The Icon Museum and Study Center

Session 1 SOLD OUT Members $35, Not-yet-members $45. Limited to 14 participants per session. Please register by April 9. Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs and designs created using a wax-resist method. Students in this workshop will learn how to draw on a whole plain white chicken egg with a special pen […]

Free with admission. No registration required. Explore our special exhibition with guest curator, Dennis Sardella, who will discuss reflections on the icon of the Mother of God Kazanskaya, its iconography, form, spiritual journey, allure, and beauty, as well as its cooption by political and religious actors up to our modern times. Dennis will be available […]

Session 2 SOLD OUT   Members $35, Not-yet-members $45. Limited to 14 participants per session. Please register by April 9. Pysanky (pee-san-key) are decorated eggs with traditional folk motifs and designs created using a wax-resist method. Students in this workshop will learn how to draw on a whole plain white chicken egg with a special […]

Free. Register by Monday, April 29th. The Zoom link will be sent to you when you register and on the day of the program. What might iconography gain by migrating […]

Free with admission. No registration required. Explore our special exhibition with guest curator, Dennis Sardella, who will discuss reflections on the icon of the Mother of God Kazanskaya, its iconography, […]

Members $20, Not-yet-members $30 Limited to 80 seats; tickets at the door if available  .stk-19fif3y .stk-button{padding-right:25px !important;padding-left:25px !important;background:var(--theme-palette-color-2,#6F0000) !important;border-top-left-radius:4px !important;border-top-right-radius:4px !important;border-bottom-right-radius:4px !important;border-bottom-left-radius:4px !important}.stk-19fif3y .stk-button__inner-text{font-weight:600 !important;text-transform:uppercase !important;letter-spacing:1.2px !important}Register Greek Chorale Boston, directed by Panayota Haloulakou, has shared the rich variety of Greek music and culture with audiences throughout New England since 2019. Collaborating with Cretan singer […]

Members Free, Not-yet-members $15. Limited to 80 seats, tickets at door if available This talk uses the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan as a case study to highlight how Russia's political leaders invoke the notion of "sacred" history as political discourse. Drawing on hundreds of years of icon tales (skazaniia) linked to […]

Free with admission. No registration required. Explore our special exhibition with guest curator, Dennis Sardella, who will discuss reflections on the icon of the Mother of God Kazanskaya, its iconography, form, spiritual journey, allure, and beauty, as well as its cooption by political and religious actors up to our modern times. Dennis will be available […]

To Honor and Adorn: Icons and their Covers in late Imperial Russia Free. Registration required.  The practice of adorning icons with metal covers is today one of the least understood aspects of the icon's history and function. As older icons came to be seen as works of art in the early twentieth century, their covers […]