Pi Art

Spring 2026

Museum Class at the MFA Boston · 6 lessons

1 Stories in Stone(Arts of the Acient America)

How do people use stories, images, and symbols to make sense of life, death, and the universe — and what can ancient objects tell us about those beliefs today?

StorytellingAncient & Global CulturesPattern & Design
2 Gold, Thread & Geometry: Design Elements of the Ancient Andes

Gallery LG33 is not one civilization — it is five thousand years of Andean cultures, each with a distinct visual language.

Pattern & DesignAncient & Global CulturesTexture & MaterialDesign Thinking
3 The 1862 Time Traveler: From Manet to AI

Manet doesn't just paint a figure; he captures the "ambience" of urban life in 19th-century Paris.

Art & TechnologyCompositionStorytelling
4 In Motion: Calder & Design

We apply the same five questions twice: first to understand a work of art, then to design a gift shop product inspired by it.

Design ThinkingSculptureAbstractionArt & Technology
5 How Artists Learned to See: Perspective

Around 1415, the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi made a discovery that changed painting forever.

Perspective & SpaceNature & LandscapeComposition
6 Framing Nature — Three Gardens, Three Ways of Seeing

Across cultures and centuries, artists have used gardens to say something about power, beauty, grief, identity, and our relationship with the natural world.

Nature & LandscapePerspective & SpaceAncient & Global CulturesPrintmaking