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Intuitive: A Survey of Visionary Art
Intuitive: A Survey of Visionary Art celebrates self-taught artists whose distinctive practices are shaped by personal experience, imagination, and independent exploration. Working outside conventional academic traditions, these artists develop individual visual languages and approaches to materials, often drawing inspiration from dreams, spirituality, memory, and the world around them.
agriCultural: A BIENNIAL EXHIBITION
The Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership (SEMAP), in partnership with the New Bedford Art Museum is pleased to present agriCultural: A Biennial Exhibition, a juried exhibition of works from artists who are also farmers, farmer who are also artists, and artist that take deep inspiration from the world of agriculture.
Morocco, Seen Closely: Photographs by Laurie Bullard
In this exhibition, Laurie Bullard shares photographs from her journey through Morocco, moving from the patterned tilework, pottery, and busy tanneries of its cities to the sweeping dunes of the Sahara. Musicians, grazing goats, and intricate architecture bring moments of life into her study of place. Drawn to natural light, color, and texture, Bullard invites us to pause and discover the details that caught her eye.
KIDZONE
Join us every Sunday at the Art Museum for family-friendly activities for kids ages 4-12 and their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends. Learn about our exhibitions and make art, get creative, and have fun! Drop in anytime!
Winter Break Art Program: Season of Making
Season of Making is a weeklong art program that invites young artists to spend their school vacation exploring creativity, imagination, and self-expression through hands-on art making.
Wreath Making Workshop
As winter sets in and the holiday season approaches, join us to make a festive decorative wreath. We supply everything you need including fresh greens, ribbons, and sparkly things; you supply the creativity.
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YOUTH AND SCHOOL
GROUP TOURS
Gallery lessons can be scheduled for school groups grades pre-K to 12. They must be booked at least two weeks in advance. One adult chaperone for every five students is required.
When: Tuesday-Friday, 10:00-3:00
Duration: 30-60 minutes depending on age.
Fee: Free
Maximum group size: 30 (including chaperones)
Senator Montigny Children's Fund
Leonard & Hilda Kaplan Charitable Foundation
SouthCoast Community Foundation
New Bedford Cultural Council
Jacobs Family Donor Advised Fund of the SouthCoast Community Foundation