Portraits and essays addressing how we are more than our mental illness, health diagnosis, disability or life situation. The traveling exhibit I Am More will be on display at Montserrat College of Art in February. This exhibit features pastel and colored pencil portraits by artist Amy Kerr, accompanied by essays written by individuals describing how...
Loretta Park incorporates weaving and fiber-art techniques with an array of everyday objects to create colorful and tactile sculptures. From colorful nylon rope, plastic ice-cube trays, plates, and cups to scraps of cloth and paper, Park transforms commonplace materials and classic techniques into newly imagined color blocks of form and texture. An interdisciplinary artist, Park’s artworks...
Join us for a public artist talk from Montserrat alumna Lindsey Mason ('11). Lindsey Mason has designed products and packaging for brands as large as Target, Walmart, and Jo-Ann's Fabrics. She will be talking about her work, her professional journey, and what to think about when designing packaging. Google Meet: meet.google.com/trr-jiev-pne
Art historian Martha Buskirk will discuss growing up surrounded by the work of her mother, fiber artist Mary Balzer Buskirk, as well as the ongoing process of responding to her legacy. After taking up weaving during graduate studies at Cranbrook, Mary Balzer Buskirk maintained an active studio and exhibition practice integrated into the rhythms of...
Artist Talk + 3D Collage Workshop with Loretta Park Open the public Loretta Park Exhibition Information
A site-responsive work for Frame 301 as part of In•Animate Objects by Liz Nofziger concurrently on view in the Founders Gallery at 248 Cabot Street. Resurrected on the half hour, the contained Air Dancers® frantically seek both connection and escape while serving as an absurd timepiece. The tragi-comic efforts of these yellow beacons are partnered...
Opening Reception Friday, April 19, 4-6 pm Founders Gallery CJ Karch, Liz Nofziger, Ruth Bauer, and Blyth Hazen each make objects and then they move them; or move lenses around them; or something else moves and then they move; or a switch is triggered; or… Sometimes this all happens very very slowly and tediously a...
Artist talk with Beverly-based visual artist, Hong Hong Wednesday, February 28th, 2:50pm Underground Each summer and fall, Hong Hong (b. 1989, Hefei, Anhui, China) travels to faraway and distinct locations to make paper. The environmental, site-specific investigations map relationships between landscape, time, and the body through cartographic, symbolic, and material languages. During the winter and...
Berry's new installation in the Bare Gallery, entitled "Sometimes," is a partial response to W. B. Sebald’s book “A Natural History of Destruction” and is a reflection of the writer’s experience reading and viewing the German national response to the devastation of cities and culture during World War II. His observations on the literature from...
Artist Conversation between Karmimadeebora McMillan and Charla Jones Open to the public. Karmimadeebora McMillan Montserrat Gallery Exhibit Info
The 6th District Congressional Art Show, sponsored by Congressman Seth Moulton and hosted at Montserrat College of Art, will be held this year March 14-16 in Montserrat’s main gallery at 23 Essex St., Beverly.
Visibility Exhibition Opening - Bare Gallery Tuesday, March 19, 11:00am – 12:00pm Join us in celebration of Disability Awareness Month