In the Media

Eliot School Named Best of Boston 2010

Art Activity for Kids-Best of Boston

Boston Magazine names the Eliot School BEST OF BOSTON 2010 for Art Activity for Kids:

“For budding Picassos, the standard summer arts and crafts classes can seem a bit elementary.... Enter Jamaica Plain’s Eliot School, where young artists can explore their world through printmaking, woodworking, sewing... Popular selections include sessions on building go-carts and creating comic books. And if your kid brings home the DIY bug, adult classes are also offered.”

Fun Night Out

Chronicle on WCVB/Channel 5 tagged the Eliot School as a great place to go out at night. We share the segment with Nerd Night and dance classes, with a focus on our fun and affordability.

 

Video produced by Amanda Farrington and Will Weiglein, Center for Digital Imaging Arts, Boston University, 2008

Press Clips

  • “Roslindale Students Shine at Open Studios,” Kim Foley MacKinnon, boston.com, November 7, 2011—“There were more than 100 artists featured during last weekend’s Roslindale Open Studios, but the youngest entrants might well have been the happiest to be there.…”
  • “Una Joya Escondida en Jamaica Plain,” Carlos Quintero, El Mundo, August 4–11, 2011— “…Es inmensa la historia de esta institución sin fines de lucro económico, que merece ser más conocida por nuestra comunidad.”
  • “Eliot School gets $25K donation,” John Ruch, Jamaica Plain Gazette, July 22, 2011— “An anonymous $25,000 donation from a Jamaica Plain family to the Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts is the basis for a new scholarship fund for low-income students.…”
  • “Grant Opens Artistic Vistas for Roslindale Students,” Charlotte Hough, Roslindale Transcript/Wicked Local, July 17, 2011 — “…The Eliot School specializes in art instruction, offering classes to both kids and adults in painting, woodworking and mixed media. The Jamaica Plain school sends its teachers to other classrooms, including many in the Boston Public Schools, under the School Partnership Program.…”
  • “School Art Programs Get Boost,” Jamaica Plain Gazette, June 24, 2011 — “…The grants, announced on June 15, also will allow JP′s Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts to continue and expand its arts partnership with three Roslindale schools.”
  • “Masters of Disguise,” Jamaica Plain Gazette, June 24, 2011 — “A group of Eliot School of Fine & Applied Arts Summer Program students show off the animal masks and costumes they created…”
  • “Big Tools for Little Hands,” Julie Scelfo, New York Times, March 31, 2011 — “…At the nonprofit Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts in Boston, children from 4 to 17 are designing furniture and learning joinery techniques in woodworking classes and an off-site program taught at local elementary and middle schools.…”
  • “The Eliot School: Jamaica Plain's Go-To Place for Making Things By Hand,” Rebekah McKinney, JP Patch, March 30, 2011 — “…Today, the Eliot School of Fine and Applied Arts is recognized as one of the best places for adults and children to learn and practice skills in such ‘manual arts’ as painting, fiber arts and woodworking.…”
  • “Student art mixes with cheese in Roslindale,” Robin Regensburg, Roslindale Transcript, December 6, 2010 — “At Roslindale’s Boston Cheese Cellar, there’s more on display than an assortment of curds. Above cases with Parmesan, Stilton, Camembert and Feta, artwork by students from Washington Irving Middle School is prominently on exhibit. ...In addition to one full-time Visual Arts teacher, the Irving has a part-time art teacher provided by the Eliot School in Jamaica Plain.”
  • “Take a Furniture Class,” Courtney Hollands, Boston Globe, G/Style Section, May 27, 2010 — “There's no guarantee that you’ll meet your very own Aidan (or Adrienne, for that matter) at the Eliot School’s caning, upholstering, or design classes, but who cares? You might discover a knack for furniture making, and, at the very least, you’ll end up with a new cover for your footstool or a freshly stained end table.”
  • “Historic arts school adds depth to kids’ education,” Kristin Bonelli, Jamaica Plain Gazette, April 3, 2009 — “Teaching about colonial settlers in the 1600s, Young Achievers teachers were looking for new and creative ways to help their classes relate to the lives of those how lived in Massachusetts hundreds of years ago.... They needed a site that would allow them creative freedom, space and artistic guidance, so they turned to the Eliot School....”
  • “Woodworking is important art for COMPASS youths,” Christine McDonnell, Jamaica Plain Gazette, August 24, 2007 — “Sandler has been teaching woodworking at the Eliot School for 40 years. He knows how to guide, encourage and explain – skills honed over his 36 years as a special education and vocational teacher...”
  • “Praise, thanks and arias for a master craftsman,” Ron Fletcher, Boston Globe, Nov. 4, 2007 — “Sandler sees opera and woodworking dovetailing. ‘To appreciate one is to appreciate the other,’ he said. ‘Both involve balance, symmetry, mathematics, beauty, patience, and vision....’”

Reviews & Blogs

  • “Jamaica Plain’s Eliot School Teaches the Head, Heart, and Hands,” NabeWise — “Ask most children what their parents do at work all day, and you’re likely to end up with a list of vague-sounding tasks amounting to no tangible proof of work.… Take heart, Boston, there’s a movement afoot to reconnect our heads, and our hands. The Eliot School, in Jamaica Plain, has been providing Manual Arts education to Bostonians for more than a century.”
  • “Upholstery at the Eliot School,” Apartment Therapy — “We thought we'd let you know about a wonderful place that lets you get your hands dirty and learn to upholster furniture yourself....”
  • Yelp — “Total bonus points for the awesome, creative environment...”