Montserrat College of Art

If you believe the utopian vision of the 1960s is dead, you haven’t paid attention to one of the North Shore’s most enduring art experiments. Montserrat College of Art opened in 1970, a deliberate effort to fight the stodgy conventions of art education and return the creative process to students. Nearly 50 years later, the college that once operated out of the North Shore Music Theatre now occupies its own campus in Beverly. It boasts 95,000 square feet of academic space and state-of-the-art technologies: 3-D printers, robotics and interactive sculpture, mobile app development, augmented reality software, and st

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This Beverly art school is a respected 21st-century institution with an old creative fire.

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