November 1, 2025
Saturday Open Studios
Free with Museum Admission
Saturday
November 1, 2025
1 - 4 pm
Bertucci Education Studio
Inspired by our fall exhibition Allan Rohan Crite: Urban Glory, visitors are invited to reflect on their own stories of their cities or towns through the art of texture rubbings.
By mining anecdotes and personal recollections, create a composition of a neighborhood scene with lasercut elements such as houses, buses, play structures, and foliage. Imagine more—cut, draw, and create your own elements to add to the artwork. Finally, color over your textured composition to create a dreamy rubbing that captures your unique vision inspired by the memories of your home or community.
About the Artist
Photo by Tarik Bartel
crystal bi (she/they) is a multimedia artist working in the public realm. Her participatory art projects explore themes of imagination, creative archiving, and belonging. Her practice includes creating space for dreaming in public, engaging with archival materials, weaving with natural materials, designing printed media, installing interactive sculptures in public space, and sewing translucent fabrics to float on bodies of water. As a public artist, professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, former Boston Public School art teacher, and Creative Civic Design Lead with Design Studio for Social Intervention, crystal works with others to design interventions that practice possible futures. She is currently fulfilling a dream to build a Department of Public Imagination, which creates infrastructure for horizontal dream work in Boston.
Find out more at www.crystal-bi.com and www.departmentofpublicimagination.com
TICKETS I MUSEUM ADMISSION
Open Studios are free with Museum admission, and participation is drop-in on a first-come, first-served basis. Advance registration for general admission is encouraged.
Purchase your ticket by clicking on the GET TICKETS button above.
Questions about accessibility? Please call the Box Office at 617 278 5156 to request accessible or companion seating, or to inquire about other accommodations in advance of the program.
Studio activities are made possible by the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust. The Museum is also supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which receives support from the State of Massachusetts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Polly Thayer Starr (1904-2006) was an accomplished artist who captured the culture and whimsy of her native Boston with a unique combination of detail, emotion, and curiosity. For more, visit the Polly Thayer Starr Charitable Trust online at www.pollythayerstarr.org.
