Main Line Art Center

Specialties
The Art Center has been our community’s home to discover, create and experience visual art for over fifty years. Along with our classes and workshops for kids, teens and adults, the Art Center offers tuition-free classes, scholarships, programs for artists with disabilities, outreach programs with over 20 community partners, exhibitions and events.

History
Established in 1963.

In 1937, a group of artists founded The Bryn Mawr Art Center, located on Polo Road in Haverford, around the corner from our current building. In 1948, the Center purchased the property where the current building stands and offered classes in oil and watercolor painting, sculpture, music, dance, creative writing, and flower arranging. A parallel organization, the Suburban Center of the Arts, began offering classes and lectures at the Penn Wynne School in 1954. In addition to art, music, and dance classes, the Center offered film screenings and spring arts festivals. It helped to pioneer outreach programs, introducing sculpture classes for the blind in 1960. Before long, the two organizations merged and in 1963, the Main Line Center of the Arts was born. Thirty years later in 1993, the name was changed to the Main Line Art Center.