March/April 2024
Boston University Galleries
April 2-20: Boston University’s 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition presenting work from the painting, sculpture (satellite: 1270 Commonwealth Ave.), print media and photography, graphic design, and visual narrative programs will be on view in Stone Gallery and 808 Gallery. Support Boston’s emerging artists and join them for a public reception on Friday, April 12 from 6-8 p.m. in Stone Gallery; and Friday, April 19 from 6-8 p.m. in 808 Gallery.
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Read moreUMass University Museum of Contemporary Art
Through May 10 (and fall 2024): BREACH: LOGBOOK 24 | STACCATO by Shinnecock artist Courtney M. Leonard features paintings, sculptures, and video exploring the life and kinship ties of Staccato, a North Atlantic right whale killed by a ship strike in 1999. Leonard explores marine biology, Indigenous food sovereignty, migration, and human environmental impact. March 27–May 10: FAINT/HIDDEN/SHROUDED: Contemplating Obscurity, a graduate curatorial exhibition. Free and open to the public.
Read moreNew England Visionary Artists Museum
March 8-30: Sasha Statman-Weil presents ‘Sonhood,’ work from three artists: a mother, a father, and a son. California artist Ron Weil’s (1944–2019) black charcoal abstractions are presented alongside Leah Statman’s (1954–2011) vibrant portrait quilts juxtaposed with their son’s films and poetry. The show investigates Statman-Weil’s artistic inheritances beyond his parent’s actual creations. Reception: Friday, March 8, 5-8 p.m. Plus, four hundred artworks are on display in five additional showrooms.
Read moreDavid Skinner Painting Workshops
(828) 774-8431dpskinner@earthlink.netdskinner.net Join contemporary landscape painter David Skinner for weeklong painting workshops in Italy and Ireland. Art supplies are provided,…
Read moreMarlboro Studio School
P.O. Box 28Marlboro, Vermont 05344school@marlborostudioschool.orgmarlborostudioschool.org Marlboro Studio School is an all-levels arts program in the hills of Southern Vermont offering…
Read moreDreams of a Common Language
Overlap Gallery and Project Space, Newport, RI • overlapnewport.com • Through June 15, 2024 Overlap is a dynamic new gallery…
Read moreAs the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston
Tufts University Art Gallery, Boston, MA • artgalleries.tufts.edu • Through April 21, 2024 Presented simultaneously with Christian Walker: The Profane and…
Read moreWalden Pond State Reservation Gallery
Through April 30: Sky Water: Reflections on Walden Pond. The colorful abstract paintings and collages of local artist Patricia Crotty are inspired by the connection with nature that Walden Pond provides visitors. They celebrate the beauty of nature in all of its forms and seasons. Co-sponsored by Friends of Walden Pond. The exhibit is free; parking fees apply.
Read moreDavis Museum at Wellesley College
The first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades, the exhibition of Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And represents a homecoming for the artist in her hometown and at her alma mater. Ongoing, free, and open to the public.
Read moreAlpha Gallery
March 1–30: ransome, a delicate balance. ransome’s newest body of work explores themes of Black migration and identity through portraiture, cityscapes, still lifes and assemblages. This is ransome’s second solo exhibition with Alpha Gallery. Opening reception: Friday, March 1, 6–8 p.m.
Read moreAlva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center
The Chapel Art Center features special exhibitions and houses a permanent collection of over 400 objects. March 7–April 19: The Intimacy of Seeing: Elsa Voelcker—A Retrospective, celebrates Voelcker’s long career as a photographer and member of the Fine Arts Department at Saint Anselm College. Voelcker has specialized in various photographic methods, including photograms, gelatin silver prints and, more recently, digital. Opening reception with the artist: Friday, March 22, 4–6 p.m. Free and open to the public.
Read moreBrattleboro Museum & Art Center
Through March 9: Aurora Robson: Human Nature Walk; Paper Made; Fawn Krieger and David B. Smith: Home Bodies; Michael Smoot: And To This World; Art Costa: Sounds Deep. Ongoing: Hannah Morris: Moveable Objects. Opening March 16: In Nature’s Grasp; John Newsom: Painting the Forest of the Happy Ever After; Edward Holland: Celestial Sea; Samira Abbassy: Out of Body; Francheska Alcántara: The Inner Order of the pppPoof and the fffPop.
Read moreSixth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit
The City of Concord and the Greater Concord Chamber of Commerce announce the Sixth Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit in historic…
Read moreWickford Art Festival
July 13 & 14Wilson ParkWickford, RIJuried Fine ArtApplications OpenJanuary 15–April 15wickfordart.org
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Read moreMIT List Visual Arts Center
Through March 10: Carlos Reyes: 18. Opening March 7: List Projects 29: Brittni Ann Harvey and Harry Gould Harvey IV. Opening April 4: Hana Mileti´c: Soft Services. Opening April 4: Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme: Only sounds that tremble through us. The List Center galleries and programs are always free and open to the public. Visit listart.mit.edu for programming and exhibition updates along with their most up-to-date visitor information.
Read moreWREN Gallery
March 9–April 12: Total Eclipse of the Art features work by Douglas Arion, emeritus professor and dark sky defender, dark sky photographs; and eclipse themed work from over twenty WREN members. Opening reception: Friday, March 9, 5 p.m. Snow date: Saturday, March 10, 5 p.m. Visit WREN to shop the work of over 120 local artists and makers. The Gallery is located just a short distance from full totality of the Solar Eclipse on April 8, 2024.
Read moreWilliams College Museum of Art
Ongoing: Combining historical materials and the perspectives of seven contemporary Black artists, Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation visualizes what freedom and the enduring legacy of emancipation look like today and beyond. March 7: Dr. Frances Jones-Sneed will discuss “What does emancipation mean in the Berkshires?”
Read moreGreenwich Historical Society
Opening March 6: LIFE: Six Women Photographers presents the work of pioneering women photographers employed by LIFE magazine between the late 1930s and early 1970s, whose iconic images captured an evolving world and helped create modern photojournalism. Featuring over 70 images by Margaret Bourke-White, Nina Leen, Lisa Larsen, Hansel Mieth, Martha Holmes, and Marie Hansen, the exhibition details how these photographers and their work were integral to LIFE founder and editor-in-chief Henry R. Luce’s vision for an “American Century.” Organized by the New-York Historical Society.
Read moreParadise City Arts Festival
March 22–24: Paradise City Arts hosts New England’s premier and most celebrated shows of contemporary fine and decorative art. This MetroWest Boston event draws thousands of collectors, designers, and art enthusiasts seeking to connect with 170 curated exhibitors from across the country. It’s the go-to destination for imaginative home decor, fine art and sculpture, handcrafted fashion, jewelry, and gifts that transcend expectations. With music in the air, two cafes, and the themed exhibit Fresh Greens!, it’s not to be missed.
Read moreKingston Gallery
Through March 31: Mira Cantor, DIG, and Phyllis Ewen, My Mind’s Eye. Cantor’s paintings are influenced by the subterranean landscapes of The Burren in Ireland and others. Reception: Friday, March 1, 5–8 p.m. April 3–28: Kingston Associates exhibition: Everything Leaves a Mark. Reception: Friday, April 5, 5–8 p.m.
Read moreSpringfield Museums
One admission: five museums and the Dr. Seuss National Memorial Sculpture Park. Through March 24: A Gathering: Works from Contemporary Black American Ceramic Artists. Through May 5: The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today. Opening April 27: Look Again: Portraits of Daring Women by Julie Lapping Rivera. Ongoing in the Dr. Seuss Museum: Original art by Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss.
Read moreCahoon Museum of American Art
Opening March 13: Bold Women and Vivid Dreams: Sarah Peters and Don Nakamura features ceramic sculptures and drawings celebrating the human figure by Sarah Peters and Don Nakamura. Peters explores the intricacy of the human body, while Nakamura’s works are a freewheeling channeling of his inner spirit. Highlights include Peters’ Wondergrrrl series of teapots and ceramic sculptures by Nakamura.
Read moreThe Colby Museum’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art @ the Paul J. Schupf Art Center
The Colby College Museum of Art’s Joan Dignam Schmaltz Gallery of Art at the Paul J. Schupf Art Center offers a place in downtown Waterville, Maine, for connections between art and people through distinctive exhibitions and programs. The art center is also home to Waterville Creates and the diverse film, visual, and performing arts programming presented through its Maine Film Center, Ticonic Gallery + Studios, and the Waterville Opera House. Through April 22: Playscape: Contemporary Art from the Colby Museum’s Collection.
Read moreGriffin Museum of Photography
Opening April 4: The Griffin is pleased to present Traces of Existence. Featuring the work of Muriel Hasbun, Alejandro Cartagena, Alejandro Luperca Morales, Rodrigo Valenzuela, and Ileana Doble Hernandez, Traces of Existence combines photography, installation, and the moving image to investigate notions of migration and identity and in Latin American communities.
Read moreVermont Artisan Designs
Fine art and contemporary American craft. March 1–April 3: Oil paintings of landscapes around Northern New England by Stefan Pastuhov and Gary Shepard. April 5–May 2: Paintings in oil and pastel of New England by Kate Beetle and abstract paintings by colorist E. Joseph McCarthy.
Read moreHood Museum of Art, Dartmouth
Through April 13: And I’m Feeling Good: Relaxation and Resistance features selections from the Hood Museum’s photography collection that celebrate joy in African American life. Simultaneously, it considers the pleasures and challenges in achieving and maintaining that “good feeling” in the United States. Outgoing Gilded: Contemporary Artists Explore Value and Worth, a traveling exhibition from the Weatherspoon Art Museum at UNC Greensboro, features artists turning to the ancient practice of gilding as a means to reconsider our modern value systems.
Read moreTremaine Gallery at The Hotchkiss School
Opening April 2: Dialogue: Art in Conversation explores the work and processes of Valerie Hammond and Nathaniel (Tate) Klacsmann. Their work reverberates around questions of social inequity, magic, myth, and the environment, creating a group of pieces filled with reflective echoes, offering opportunity for intersection and dialogue.
Read moreFountain Street Gallery
Through March 24: Gladly Beyond. Taken from e. e. cummings’ poem “somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond” the Gallery’s final exhibition, by artists working in a variety of media, is a tribute to the irrepressible nature of creative endeavors and to the artists of Fountain Street as we prepare to close our doors on March 31, 2024. SoWa First Friday Reception: March 1, 5–8 p.m.
Read moreInner Space Fine Arts
Opening May 4: Juni Van Dyke: Color is one of my favorite things. A Cape Ann treasure, Juni’s colorist paintings are informed by the area’s natural beauty; the light sweeping across granite; coastal views; hillside vistas—Cape Ann is an ever-present force in her work. Using abstract forms, Juni invites the viewer to experience her work without interruption of title. Energized by the interaction, she finds the varied interpretations fascinating and exciting—valid without exception. Artist reception: Saturday, May 4, 5–7 p.m.
Read moreAVA Gallery and Art Center
Through March 30: Alternative Processes in Contemporary Photography: Linda Bryan, Cathy Cone, Chris Esten, Rachel Portesi, Vaune Trachtman, Mary Zompetti; Milkweed: Louise Hamlin; A Matter of Time: Justin O’Rourke. Opening March 8: Form + Texture: A group exhibition of contemporary fiber art. April 12–27: Illumination: AVA’s Annual Benefit Exhibition.
Read moreHartford Art School Galleries
Through March 23: Twice the Legal Minute, a solo exhibition by Jonathan Herrera Soto in Joseloff Gallery, explores the stakes of mistranslation, plausibility, and solitude in printmaking. Artist talk: Wednesday, March 20, 5–6:30 p.m. April 4–16: The first round of BFA Thesis Exhibitions features Illustration in Joseloff Gallery and Photography and Printmaking in Silpe Gallery. Opening reception: Saturday, April 6, 6–8 p.m. April 25–May 7: BFA Thesis Exhibitions continue with Visual Communications Design in Joseloff Gallery and Ceramics, Painting, and Integrated Media Arts in Silpe Gallery. Opening reception: Saturday, April 21, 6–8 p.m.
Read moreChazan Gallery at Wheeler
Through March 6: COLOURED.AESTHETICA. Solo show by Triton Mobley. Mobley is a new media artist and researcher whose interventionist works and guerrilla performances have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Mobley’s research and praxis cull together critical making methodologies across performative installations, programmable fabrications, and speculative industrial design—fashioning polemical art object assemblages that engender public reexamination.
Read moreLamont Gallery
March 19–April 13: Hidden Treasures 6 celebrates the creative work of Phillips Exeter Academy colleagues across media and departments. This year’s exhibition includes fiber arts, stained glass, painting, and landscape photography as well as events and programs showcasing music and literary arts. Opening reception: Thursday, March 28, 5–7 p.m.
Read moreHammond Castle Museum
The Gertrude Cawein at Hammond Castle Museum exhibition will feature nearly sixty works by American artist Eric Pape (1870–1938) spanning his entire career. The catalog, most of which is on loan by Pape collector and biographer, Dr. Gregory Conn, presents a rare example of his work as a society portraitist and includes examples of Pape’s celebrity portraits created during the Great Depression not publicly displayed since his death.
Read moreNew Bedford Whaling Museum
Through May 5: Framing the Domestic Sea: Photographs by Jeffery Becton evokes New England’s varied histories, the maritime world, and the impacts of climate change on coastal communities. Through April 21: Paintings by Roy Rossow picture New Bedford’s working waterfront, contemporary maritime activities, and historic celestial navigation in The Stars that Guide Us.
Read moreThe Mercy Gallery at The Loomis Chaffee School
From September through June, 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 and public. Opening April 4: Traci Talasco: TIPPING POINT. Presenting a series of conceptual sculptures that use architecture as a social/political space dealing with power imbalances stemming from gender, race, and identity.
Read moreFuller Craft Museum
Fuller Craft Museum455 Oak StreetBrockton, MA 02301(508) 588-6000kbrinson@fullercraft.orgfullercraft.org Find the Maker in you at Fuller Craft Museum! The Museum offers…
Read moreColby College Museum of Art
Located on the campus of Colby College in Waterville, Maine, the Colby College Museum of Art inspires connections between art and people through distinctive exhibitions, programs, publications, and an outstanding collection that emphasizes American and contemporary art. Ongoing: The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury. Through May 12: A Lot More Inside: Esopus Magazine. Ongoing: Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village. Through March 29: Alex Katz: Repetitions.
Read moreFuller Craft Museum
Through March 31: Face Value: Portraits from the Arthur S. Goldberg Collection. Ongoing: Maria Molteni: Soft Score. Ongoing: Pop! Color Stories from the Permanent Collection. Ongoing: The Red Dress. Opening March 30: Beau McCall: Buttons On! Opening April 13: Hand in Hand: Works from the Fleur S. Bresler Collection. Fuller Craft Museum’s wide-ranging exhibitions and outdoor sculpture showcase the finest contemporary craft in a spectacular organic modernist building and woodland setting.
Read moreThe Current
Through April 11: In the Garden, a platform for artists, poets, and performers. Within the walls of The Current, artists present a disparate array of topics through work that uses the garden as a motif, setting the stage for connection and cultivation. Artists in this exhibition use the metaphor of a garden to address climate change, decolonization, feminism, societal tensions, and our endangered environment. Artists include: Carlos Amorales, Cameron Davis, Wylie Garcia, Valerie Hammond, Mary Mattingly, Ebony G. Patterson, Paul Anthony Smith.
Read moreStudio Place Arts
March 13–April 20: Main Gallery: Up and Down, In and Out: Embroidery and its Kin. Second floor gallery: Hiding in Plain Sight by Amy Schachter. Third floor gallery: The Grand Assemblage by Axel Stohlberg. Visit studioplacearts.com for info on the Quick Change Gallery and SPA annex locations. Studio Place Arts is a working art center with art exhibits, artist studios, classroom, and a sculpture tour.
Read moreFitchburg Art Museum
Ongoing: On Her Terms: Feminine Power Embodied features New England artists who foreground the human body in their work to engage contemporary issues around women’s rights. Also on view: Ria Brodell: Butch Heroes and Portrayed by Eakins: Ella Crowell as Model and Student. Opening March 2: Africa Rising: 21st Century African Photography, including photographs by Zanele Muholi, Lalla Essaydi, and Aida Muluneh, and others.
Read moreShowUp (formerly Beacon Gallery)
March 1–April 28: Extra, featuring Rixy, Ja’Hari Ortega, and Wavy Wednesday. This exhibit transforms the gallery into a safe space for Black and Brown women to be themselves, embrace their strengths, and transcend white supremacy and patriarchy. Curated by Chenoa Baker, the artists use their creative expression to address societal barriers in their work. Event details online.
Read moreMontserrat Galleries
Through March 6 in the Montserrat Gallery: Karmimadeebora McMillan, Wondering stars…for whom it is reserved…the blackness..the darkness..forever. Through March 16 in the Carol Schlosberg Galleries: Loretta Park, About to Thaw. Opening March 27 in all galleries: Senior Thesis Exhibitions.
Read moreArt Complex Museum
Through May 5: Zach Horn: Saturdays. Opening April 28: National Association of Women Artists Massachusetts (NAWAMA) Chapter: Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? Opening April 28: Cassatt and Beyond: Women Printmakers. Opening May 12: DIG, Joe Caruso, Jennifer Liston Munson, Christine Palamidessi and Marsha Odabashian. Reception: Sunday, May 12, 1–4 p.m. Ongoing: Nora Valdez: Passage. Admission is always free.
Read moreThe Umbrella Arts Center
Through March 24: Portraits in Red: Missing & Murdered Indigenous People Painting Project, by Nayana LaFond. Reception and artist talk: Thursday, March 7, 5–7 p.m. March 16 & 17: The Umbrella Open Studios, including Kaleidoscope: Changing as We Change exhibition, on view through March 20. March 29–April 5: Artrageous Art Auction and Exhibition. Opening April 10: TAPPED IN: Moving Hearts and Minds through Art and Science, curated by Stephanie Marlin-Curiel and Dr. Linda Booth Sweeney. Reception and panel discussion: Thursday, April 11, 5:30–8:30 p.m.
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