Montserrat College of Art

Joetta Maue: Thresholds
2026-04-06 - 2026-07-04 | Frame 301 Gallery, 301 Cabot Street, Beverly, MA, 01915, United States
Artist Reception: Saturday, June 13, 12-2pm
Somerville-based artist, Joetta Maue, examines how time, labor, and attention register within the textures of everyday life. In her installation for the 301 Frame Project Space, Maue approaches the photographic image not as a visual record but as a material trace. Maue layers and suspends images, exploring the literal and metaphorical thresholds between image and object, interior and exterior, presence and absence. In Thresholds, fragmented photographic constructions of domestic space—windows, curtains, and everyday objects—hover between image and architecture. Transition to Darkness contains suspended photographs of shifting light—representative of the color curves in photography—made through the recording of natural light moving across observed time in an interior room. Maue continues her observation and recording of the passage of light in the 301 vestibule, using paint colors that infer light in the name, including “Violet Dusk,” “First Light,” and “Early Dawn.” Through sustained observation and process, the work insists on attention as a form of care within a culture structured by distraction and acceleration.

Joetta Maue is a multidisciplinary artist working across photography, drawing, textiles, and installation. Her practice examines labor, durational time, and embodied experience through sustained material inquiry.
Maue’s work has been exhibited at museums, universities, and nonprofit institutions throughout the United States and Europe, including the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Emerson Contemporary, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles. Her work has been reviewed in The Boston Globe and published internationally in books and journals devoted to contemporary art, photography, and textile practice.
She has been awarded residencies at Millay Arts and Monson Arts, and at the Penland School of Craft and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, where she also served as Textiles Coordinator. Maue teaches in graduate and undergraduate programs in the Boston area and lives and works in Massachusetts.

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.
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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.
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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.
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