WREN Gallery

March 7–April 25: Vistas and Visions, Kristine Lingle and Kim Druker Stockwell. Reception: Friday, March 7, 5–7 p.m. This exhibition of northern landscapes will evoke calm, peace, and contemplation. WREN is a community organization open to all, providing educational and cultural opportunities in a supportive network. The Gallery at WREN is a state of the art facility providing arts experiences in the heart of the White Mountains.

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Paradise City Arts Spring Show

March 21–23: Paradise City Arts hosts New England’s premier and most celebrated shows of contemporary fine and decorative arts. Their Marlborough event draws thousands of attendees of art buyers, designers, and enthusiasts seeking to connect with their 170 exceptional artists and makers from across the country. In MetroWest Boston with free parking, enjoy the special exhibition Living Color, music in the air, and two cafés.

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Cahoon Museum of American Art

Opening March 14: John Enneking: American Impressionist. Enneking is often credited as “America’s first Impressionist.” His continued studies with the great impressionists of Europe influenced the development of his personal style, nurtured his love of nature, and reinforced his drive as a professional artist. He brought these teachings back with him to the U.S. where he painted in Boston and throughout the greater region. Discover New England in a new light through Enneking’s bubbling trout brooks, thickly forested landscapes, solitary clam diggers, and his favorite subject: the brilliant New England twilight.

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Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth

Ongoing: In East Asian art, non-human subjects have long been represented with agency, coexisting alongside their human counterparts. Experience this inclusive and collaborative relationship in Attitude of Coexistence: Non-Humans in East Asian Art. Ongoing: Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) presents a thematic examination of Romero’s complex and layered images, which celebrate the multiplicity, beauty, and resilience of Native American and Indigenous experiences. This is Romero’s first major solo museum exhibition.

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Hotchkiss School Tremaine Gallery

Through April 6: The Art of Joy Brown, a retrospective tracing Brown’s work, from tiny clay figures to clay-headed puppets, to small statues and wall tiles, to the monumental work found in public spaces. Hear Joy Brown speak, along with documentary filmmaker Eduardo Montes Bradley who is completing a film about Brown, Thursday, March 6, 7 p.m. Free and open to the public.

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Art Museum, University of Saint Joseph

March 21–May 10: A House Divided: Photography and the Civil War, an exhibition documenting aspects of the Civil War as seen through the lens of the most gifted artist-photographers of 19th century America. All works are from the collection of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg. The exhibition is organized by art2art Circulating Exhibitions. Opening reception: Thursday, March 20, 5–7:30 p.m. Lecture on
Civil War soldiers: Thursday, March 10, 5:30 p.m., Paul A. Cimbala, Professor Emeritus,
Fordham University.

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Lamont Gallery

Through March 7: Catch the end of Jeffrey Augustine Songco: Society of 23’s Conservatory which is an immersive, site-specific installation that creates a multisensory experience. April 1–May 3: Maker Fest presents works from makers in the Phillips Exeter Academy community: students, staff and others. The selections offer both the aesthetic and practical and showcase their community’s ingenuity and imagination.

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The Mercy Gallery at The Loomis Chaffee School

The Mercy Gallery invites groundbreaking artists working in a variety of media, representing diverse endeavors and cultural + geographic perspectives to share their art with the community. Open to the public. Through January 24: Destiny Palmer: Spoken in a Language You Can’t Ignore. Opening February 6: Khae Haskell: From Rot to Ravish. Haskell constructs luminous installations that combine intricate graphic drawings of botanical life with acrylic and neon light.

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Fuller Craft Museum

Ongoing: Cicely Carew: BeLOVEd. Ongoing: Everybody’s Bolos. Ongoing: Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene. Ongoing: Hand in Hand: Works from the Fleur S. Bresler Collection. Ongoing: Small Wonders: Beauty, Alchemy, and the Art of Enameling. Fuller Craft Museum’s wide-ranging exhibitions and outdoor sculpture showcase the finest contemporary craft in a spectacular organic modernist building and woodland setting. All are welcome, completely free of charge.

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Fitchburg Art Museum

Ongoing: Tara Sellios | Ask Now the Beasts. Sellios is a Boston-based artist whose monumental photographs highlight the beauty of the grotesque. Sellios creates still life vignettes from organic materials including animal bones, insect specimens, and dried flowers which she photographs using a large format 8 X 10 inch camera. Printed at a large scale, Sellios’s photographs capture the vivid details of her materials. Through May: Stephen DiRado, Better Together: Four Decades of Photographs, a career retrospective exhibition featuring the work of Stephen DiRado, the leading contemporary artist and fine art photographer in Central Massachusetts.

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Boston Sculptors Gallery

Through March 30: Mags Harries, An Artist’s Chair and Jonathan Latiano, Scaling a Pyramid. First Friday, March 7, 5–8:30 p.m. Artists’ reception and artists’ talks: Saturday, March 1, 3–5 p.m.; talks begin at 3:30 p.m. Opening April 3: Andy Zimmermann, Snulpture and Anna Kristina Goransson, Topia. First Fridays, April 4 & May 2, 5–8:30 p.m. Artists’ talks: Sunday, April 13, 3 p.m. Snulpture live music event: Thursday, April 10, 7:30 p.m.

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Norman Rockwell Museum

Home of American Illustration. Opening March 1: All for Laughs: The Artists of the Famous Cartoonist Course. Through May 26: Anita Kunz: Original Sisters, Portraits of Tenacity & Courage. Ongoing: Illustrators of Light: Rockwell, Wyeth, and Parrish from the Edison Mazda Collection. Guided gallery tours; virtual exhibition and field trips. Museum Store (and online store). Save time with online tickets. More at NRM.org.

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Fairfield University Art Museum

Bellarmine Hall Galleries, through April 12: Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut. This exhibition explores Tonalism in Connecticut from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast. Walsh Gallery (Quick Center), through March 29: To See This Place: Awakening to Our Common Home. To See This Place, curated by Al Miner and David Brinker, presents work by Athena LaTocha, Mary Mattingly, and Tyler Rai, three contemporary artists looking at environmental threats and climate change.

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Worcester Art Museum

Through March 9: Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate. Explore more than two dozen iconic paintings traveling from Tate in London, and discover how these boundary-pushing artists used the nude to challenge preconceptions about age, race, gender, and sexuality. Opening March 29: Reflections of a Changing Japan: The Evolution of Shin Hanga. Delve into an era of change in Japan, when Shin Hanga, or “new prints,” emerged as an art form that was both distinctly Japanese and internationally resonant.

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Mad River Valley Arts

Opening April 10: The Thief, The Spinner and The Fabulist. Reception: Thursday, April 10, 5–7 p.m. Story-telling moths: Thursday, April 10, 5–7 p.m. & Saturday, April 26, 5–7 p.m. This exhibition embraces the stories behind material culture and examines the physical object whether as art, gift, “symbolic other” or that which is used by us. The exhibition is a means to understand who we are through what we collect and how “physical things” interact in our lives. Mad Arts will curate inanimate objects that its community has loaned to them and will utilize the composition and symbolism that the still life genre conveys. This installation will be the tool for storytelling about the “physical world” in our community. Accompanying this exhibition are two story-telling moths where creatives from the community can, although not obliged, share stories of how these objects came into their lives.

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ECOCA

March 9–April 20: Tin There, Done That: Adria Arch, Adam Brent, Tamara Dimitri, Madison Donnelly, Terry Feder, Lesley Finn, Elli Fotopoulou, Deborah Greco, Shanti Grumbine, Nate Heiges, Tom Kutz, Hillel O’Leary, Maria Markham, Sok Song, Alixe Turner, Shane Ward, Christina Wood. A Desire Path: Jessica Bottalico, Annie Ewaskio, Jessica Fallis, Sydney Kleinrock. Stone Screen: Anita Maksimiuk. Maidan: Amartya De. Reception: Sunday, March 9, 1–3 p.m.

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The Umbrella Arts Center

Through March 23: Twice the Speed of Bliss: Paintings and drawings by Kat O’Connor. Through March 23: Ways of My Ancestors—
Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness
, photography by Scott Strong Hawk Foster. March 28–April 7: 2025 Artrageous Auction group exhibition. Opening April 14: Weaving an Address, a mixed media and performance group exhibition installed indoors at The Umbrella and outdoors at Brister Hill commemorating colonial and revolutionary Black inhabitants of historic Walden Woods. May 2–4: Umbrella Open Studios and Ceramics Studio Sale.

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The Bruce Museum

The Bruce Museum is a world-class institution offering a changing array of exceptional exhibitions and educational programs that cultivate discovery and wonder through the power of art and science. Opening March 6: On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness. Opening April 4: Isamu Noguchi: Metal the Mirror. Through April 27: Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist. Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty. Ongoing: The Art of Work: Painting Labor in Nineteenth-Century Denmark. Nature’s Impressions: The Modernist Landscape. Hockney/Origins: Works from the Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson Collection. Tara Donovan: Aggregations. Gabriel Dawe: Plexus no. 43. The Robert R. Wiener Mineral Gallery. Permanent Science Galleries: Natural Cycles Shape our Land. Admission: Adults $20, Students/Sr. Citizens $15. Free for children under 5; free on Tuesdays.

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Burlington City Arts

A contemporary art gallery with up to three floors of exhibition space, hosting new exhibitions every fall, winter/spring, and summer, on Burlington’s iconic Church Street Marketplace. Through May 24: Bunny Harvey: Worlds Within Worlds, featuring the landscape paintings of Vermont-based artist Bunny Harvey, with several new works created by the artist over the last year. Stéphanie Morissette: Speculative Future, a selection of works on paper and mixed-media bird-drone sculptures, exploring the conflicting relationship between humans, nature, and technology. Free and open to the public.

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Bannister Art Gallery at Rhode Island College

Through March 21: RaMell Ross: Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body. RaMell Ross explores the meaning and mythology of the American South and of Black identity through this new exhibition of large-scale photographs and mixed-media sculptures. April 3–25: Lani Irwin & Alan Feltus—Selected Works. Curated by Professor Richard Whitten, this exhibition opens up a dialogue on sexuality and identity in contemporary figurative painting.

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