is a leader in unforgettable creative experiences, bringing together people of all ages, backgrounds, and communities.
With a signature blend of sustainable specialty materials, thoughtful design, and boundless imagination, AMA curates visually compelling, beautifully considered art tables where connection feels effortless and everyone belongs.
From large-scale public happenings and participatory art installations to bespoke corporate, campy, and site-specific events, Alex creates spaces that honor story-telling, celebrate process, and spark pure creativity and joy.
We don’t just make art together.
We build community.
CREATIVE PARTNERS
CURRENT HAPPENINGS
Join us for Needle & Nosh at Gore Place: an intimate evening of needle felting, creativity, and community.* Alexandra Adamo-Cioffredi of Alex Makes Art invites guests to gather around and explore wool through a contemporary, tactile approach inspired by the Mansion’s historical charm and uniquely colorful wallpaper.
Participants will get to explore the first floor of the Mansion, enjoy thoughtfully curated cheese and charcuterie from Formaggio Kitchen, and create contemporary needle felted art under Alex's guidance -- an evening of cozy, artful ambiance perfect for slowing down and making together!
This program accompanies Farm to Form, a month-long exhibition at the Watertown Free Public Library. During the month of April, Gore Place’s educational panels tracing the many stages of wool production will appear alongside a curated collection of contemporary fiber artworks organized by Alex and MassArt student Yasemin Isaacs in collaboration with emerging 3D artists from the Boston area.
*This program is intended for teens and adults only.
CREATIVE PARTNER
"Zest for the arts and self expression, Alex has warmth, a twinkle in both eyes & big social skills. Children and adults are given beautifully curated materials and magic happens. She's an experienced instructor, excelling all over, from MASS ART level to outdoor community fairs, to private events. Met her as an after school lead in Cambridge, love following her career & even viewed her project at Boston's MFA. A star.
Ellen Thompson
Program Manager
Community Schools at City of Cambridge
Curated by local artists and community organizers Alexandra Adamo & Christian Chipman, “Everybody Who’s Anybody” is a unique exhibition that promises to humanize the act of creativity by showcasing individuals who have seldom had the opportunity to display their work in a gallery setting before. These contributors are our neighbors, familiar folks from various walks of life – community leaders, educators, caretakers, or simply people whose creativity has never been recognized in traditional artistic spaces. The goal of this exhibition is to amplify their stories and showcase that creativity can live in many forms, often outside the realm of formal, capital-A Art.
In an art world that only sees credibility in commercial success and mainstream recognition, “Everybody Who’s Anybody” pushes back against these norms. By focusing on people who haven’t been showcased in traditional galleries, the exhibition will foster a conversation about what makes someone an artist and what stories are being left out of the broader art discourse. Through multimedia curation, the exhibition will invite viewers into the lives of the artists, shedding light on the personal journeys that influence their creative expression. This isn’t just an exhibition, it’s a celebration of diverse narratives and an argument that art is an integral part of everyday life.
MURALING
Alex Makes Art brings color, movement, and meaning to the places and spaces we pass through every day.
Through murals and bold surface design, Alex Makes Art transforms overlooked surfaces into vibrant gathering points — igniting indoor and outdoor spaces and adding personality to the social landscapes of our neighborhoods.
Alex’s work is deeply gestural and site-specific, considering the rhythms of the surrounding environment and the people who move through it.
Color, pattern, and form are used intentionally to activate a space — turning everyday infrastructure into invitations for play, connection, and curiosity.
From expansive blacktops to small neighborhood corners, Alex Makes Art approaches each site as an opportunity to create a moment of delight within the public realm, often inviting the community to participate.
Everyone is creative.
Sometimes you just need the right environment for that creativity to come out.
CURRENT COMMUNITY MURAL
Mon., Mar 16 - 20, 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
MIT Welcome Center, 292 Main Street
Drop by to contribute to a colorful, collaborative mural in the MIT Welcome Center lobby. Alex Makes Art will not be on-site during the hours of mindful making but would love to see what you create! Tag or e-mail your process photos, we’d love to see you interact with our design.
Would you like the Alex Makes Art Team to design an interactive mural like this in your space?
MURALING
Working on a mural, for me was a cathartic experience. Bringing an artistic vision to real life gave me a rewarding feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction. You get a chance to do something meaningful and inspiring for yourself and others.
RAYMOND HEATH
Director
BCYF Mattahunt Community Center
COMMUNITY CRAFTING
Alex Makes Art is built on a mastery of materials and a lifetime of busy hands. The studio’s work moves fluidly across a multitude of medium; from fibers, printmaking, mixed media collage, and paint to an ever-evolving exploration of materials that invite people to gather together, experiment, and get creative!
Intergenerational community crafting and programming are the heart and soul of Alex Makes Art. Through both large-scale public activations and intimate workshops, the studio designs spaces where people can slow down, work with their hands, and connect with one another. These experiences take place in libraries, museums, classrooms, community centers, and public spaces throughout the region.
A defining element of this work is a commitment to material ingenuity. Alex Makes Art frequently incorporates found objects and unexpected supplies into the creative process, encouraging participants to rethink what materials can become. Affordability, accessibility, and sustainability are guiding values of the studio’s approach. By reusing, repurposing, and upcycling everyday items, materials are given new life through imagination.
Public-access programming continues to drive the studio’s mission. Alex Makes Art believes that gathering to create can shift how people see themselves and their communities - empowering participants of all ages to rediscover something simple yet powerful: creativity belongs to everyone, and anyone can be an artist.
We believe ingenuity thrives when we look at everyday materials and ask what else they could become.
COMMUNITY CRAFTING
"Alex is a spectacular human being who brings loads of experience, encouragement, and connection to every art and craft event I've done with Alex Makes Art. She has hosted a printmaking party at my home with a small group of my adult friends and me, hosted a tie-dye party for too many 8yo boys, and led a METCO-sponsored collage event for 40 elementary school kids at my child's school. She's extremely organized and professional with a flair for fun and connection.
Alex uniquely brings out everyone's potential for artistic expression while building connections between participants no matter what their differences may be. She's funny, she's real, she knows what makes art "art". Years later, my friends still talk about how fun that printmaking party was, and I love seeing them feel so proud of what they made; some even framed their prints! This kind of lasting connection and positivity is really special and no one does it better - and with more true-to-the-core passion - than Alex."
JANE BRANCH
Co-Chair
Pine Hill CSA
Academic Affiliations
Artist, educator, and community facilitator Alexandra Adamo connects studio practice, and hands-on learning through college teaching, school residencies, and innovative virtual programming.
Alexandra Adamo-Cioffredi, founder of Alex Makes Art, serves as a Professor of the Practice and Adjunct Faculty member in the 3D Arts Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, teaching within the Fibers program since 2024. Her courses — Intro to Fibers and Special Topics in Wool & Felt — are designed as immersive studio experiences, meeting in five-hour blocks over sixteen consecutive weeks and encouraging students to explore fiber processes through both technical experimentation and conceptual inquiry.
Within the MassArt classroom, Alexandra also works with students to expand the cultural and community context of fiber art. This includes developing a Fiber Zine Library, connecting students with contemporary fiber artists and craftivists, and building relationships with the farm and wool communities across New England. These efforts help students understand the people, materials, and regional ecosystems that shape the fiber arts landscape.
Beyond the college classroom, Alex Makes Art collaborates with schools and educational institutions to design meaningful art experiences for students and educators. The studio regularly leads summer programming at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School in Cambridge, facilitates special art-centered days within school communities, and has completed artist residencies at institutions including Wakefield Elementary and Thayer Academy. Alex Makes Art also provides virtual programming paired with curated art kits, allowing classrooms to participate in hands-on creative learning regardless of location.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexandra launched SAVI: Social Art Virtual Immersion, an innovative online art program that ran for sixteen months and connected young makers through live virtual crafting sessions paired with delivered supply kits. At a time when creative community was deeply needed, SAVI created a space where participants could continue exploring art, experimentation, and connection from home. The program was featured multiple times in The Boston Globe and highlighted nationally on NowThis’s “In This Together” series.
Earlier family-centered programming also included “Teeny Tiny Tinkerers,” a collaborative virtual art series created by Alexandra and her husband that encouraged playful experimentation with everyday materials inside a shop called "PInecones and Needles".
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Grades 2-8, Week 2
Join Alex Makes Art for a cozy, hands-on fiber adventure designed for artists who love to stay busy and explore texture! This tight-knit creative cohort will dive deep into soft sculpture, felting, and fiber-based experimentation, transforming humble materials into meaningful works of art. Throughout the week, campers will collaborate, create, and. curate a tiny exhibition – culminating in a monumental photograph of their work displayed in the BB&N gallery space. Perfect for the kiddo who loves tactile play, thoughtful making, and seeing their creativity celebrated in a big way.
Grades 2-8, Week 7
Join Alex Makes Art for a week-long mixed-media adventure where bold creativity meets. joyful chaos! This taster-style experience invites budding artists to explore a fresh medium each day, embracing kitsch, maximalism, and imaginative problem-solving along the way. With a strong focus on process play, experimentation, and innovation, campers will transform everyday materials into impressive, one-of-a-kind artworks – celebrating curiosity, self-expression, and the magic of trying something new.
Grades 2-8, Week 8
End the summer on a high note with Alex Makes Art’s Greatest Hits week—a joyful celebration of creativity, connection, and everything that screams CAMP! Campers will revisit favorite activities like chalk muraling and poster. making for our dodgeball. tournament, while also diving into friendship bracelets, bead extravaganzas, and junk journals to preserve memories from the summer. This week is all about collaboration, nostalgia, and creative play sending campers off with full hands, full hearts, and art that tells the story of summer.