art from a new perspective
An exhibition of work from Beacon High School and the Walker School
Monday, February 28- Friday, March 18, 2011
The exhibition features nearly 200 selected works from students and alumni of Beacon High School and The Walker School, including painting, sculpture, photography, textiles, stained glass, and mixed media.
Beacon High School is a co-educational, therapeutic, alternative high school located in Watertown, Massachusetts that serves 60 students, ages 14–22, from the Greater Boston area. Beacon specializes in providing a challenging academic curriculum for students with strong academic potential who benefit from learning in a supportive community.
The Walker School has provided special education and residential services to children, ages 3 to 13, since its founding in Needham, Mass., in 1960.
Created in1960 in Needham, Massachusetts, Walker is a network of facilities and professionals that provides world-class mental health services, state-of-the-art special education, expert professional training and consultation and child welfare advocacy.
Each year in programs at The Walker School in Needham, Beacon High School in Watertown, and in public schools throughout eastern Massachusetts, Walker provides academic and therapeutic services for hundreds of the most troubled and high-risk children, adolescents, and their families. Walker’s innovative care and flexible individualized programs extend specialized therapeutic environments beyond classrooms into family homes, public schools and community settings.
Walker programs include: a chapter 766-approved special education elementary school; a chapter 766-approved alternative high school program; flexibly-designed intensive residential care; in-home and campus-based respite services; comprehensive outreach and family support services; an acute residential treatment program; therapeutic after-school and summer programs; public school support, training and consultation; metro-Boston outpatient mental health services.