Montserrat College of Art

Alumni Networking: Tree House Brewing
2024-11-03 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Montserrat is holding the next networking event for our alumni in Western Massachusetts and beyond on Sunday, Nov. 3 from 1–3pm. Hosted by Montserrat alum and faculty member Corinne Reid, join us for drinks and a bite while you catch up with old friends and chat with Montserrat President Brian Pellinen to hear about what’s new and upcoming at Montserrat. The college will provide pizza for all guests. Tree House offers many types of beer and non-alcoholic beverages.
Please register here to attend

Anonymous Art Party
2024-11-02 18:00 - 21:00 | Hardie Building, Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
The Anonymous Art Party is BACK! Join Montserrat as we open our doors to celebrate the arts of the North Shore with a night of festivity, creativity, and a little mystery!
This exciting event will center around an anonymous art sale, with works submitted by local artists in our community as well as Montserrat faculty, staff, and students. To add a secret twist, pieces will be hung without the name of the artist listed, and names will not be revealed until after the sale!
But the party doesn’t stop there! In addition to the art sale, guests will have the opportunity to go behind the scenes of Montserrat, exploring our classrooms and studios while enjoying music, food and drink, and live artmaking by our Montserrat students!
All proceeds will support scholarships for Montserrat College of Art Students!
Click here for tickets.
For more information reach out to: development@montserrat.edu

Sins Invalid: Disability Justice A-Z
2024-10-28 15:00 | Library Gallery, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
In the month of October, the Academic Access Studio and Counseling Center facilitated a series of art-making events in preparation for the upcoming exhibit Sins Invalid: Disability Justice from A-Z. This exhibit is a collaboration between our Montserrat community and the artists featured in the book. Learn more about Sins Invalid here
The opening reception is on Monday, 10/28 at 3:00 pm in the Paul M. Scott Library

The Shade
2024-10-28 11:00 - 13:00 | Hardie 101, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Deep within us all exists a darkness that must be confronted. What is The Shade to you?
Join Montserrat alum Adam Miller for a spooky comic anthology book launch on Monday, October 28th from 11am–1pm in H101. (Lunch will be provided.)
In support of Red King Cinema’s upcoming feature film THE SHADE, Red King Publishing proudly presents The Shade: Perceptions. Showcasing a diverse roster of established and emerging creators, this exciting collection makes its comic shop debut this halloween season. The forthcoming volume reveals six new short stories, a robust gallery section, and two haunting covers.
Adam Miller (’00, Illustration) is the Creative Director for Red King Publishing, a production company based outside Boston. He is the Creative Director and Cover Illustrator for their Shade-inspired comics anthology.
The event is open to the Montserrat Community and the public.

Montserrat Portfolio Night – Fall 2024
2024-10-24 17:00 - 19:00 | Hardie Building, Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Join us at Montserrat Portfolio Night for:

Portfolio reviews with Montserrat faculty and Admissions Counselors
Presentations from academic and campus departments
Digital Fabrication Studio demonstrations
Campus tour
snacks, fun, and more…

Don’t forget to bring your artwork (physical copies or digital versions). We look forward to meeting you!

The Improbable Places Poetry Tour lands at Beverly Airport
2024-10-22 18:30
Wheels Up! The Improbable Places Poetry Tour lands at Beverly Airport this October!
The Improbable Places Poetry Tour, hosted by Colleen Michaels of Montserrat College of Art, is seeking poems about flight and travel for a most unique reading opportunity. On October 22, 2024, The Beverly Regional Airport will host a night of poetry. Boarding begins at 6:30 in the main terminal. The reading begins at 7:00 in an airport hangar that is the site of an intervention by artist Liz Nofziger. The event is free and open to the public.
Do you have a travel or airport poem? A poem about flight or wingspan? We want your turbulent tercets from the middle seat and your sonnets skywritten in vapor. We want your red-eyes and your puddle jumpers. Please, someone send a poem as a safety card or a passport. Send the poem that hits like oxygen dropped from the overhead compartment.
Submissions can be sent to colleen.michaels@montserrat.edu no later than Friday, October 17, 2024.
If chosen, you must be available to read your work in person at The Beverly Regional Airport on Tuesday, October 22, 2024.
The Improbable Places Poetry Tour is Montserrat College of Art’s way of bringing together poets and enthusiastic listeners to celebrate the power of poetry and community. At each tour stop a new venue and theme is selected. Started in 2010 by Colleen Michaels, the Improbable Places Poetry Tour has traveled from bike shops to power plants, and from tattoo parlors to Viking ships, with a line-up of poets each reading one poem.
The 2024 Improbable Places Poetry Tour is funded by Montserrat College of Art, Beverly Cultural Council, and Mass Cultural Council.
See highlights from last year in a short video by Elliot Mason ’25
https://www.montserrat.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Improbable-Places-Poetry-Tour-Spring-2024.mp4

Throughline: The Fiber Art of Mary Balzer Buskirk
2024-10-22 - 2024-11-23 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Mary Balzer Buskirk (1931-2009) combined a commitment to weaving as an art form with an intense investigation of techniques specific to the medium. Early patterns for rugs set the stage for wall hangings that demonstrate varying degrees of transparency, along with tubular works that establish a sculptural presence. Buskirk began her engagement with textiles as a graduate student at Cranbrook in the mid-1950s. Following a move to California in 1960, Buskirk’s initial attraction to the inherent abstraction of the grid of vertical and horizontal fiber opened onto more sinuous compositions inspired by natural forms. Textiles in the exhibition also showcase Buskirk’s interest in off-loom techniques, along with her willingness, as her career progressed, to harken back to prior training in painting by mounting woven compositions on stretcher bars.
Untitled (long hanging with circles), 1959, 82” x 18”, woolCourtesy of Martha Buskirk
Gallery talk with Prof. Martha Buskirk, Ph.D. daughter of the artist, Nov. 6 at 5pm followed by a reception at 6pm. The public is welcome at both events.
Featured Image:
New Beginning (detail), 1975, 33” x 35”, wool and mixed fibers
Courtesy of Martha Buskirk

I’ll Be Your Mirror
2024-10-21 - 2025-01-25 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Presented in two parts, this exhibition features recent works by five Montserrat alumni. Ranging from objective pieces to abstracted representations, these works are reflections of the self and the world around us.
I’ll Be Your Mirror offers a unique lens in portraying individual experiences and in challenging assumptions that prevent us from seeking truth. As you engage with the work, you are encouraged to confront your own perspectives and embrace the narratives presented before you.
Things look different based on where you’re looking from, take a mirror to further explore the world we share.
Artist Conversation
with Montserrat Alumni Annie Lee-Daly, Shannon Herrick, Cayla Montes, Denali Musgrave, and Zeynep Celik
Friday, December 6, 11–12pm, Hardie Room 101
Part I
Annie Lee-Daly
Shannon Herrick
Part II
Cayla Montes
Denali Musgrave
Zeynep Çelik

Faculty in Conversation: Aly Pierce
2024-09-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Hardie 101, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
In If You Give the Brain a Puzzle, Aly Pierce will talk you through her process of exploring the inner world through generative prompts and how they can function as puzzles for the brain. She will give examples of exercises and the poems they created, demonstrating how they aided in the writing of her debut poetry collection The Visible Planets, her self-published collection The Deathwish Catalogue, and her co-written chapbook Cryptids.

Taytos & Garlic Sauce
2024-09-23 - 2024-10-10 | Hardie Building, Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Taytos & Garlic Sauce, a collection of student work from last summer’s travel study trip to Ireland. Come check it out and stop by the reception this Friday, Sept 27 at 5pm!
23 Essex St, Beverly, 2nd floor
Find out more about next summer’s trip to Ireland, open to all college students.

Rosie Ranauro: OBSCURE//REPEAT
2024-09-09 - 2024-11-16 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Boston-based artist Rosie Ranauro’s work is a visual exploration of process, defined not by fixed outcomes, but by the dynamic interplay between creation and concealment. What remains hidden becomes a space for speculation, imagination, and personal interpretation.
OBSCURE//REPEAT is a series of unstretched canvases painted on both sides, with one side obscured from the viewer. Through its three-dimensional presence, the canvases become evocative of the physical body, one which moves between states of transition and rest. By concealing parts of the canvas, Ranauro also withholds portions of the narrative from the viewer, asking the question, ‘what does it mean to be understood?’
Rosie Ranauro lives and works in Boston, MA, and holds a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design ’11. She has shown locally and internationally and is currently an artist in residence at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Cold, Tenderly: Shoe Bones Presents Three Exhibits
2024-07-17 - 2024-10-12 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Cold, Tenderly is a series of three exhibitions curated by Frankie Symonds, artist and Founder/Director of Shoe Bones Gallery in Salem, MA. Through a range of artistic approaches and media, including photography, painting, video, and drawing, each exhibition probes different psychological states of being—from love and vulnerability to guarded indifference and absurdity. Cold, Tenderly seeks to ultimately explore the intimate as well as distant spaces created between ourselves and others.
Pansies and Sissies: Jamieson Edson and Campbell McLean

July 17 – August 10
Exhibition Reception: Thursday, July 25. 6–8PM
Please note that the Schlosberg Gallery will be closed on Saturday, August 3 for a private event.

Pansies And Sissies, a two-person exhibition featuring Boston-based artists, Jamieson Edson and Campbell McLean, is a tender and at times flirtatious exercise in queer friendship, love, and creative inspiration. Edson and McLean are close friends and frequently depict the people who frequent their lives as their primary subjects. They also regularly appear in each other’s work, and their overlapping social lives mean that many of the same faces, mediated through lenses, brushes, and other processes, are mirrored in each of their works. Using oil paint, various printing processes, and a Polaroid camera respectively, McLean and Edson create intimate, affectionate moments that are dramatic, even cinematic. By filtering the modesty of daily life through their creative methods, Edson and McLean highlight the passion, beauty, and heightened sense of reality found in closeness, care, and interdependence.

Jamieson Edson is a visual artist based in Boston. They received their BFA from the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2015. Working predominantly with Polaroid, Jamieson crafts evocative portraits of dear friends, lovers and captivating acquaintances.
Jamieson EdsonCampbell and Virgil at the CCVA, 2024Polaroid 600 print4.25 x 3.25 in.Courtesy of the artist.
Campbell McLean was born, raised, and educated in Boston, graduating from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2022. Since graduating, Campbell has delved in Boston’s queer nightlife, both as attendee and employee. From domestic bliss to sweaty leather-bars, her paintings document and canonize the local queer experience through dynamic and environmental portraits.
Campbell McLeanSunrise over Tuesday, 2023Oil on canvas24 x 26 in.Courtesy of the artist.
Ryan Hawk: Sweet Surrender

August 19 – September 7
Gallery talk with curator Frankie Symonds, Shoe Bones Gallery, Salem: Wednesday, September 4, 3 pm, Schlosberg Gallery
Sweet Surrender is an ongoing installation featuring moving images and sculpture that interrogates representations of masculinity, often through narratives of tragedy and humor. Hawk incorporates prosthetic objects, using it both metaphorically and literally to explore corporeal experience while also bringing to light the inherent awkwardness associated with penetrating social boundaries. The installation centers on a video of a lone man on stage that transforms into a karaoke set to the pop-rock song “Sweet Surrender” by Sarah McLachlan, which subsequently turns awkward. Despite the proverbial support of a third leg, the man struggles to perform. Sweet Surrender is a continuation of Hawk’s artistic research into alternative forms of masculine embodiment within the dominant social and cultural imagination.
Ryan Hawk is a visual artist and scholar using film, sculpture, and critical theory to engage and often exploit the Western imaginary. Hawk holds a BFA in studio art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and an MFA in studio art from the University of Texas at Austin.
Ryan HawkSweet Surrender, 2018Video StillCourtesy of the artist.
Creighton Baxter: hiss the name

September 16 – October 12

A durational performance for hiss the name: Tuesday, September 17, 11-4 pm, Schlosberg Gallery
Artist Reception: Tuesday, September 17, 5:30-7:30 pm
As an iterative installation resulting from drawing, assemblage, and performance – hiss the name – is the true story of a fictionalized character seeking retribution and salvation in a world of vampiric avatars, vengeful sirens, and trans women running backward through time. Hinging a trilogy of durational performances with hundreds of drawings is the emergence of a phantasmatic villainess who haunts the series. Her presence is a proposal, an alternative to neoliberal representations of trans womanhood which sanitize or hystericize. The Montserrat Galleries will present the final iteration of hiss the name, including the last performance in the trilogy. In these narrative cinders of a fictional testimony, reflections on surveillance, and the sensorium emerge.
The interstices between Creighton Baxter’s modes of making embrace the challenges of remembrance, recording, and witnessing. By upending a singular aesthetic vantage, she lays bare a fractured world. This shattered and (in)coherent frequency turns her artworks into glimpses of a larger absent whole. A totality which never arrives, instead proof of life raises her hand. Baxter received her BFA at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and her MFA in Painting/Printmaking at Yale University.
Creighton BaxterHiss the name (installation detail), 2024Mixed media on paperDimensions variableCourtesy of the artist.
Shoe Bones is an artist-run gallery in Salem, MA that specializes in exhibiting queer, self-taught, and marginalized artists’ work. For more information, visit https://shoebonesboston.info or @shoe.bones.
Frankie Symonds is an artist and independent curator who’s lived in or around Boston her whole life. For the last 15 years, she’s made short and feature-length films and videos, produced and directed a 20-episode cable access show, performed live using various instruments such as a theremin and her rectum, programmed film screenings, and curated pop-up exhibits. Her work has been screened and exhibited across the United States and in Europe. She opened Shoe Bones in early 2023 and has been curating exhibits there since.

Plush
2024-07-15 - 2024-10-05 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception and Curator Walkthrough: Wednesday, September 11, 5-6:30
Tufting Demonstration and Workshop with Textile Artist, Haley Wood: Friday, September 13, 3-5 pm. H101
Open to the public.
Plush is a group exhibition that explores references to and uses of stuffed toys in a range of artistic practices that extend beyond contexts of childhood. Through a variety of media, including sculpture, assemblage, mixed media, and photography, the participating artists transform reclaimed and fabricated objects to convey a range of human emotions. Turning away from the idea of the stuffed toy as merely a ‘toy’, these plush objects become charged metaphors exploring love and attachment, becoming surrogates, comfort items, and tangible manifestations of joy or sorrow. The exhibition aims to consider how we form attachments to these objects and what their softness evokes within us.
Curated by Crow Stevenson, Montserrat Galleries Curatorial Assistant, with Lynne Cooney, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries, the included artists expand common conceptions and representations of stuffed objects.
Jeffrey NowlinMonster (detail), 2019Fabric, yarn, thread, polyfill, stuffed animals, vacuum hose114 in. 36 in. x 18 in.
Brittany GorelickLeft Behind I, 2024Monoprint21 in. x 30 in.
Julie PeppitoAll-In-One, 2023Reclaimed objects, paper mâché, fabric, thread, beads, clay, resin, gouache, wood, fabric paint19 in x 7 in x 10 in

Andrew Cain, who lives in Upstate New York, explores in his mixed media work ideas of ephemerality, memory, and nostalgia. I Love Your Guts is an interactive installation featuring life-size plush objects that are meant to be caressed, squeezed, and nuzzled. Conceived during the COVID-19 Pandemic, I Love Your Guts served as a proxy for physical contact when social distancing was the norm. Cain’s iteration for Montserrat Galleries reminds us of the importance of touch as integral to human connection and togetherness.
Brittany Gorelick is an artist and printmaker currently based in Kansas. Through traditional printmaking, alternative papermaking and photographic processes, Gorelick uses abstraction to explore the unseen symptoms of mental health. In two unique prints included in Plush, Gorelick used an unstuffed teddy bear as a printmaking substrate. Run through the press, the teddy bear form appears like a medical x-ray, evoking a human dimension.
Aodhan Gyory, currently based in Upstate New York, works across multiple formats including soft sculpture, textiles, and illustration. Gyory’s soft sculpture included in the exhibition is a plush car seat that is part figure and wearable object. Made after experiencing a car accident. Gyory’s car seat recalls the harrowing moment in which Gyory was suspended from a sideways turned car only by a seatbelt.
Stephanie Metz is a California-based artist who works primarily in wool and industrial felt, humble materials that embody contradictions in both the physical and conceptual realms. Metz transforms tangible materials into satisfying forms, which occasionally resonate with kindred spirits. In her Teddy Bear Unnatural History series, represented by two works in the exhibition, Metz alludes to the methods and taxonomies of the natural sciences to examine the iconic teddy bear as an allegory for the way humans manipulate the natural world to our own ends.
Regional artist, Jeffrey Nowlin, imagines the complexities of human experience through weaving and embroidery. His large-scale sculpture, Monster, is a collection of childhood plush toys, bound together with coiled weaving. Monster is a metaphor for the psychological responses engendered by childhood memories.
Julie Peppito is a New York based artist and activist who 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, including reclaimed stuffed toys, and their destructive effects on the planet and on human health.
Megan Whitmarsh, who lives in Los Angeles, works in a variety of low-tech media including drawing, comics, stop-action animation, hand-embroidery and soft sculpture inspired by growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s. Whitmarsh’s soft sculpture re-fabrications of functional objects reflect our collective material history and explore relationships between cultural and personal narratives.
Haley Wood is a fiber artist living in Arlington, Massachusetts. Wood is inspired by medieval marginalia, folk horror, antiquities and oddities, and living creatures that embody personality. From wall-hangings to tufted pillows created as multiples. Wood depicts a range of creatures that draw on children’s stories and folk traditions.

Pre-College Program for teens
2024-07-14 - 2024-08-03
Our 3-week residential Pre-College Program is designed for students 16 years and older and provides an intensive introduction to life at an art college.
Learn more here.

S.T.E.A.M. Youth Arts Academy
2024-07-08 - 2024-08-02
This program is fun and challenging for students ages 8-15. Daily classes allow students to experience exciting creative endeavors while being introduced to various techniques and skills.
See classes and registration information here.

Drafts, Drawings, and Doodles: Works on Paper by Montserrat College of Art Staff
2024-07-01 - 2024-11-03
Drawing is an integral part of diverse arts practices, whether as a preliminary sketch or finished illustration. Drawings, Drafts, and Doodles highlights a range of media and artistic approaches by Montserrat College of Art staff, underscoring the importance of drawing and the wildly different drawing styles of members of Montserrat’s creative community.
Pictured:
Stacy Thomas-Vickory
Untitled
Graphite
2024

Celebration of the Life of former Montserrat professor, John Thorpe Fiedt, jr.
2024-06-23 14:00 - 17:00 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Montserrat will be hosting a Celebration of the Life of former Montserrat professor, John Thorpe Fiedt, jr.
A reception with live jazz and refreshments will be hosted at Montserrat Gallery on June 23, 2-5 PM.
A selection of Thorpe’s paintings will be on view in the gallery on Saturday, June 22, noon-4 pm. and Sunday, June 23, noon – 5pm.
Read more at montserrat.edu/blog/former-montserrat-professor-thorpe-feidt-passes-away-at-83/

Art Educator Summer Institute in Beverly
2024-06-23 - 2024-06-29
Beverly Residency offers a week-long summer session for all art educators. For six days and nights, participants will be immersed in our state-of-the-art studio spaces, building on their art practice while learning new skills to bring back to the classroom.

Art Educator Summer Institute in Japan
2024-06-18 - 2024-06-29
A 10-day artmaking and museum-going experience for art educators.
More information here.

Summer Immersive Workshops
2024-06-17 - 2024-06-21
Non-credit Courses open to adults 18 and over

Join us for a weeklong immersive workshop June 17 – 21, 2024
Choose from five different courses:

Experimental Photography
Screenprinting
Painting Life: Towards Abstraction
Playing with Fire: Cast Metal Sculpture
Letterpress: Greeting Cards and Broadsides

Information and registration here.

Commencement 2024
2024-05-17 | The Cabot, 286 Cabot St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Commencement 2024 will be Friday, May 17 at The Cabot

2024 All Senior Show
2024-05-15 - 2024-05-17 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Featuring work by graduating 2024 Seniors across all concentrations including animation, graphic design, studio arts, illustration, interdisciplinary, and art education.

Never Stop Growing
2024-05-14 - 2024-05-17 | Bare Gallery, 275 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Art Education Practicum Art Show by Meghan Ayer
Showcasing artwork from the Albert N. Parlin School grades K–8
Opening Reception on May 14, 5 – 7pm.
1A Knowlton Street, Beverly

Artists are like nature; they never stop growing. They are continually inspired, motivated, challenged, and mentored inside and outside the studio! This show is a collection of finished and in-progress work reflecting the student artists’ personal evolution alongside my growth as an art educator.

Media & Animation Showcase (MASh)
2024-05-10 19:00 | The Cabot, 286 Cabot St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Free admission and open to the public!
https://www.montserrat.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/MASh_Trailer_WIP3.mp4

2024 Senior Thesis: Senior Studio Arts Seminar
2024-05-08 - 2024-05-11 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Wednesday, May 8, 5-7 pm
Open to the public

Not For You features the work of Amanda Antunes, Crow Stevenson, Jael Nieves, Jessica Matos, Josue Bessiake, Kaylyn Sverker, and Ziggy Smith. The show explores themes of love, grief, vulnerability, intimacy, memory, transformation, and the weight of history. This is how we navigate human existence. This exhibition is a history only we can own — it’s not for you.

The Itch I Can’t Scratch by Amy O’Rourke is a collection of paintings and rag rugs. Each work heals and/or tells the story of what it’s like experiencing living with daily pain. Amy explores the trials of having an ovarian cyst, along with the removal of her right ovary and fallopian tube. She made the paintings while she still had the ovarian cyst, and the rugs after it was removed in June of 2023. The work is symbolic of the journey she’s taken and the strength it takes to confront the weight of illness.

Kote’M Sòti (Where I Come From) by Marc Elie Mordan is a vibrant explosion of color and culture. Marc uses oil to explain where he comes from, Haiti. With the joy of color, he creates bold bright, daring pieces that draw from his roots. This show is about human identity and self-discovery. (Bare Gallery 1A Knowlton St.)

DUPLICITY by Brandon Acosta: In their uneventful town, six colleagues discover that bloodthirsty doppelgängers have replaced everyone they know. They all band together to fight against this otherworldly force, but can they tell each other apart? DUPLICITY is a three-episode-long animated horror comedy show that takes place in Beverly, Massachusetts during the present day. The show comments on the dangers of the Chameleon Effect and fake personalities in society, along with the importance of truth, comradery, family, and love. It throws the protagonists into a world where their true personalities and behaviors are revealed in an attempt to prove that they are human. However, they all struggle to distinguish the doppelgängers from their colleagues because they do not truly know each other. In their desperate attempts to survive, they must do anything to prove their humanity and to differentiate who’s who.

Saving Strays by Abbey King explores personal experiences working with the shelter that inspired the work. It focuses on making others aware of the struggles that stray cats face, and the work that animal rescue organizations put into finding them their forever homes.

Welcome to STARWORLD, Exhume the Last MC by Taliyah Shepard is an Afrofuturistic exploration of current events and looks to the abstract future of Black Americans. It’s a thorough examination of how we illuminate the reality of “every n**** is a star” that has the potential to make a positive difference in the world. ST✦RWORLD serves as a platform for exposing the vibrant tapestry of our culture since it’s fundamentally an unashamed celebration of Black joy.

Ebbing Flow
2024-05-05 17:00 - 19:00
A storefront installation by Montserrat College of Art Students.
On view at the Peabody Essex Museum
181 Essex Street, Salem, MA
May 5 through Fall 2024
Opening reception on May 5 from 5–7pm.
Created by:
Kirsten Andersen, Jude Arnott, Jay Granniss, Shane Halleran, and Relena LaBoy
Show statement: Throughout Salem’s history, its reliance on the nearby ocean led to the initial artistic interest in creating an environment inseparable from its history and natural influences. This diptych is focused on domestic life, faux sterility and aged but comforting living quarters after its immersion with the sea. With the ever-increasing landscape of natural disasters such as hurricanes, typhoons, tsunamis, and floods, the question of home as separate from shelter and the level of removal from the natural world in modern design remains somewhat ironic. Salem is an iconic area in the history of seaside New England and recent housing practices have led to a clear discrepancy of where the inside ends and the outside begins.

2024 Senior Thesis: Senior Studio Arts Seminar
2024-05-01 - 2024-05-04 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Wednesday, May 1, 5-7 pm
Open to the public
Human Constructs
Montserrat Gallery
This show serves as a collection of intimate evidence categorizing experiences of identity. The artists investigate the figure through visual representation and/or the body’s spatial and internal relation to the work. Human Constructs surveys painting and drawing, sculpture, installation, and sound to bring together an archive unique to each artist.
Featuring:

J. Adam Bee
Angelina DeDominicis
Mary Hall
Delilah Jaros
Pyre Klein
Relena LaBoy
Elias Rackliffe
Andrew Steinberg

What Once Was
This two-person show explores memory through painting and mixed-media installation. Within this work, there is an attempt to reach out and revive the moments and experiences the artists yearn for from a dormant state in their subconscious.
Carol Schlosberg Gallery
Featuring:

Gillian Avelar
Nicole Andrade

Yard Sale
This solo show examines the intersection of childhood toys, perception, and the journey of growing up.
Bare Gallery, 1A Knowlton St
Featuring Elijah Fernandes

Patchwork Pedagogy
2024-04-25 - 2024-05-07
An Art Education Exhibition
Hardie Building, Second floor
Opening Reception May 2, 5–7pm

2024 Senior Thesis: Animation + Interactive Media
2024-04-24 - 2024-04-27 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Feast Your Eyes!
Reception: Wednesday, April 24, 5-7pm
23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA 01915
Open to the public
Works featured in:
Montserrat Gallery
Schlosberg Gallery
Bare Gallery
Featuring
Animation

Mountain Lily, Brooke Bates
When the World is Safe, Catherine Cardenas
Followed, Cassandra Elizabeth
COME BACK TO WHAT YOU KNOW, James Marquez
Ferret Bound, Nina Nichols
Liquid Stars, Adrianna Palleschi
Lost Connection, Alexzander Powers
Paleo Resurrection, Emma Russell

Games

Catch and Release, Ruby Cenci
Resting Place, Owen Serre
DustCutter, Sariel Yim

Books

The Tale of Kamaria, Charlotte Fecteau
Cryptics!, Rita Green
Fragmented, Alexianna Richard
Isthera, Makayla Tompkins

Re-Collections
2024-04-23 - 2024-05-03 | Library Gallery, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
April 23 – May 3, 2024
Paul Scott Library Gallery
Curated by Josue Bessiake
Opening Reception on April 24 at 3pm

The works presented in Re-Collections have been selected from the Montserrat College of Art Teaching Archive, an archival body affiliated with the college that spans from the distant to the recent past. The Teaching Collection consists of diverse media acquired throughout Montserrat’s history–from paintings by former faculty and alumni to vintage adverts from the early days of Montserrat. The works selected here include such disparate works as an incomplete suite of Matisse lithographs, acquired from an unrecorded source, student prints by current faculty members Len Thomas-Vickory and Stacy Thomas-Vickory, to a printed poem by James Merrill.
The selected works from the archive illustrate how the meaning and significance of an artwork can change or evolve over time. Because of the ephemeral nature of the archive, the intent of specific objects that have entered the collection is not always clear or perhaps even lost. Therefore, the works shown here explore the spontaneous nature of the archive. In other words, the exhibition shows the randomness and range of artifacts in the collection. Such as the “Poem for Vassili and Mimi” by James Merril, a story that reminisces on a fond memory of having fun on a summer night. An incomplete suite of lithographs by Henri Matisse, entitled Rondeau, is a poem recalling a dream of a woman whose beauty is so great it warrants praise. Despite coming from vastly different origins the works come together to appear cohesive.
Re-Collections is a record of history and memory. The works represented are part of the chronicle of Montserrat College of Art consisting of former students, faculty, and staff as well as artists who have contributed their time and art to the college.
