COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

Community Programs
Looking At Art A field trip to the South Shore Art Center offers an opportunity to visit an art museum, see and discuss a contemporary art exhibition and make a hands-on project to take home. This two-hour program costs $12.00 per student and can be scheduled throughout the year for school groups, summer camps, scout troops and special needs students.
Arts To Go With the current repatriation of art objects from local museums to Italy and Greece, what could be more timely than a look at some of the ancient Greek treasures making the news? Or the curriculum subject is China and our response is to send Chinese brush painters into the classroom to enhance the unit being studied by offering each student an opportunity to try Chinese brush painting using authentic materials.

If the topic is Colonial American History, the program provides a close look (and active response) to Grant Wood’s twentieth-century painting of “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Multicultural topics offered include African printmaking, (SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER AND SCITUATE SCHOOLS—AFRICA) Japanese paper kites and Native American badges. Art Center experts are ready to visit classrooms or special groups to provide an arts tie-in to whatever subject is being discussed. We love challenges, so name your topic and we’ll respond with a special arts experience.

Cost: $120.00 per hour per class.
Artist In Residence Sponsored by
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Mark and Mariann Tosi
Alice Sloan

For the past five years, the Art Center has provided an Artist in Residence program. Offered at no cost to students in grades 3, 4 and 5 in schools on the South Shore, the program gives students an opportunity to meet a working artist, watch a live demonstration, participate in a hands-on workshop and tour the current gallery exhibitions.

If you are interested in the program for next year (September–May), please contact Heather Collins, 781-383-2787, x15 or email hcollins@ssac.org. Information will be available in early June and sign-ups are first come, first served.
PDPs All of our courses and workshops are available for professional development. Certificates of attendance will be provided corresponding to the number of hours of the workshop or course. Teachers may bundle these hours with those of other organizations and submit them to their schools for PDPs. We also offer full or half day in-service art workshops for groups of teachers (usually 6–12) in a variety of media.
Bring Your Group Every Monday evening we host an art enrichment class for members of a recreation program offered by the Arc of the South Shore. We are eager to accommodate other special needs groups and will work with you to arrange an art experience for your group. We also welcome Boy and Girl Scout troops to the SSAC to earn their art badges.