Student Showcase
2026-04-10 - 2026-04-14 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Student Showcase will start at 2pm on Saturday, April 11.
The awards ceremony will take place at 3pm at The Underground at The Bower (248 Cabot St.)
Work will be shown throughout the Hardie Building, 23 Essex Street.

Senior Thesis Show: Intricacy
2026-04-22 - 2026-05-01 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Senior Studio Arts Exhibition
Reception: April 22. 5–7pm
Featuring: Alexander Mirante, Alicia Prete, Ashton Clow, Christina Egeli, Dera Connell, Katie (Katherine) Perrotta, Kirsten-Marie Anderson, Lynx Fabian, Marissa Rappaport, Markanthony Rodriguez, Rhea Kuriakose, Shayna Halleran
Additional activities:
Katherine Perrotta: “Luckless” Movie Premiere
April 22nd, 6:30PM
Location: H101

Marissa Rappaport: Relaxing Gaming Table (board games, card games.. etc)
April 23-26th
Location: First Floor Hardie Hallway

Cozy Crafting Corner
April 27th-30th
Location: First Floor Hardie Hallway

Midway Show: Ephemeral Rituals
2026-04-23 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Bower, Cabot Street 248, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Midway show exhibition featuring: Lucy Rushton, Rose Stover, Jude Arnott, and Claire Dubus.
A showcase of painting, sculpture and documentary, at The Bower, 248 Caot Street.
Opening reception on April 23 at 6pm.

Artrageous! Maximalism
2026-04-24 18:00 - 21:30 | Danversport, 161 Elliot Street, Danvers, 01923, United States
Midway Show 2025

It’s time to be your most extra self, as we celebrate the spirit of Maximalism for this year’s Artrageous!
BID ONLINE HERE UNTIL APRIL 23!

TICKETS AND SPONSORSHIP

CLICK HERE FOR ALL EVENT DETAILS!

As Montserrat’s annual auction fundraiser, Artrageous has become the signature art event on the North Shore to benefit financial aid awards for deserving Montserrat students.

The night features a live and silent auction, including spectacular works by renowned and emerging artists and designers, and the opportunity to watch and experience art being created “in-the-moment” by Montserrat’s accomplished students.

Join us for art, design, music, food, drinks, and most importantly, the ability to make a difference by directly supporting the next generation of creative talent!

For more information: artrageous@montserrat.edu or call Allison Rieke at 978.921.4242 x1114

Media and Animation Showcase (MASh) 2026
2026-05-05 19:00 - 21:00 | The Cabot, 286 Cabot St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Midway Show 2025

Experience the Art of Time and Motion

Montserrat College of Art is proud to present the annual Media and Animation Showcase (MASh). For nearly a decade, this event has transformed the silver screen into a gallery for the most innovative time-based work from our students, alumni, and community members.

The Event

Join us for a curated reel of high-energy animation, experimental film, and digital storytelling. This showcase is a testament to the artistic passion and technical skill of the Montserrat community.

When: May 5, 2026 | Doors open 7:00 PM | Show starts at 7:30 PM

Where: The Cabot, 286 Cabot St., Beverly, MA

Admission: Free and open to the public.

A Local Partnership

Hosted at the historic Cabot Theater, MASh is a bridge between our campus and the vibrant Beverly community. This event is proudly sponsored by the Beverly Cultural Council, highlighting our shared commitment to bringing professional-grade arts programming to the North Shore.

Why Attend?

For Students: See your work projected on a professional cinema screen in front of a live audience.

For the Public: Discover the next generation of animators and filmmakers in a breathtaking historic setting.

For Alumni: Reconnect with the Montserrat community and see how the media and animation department continues to push boundaries.

More info here

Animus Intra: Senior Thesis Show
2026-05-06 - 2026-05-15 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception May 6, 2026; 5–7pm
Animus Intra encapsulates the journey of this year’s graduating illustrators as they discovered what they were passionate about and now take a step forward into their futures. The showing artists hail from both Montserrat’s Illustration and Writing and Visual Narratives Concentrations, crossing a broad landscape between the raw visual power of illustration and the written word and showing a strong selection of new ideas up and coming in the art world.
Visitors to Animus Intra—Latin for “The Soul Within”—will witness the many states of mind one can discover on the path to finding what lies within one’s own soul, the souls of others, and most importantly, the soul of their work. Within the collection, artists explore themes of self-expression, exploration, and discovery through means of journalistic illustration, concept art, sequential work, and more.
The reception is held on May 6th from 5–7PM in the Montserrat and Carol Scholsburg Alumni Galleries at the Hardie Building on 23 Essex Street. It features 10 illustrators: Roux Blanchard, Amanda Brown, Adrian Curti, Emily Jasso, Melana MacLean, Reagan McCarthy, Christian Miscioscia, MJ O’Leary, Alicia Smith, and Megan Wentworth. The collection will exemplify the variety of illustrative disciplines coming out of four years of intense study. Each artist’s unique perspective brings a fresh take on the soul of the practice and the human condition.

All Senior Show
2026-05-13 - 2026-05-15 | Hardie Building, Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Awards reception: Wednesday, May 13, 1–2pm

Beverly Fringe Fest
2026-06-11 - 2026-06-19 | The Bower, Cabot Street 248, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Beverly Fringe Fest is officially happening in June, and you do not want to miss out on this incredible lineup of live theater.
If you are looking for big laughs, check out Popcorn Falls at The Bower. It is a wild, fast-paced comedy where two actors play over twenty different characters trying to save their small town. For something equally hilarious and a bit chaotic, Wrong Door Theatre Company is bringing Tartuffified to The Bower. It is a high-energy, improv-style spin on a classic Moliere comedy that tackles power and hypocrisy with tons of physical humor.
Musicals fans will love The Sound of Improvised Music at The Bower, where a pair of ambitious performers create a brand-new, Golden Age-style musical completely on the spot. If you want something a bit more grounded, Come Get Start Over is a beautiful, moving new play at The Bower that explores life transitions, relationships, and grief with a touch of magical realism.
If you prefer your theater with a side of local beer, grab your friends and head to Gentile Brewing for Bard Crawl. Theater in the Open is hosting this pay-what-you-will, one-night-only Shakesbeerience where the audience votes on the play and the actors perform right around you in the taproom.
Tickets are officially live, so grab yours now and come support some amazing local artists.
Head to https://bower.montserrat.edu/events/ for tix and info!

Summer Immersives for Adults
2026-06-15 - 2026-06-19 | MA
Continuing education week-long summer creative workshops for adults.
Get all the details here!

Art Educator Summer Institute Beverly
2026-06-21 - 2026-06-27 | Hardie Building, Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
This residency offers a week-long summer session for all art educators to immerse themselves in our studio spaces and bring new skills back to the classroom.
Get all the details here.

Art Educator Summer Institute - Japan
2026-06-22 - 2026-07-07 | MA
Step beyond the studio and into the story — Montserrat College of Art’s Japan Institute offers an immersive travel and learning experience over 14 days in Niigata and Tokyo, Japan, that transforms your creative practice and expands your cultural perspective.
Get the details here!

Youth STEAM Arts Academy
2026-07-06 - 2026-07-31 | The Bower, Cabot Street 248, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
For students ages 8-15. Daily classes allow students to experience exciting creative endeavors while being introduced to a variety of techniques and skills.
Get all the details here!

Summer Pre-College Program
2026-07-12 - 2026-08-01 | Hardie Building, Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
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.
Get all the details here!

Campbell McLean: War-Birds & Adverts
2026-07-13 - 2026-10-03 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Closing Reception: Saturday, October 3rd, 12- 2 PM (at 301 Cabot Street)

“War-birds & adverts dance across my screen – like the birds of paradise.
Mechanical marvels of stolen avian secrets. Ailerons and fuselage.
Their hollow bones will be broken and poisoned by beasts created in their image.”
-Campbell McLean

Campbell McLean explores her queer-American experience by creating caricaturist paintings, objects, installations, and videos. From oil on canvas, papier-mâché to found object, McLean’s unique aesthetic approach shines through in her sporadic ‘make-due’ energy that flows seamlessly between 2D and 3D forms. The resulting works are immersive and modular series and installations that read as both specific and universalizing, personal and relatable.

In War-Birds & Adverts, the artist’s installation for the 301 Frame Gallery, McLean incorporates themes of patriotism, camp, nostalgia, and caricature as a generalized and vague criticism of the time and space we are living in now. Campbell’s use of humor and the appropriation of a thinly veiled spectacle, seek to critique a multitude of cultural and contemporary concerns, including, isolation, screen time, self-commodification, sloganeering, sex, death, war, ‘the art market’. As McLean comments, “Can I really not talk about that terrible ‘thing’ at an institutional gallery?” How are the birds doing? Didn’t you hear?! It’s all for sale! Call my gallerist! 978 495 6697.

Campbell-Lynn McLean is a Boston-based artist and a 2022 graduate from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt) BFA program. McLean is currently pursuing her MFA in painting at Boston University, Class of 2027. She has received numerous awards and scholarships in recognition of her works, including the Stephen D. Paine Scholarship in 2021, the George Nick Award in 2022, and the Joseph Ablow Memorial Prize in 2026. Since 2024, she has presented a solo exhibition, included in three group exhibitions, and two art fairs with LaiSun Keane, Boston, MA.

Reflections in the Long Night
2026-07-15 - 2026-09-25 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Friday, September 18, 6-8pm
Reflections in the Long Night is a group exhibition curated by Montserrat Gallery Curatorial Assistant, Madeline McGann, that explores divergent queer realities in which the participating artists materialize the complexity of finding oneself against cultural heteronormativity and the pressures of everyday life. The exhibition proposes queerness as a driving force of empowerment through play, revelation, and dérive, felt in flickers of warmth, and where time and space move differently. Representing the space(s) between points of departure and destination, the artists in the exhibition utilize their respective materials as reference points to re-orient their hopes, fears, longings, nightmares, and ultimately, reality. The process of artmaking itself activates queer discovery and perpetual becoming, and acts to reflect upon contemporary culture and environments.
The selected artists share a breadth of aesthetic and material perspectives that embrace liminal bodies as they move through various transitions, currents, and changes. The exhibition features Laicee Blackwell, Tynan Byrne, Ivy Howard, Clare Tof Miryam, Frankie Symonds, Jake Wanamaker, Henry Walls, and Echo VanBenschoten.

Monthly Music Series: Heavy Bevies
2026-07-28 19:00 - 20:00 | The Bower, Cabot Street 248, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Montserrat College of Art Presents Evening with
THE HEAVY BEVIES
Tuesday, July 28, 2026
The Bower, 248 Cabot Street
Doors 6:30 PM
Concert: 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
$5 (includes light refreshments)
TICKETS
Kick-off Event of the New Monthly Music Series at The Bower!
Join Montserrat for a night of rock, roots, and Americana with The Heavy Bevies! This band of Beverly locals brings big energy and good vibes with classic covers and honest originals.
The evening will be the first of Montserrat’s new Monthly Music Series at The Bower, offering intimate, one-hour concerts bringing everything from rock to classical to set the stage for your perfect night out in Beverly.
The Heavy Bevies: Peter Rowley, Guitars and vocals; Chris Michaels, Drums; Terry Kennedy, Guitars, mandolin, and vocals; Bart McCarthy, Bass and vocals; John Augeri, Banjo and Slide Guitar
Monthly Music Series at The Bower: This new series welcomes audiences into Beverly’s new creative hub, The Bower, for intimate, one-hour concerts celebrating the wide variety of talent in our region. Concerts showcase all genres, including jazz, rock, classical, folk, and more. Supported in part by the Essex County Community Foundation, concerts invite audiences to explore the arts and creative culture of Downtown Beverly.

Art Educator Summer Institute - New Mexico
2026-08-04 - 2026-08-13 | MA
Join Montserrat College of Art on a 10-day creative adventure in New Mexico! Led by Montserrat’s faculty, you’ll explore traditional and contemporary artmaking, paint and draw outdoors in stunning desert landscapes, and immerse yourself in the region’s vibrant art scene with gallery visits and museum tours. Spark your creativity, expand your practice, and be inspired at every turn!
Get details here!

Four Voices in Silk
2026-08-20 - 2026-09-24 | Library Gallery, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Opening Reception: September 8, 6_8pm.
Artist Talk: September 11, noon, H101
Wearable Art Sale during both events.
Artists: Allyson Christopher, Christine Gauthier-Kelley, Sue Niemi,
Leslie Pearlman
Four Voices in Silk brings together four expert silk artists from Ten Pound Studio, Gloucester, whose vibrant, hand-painted works showcase the beauty and versatility of silk. Working directly on silk with traditional resist and dye techniques, these artists preserve the original serti steam-set methods—a rare and remarkable artistic tradition practiced by this unique collective in the United States.

Sunday at the Nut House
2026-09-08 - 2026-11-14 | Montserrat Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception and Gallery Talk: Saturday, September 19, 3–5pm
This exhibition celebrates a brief period in the development of three artists who came together with the renowned author and children’s book illustrator, Maurice Sendak, on Sundays in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Between 2003-4, Sendak convened a small group of artists and students in live drawing sessions at his home in order to provide Sendak with an occasional break from working long hours in his studio on such projects as the illustrations and sets for the children’s opera, Brundibar.
The title of the exhibition is a reference to Sendak’s home, affectionately known as “the Nut House,” not because of the mental capacity of its inhabitants, but because squirrels constantly dropped acorns on its roof. The paintings, drawings and posters in this exhibition provide a sense of not only of what work was made during these drawing sessions but also include examples of the work created by the four artists in the years before, during and after the Nut House days.
The core group and participants in the exhibition include Maurice Sendak, artist and art historian, Jonathan Weinberg, and artists Marc McChesney and Jamison Odone.

Image: Jonathan Weinberg, Maurice Sendak Drawing, 2007. Courtesy of the Artist and the Maurice Sendak Foundation

Andrew Mobray: New Heraldic Ordinaries
2026-10-12 - 2026-11-21 | Carol Schlosberg Gallery, 23 Essex St, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Reception: Saturday, October 17, 3-5pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, November 14, 11-12pm
Mowbray uses Tyvek Home Wrap as the primary material in the construction of 2d works reminiscent of quilts and samplers, using Tyvek’s limited palette to create a diverse array of patterns and compositions. In a new series created for the Schlosberg Gallery, Mowbray uses this material in the construction of personal crests or heraldics as a commentary on economic and class inequality.

Anonymous Art Party
2026-10-24 06:00 - 20:30 | MA
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 of 6×6” works, featuring pieces by local artists as well as Montserrat faculty, staff, and students, all sold for $100, with artist names not revealed until after their purchase.
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.
GET TICKETS HERE
For more information, reach out to: development@montserrat.edu
