The Color of Spring! • MAY 2021
There is color everywhere here this month! The garden is bursting with new flowers, as well as outdoor classes and events. The hallways are full of music, and we are delighted to see so many smiling faces again.

This edition of the MCA newsletter celebrates TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK, and extends our most sincere gratitude to everyone who supported our teaching this year - teachers, school directors, students, caregivers, staff, and volunteers who worked so hard to keep the faith this year.

As we strive to provide education, exploration, awareness, and socialization through the arts - you all have successfully made that happen in the most trying of times! HUZZAH!
Classes & Workshops
It is almost recital time, and there is dancing in the streets! Dance Inn students are working hard, as well as getting ready for a National Tap Day performance this month. Follow us on Facebook for more details.
Watercolor & Mixed Media Workshop
May 16 & 23

Established Boston-based printmaker and painter, Boriana Kantcheva, will teach you a variety of techniques in these exciting, two-part, workshops: Mixed Media: Exploring Materials & Contemporary Approaches to Watercolor.

Try something new, or improve your skills!
Register HERE now through Sunday, May 9.
Be part of the tradition as we gear up for our 26th year of summer camp! Nine weeks to choose from for ages 5 - 12, onsite daily from 9am - 3pm. Enrollment is limited to 8 students per group, and masks will be required. Register at: www.munroecenter.org/summer-camp

Registration is also open for teen art classes happening July 12 - August 28. Classes are being offered in painting/drawing, and ceramics.
Find out more HERE.
We are so excited to announce our new summer theater program for ages 10 - 14. This two-week intensive happens Monday through Friday, July 5 – 16. During this time, young actors will work to put on a one act production of Camelot & Camelittle, a re-telling of the classic knights of the round table. Details and registration can be found HERE.
Lexington School of Ballet is elated to be phasing their classes back into the studios at the Munroe Center for the Arts while continuing in a hybrid format to accommodate all of their families. Here are just a few of our dancers back in the studio. Registration for summer ballet classes continues at www.lexingtonschoolofballet.com
Munroe Saturday Nights Presents
A Revolutionary Encounter in London

Join us for a dramatization of the real-life meeting of two Colonial American icons in summer 1773 London.


Saturday, April 17
7:30pm.
 
A Revolutionary Encounter in London, written by Debbie Wiess, is a 75-minute 3-character one-act play about the largely unknown meeting of enslaved African-American poet Phillis Wheatley and American founding father Benjamin Franklin. It was their first and only meeting, and took place in London in 1773, when she was there to help promote the publication of her book of poetry, Poems of Various Subjects Religious and Moral, to come out a few months later in early September. 
Community Art
Earth Day - trash tossin'

What is that big round thing in the front lawn you ask? We have joined forces with LexZeroWaste Collaborative to create awareness about what can't be recycled or composted and just goes to a landfill or incinerator.
WE NEED YOU! It's easy - just add your trash! Read what you can do.
Upcycled Art Winners!
What better thing to celebrate than art and environmental awareness?
Congratulations to all of our winners, and many thanks to our judges - Jill Hai (Select Board Chair), Rob Beaudoin (Lexington Environmental Services Supervisor), and Stella Carr (Lexington Sustainability Coord.)
Alzheimer's Awareness Day
All ages of Lexington community members are invited to help in the creation of memory and activity books. Submissions may be used as vignettes/testimonials to be included in a children's book written by local author Roser Rovira and/or for pages in an activity book to shared with memory care centers in the Lexington area and used in their residential life programs. To participate, simply submit a short memory of a loved one suffering from Alzheimer's or upload a outline of a picture that can be used in a coloring book on the online submission form.
Race Amity Virtual Art Show
Local artists - beginner to experienced of all ages - are invited to submit their vision of what Race Amity means, both personally and within our community.
Read HERE for more information.

ArtWalk 2021
This month we will be putting out the Call for Artists for the signature event this fall. If you or someone you know would like to display their artwork (and are not already on our list) please email us for this year's details.
Go Outdoors II
The great painted doors are back this month! The project, spearheaded by the Lexington Council for the Arts, comprises the doors seen along the bikeway last fall, along with 8 new ones, all decoratively painted by regional artists. The exhibit will be placed along the bikeway between Hancock St and Fletcher Ave. and will be up all summer.
Women's Monument
LexSeeHer seeks a monument artist this May to help make women’s contributions to Lexington visible! Check out their Call to Artist page which goes live later this week!
The arts make everything better.
Your support fuels this. Thank you!
Thank you to our sponsors who have helped to support our community programming and capacity building this spring.