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Through March 30: Designing Downtown. Opening March 15: Portraits in RED: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples Project. Opening March 29: Van Gogh for All.

Ongoing: 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.

Ongoing: FESTIVAL: A Celebration of African Art at the Fitchburg Art Museum is the first in a series of exhibitions honoring FAM’s upcoming centennial. Drawing upon universal themes of life, death, power, love, and celebration, FESTIVAL presents highlights of FAM’s African Art collection organized around the concepts of Masquerades, Ceremonial Life, Ritual Life, and Domestic Life. Ongoing: Tara Sellios | Ask Now the Beasts. Sellios is a Boston based artist whose monumental photographs highlight the beauty of the grotesque. Through June 1: Stephen DiRado, Better Together: Four Decades of Photographs is a career retrospective exhibition featuring the work of Stephen DiRado, the leading contemporary artist and fine art photographer in Central Massachusetts.

Ongoing: Tom Smith: RELICS. Ongoing: Monotype Guild of New England: 40 Years of Unique Prints. Ongoing: Sano Gofu. Ongoing: Nora Valdez: Passage.

May 10–30: We, The People, an exhibition of over thirty artists in support of democracy and the rule of law. Eighty percent of sales will go to a Democratic candidate running in the midterms. June 6–29: Ann Ledy | Painting. Ledy’s new work reflects her embrace of memory and place. Visitors will experience three large scale paintings by this distinguished artist. Reception: Saturday, June 7.

Ongoing, Adele & Haig Der Manuelian Galleries: Fragments of Memory: The Art and Legacy of Varujan Boghosian. Armenian American artist, Varujan Yegan Boghosian (1926–2020), assembled found objects to explore themes of mystery, transformation, and death. His work is housed in major art institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exhibition is curated by Ryann Casey.

May 3–31: The Art of Letting Go: Work by Elsa Campbell and Daniel Gaviani. Opening reception: Saturday, May 3, 3–6 p.m. Third Thursday reception: May 15, 6–9 p.m. Closing reception: Saturday, May 31, 3–6 p.m. June 6–28: The Noun Show, photography by Eric Hess and Jean M Bernstein. Opening reception: Saturday, June 7, 6–9 p.m. Third Thursday reception: June 19, 6–9 p.m.x“

Home of American Illustration. Through June 15: 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. Opening June 7: I SPY! Walter Wick’s Hidden Wonders. Guided gallery tours; virtual exhibition and field trips. More at NRM.org.

Through June 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. Opening May 3: From the Vault: Collecting Tapestries at the Worcester Art Museum. Explore the art of tapestries—intricately designed, meticulously crafted, and often staggering in size—through a selection of rarely seen works from the collection.

Through May 11: Liberty’s Reach spotlights the theme of Transcendentalism through textile creations by represented artist Merill Comeau and guest artists Kimberley Harding, Karen Henderson, Lucy Nims-LaFleche, Pam Lawson, and Ellen Solari. May 14–June 22: Persephone’s Return: Abstract paintings by Brenda Cirioni, figurative works by Joan Hanley, and collaged paintings by Christiane Corcelle. Reception: Thursday, May 22, 6–8 p.m. Opening June 25: Vernal Tidings: Works by Colleen Pearce, Emily Rubinfeld, and Jonathan MacAdam. Reception: Thursday, July 12, 6–8 p.m.

The Museum has a permanent collection of American art, rotating exhibitions of contemporary, regional artists, and a gallery focused on the artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Through June 8: Tina Feingold: Wishful Thinking; Tim McDonald: The Diamond Sea; Selfhood, featuring work by Alice Dillon, Scott Foster, Kathryn Geismar, Lisa Tang Liu, and Keith Morris Washington.  Opening June 28: Danforth Annual Juried Exhibition. See website for hours and events.

May 10–June 7: Annual Members Juried Exhibition. an invitation to Guild members to submit their best work to compete for prestigious awards. Awards reception: Saturday, May 10, 3–5 p.m. Opening June 14: Jean Lightman—Radiance of Nature, a spotlight exhibition of the Boston School artists’ signature floral still-life paintings alongside a recent series of light-drenched landscapes. 

Through June 14: Celebrating 50 Years of the Nesto Gallery. The Chairs/Directors Curate. Closing reception: Saturday, June 14, 1:00-2:30 p.m. This exhibition, Celebrating 50 Years of the Nesto Gallery, shows artworks from prior exhibitors, each curated by their previous respective Gallery Director, including William Nesto, Andrew Moore, Ekua Holmes, John Bisbee, John Walker, Sheila Gallagher, Jim Stroud, Jocelyn Prince, Carolyn Muskat and Perci Fortini-Wright.

Ongoing: Painting His Parents’ Lives, Albert Chasan. With an uncanny eye for a past he never experienced, Albert Chasan’s works bring to life the stories his parents shared about their childhoods in the Russian Empire. Also on view: Yiddish: A Global Culture.

Ongoing: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking: Discover the experimental methods of Edvard Munch, who creatively explored materials and techniques across media. Join the Harvard Art Museums to celebrate the opening this exhibition by hearing from the exhibition organizers and specialists from the Munchmuseet, Oslo.

Through March 27: Members Juried 2: Collage, Crafts, Drawing, Graphics, Mixed Media, Photography, Printmaking (Main Gallery) and Tracey Maroni + Linda Hammett Ory (Members Gallery). Opening April 3: Liberation Textiles: Our Social Fabric (Main Gallery) and Rebecca Mann + Astrid Reischwitz (Members Gallery). Reception: Thursday, April 3, 5:30 p.m.

Through June 1: Main Gallery—Phyllis Ewen: Inundation. Center Gallery—David Abel: Inundation District. Project Space Gallery—Mira Cantor: When we were starfish… Opening reception: Friday, May 2, 5–8 p.m. June 4–29: Main & Center Galleries—Luanne E Witkowski: Quiet Disruption. Project Space Gallery—Elif Soyer: New Work. Opening reception: Friday, June 6, 5–8 p.m.

Through June 29: New Horizons: Korean Contemporary Photography. Two additional exhibitions featuring New England based artists, Timothy Hunsoo Lee in the Griffin Founders Gallery and Nick Ortelova at Griffin @ WinCam complement the Korean based artists Ok Hyun Ahn, Seongyoun Koo, Anna Lim, Hyundoo Park, Jiyeon Sung, Soosik Lim and Sun Hi Zo. 

Through May 23: Everything/Nothing: Works from the 2025 Senior Concentration Seminar. Opening June 10: Room of Wonders. Curated by Birgit Straehle and Luis Fraire, this exhibition celebrates contemporary Worcester-area artists. Opening reception: Friday, June 6.