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Handshouse Studio is a non-profit, innovative, educational organization that creates adventurous hands-on projects with communities, institutions, and partners around the world as a way to illuminate history, explore science, and perpetuate the arts.

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Dec 18, 2024

Envisioning a future for Handshouse

Dec 18, 2024

On March 15-17, 2024: sixteen Handshouse directors and advisors gathered in Norwell, MA for a 3-day intensive strategic planning workshop to collaboratively consider the future of the organization. Conducted by the inspired guidance of professional Strategic Planning leader: Lisa Mount of Artistic Logistics.

Dec 18, 2024

Nov 11, 2024

Meet Eva Carter!

Nov 11, 2024

Say hello to our newest team member at Handshouse! We are elated to expand our staff to welcome Eva Carter (they/them) on staff as an Assistant Director for the fall. Eva is joining us to support Marie with the breadth of administrative-organizational work required to orchestrate the unique types of programming Handshouse offers.

Nov 11, 2024

Nov 4, 2024

Choirs in Harmony at Columbia University!

Nov 4, 2024

In collaboration with Dr. Lindsay Cook: Professor of Art History and Susan Boynton: Professor of Music, Handshouse Studio brought the Notre-Dame Project to Columbia University to exhibiting our model of La Forêt during a performance of the Gregorian Choir of Paris.

Nov 4, 2024

Nov 4, 2024

Expanding the Board of Directors!

Nov 4, 2024

We are honored to welcome seven new members onto the Handshouse Studio Board of Directors!

This past spring, Handshouse organized a strategic planning intensive that helped us understand 5 “bridges” we needed to build to overcome obstacles to our organization’s future. One of these bridges is expanded leadership. So we went spent the summer vetting and invited seven new members to the Board of Directors!

Nov 4, 2024

Current Exhibitions/

Joe Wood's rooster is on display at the Paul Revere Heritage Site.

The Bushnell "Turtle" is on display at the International Spy Museum.

Handshouse's Gwoździec ceiling is on display at the POLIN Museum.

Wooden Synagogue Digital Archive Project: Online Now!

Handshouse Studio cofounder, Rick Brown, on TEDx Natick in January 2020

Rick speaks about the unique teaching philosophy that he and Handshouse cofounder, Laura Brown, developed together, fueling the creation of Handshouse Studio.