Your gift can make a difference!

The Umbrella Arts Center is passionate about being an engaging, accessible, and innovative regional center for the arts. Your support enables us to spark creativity in even the youngest students, encourage discovery in people at all stages of their lives, and bring a community together around ideas and celebrations that inspire.

This year we’ve seen classrooms filled, the stage alight with performance, the gallery walls alive with compelling artwork, the community gathered to celebrate arts and the environment. You have made all that possible.

In order to reach our goals for this year we need to raise $19,000 by June 30. Your gift today can have a real impact and help put us over the top!

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If you’ve already made your gift – on behalf of our entire team, thank you! If you have questions or would like to speak to a member of our team, email [email protected].

COMING SOON: SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS

The Umbrella Arts & Environment and The Umbrella Visual Arts programs, in partnership with the Concord, MA-based Social Documentary Network/ZEKE Magazine, present an exciting new exhibition of world-class documentary photography emphasizing long-term sustainable solutions to the climate crisis.

Free and open to the public, the exhibition is on view July 5-31, and is the first in a series of collaborations between The Umbrella's Arts & Environment and Visual Arts programs. The series will focus on climate themes, and also will include a larger mixed media gallery exhibition, the annual Art Ramble in historic Hapgood Wright Town Forest, and support for a one-year studio artist residency for an artist whose work centers around the issue of climate change.

SAVE THE DATE!
Friday, July 8: Join the free public reception July 8 from 6-7:30pm, with remarks by exhibition curator Glenn Ruga, Arts & Environment Director Madeline Miller, participating photographer Lauren Owens Lambert, and Michael Frederick, executive director of the Thoreau Society.

Following the reception, The Thoreau Society will also present an evening of music, stories, and readings by musician and climate activist Jesse Paris Smith on The Umbrella mainstage. Concert tickets are available here.

IN THE ARTS GALLERIES

FINAL WEEK!
This is your last chance to experience The Colored Museum: Past, Present, Future, the powerful and interactive exhibition curated by Cedric Vise1 Douglas, at The Umbrella.

With pieces by nine emerging and established Black artists from throughout the eastern U.S., the exhibition features a diverse array of media, styles and audience engagement experiences.

Featuring work by:
Thomas "Kwest" Burns
Cedric Vise1 Douglas
Justin Printice Douglass
Barrington Edwards
Ifé Franklin
Nettrice Gaskins
Shea Justice
Chaz Maviyane-Davies
Keith Morris Washington

Don’t miss this compelling collection of work -- and your chance to contribute to it or take a piece of it home!  If you can't make it, take a "virtual stroll" through our 3D VR-enabled online gallery tour!

Free and open to the public

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Community Art Challenge!
Calling all Concord residents and businesses!

This summer, we invite Concord-area residents and businesses to #DiscoverYourArts and join in The Umbrella's Go Out Doors - Neighbors public art installation.

Now you can decorate your own Go Out Doors-style artdoor, install it on your lawn, and help bring all of our neighborhoods together in a shared community exhibition.

All are welcome -- no previous art-making experience required! Helpful instructions can be provided, and some paintable doors are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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