About Medford School Arts Alliance
The Medford School Arts Alliance (MSAA) supports the creative arts in Medford Public Schools through fundraising and community engagement. We are a community-led non-profit operating in Medford, Massachusetts.
Signature Initiatives
Community Connections
Are you an artist with Medford connections? Do you work in an arts- or arts-adjacent field? MSAA is compiling a protected database of potential guest speakers, collaborators, and advisors to help Medford educators to expand student learning opportunities. Tell us about yourself using <this form>.
MPS Art Supply Lending Library
The MSAA partners with the Fine Arts Department to replenish and enhance the Art Supply Lending Library to provide MPS students with access to art materials for personal creative projects.
In addition to essential supplies, we hope to add more professional-grade materials for serious young artists. We accept new and gently used donations, including canvas, paints, markers, brushes, pencils, and quality drawing paper.
Click below to email Ms Fee and donate supplies or sponsor the purchase of new materials. Thank you for supporting our student artists!
Enrichment Fund
Art is experiential. The MSAA Arts Enrichment Fund will support student performances, exhibitions, competitions, and field trips. Help seed this initiative by making a tax-deductible donation to our core campaign.
Our Story
In 2025, a committed group of parents and educators in Medford, MA came together around one shared belief: the arts matter.
Medford students are filled with creativity, talent, and curiosity and our schools have dedicated educators who work tirelessly to support them.
MSAA was created to channel the energy of our community into strengthening arts programs across Medford Public Schools, ensuring that every student has access to meaningful and inspiring creative opportunities.
Our Mission & Values
We believe that the arts are for everyone and that the students of Medford deserve the full benefit of a robust arts education.
The Medford School Arts Alliance (MSAA) supports the creative arts in Medford Public Schools through fundraising and community engagement.
MSAA connects people and resources to expand and elevate visual and performing arts experiences in and beyond the classroom.
We are committed to ensuring safe, equitable, inclusive, and welcoming environments for students to engage with creativity.
A Note on Generative AI
As a public supporter of the arts in Medford, the Medford School Arts Alliance is committed to helping students develop habits of creativity and personal meaning-making. We do not use AI-generated text, images, audio, or graphics in our own creative outputs and we actively support creative projects by students and educators that promote minds-on, hands-on, human-driven processes.
MSAA Board
Leadership:
President: Erika Reinfeld
Vice President: John Intoppa
Clerk: Laura Ingano
Treasurer: Emily Keith
Directors:
Robin Melone
Jessica Parks
Amanda O’Leary
Suzanne Fee (ex officio)
Site Credits
Because the creativity in our community deserves to be celebrated!
Logo concept: Victoria B, Brooks Elementary School student, “I chose this design because I wanted it to show not just art using pencils and paper but also expressing yourself with words and theater and emotion because art is not just one thing. It’s billions and other people should see that too.” Read more about the logo design.
Logo design: Katherine Thorne, https://sparklemarkers.com/ graphic designer and MPS parent
Website design: Jane Hamel, J Hamel Solutions, web design and marketing professional, and MPS parent
Photo credits: sourced from the MPS community and used with permission