Menino Arts Center

Menino Arts Center The Menino Arts Center, Home of the Hyde Park Art Association. Serving the Hyde Park neighborhood of

The Menino Arts Center serves the neighborhood of Hyde Park, greater Boston and its suburban counterparts. With over 4,000 square feet of space, the MAC is home to a large classroom, seven affordable artist work studios, three galleries, a library and resource center, an auditorium and our organization’s home offices.

"A Hand in Time", "All About Mom" & "Balancing Act" © Mary Hogan - 3 of 44 pieces in our Exhibit Volunteers Exhibition 2...
06/02/2026

"A Hand in Time", "All About Mom" & "Balancing Act" © Mary Hogan - 3 of 44 pieces in our Exhibit Volunteers Exhibition 2026, now on display both physically at the MAC and virtually in a 3D gallery that you can stroll through at https://www.hpaa-mac.org/exhibits/.

The exhibition is up through June 19, please visit during gallery hours: Wednesdays/Thursdays 1 - 4 pm; and Fridays 10 am - 4 pm.

Our next 2nd Thursday Poetry Reading is June 11, 2026, 7 - 9 pm, featuring Shanta Lee Honeycutt, Deborah Leipziger & Lyn...
06/02/2026

Our next 2nd Thursday Poetry Reading is June 11, 2026, 7 - 9 pm, featuring Shanta Lee Honeycutt, Deborah Leipziger & Lynne Viti (pictured here), with Open Mic before the featured speakers. Space is limited at the Open Mic, signup will start at 645 pm.

Lynne Viti is the author of four poetry collections, most recently The Walk to Cefalù (Cornerstone Press, 2022). A faculty emerita in the Writing Program at Wellesley College, she facilitates a Poets in the Schools project in Westwood, Massachusetts, leads a poetry workshop for adults, and serves on the advisory board of the New England Poetry Club. She was the inaugural poet laureate of Westwood, Massachusetts from March 2023 to May 2025.

More info at https://www.hpaa-mac.org/poetry-readings/.

"The Gathering #1 & #2" © Gail Bos - 2 of 44 pieces in our Exhibit Volunteers Exhibition 2026, now on display both phy...
05/29/2026

"The Gathering #1 & #2" © Gail Bos - 2 of 44 pieces in our Exhibit Volunteers Exhibition 2026, now on display both physically at the MAC and virtually in a 3D gallery that you can stroll through at https://www.hpaa-mac.org/exhibits/.

Join us for the Artists Reception Friday, May 29, 7 - 830 pm, or visit through June 19 when the exhibition ends!

Our next Basic Drawing Workshop with Larry Johnson is Saturday, June 6, 2026, 10 am - 12 noon. By employing a simple app...
05/28/2026

Our next Basic Drawing Workshop with Larry Johnson is Saturday, June 6, 2026, 10 am - 12 noon. By employing a simple approach you can accurately render still life objects with outline drawing. Challenge yourself in a supportive and fun atmosphere. All levels are welcome. Materials provided. Register at https://www.hpaa-mac.org/workshops/registration//.

Image © Larry Johnson.

KS Dance Studio's performance of "GENESIS: The Journey from Hispaniola to Haiti" is on Sunday, June 7, 4 pm at the Stran...
05/27/2026

KS Dance Studio's performance of "GENESIS: The Journey from Hispaniola to Haiti" is on Sunday, June 7, 4 pm at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester, MA. The show is a powerful and immersive dance production that traces Haiti’s extraordinary origin story—from the time of the Taínos to the birth of the first Black republic in 1804. This journey unfolds through choreographed pieces that delve into the realities of colonization, slavery, resistance, and revolution.

More info and tickets at https://www.ksdancestudio.com

"Tennessee Barns 1 & 2" © Barbara Kibler - 2 of 44 pieces in our Exhibit Volunteers Exhibition 2026, now on display both...
05/26/2026

"Tennessee Barns 1 & 2" © Barbara Kibler - 2 of 44 pieces in our Exhibit Volunteers Exhibition 2026, now on display both physically at the MAC and virtually in a 3D gallery that you can stroll through at https://www.hpaa-mac.org/exhibits/.

Join us for the Artists Reception this coming Friday, May 29, 7 - 830 pm (exhibition runs through June 19. Please come visit!

We have been thrilled to partner with the Boston Children's Chorus the last two seasons and are looking forward to hosti...
05/26/2026

We have been thrilled to partner with the Boston Children's Chorus the last two seasons and are looking forward to hosting them again for the '26-'27 season. For 2nd-5th graders who are interested scan the QR code on the flyer, and/or check out their Sing into Spring session on May 30 at Union Church (ignup at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsjwn5v2yptPL9rcsbYkC34VzVnoGTehmIWHTrg5jyHx-tnQ/viewform).

More info on BCC at https://www.bostonchildrenschorus.org/our-programs/our-choirs/

Our next 2nd Thursday Poetry Reading is June 11, 2026, 7 - 9 pm, featuring Shanta Lee Honeycutt (pictured here), Deborah...
05/24/2026

Our next 2nd Thursday Poetry Reading is June 11, 2026, 7 - 9 pm, featuring Shanta Lee Honeycutt (pictured here), Deborah Leipziger & Lynne Viti, with Open Mic before the featured speakers. Space is limited at the Open Mic, signup will start at 645 pm.

Shanta Lee Honeycutt is an award-winning visual artist, writer across genres, author, and scholar who is a practitioner of entanglement for all of the things she brings together in her work. Her written and visual work has been widely featured in Visual Poetry Journal, the Edinburgh University Press journal, CounterText: A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary, thePoetry Foundation, and elsewhere. Her latest 5th book, Do Words Dream Themselves Into Silence Told In Riddles? (Harbor Editions), is a hybrid collection of prose, poetry, and visual elements that explores themes of the uncanny, psychological unrest, and the blurring of reality with dreams, and other things unseen with the help of a trickster entity. To learn more, visit: Shantalee.com.

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26 Central Avenue
Boston, MA
02136

Opening Hours

Wednesday 10am - 2pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm
Friday 10am - 2pm

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(617) 364-2787

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