Revolutionary Valley Regional Tourism Council

Ways of My Ancestors – Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness
2025-02-28 - 2025-03-23 | The Umbrella Arts Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
“Ways of My Ancestors – Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness” features photographic work by Scott Strong Hawk Foster that celebrates the rich, diverse, and resilient cultures of the Native Peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America.
Foster is a Native American photographer and an enrolled member of Hassanamisco Nipmuc Band with proud Mohegan and Cherokee lineage. His work has been exhibited at the Danforth Museum, Worcester Art Museum, Boston City Hall, and other venues.
On view through March 23 in The Umbrella’s Wedge Gallery, this exhibition reflects Foster’s travels within his home state of Massachusetts and throughout the ancestral homelands of the Native American Peoples of New England. While attending powwows, cultural events, workshops, and Indigenous practices that span millennia, his passion has become highlighting cultures and history of the Indigenous peoples that are still here and living amongst us.
Both the opening reception March 5, 6PM and Artist Talk, March 9, 1-2PM are free and open to the public.
The exhibition runs concurrently with The Umbrella Stage Company’s Where We Belong by Mohegan playwright Madeline Sayet in The Umbrella’s Black Box theater. Both are presented as part of The Umbrella’s programs recognizing the American semiquincentennial.
The Umbrella is ADA accessible, a proud partner in the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s EBT Card-to-Culture program, and provides free parking and free admission to its visual arts galleries.
See https://TheUmbrellaArts.org/Foster

Gallery Talk with Guest Speaker, Dr. Sabine Stanley
2025-03-15 11:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | New England Quilt Museum, New England Quilt Museum, 18 Shattuck St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
In conjunction with the Fierce Planets exhibition, the NEQM welcomes special guest speaker Dr. Sabine Stanley, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in Planetary Science at Johns Hopkins University. The artists featured in Fierce Planets drew inspiration from Dr. Stanley’s work in planetary science at Johns Hopkins University, the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), and NASA, as well as her recent book, What’s Hidden Inside Planets?

Addison Gallery Spring Opening Reception
2025-03-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Addison Gallery of American Art, Chapel Avenue, Andover, Massachusetts, 01810, United States
Join us in celebrating the new exhibitions: June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart; Playing to Our Strengths: Highlights from the Permanent Collection; On and Off Stage: Performance and Persona; and Dynamic Duos. Enjoy great company, light refreshments, and the best of American art! Free and open to the public.

Public Health Week at The Public Health Museum
2025-04-07 08:00 - 2025-04-12 17:00 | Public Health Museum, East Street, Tewksbury, MA, 01876, United States
Public Health Week is celebrated each year during the first week in April. Join the Public Health Museum for a week of free activities highlighting public health – now and in the past. Events include:
Monday, April 7- Free virtual program: Go Behind the Headlines with state epidemiologist and public health veterinarian Dr. Katie Brown about avian influenza or bird flu.Hosted with the Tewksbury Public Library
Tuesday, April 8- Free Narcan training: You Could Save A Life: Visit the Public Health Museum at 12 noon and learn about naloxone and how to spot an overdose. Fentanyl is everywhere and with just a short training, you could help someone until professional help arrives. 365 East Street in the Old Administration Building
Thursday, April 10-Free tours of the museum from 10AM-2PM. Visit the museum for FREE and see the new exhibit- Pandemics: Is Hindsight 2020? as we draw parallels with the 1918 Influenza pandemic and COVID-19.
Friday, April 11- Virtual Public Health Forum with local public health officials. Learn how your municipal health agents are working hard to keep us all safe.
Saturday, April 12- Tour the Pines Cemetery. * This is a fee-based event. See museum website for details.

Reception: Art Thou Neurodivergent?
2025-04-08 17:30 - 18:15 | Lowell City Hall, Lowell City Hall, 375 Merrimack St, Lowell, MA, 01852, United States
Join the celebration of the Art Thou Neurodivergent exhibit in the lobby of City Hall on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 from 5:30-6:15 PM. Meet the artists, listen to live music from the MCC Guitar Department, and enjoy free food!
Organized by the City of Lowell’s Office of Cultural Affairs and Special Events in collaboration with Rylie Hegarty, this exhibit showcases and uplifts neurodivergent student artists. The art is on view from April 4th through 29th.

“Bedford Answers the Call” Exhibit Grand Opening
2025-04-12 08:00 - 14:00 | Bedford Historical Society, 16 South Road, Bedford, 01730, United States
Join us for the grand opening of “Bedford Answers the Call” at our Open House on April 12th from 8 – 10:15 a.m. and immediately following the Pole Capping Day parade and ceremony.
In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the first day of the American Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775, we’ve created a collection of artifacts and stories specific to Bedford. Two rooms of the Historical Society Museum feature our town’s response to the urgent midnight call to arms: “The British are coming!”
Also, visit our satellite displays at the Bedford Free Public Library, 7 Mudge Way, Bedford, MA, to learn about the history of the present-day Bedford Minuteman Company.

A River Transformed Walking Tour
2025-06-16 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-06-17 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-06-23 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-06-24 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-06-30 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-07-01 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-07-07 14:00 - 15:30, 2025-07-08 14:00 - 15:30 and 3 more dates | Lowell National Historical Park – Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John Street, Lowell, 01852, United States
Discover how the power of the Merrimack River was harnessed into textile production in the 19th century. This tour combines a walk along the riverwalk accompanied by a park ranger with a guided visit to the River Transformed Exhibit at the Suffolk Mill.
June 15-August 31, 2025
Monday and Tuesday at 2 p.m.
Visitors should plan for a 75-minute tour, all of which will be spent on your feet. Visitors can expect to walk as much as 1.5-miles on paved paths and are encouraged to bring water. This tour meets and ends at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum (115 John St.)
This tour is free. To reserve your spot, call (978) 970-5000 or check in at the Boott Cotton Mills Museum front desk.

Weaving An Address - Curator Tour and Author Talk
2025-07-19 15:00 - 17:30 | The Umbrella Arts Center, 40 Stow Street, Concord, MA, 01742, United States
The public is invited to a free program exploring The Umbrella Arts Center’s outdoors public art ramble, Weaving an Address, a site-specific exhibition of work by prominent Black artists commemorating colonial-era Black residents of Concord’s famed Walden Woods.
On Saturday, July 19 at 3PM, curator and artist Marla McLeod will lead a guided tour of the artwork installed at Brister’s Hill in Walden Woods, named for Brister Freeman, an enslaved man who won his freedom by serving in the Revolutionary War and then bought the property and lived there along with other formerly enslaved before Thoreau.
The tour will be followed at 4:30PM by refreshments and a panel discussion back at The Umbrella Arts Center (40 Stow Street, Concord, MA) with McLeod in dialogue with historian Elise Lemire, author of Black Walden: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, who was recently a subject of the new international documentary, Concord’s Secret History, just released on over 500 PBS stations. Saturday’s discussion will examine the “journey from archive to art,” and Lemire’s scholarly research that fueled Weaving’s creative installations.
Part of the town’s Revolution250 celebrations, this program is co-presented by The Umbrella Arts Center, The Walden Woods Project and The Robbins House: Concord’s African American History Museum. It featured work by artists Sharon Chandler Correnty, Ifé Franklin, Stephen Hamilton, Whitney Harris, Ekua Holmes, Perla Mabel, Marla McLeod, Kimberly Love Radcliffe, and Anthony Peyton Young.
Learn more at https://theumbrellaarts.org/weaving
