Join Summer Stages Dance @ ICA resident artists Eiko Otake and DonChristian Jones for a workshop designed for “people who love to move or want to move with delicious feeling.” Explore exercises designed to focus awareness, coordination, and sensing the reciprocal natures of movement and emotion. No dance training is required, and all abilities are welcome.    

2025 Summer Stages Dance @ ICA/Boston is made possible, in part, with the support of Jane Karol and Howard Cooper, Carol and John Moriarty, and The Aliad Fund.

Meets on 4th floor

Adventure awaits! Join an ICA educator for a special Mother’s Day family-friendly tour of Portraits from the ICA Collection. Through games, drawing, and other playful activities, we’ll explore pictures of mothers and mother-like figures. 

This program is designed for children 12 and under and their accompanying adults. First come, first served for up to 20 participants. 

Are there access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in a tour (e.g., assistive listening devices (ALDs), portable gallery stools)? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org.  

Free Admission for Youth

Questions? Reach out to us at familyprograms@icaboston.org.

Portraits from the ICA Collection is organized by Erika Umali, Curator of Collections.

This exhibition is funded, in part, with support from Leadership in Arts Museums, an initiative to create more racial equity in art museum leadership, supported by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Pilot House Philanthropy, and Alice L. Walton Foundation.

Additional support is generously provided by The Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Exhibition Fund.

Celebrate Mother’s Day weekend with a special tour of Portraits from the ICA Collection. Through guided close-looking and discussion, consider how contemporary artists depict mothers and mother-like figures.  

FREE with museum admission or membership, no pre-registration required. Tour meets on the fourth floor. 

While all ages are welcome to participate, this tour is designed for an adult audience.  

Are there access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program (e.g., assistive listening devices (ALDs), portable gallery stools)? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org. 

Portraits from the ICA Collection is organized by Erika Umali, Curator of Collections.

This exhibition is funded, in part, with support from Leadership in Arts Museums, an initiative to create more racial equity in art museum leadership, supported by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Pilot House Philanthropy, and Alice L. Walton Foundation.

Additional support is generously provided by The Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Exhibition Fund.

Discover our featured exhibition Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon in this interactive tour led by an ICA expert educator. Through games, drawing, and other playful activities, +1 youth members 12 years old and under and their +1 guest are invited to explore shapes, colors, and jazz influences in Stanley Whitney’s paintings. +1 youth members can always bring one adult guest for free to the museum!

Tours at 1:30 pm are targeted toward youth members 6 years old and under.

Tours at 2:30 pm are targeted toward youth members 7–12 years old.

For questions, please email plus1@icaboston.org.

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

The exhibition is curated by Cathleen Chaffee, Charles Balbach Chief Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The ICA/Boston’s presentation is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Gagosian and the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making the ICA’s presentation of this exhibition possible.

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Join local Boston artist J Rowen O’Dwyer (they/she/he) for an inspiring afternoon of discussion and art-making. Starting with a conversation in the Poss Family Mediatheque, O’Dwyer will discuss how ideas of representation, queer history, and community organizing inform their interdisciplinary art practice. 

Following the talk, join O’Dwyer for a beginner-friendly live figure drawing session in Portraits from the ICA Collection. In this relaxed and experimental session, you will be invited to draw and be drawn, embracing self-representation in an intimate and supportive space. No experience necessary! Just come ready to listen and create. 

While all experience levels are welcome, this workshop is designed for adults. Supplies are limited; first come, first served. This program is inspired by the exhibition Portraits from the ICA Collection. 

Images of works of art with mature material including nudity, and sexual content will be shown as part of the lecture portion of this program. 

About J Rowen O’Dwyer

Join an ICA Graduate Student Lecturer for a tour of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Deepen your understanding of the artist and exhibition themes through guided close looking and discussion.  

FREE with museum admission or membership, no pre-registration required. Tour meets on 4th floor. 

Are there access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program (e.g., assistive listening devices (ALDs), portable gallery stools)? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org. 

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

The exhibition is curated by Cathleen Chaffee, Charles Balbach Chief Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The ICA/Boston’s presentation is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Gagosian and the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making the ICA’s presentation of this exhibition possible.

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Go beyond the wall text during this member-exclusive, curator-led tour of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Deepen your understanding of the artist and exhibition themes through guided close looking and discussion. 

Are there access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program (e.g., assistive listening devices (ALDs), portable gallery stools)? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org!

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

The exhibition is curated by Cathleen Chaffee, Charles Balbach Chief Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The ICA/Boston’s presentation is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Gagosian and the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making the ICA’s presentation of this exhibition possible.

Gagosian logo

Tune in from home for a three-part online series of presentations and discussions on art, history, and community exploring the 250-year history of the Shakers — a Christian sect of pacifists recognized for communal living and gender and racial equality — and their remarkable influence on contemporary art and artists. Hear live presentations from different speakers throughout New England each week for three weeks, including from the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Harvard University and Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community in Maine. This program accompanies the ICA exhibition Believers: Artists and the Shakers.  

Pre-registration for this online series is required in order to receive web links. This series of presentations will be offered using Zoom.  

Week 1: March 11 | Contemporary Art and the Shakers  

Week 2: March 18 | Shakerism and Sabbathday Lake, Maine  

Week 3: March 25 | Spirit-Driven Women Making Art

Expand your knowledge of the Shakers after the series concludes and meet featured speakers Brother Arnold Hadd and Jeffrey De Blois in person during The Artist’s Voice program and community reception on April 10.  

Meets on 4th floor 

Adventure awaits! Join an ICA educator for a family-friendly, interactive look at Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Through games, drawing, and other playful activities, we’ll explore shapes, colors, and jazz influences in Stanley Whitney’s paintings. 

This program is designed for children 12 and under and their accompanying adults. First come, first served for up to 20 participants. 

Are there access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program (e.g., assistive listening devices (ALDs), portable gallery stools)? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org.

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

The exhibition is curated by Cathleen Chaffee, Charles Balbach Chief Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The ICA/Boston’s presentation is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Gagosian and the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making the ICA’s presentation of this exhibition possible.

Gagosian logo

Join an ICA Graduate Student Lecturer for a tour of Portraits from the ICA Collection. Through guided close looking and discussion, learn more about the ICA’s collection and the varied approaches employed by contemporary artists to create images of themselves and others. 

FREE with museum admission or membership, no pre-registration required. Tour meets on the fourth floor. 

Are there access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program (e.g., assistive listening devices (ALDs), portable gallery stools)? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org!

Portraits from the ICA Collection is organized by Erika Umali, Curator of Collections.

This exhibition is funded, in part, with support from Leadership in Arts Museums, an initiative to create more racial equity in art museum leadership, supported by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Pilot House Philanthropy, and Alice L. Walton Foundation.

Additional support is generously provided by The Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Exhibition Fund.