It is with much gratitude and excitement that we share the TOWARDS A CULTURE OF ACCESS REPORT 2022 with findings from the Massachusetts Arts & Culture Access Survey conducted by Open Door Arts, an affiliate of Seven Hills Foundation in 2021-2022.

Open Door Arts would like to offer our sincerest gratitude to Webster Five Foundation for their recent support of the Connecting and Creating Through the Arts program. The Webster Five Foundation has pledged $1,500 to support this joint venture between Open Door Arts, Seven Hills ASPiRE!, and the Worcester Arts Museum (WAM) to provide world-class visual arts instruction to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The program operates the Open Door Gallery in the Worcester Arts Museum (ODA@WAM) where...

The Beker Foundation has kindheartedly granted Open Door Arts $10,000 to support the organization’s comprehensive integrated arts educational experiences that promote inclusion, support students’ academics, social/emotional and artistic growth, and deepen engagement through drama, dance, visual arts, music, and media arts. Through the Beker Foundation’s donation, teaching artists support classroom teachers to grow their confidence to incorporate and integrate the arts into their instruction for demonstrated academic and...

Although Bingo at Seven Hills Foundation has stopped permanently, some of their games are now being picked up by area bingo sites. In Leominster, St. Cecilia Church will begin selling the Hot Hot boxes on Friday, December 9th. On Fridays, doors open at 4pm and games start at 6:30pm. They plan to sell one box per occasion. For more information on St. Cecilia Church bingo, please visit their website. As for the Progressive Games, they are being played at Sacred Heart–St. Catherine of Sweden Church on Cambridge Street in...

YOU, Inc. would like to thank the Diocese of Worcester and the St. Vincent Community Healthcare Fund for their recent generous grant of $1,500 to support the Carriage House Grief Support Center. Youth who are grieving feel “different” and isolated because they rarely know other kids like themselves. No one likes to feel different, especially young people, and thus their already devastating grief is compounded. The Carriage House is a place for children and teens who have lost a parent, primary caregiver, or siblings to be...