National Library Week (April 3 – 9, 2022) is a time to celebrate our nation’s libraries, library workers’ contributions and promote library use and support. The American Library Association (ALA) kicks off National Library Week with the release of its State of America’s Libraries Report, highlighting the challenges U.S. libraries faced in the second year...
May 2 - 28, 2022 During the month of May, Montserrat students take over the 301 Frame Gallery, creating site-specific installations of new work. May 2 - 13 Angelina DeDominicis & Alex Pint: A Con(temporary) Show May 16 - 27 Saya Norton: Onkochisin - Old Visits, New Knowledge May 30 - June...
Reception: Saturday, June 18, 2-4pm with a 1:30 awards ceremony Inspired Views gathers more than forty art educators from New England and beyond in celebration of their commitment and dedication to arts education. Recognizing the many working artists who inspire and mentor our young people, Inspired Views brings art educators together and gives them an...
Samuel Bak, Gelin Buteau, Fay Chandler, Dr. Leslie King Hammond, and Norman Laliberte Gallery Hours Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: [email protected] The Montserrat Teaching Collection is a vast archive of work by former faculty, alumni, and artworks acquired through friends and donors of Montserrat. The collection provides opportunities for current students...
Montserrat Galleries presents the solo exhibition What About Tomorrow? A Show About Today by the Boston based artist Andy Li. Li's text based fabric banners and panels focus on the power of now. His work is a reflection of both the mundane and the unnoticed moments of greatness that we perceive and experience in day...
Gallery Hours Open to Montserrat community M-F, 10am-5pm or by appointment: [email protected] Complete Fabrication features new work by Montserrat staff, Winslow Funaki and Holly Kelly. Artists, makers, and educators, Funaki and Kelly create work that explores humor, play, and perception. In their interdisciplinary practices, both Funaki and Kelly--who serve as the Digital Fabrication Studio Manager and...
In her installation and interdisciplinary practice, the Providence, Rhode Island artist, Lynne Harlow, transforms traditional and nontraditional spaces using modest materials and processes. Taking inspiration from the Minimalists and the Light and Space artists of the 1960 and 1970s, Harlow uses industrially made materials, such as tinted Plexiglass, vinyl, and house paint, to create immersive...
Reception: Tuesday, September 6, 5-7pm Julie Peppito: Love is the Key presents a series of recent and new artworks that interrogates the political and environmental impacts of our consumer-based culture. An activist and artist, Peppito uses her artmaking to draw connections between our dependence upon cheaply made and disposable goods and its destructive effects on...
Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien Montserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor...
Kumasi J. Barnett: American Alien Montserrat Galleries is pleased to present American Alien, a solo exhibition by the Baltimore-based artist, Kumasi J. Barnett. Influenced by the aesthetics and narratives of comic books, the exhibition features the artist’s ongoing series of hand-painted comic books that imbue mainstream comic genres with a present-day social consciousness. Using humor...
Curated by Josué Bessiake '24 and Morghan Schnoll '23
Resplendent: Identity & Visibility in Comics features the work of comic and visual artists who rewrite and reimagine how gender and identity can be represented in contemporary comics. Mainstream comics have long been dominated by white, largely male superheroes and villains. This exhibition highlights the growing body of positive, powerful, and diverse depictions of LGBTQIA+ and...