Arts & Culture
Supporting the arts in Allston-Brighton through artist professional development, exhibitions, performances, and more.
The Arts Program supports Allston-Brighton artists, cultural workers, and creatives through professional development, exhibitions, performances, and access to financial and career resources. By connecting artists with the tools, they need to grow, we help strengthen the local creative economy.
Our year-round programming brings the arts to life through live music, dance, and theater performances featuring Harvard faculty, students, and affiliates. We cultivate the next generation of artists through hands-on programs that connect Allston-Brighton youth with local and Harvard creatives, offering small-group learning experiences designed to spark creativity and artistic exploration.
Crossings Gallery
Seeds of Home by Tashi Haig
Step into a quiet realm where layered worlds unfold. In this exhibition, artist Tashi Haig brings together clay and hand-cut paper to explore the ways nature connects people across distance and time. Ceramic figures, fruit, and small creatures emerge among cascading paper leaves, inviting you to slow down and notice the details that root us to place and to one another. Drawing from both Boston’s everyday greenery and the landscapes of her maternal lineage/heritage in Cyprus, Haig’s work reflects on how culture, memory, and environment intertwine. The exhibition traces shared human experiences, tenderness, memory, and resilience, through natural forms that feel at once familiar and newly seen.
Tashi Haig is an Allston–Brighton–based artist and elementary school educator.
Outside the Harvard Ed Portal
All This, All at Once
Created by Allston-based art team Ansis Purins & Blipblipbeep
Imagine a city block where animals, insects, and even hot dog characters celebrate the joy of shared daily urban routines—the hustle-bustle, quiet pauses, tasty meals, and surprises. This mural highlights the diversity of daily life as a community that we are all in, together. Drawn in Ansis Puriņs' dense, sugar-bright cartoon style—part ’80s Saturday-morning TV, part underground comic—the piece brings illustration, comics, and public art into the same playful frame, inviting viewers to linger in its details and spot something new each time they pass.
Crossings Gallery
Showcasing local artists with talks, panels, workshops, and exhibits.
Artist Pipeline Program
Free program helping Allston-Brighton artists grow careers and connections.
Public Art
Free tours, exhibits, and workshops celebrate Allston-Brighton public art.
Harvard Partners
The Arts team works with partners across the University to bring exhibitions, performances, learning opportunities, and professional development to the Allston-Brighton community and beyond.
Community Partners
The Arts team regularly collaborates with artists and community-based arts organizations on programming that highlights the rich creative resources of the neighborhood and city.
Get in touch
Contact us if you're a Cambridge or Boston artist who is interested in working together on future performances, gallery shows, public art installations, or professional development classes.
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