The Artist Project is a collaboration between the MFA and eight after-school community organizations in the Boston area. The artist and the children create a collaborative work of art inspired by the Museum’s encyclopedic collection. The completed project is exhibited in the Edward H. Linde Gallery in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art at the MFA.
 

Current Project

Fresh Eyes

Under the guidance of artist Hannah Burr, students from eight after-school community organizations in the Boston area will respond to works from the MFA’s encyclopedic collection. Through the students’ drawings, audio recordings, and transcriptions, “Fresh Eyes” demonstrates how personal and infinitely varied responses to a work of art can be. Hannah Burr will present the students’ theories, questions, declarations, descriptions, and questions in a layered, dynamic system of color-coded, visually delightful patterns made to draw in visitors, who are invited to look with fresh eyes at what they may not have noticed otherwise.

"Fresh Eyes" exhibition page

Upcoming Project

Encounters in Time - title TBD

Under the guidance of artist Andrew Oesch students will explore museum objects and imagine paths from these works of the past to their own contemporary comics and sequential art pieces. Through a series of drawing and writing exercises, they will also discuss what life could be like living with these artifacts.

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