that are of significance to them. Their photography is arranged into three categories: “Beauty in the Small Things,” “Hidden Stories/Layers,” and “Past, Present, Future.” The final section of the exhibition, called “The Ballad of the Backgrounds,” is a collection of nine short films by the same artists.

 The exhibition was organized by the ICA’s Teen Exhibitions Program, 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’s Seaport Studio through May 29, 2025.

The opening is free and open to all ages.

Event Schedule

6:00 PM 

  • Art Making
  • Snacks & Drinks 
  • Photo Booth 

6:30 PM 

  • Welcome by Teen Exhibitions Program 

6:45 PM 

  • CSTO Teen Artists Q&A 

7:45 PM

  • Closing