Learn, make, move, play, improve, explore, taste and more...NCE has a class for you!
NCE Middle School Programs
Needham Community Education’s NCE Elementary program offers a wide array of after school classes at each elementary school at the end of the school day.
Summer Explorations 2026
Health and Wellness
Exercise and recreation classes
Fine arts and crafts
DYI, home, garden and skills classes
Humanities and science programs
Investment and financial planning classes
Parenting programs
Learn to play a game or improve your game skills
Special events
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Broadmeadow Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Eliot Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Mitchell Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes for Newman Students
NCE Elementary After School Classes at Sunita WIlliams
NCE Kids' Late Afternoon and Evening Classes
NCE Kids Virtual Classes
Private Music Lessons
In the latter half of the 19th century many American artists, captivated by the lure of Impressionism, the revolutionary new style of art coming to life first in France, traveled there to see for themselves. The MFA galleries are full of the art these American artists were inspired to create both while there and once they returned home. Note: The class fee does not include the museum entry fee (currently $30, free for members). Limited to 6.
Paula Lyon-Green began a lifelong love of museums as a little girl growing up in New York City. Though her studies and subsequent professional life were in psychology, she has always felt most at home in museums. She moved to Needham in the late ‘70s, sharing this passion for art museums with her friends and family, including her two sons who attended the Needham Public Schools K-12. In addition to her long career working in psychology, she began studying art history formally in the early 2000s by becoming a docent at both the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum & the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and has continued to give tours for over 20 years. Now, having recently left the medical field, she has even more time for studying art history and sharing it with fellow art enthusiasts.
Paula Lyon-Green
