West End Museum
After remaining closed to the public for months due to the pandemic, the West End Museum reopened on Friday, April 16, with a new collaborative exhibit that spotlights a trailblazing 20th-century social worker. “About...
by Nicole Ackman · Published April 22, 2021 · Last modified May 6, 2021
After remaining closed to the public for months due to the pandemic, the West End Museum reopened on Friday, April 16, with a new collaborative exhibit that spotlights a trailblazing 20th-century social worker. “About...
by Nicole Ackman · Published March 9, 2021 · Last modified March 17, 2021
Moving from the late days of segregation in the Deep South to the new wave of activism inspired by Black Lives Matter constitutes a long, complicated arc. You might think a series of documentaries...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 3, 2021 · Last modified February 16, 2021
Telling stories with watercolors, Loring W. Coleman painted old farms and rugged vistas that evoked – and preserved in memory – the beauty and character of a changing New England. That fading world of empty houses...
by Nicole Ackman · Published November 19, 2020 · Last modified February 19, 2021
“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion,” a new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, explores 250 years of fashion through 79 women designers—innovators, entrepreneurs and activists who fostered social and political...
by Nicole Ackman · Published October 12, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
It’s been four centuries since Europeans first arrived on the shores of southeastern Massachusetts, but the people they met have called the region home for 12,000 years. And while for many, the arrival of...
by Nicole Ackman · Published September 16, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
Bringing the transformative power of design to the forefront, Design Museum Everywhere goes virtual with its groundbreaking exhibition, We Design: People. Practice. Progress. Highlighting the lack of racial and gender diversity in the design field first and...
by RSmash270 · Published August 6, 2020 · Last modified February 24, 2021
A new exhibit in the Nantucket Whaling Museum tells the story of inspiring individuals who moved Nantucket—and the nation—towards a more just and equitable distribution of political power. It begins with a simple will...