Aside from local colleges, there are many places adults in the Boston area can take classes. With everything from academic subjects to martial arts to glassblowing, the Boston area has numerous adult education offerings.
WHERE ADULTS CAN TAKE CLASSES IN GREATER BOSTON
Aside from local colleges, there are many places adults in the Boston area can take classes. With everything from academic subjects to martial arts to glassblowing, the Boston area has numerous adult education offerings.
The Boston Center for Adult Education
This downtown Boston center has many class offerings, including courses in the arts, food, fitness, languages, technology and more.
Chef Louis DiBiccari of Storyville poses for a photo in the kitchen at the Boston Center for Adult Education in Boston.
This glass art gallery offers classes for adults in glassblowing, ornament making and jewelry making.
Owner Luke Adams torches one of his creations.
The school’s three studios--in Boston, Newton, and Marblehead--offer adults classes in ballet, modern, Pilates, and character dance.
The Cambridge Center for Adult Education
The center offers a wide array of classes in cooking, literature, writing, games, performing arts, science, history, contemporary issues, technology, business, investing, visual arts, travel, languages, health, exercise, well-being and home and gardening.
South Shore Art Center
The Cohasset center offers a several fine arts programs for adults, including painting, drawing and sculpting classes.
Brooks Kelly of Pembroke looks at how his works are displayed at the South Shore Art Center.
The Framingham dance studio offers classes in Salsa, Merengue, waltz, foxtrot, swing, tango, belly dancing, hip hop, and yoga.
Victor Perez, left, and Burju Hurturk demonstrate a salsa move.
South Shore YMCA
The Quincy YMCA offers swimming, sports, arts, exercise classes.
Sally Cochrane works out at the South Shore YMCA.
Brookline Adult and Community Education
Offers classes for adults in fine arts, ESL, languages, dance and fitness, liberal arts, music and performance, writing and communication and more.
A yoga class for seniors.
The Southborough school offers classes including basic cooking techniques, international cuisine, baking classes and specialty workshops on artisan breads, holiday cookies, cocktail parties, and more.
Chef Lori Leinbach, left, chats with students Mary Ann Preskul-Ricca, middle, of Shrewsbury and Nancy Judycki of Ashland during a class at Culinary Underground in Southborough.
The New England Wild Flower Society
The Wild Flower Society offers classes and workshops about plants and nature, including “Naked Shrubs” and “Garden as Community.”
The Hingham Conservatory offers musical instrument lessons, voice lessons and Zumba classes for adults.
The Watertown organization offers classes in pottery, mosaics, watercolor, painting, drawing, pastel, mixed media, printmaking, collage, writing fiction, and slumping and fusing glass.
The Emerson Umbrella in Concord offers classes in pottery, glaze, clay, stoneware, ceramics, yoga, drawing, pastel, illustration, art history, jewelry, wood-block print making, painting, watercolor, and violin-making.
The Duxbury Senior Center's Lifelong Learning program helps adults exercise their brains with academic classes that vary each session. This fall, they offered classes such as "Great Short Stories of the Masters" and "The History of the Anti-Slavery Movement."
Duxbury senior center staff, Council on Aging board members and Duxbury Interfaith Council at a benefit event.
The Westwood academy has gymnastics, parkour and tricking, martial arts, speed and strength training, fencing, basketball, golf, tennis and more for adults.
The Framingham studio offers adult classes in jazz, hip hop, ballet, modern, and tap.
The studio’s owner, Brandi Rae Lochiatto, of Framingham, and her dog, Buddy, rehearse for the Moving West Repertory Dance Theater’s 2010 performance of "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
The Fuller Craft Museum
This Brockton museum offers a range of unique art classes.
The arts center offers adult classes in oil painting, printmaking, and 2D mixed media art.
Photography instructor Sarah Gaw hangs plastic sheeting over a window as part of a 2007 'camera obscura' installation at Brookline Arts Center.
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