September/October 2025

Through December 2: Panopticon Gallery presents Grace by Scott Offen. Coinciding with the launch of Offen’s monograph with L’Artiere Edizioni, the exhibition features intimate, dreamlike portraits performed and co-created by his wife, Grace. Exploring collaboration, identity, and connection with nature, the work invites reflection on presence and absence. A reception and book signing will be held September 25, 6-8 p.m. Free and open to the public.

On view townwide: Timeline, by Nilou Moochhala, connecting past and present with stories, sidewalk squares, and collectible cards. On view in Arlington Center: Unseen/Unforgotten: Remembering Menotomy’s Ordinary Defenders, 1775, sculptural installation by Christopher Frost. On view at Town Hall: People, Plants & Revolution, banners by Suzanne Moseley and Liz Shepherd with audio tour (PlantStories.us). On view on Minuteman Bikeway: New murals by Renee Majkut, Raksha Soni, and Maria and Kathy Lobo.

Through October 26: Trailblazers: Celebrating Contemporary Japanese Prints; and Ephemeral Grace: Botanicals by Deb Ehrens. Outdoor installation, ongoing: From Woods to Water: The Interrelationship of Living Things, by Roman Tybinko.

Gallery Sitka will be hosting Cynthia Woehrle and Marton Clough through September. Kellie Weeks opens on Friday, October 10, from 4:30–
6 p.m. Marli Thibodeau opens Friday, November 14, from 4:30–6 p.m. and NAWAMA joins Gallery Sitka opening Friday, December 12, from 4:30–6 p.m. for “La Fête”—a celebratory end to 2026! 

Opening September 20: Nancy Callan and Katherine Gray: The Clown In Me Loves You. Ongoing: Soul of a Nation: Voices of Resilience in Ukrainian Folk Art. Ongoing: A Shared Legacy: Gifts from the Robyn and John Horn Collection. Ongoing: Cicely Carew: BeLOVEd. Ongoing: Waste Not, Want Not: Craft in the Anthropocene. Ongoing: Small Wonders: Beauty, Alchemy, and the Art of Enameling. The 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.

In exhibitions opening on September 19, the Davis Museum highlights the following artists as part of Wellesley College’s 150th anniversary celebrations: Kathryn Abarbanel, Ilse Bing, Suzanne Ciani, Genevieve Cohn, Claudia Joskowicz, Kathya Landeros, Phyllis McGibbon, Andrew Mowbray, Daniela Rivera, Katherine Ruffin, and David Teng Olsen. Free and open to the public.

Spanning the Sculpture Park’s front lawn and beyond, Nature Sanctuary explores relationships between the natural world and ideas of home across a landscape shared and shaped by people and art. Original commissions and loans from six artists—Venetia Dale, Kapwani Kiwanga, Joiri Minaya, Zohra Opoku, Kathy Ruttenberg, and Evelyn Rydz—link deCordova’s ecology, its past as a family home, and its integration with a land conservation organization. Ongoing: Nature Sanctuary.

Through September 28: Wen-Hao Tien, Flight Lessons and Ellen Schön, Loftings. First Friday, September 5, 5–8:30 p.m. Reception and artists’ talks: Saturday, September 13, 2–5 p.m., talks at 3 p.m. Open Mic with Wen-Hao Tien: Saturday, September 20, 3–5 p.m. 3D Clay-Printing Demo with Ellen Schön: Sunday, September 21 at 2 p.m. Opening October 2: Sally Moore, Human/Beast and Laura Evans, The Weight: how to move. First Friday, October 4, 5–8:30 p.m. Reception and artists’ talks: Sunday, October 19, 2–5 p.m., talks at 3 p.m.

Home of American Illustration. Ongoing: Illustrators of Light: Rockwell, Wyeth, and Parrish from the Edison Mazda Collection. Through November 2: Norman Rockwell: Illustrating Humor. Through October 26: I SPY! Walter Wick’s Hidden Wonders. Through October 26: Hidden Worlds and Wonders Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. Guided gallery tours, virtual exhibition and field trips. More at NRM.org.

Ongoing: The Vietnamese Áo Dài in a Time of War: Fashion, Citizenship, and Nationalism (1954–1975), exploring the role that Vietnam’s national costume—the áo dài—played within Vietnam and on the global stage during the Vietnam War and how clothing is used to assert cultural identity.

September 14–29: Please join in the celebration of a show of new, sustainable work by David Gonville. Gonville is a contemporary artist inspired by the ocean and its convergence with surf, weather, landforms, and contemporary human interaction. Using encaustic, oil paint and plaster, he creates works of art on reclaimed wooden panels that transcribe his experiences in nature in a serene and beautiful manner. Opening artist reception: Saturday, September 14, 3–7 p.m. October 12–27: Join the gallery for a Duncan Johnson Retrospective that spans over thirty years of art in the making. Johnson, a contemporary assemblage artist, creates entirely from vintage “found” boards, elements procured in nature, and from vintage magazines, comics and newspapers. His work feels like a pure abstraction of pattern and geometric form. Opening artist reception: Saturday, October 12, 3–7 p.m. The gallery is dedicated to showing exquisitely crafted contemporary fine art, sculpture, lighting and furniture created using highly sustainable materials.

September 4–October 12: Eternal Equinox—Photo encaustics by Joan Kocak; vivid landscapes in oil by Jill Hoy; abstract works on paper by Daryl Burtnett; new works by represented artists. Reception: Saturday, September 20, 6–8 p.m. Opening October 15: Inner Sojourns—Elisa Adams’ sculptures delve into the mystical world of Tarot cards and invite the audience on a meditative experience; abstract mixed media by Athena Petra Tasiopoulos; and paintings by Avery S. Bramhall complete this intriguing show. Reception: Saturday, October 25, 6–8 p.m.

Currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Museum has a permanent collection focusing on American art from the 19th century to the present day, rotating exhibitions of contemporary, regional artists, and a gallery focused on the artist Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller. Opening September 13: B. Lynch: Little Dramas; Nayana LaFond: Portraits in RED; Sonya Tanae Fort: I See You/Morabeza. See website for hours.

Opening September 12: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black. Discover how simple tools can be powerful vehicles for artistic expression. Enjoy drawings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, Georges Seurat, John Singer Sargent, and Odilon Redon, alongside 20th- and 21st-century artists such as Piet Mondrian, Lyonel Feininger, Diego Rivera, Richard Serra, John Wilson, Isabella Quintanilla, and Toyin Ojih Odutola, all of whom push their use of drawing media in new directions.

September 11–October 19, Main + Members galleries: 26th Annual Frances N. Roddy Exhibition, juried by Sarah Montross. Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5:30 p.m. Opening October 23, Main Gallery: Motherhood as Muse, curated by Kathryn Geismar and Deborah Peeples. Members Gallery: Color Conversations, Laura Barr, Kay Hartung, Anne Johnstone. Reception: Thursday, October 23, 5:30 p.m.

September 4–28, Main Gallery: Kurt Ankeny, Linda Cordner, Richard Dorff, Sharon Kaitz, Mario Kon, Virginia Mahoney: Six New Artists. Center Gallery: Jennifer Liston Munson: The Petrifying Gaze. Project Space Gallery: Randy Garber and Rachel Garber Cole: So Late So Soon. Opening reception: Friday, September 5, 5–8 p.m. October 2–November 2, Main and Center galleries: Mary Lang: Entangled. Project Space Gallery: Hilary Tolan: Waterland. Opening reception: Friday, October 3, 5–8 p.m.