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Promotional brochure for the MFA programs

Jul 12, 2018

Lesley lauded for innovative design, storytelling

Unique and creative video, promotional materials and web design shine in international competition

Students in classroom off-campus, with focus on one boy student sitting with hands folded on the table with a laptop in front of him.

Jul 10, 2018

Accreditors laud Lesley’s business program

Four-year business management programs recognized for high quality, rigor, teaching excellence

Artwork titled Germinate, made from red and green crocheted plastic. Appears to be standing on multiple legs with other tenticals come out of the top.

Jul 10, 2018

Inspired by an ocean of trash

Professor Michelle Lougee’s sculptures make powerful statement against plastic

Two students sitting at a computer while one points to the screen.

Jul 9, 2018

Advocating for the youngest learners

Lesley, an early childhood education and advocacy pioneer, takes part in ‘Wonder of Learning’

Artsy pick of Aaron Smith reading from a book, taken through a glass case at a museum.

Jul 2, 2018

Taking a risk with honest poems

Mass Cultural Council fellow Aaron Smith urges fellow poets to resist giving away their verse and voice on social media

Jun 28, 2018

Avatars give student teachers real-time training

Lesley pilots virtual reality technology to prepare novice instructors for the classroom

Jul 12, 2018Boston Globe

The PRC arrives in Porter Square

In partnering with Lesley, the Photographic Resource Center is further increasing the arts in Porter Square. "Long may the affiliation prosper," writes the Globe.

Jul 8, 2018Standard Times

'Flying Deep' with Michelle Cusolito

Alumna Michelle Cusolito (’99) takes kids on an ocean exploration with her award-winning book on the deep-sea submersible that explored the Titanic.

Jul 7, 2018Washington Post

Nonprofit pursues Baltimore’s troubled young men

Baltimore commissions Roca, a nonprofit founded by Molly Baldwin ’12, to keep its young men out of jail and train them for the workforce.

Creative Arts in Learning faculty and Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges

Jun 28, 2018Dorchester Reporter

Mattapan art project pays tribute to residents

Professor and poet Danielle Legros Georges spearheads exhibit featuring the residents of Mattapan in word and picture.

Crocheted plastic figure that looks like lips with a green tongue sticking out.

Jun 27, 2018Boston Globe

Making the mundane memorable

Of faculty Michelle Lougee's current exhibit, which features crocheted plastic bags, reviewer Cate McQuaid says, "The medium is her message: Plastic is poisoning the planet."

Danielle Legros Georges on a stage, eyes closed, hands up, performing.

Jun 27, 2018Boston Magazine

I Love My Job

As Boston Poet Laureate, Professor Danielle Legros Georges says she wanted to reach every segment of the city with poetry.