ICA Watershed

I recently visited the ICA Watershed for the first time, and it was amazing! Plus, you get to enjoy a quick boat ride from the ICA to the Watershed, which I see as a bonus!

Small and interesting museum in a cool location. Free admission. Worth a visit if you're in the area with free time

The ICA Watershed is accessible directly or via a short water taxi from the main ICA collection. The exhibition space is large enough to house installations that couldn’t be displayed in normal gallery settings. This brings out the creativity in artists given the opportunity to show their larger work at full scale. (Of course, the opposite is sometimes true when the scale of the works isn’t quite large enough for the space which overpowers the art leaving empty spaces or gaps in the aesthetic vision). The ICA (here and at the main museum) continue to offer a series of exhibitions that encourage regular repeat visits.

I went to go see Guadalupe Maravilla's show and it was incredible. It's great to take a quick trip across the river and experience it and compare and contrast it to the regular ICA exhibit. You won't get an installation art experience like this anywhere else, I highly recommend.

This was spectacular!!! It was made with such delicacy, care and talent. First time visiting and it did not disappoint. My son could not stop being in awe. In addition to the exhibition the murals outside were amazing, there are restaurants around and a beer factory where you can purchase the most original flavors. Whenever it opens again next year, we will certainly visit.

This was an awesome afternoon. We arrived at the ICA in the seaport, took their water shuttle across to the East Boston Watershed, which in itself was a little treat, to then walk around the corner from the dock into this intimate warehouse space. After viewing the few but parts with many pieces, we waited for the shuttle to take us back across the harbor to the ICA's main building and exhibits while taking in the vision harbor and skyline panorama. Love Is Calling was another trip within the trip, as well as the Brazilian video piece Swinguerra, which just added more dimensions to our brief but beautiful afternoon several flights high in a glass building looking out over the harbor you just sailed across. I recommend this day for any contemporary art appreciator, or anyone else who would like to see Boston through multiple perspectives, art, sky, land, or sea.

I love this space and the area is really up and coming in East Boston. The installation was amazing! I highly recommend visiting and seeing it. I also attended the sound bath led by the artist and it was a transformative experience!

I loved the Watershed side, really enjoyed the Guadalupe Maravilla story. Also loved the water shuttle.