10 Emerging Artists 2025
Art New England’s Annual Highlight of Ten Exceptional Emerging Voices The Emerging Artist feature is one of Art New England’s most…
Read moreArt New England’s Annual Highlight of Ten Exceptional Emerging Voices The Emerging Artist feature is one of Art New England’s most…
Read moreIris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA • holycross.edu • Through April 1,…
Read moreTwo Villages Art Society, Hopkinton, NH • twovillagesart.org • Through April 19, 2025 It is rare for an artist well-known…
Read moreSouth Burlington Library, Burlington, VT • southburlingtonlibrary.org • Through April 2025 Most artists are motivated by an inner drive to…
Read moreChanging Art Gallery, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT • brucemuseum.org • Through April 27, 2025 Fauvism, Cubism and Abstract Expressionism all…
Read moreAustin Arts Center, Trinity College300 Summit St., Hartford, CTtrincoll.edu/austin-arts-center/widener-galleryM–Sa 1–5 Through April 30 (closed March 15–22): Echoes and Collisions: The…
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Read moreByerly Hall, 8 Garden St., Cambridge, MA(617) 495-8657ventures@radcliffe.harvard.eduradcliffe.harvard.edu/events-and-exhibitions?exhibitions=1M-Sa 12-4:30 Ongoing: The exhibition by visual artist Alia Farid features large, greenish-blue…
Read moreThrough May 11: The Art of French Wallpaper Design and From Pineapple to Pañuelo: Philippine Textiles. Through May 4: The Road Less Traveled: Edo’s Nakasendo. Ongoing: Brighten Up!: Contemporary Enamels. Ongoing: Process Work: Intersections of Photography and Print ca. 1825 to Today. Upcoming this summer: Liz Collins: Motherlode.
Read moreMarch 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.
Read moreMarch 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.
Read moreThrough March 30: Designing Downtown. Opening March 15: Portraits in RED: Missing & Murdered Indigenous Peoples Project. Opening March 29: Van Gogh for All.
Read moreOpening 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.
Read moreOngoing: 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.
Read moreThrough 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.
Read moreMarch 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.
April 4–May 10: Featured in AVA’s main, named galleries, Cynthia Atwood and Mark Lorah: Visceral Resonance; Heidi Broner: The Daily; Chris Papa: New Work. March 14–April 26, in the Roesch Gallery: the group exhibition, Shape/Shift: Objects and Non-Objectives. Opening reception for all exhibitions: Friday, April 4, 5–7 p.m.
Read moreThrough March 11: Fraudulent Applications of Projection: Alex Wenstrup, Nathan Borradaile Wright. April 3–24: Wayfinding: Lisa Perez. Reception: Thursday, April 3, 5–7 p.m.
Read moreThrough 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.
Read moreKathryn Schultz Gallery (25R Lowell Street) + CAA @ University Place (124 Mt Auburn Street), through April 25: 2025 Members Prize Show. CAA @ Canal (650 E. Kendall Street), through May 2: Materiality: Memory in Cloth.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreOngoing: 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.
Read moreOngoing: Is anything the matter? Drawings by Laylah Ali includes more than 100 drawings dating from 1993 to 2020. The drawings explore Ali’s interest in the amalgam of race, power, gender, human frailty, murky politics, and other complex topics that are often treated as separate. Artist talk: Wednesday, April 9, 6 p.m.
Read moreOngoing: 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.
Read moreOngoing: The Davis and Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. The artworks in Better on Paper hail from around the world, span diverse makers and approaches, and date to many periods. Free and open to the public.
Read moreThrough March 5, Montserrat Gallery: Jay Critchley, Democracy of the Land, Inc.—FLAGrancy. Through March 15, Schlosberg Gallery: Claudia Valenti, The Other Room. Senior Thesis Exhibitions, March 26–May 16, all galleries. Please visit montserrat.edu for more details.
Read moreThrough April 19: Duxbury Art Association Winter Juried Show; Raku from the Art Complex Museum Collection. Through May 5: Steve Branfman: Thought Translated into Form. Saturday, April 12, 1–4 p.m.: Painters & Poets—Ekphrastic poetry, guest speakers, readings. Ongoing: Nora Valdez: Passage.
Read moreThrough March 22: New Members Exhibition, Duygu Aytaç, Jean M Bernstein, Jeff Briggs, Elsa Campbell, Nick Di Stefano, Daniel Gaviani, Katie Kimbrell. Third Thursday reception: March 20, 6–9 p.m. April 4–26: Two Painters/Dos pintores, work by Diane Teubner and Renato Viganego. Opening reception: Saturday, April 5, 5–8 p.m. Third Thursday reception: April 17, 6–9 p.m.
Read moreThrough 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.
Read moreHome 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.
Read moreBellarmine 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.
Read moreThrough 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.
Read moreOpening 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.
Read moreMarch 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.
Read moreThrough 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.
Through April 1: Michael Beatty: Fabrications, Selections from 1992 to present: Associate Professor Emeritus Michael Beatty’s retrospective exhibition celebrates his sculptural practice, which is informed by concepts from science, nature, philosophy, and mathematics.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreThrough 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.
The Museum has a permanent collection focusing on American art, rotating exhibitions of contemporary, regional artists, and a gallery focused on the artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Ongoing: 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. See website for hours and membership information.
Read moreThrough March 30: Losing Winter: Lynn Cazabon presents a unique and site-specific realization of Losing Winter, an ongoing participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and reflecting upon what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on seasonal patterns. Opening April 4: A Hole Hanging in the Air, works by Kate Conlon. Through a meticulous process of archival research and digital modeling, Conlon recreates illusion-generating, precise reconstructions of mechanical devices from the history of cinematic visual effects as cut-paper constructions.
Read morePortland Gallery, through January 4: Light in Every Room: Gail Spaien & Lynne Drexler. January 10–March 8: Kate Hargrave: The Journal. Falmouth Gallery, through February 1: Who Knows What Grows in the Morning Light.
Read moreThrough April 5: The Music of Sight, a spring exhibition kicking off the season with a collection of new works from the Guild’s members. Opening April 12: Of Dusk and Dawn—Paintings by Dennis Sheehan, a solo exhibition of the renowned contemporary artist’s most recent series of Tonalist landscapes. Opening reception: Saturday, April 12, 3–5 p.m.
Read moreThrough April 17: AAMARP Group Exhibition. Curator: Marlon Forrester. The African American Masters Artists in Residency Program presents artworks from eighteen intergenerational artists, encompassing a variety of mediums and genres that reflect an array of approaches to the art of Africa and the African diaspora.
Read moreApril 4–May 21: Travels, mixed media paintings of Tom Arsenault. Deftly merging paint and historical artifact, Arsenault creates ethereal scenes that evoke curiosity and emotion. Blending objects of art from both Eastern and Western traditions, his work seemingly transcends time and place, instead drawing the viewer into a mysterious dreamscape of rich color and surprising depth. Reception: Friday, April 4, 5:30 p.m.
Read moreOpening March 7: 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 of this exhibition by hearing from the exhibition organizers and specialists from the Munchmuseet, Oslo on Thursday, March 6.
Read moreThrough 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.
Read moreThrough March 8: 2025 Vermont Scholastic Art & Writing Awards; Adrienne Elise Tarver: Roots, Water, Air; The Noise of Us, featuring the artwork of Felipe Baeza, Ori Gersht, Simonette Quamina, and Maika’i Tubbs. Opening March 22: Contemporary Ukrainian Folk Art: The Matrix of Resilience; GLASSTASTIC 2025; Yeon Ji Yoo: Wish You Were Here; Carl E. Hazlewood: Infinite Passage; John Kenn Mortensen: Dream Homes; Nye Ffarrabas: Truth IS A Verb. Ongoing: Vanessa Compton: A Night at the Garden. Admission is pay-as-you-wish.
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