About

Art …

“It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.”
— Pablo Picasso
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.”
— Auguste Rodin
“There is no must in art because art is free.”
— Wassili Kandinsky
“Every time I have had a problem, I have confronted it with the ax of art.”
— Yayoi Kusama
“Creativity takes courage.”
— Henri Matisse
“Life is art. Art is life. I never separate it.”
— Ai Weiwei

… and Mice

When times got tough during COVID, two things kept me going - making art and rescuing a mouse. His name was Oscar.

Tough times happen, let’s not face them alone. Let’s make art together at Blue Mouse.

Welcome to our community!

Eva

A woman with short blonde hair smiling while a small mouse is on her shoulder, catching her earring.

Testimonials

  • Eva taught both of my children for three years. She is the kind of person that kids are drawn to and want to hug all the time, and yet, she is a strong leader. She is creative, attentive, and takes children and their ideas seriously.

    Melissa (parent)

  • Eva is an experienced educator who naturally connects with children. She uses her wealth of experience to keep students engaged and entertained. Never expect her to teach just one thing at a time - she constantly creates connections across subjects and will find ways to include music, math, science, or history into any art lesson.

    Zoran (colleague)

  • Eva has a gift for building connections with children of all ages within minutes. She instantly gets their attention, awakens their curiosity, and brings out their smiles. In return, she gives them respect, shares her knowledge, teaches new skills, and makes sure everybody has fun. More than a fair deal, I‘d say.

    Jan (parent)

Our Neighborhood

We invite you to explore our wonderful East Cambridge neighborhood!

Getting to Blue Mouse Gallery is easy. If you drive, use the municipal parking lot behind the building across the street for up to 4 hours of parking. Bus 69 stops almost in front of our building. Walking from Lechmere Station (Green Line) will take 10-15 minutes. Or use the bike lanes and quiet neighborhood streets to ride your bike to Blue Mouse.

Looking for things to do after dropping off your child, or before and after classes? We have a public library next door. Gold Star Pool and Donnelly Field are around the corner. You can find specialty food and kitchen stores nearby if you need to get some shopping done. And there are excellent coffee shops, bakeries, sandwich stores, and restaurants in easy walking distance.

Thank you for supporting small businesses in our neighborhood!

Map showing directions to Blue Mouse Gallery at 722 Cambridge Street, with parking instructions for Cambridge municipal parking lot for 4 hours

Collaborations

Art is best when shared - we love collaborating with like-minded artists and institutions!

Children looking at artwork at an exhibition that combines adult and children's artwork

Studio Stranz

Ryan Stranz is a local artist whose Somerville studio can be found in easy walking distance from Blue Mouse Gallery. Ryan loves to interact with our young artists. That’s why we were excited when he offered to host our Summer Party 2026 at his studio.

For the event, we showed a special exhibition that combined Ryan’s amazing art with selected children’s artwork made at Blue Mouse. Seeing how seamlessly children’s art integrated into Ryan’s showing of large-scale abstract works was beautiful and impressive. We look forward to future projects, following our mission to inspire and encourage young artists while educating adults about the value of children’s art.

Blue Mouse Gallery's stand at the 2026 Inman Eats + Crafts event

East Cambridge Community Events

We love bringing a craft table to local community events like Inmanween and Inman Eats + Crafts. These events are always great opportunities for intergenerational art which is at the heart of our mission. Watching several generations making art together is simply wonderful - and always generates smiles and laughter.

If you are planning an event that would benefit from a community art project, please don’t hesitate to contact us!

A large-scale community art project set up on a long table at a summer party

MIT Open Space Programming

It was a pleasure to be part of MIT Open Space Programming’s Summer Party 2026 with a 16-foot long community painting.

Our summer meadow painting invited busy professionals to take a short creative break, children to add a pop of color to everybody’s day, and families to create together. When strangers start making art together, communication becomes easy and invigorating conversations across different social and cultural backgrounds happen naturally.