2024 Exhibitions
Spirit of Place
JANUARY 11, 2024 – MARCH 24, 2024
Opening reception January 11th 5-7pm
Spirit of Place presents the work of Alex Buchanan, Sunny Chapman, R. A. Friedman, Kathleen Moroney, Chris Page, and Mindy Véissid, artists who gently evoke a personal sense of the emotional history contained within a landscape or natural phenomenon. Their respective art works tell us more about the psychic energy and mood of a place than provide a description of an iconic or recognizable locale. The selected artworks provide the viewer insights into how the depicted place or view of nature makes the artist feel just as much as it tells us what it looks like to them. These artistic artifacts reveal facets of the artist's interior life and also carry something of the collective unconscious.
Participating Artists Include:
Alex Buchanan
Sunny Chapman
R.A. Friedman
Kathleen Moroney
Chris Page
Mindy Véissid
David Poyant: Threading Stores
JANUARY 11, 2024 – MARCH 24, 2024
Opening reception January 11th 5-7pm
A solo exhibition of embroidered paintings by David Poyant.
A cobbler by trade with a background in shoe repair and handcrafted orthotics, Poyant worked in the trade for 25 years. Remembering his mother sitting in her chair knitting, cross stitching, and embroidering with no formal training, Poyant picked up needles and started sewing.
Each thread-paint embroidery is hand stitched on artist canvas using both 1 and 2 strands of embroidery thread and can take up to 60 hours to complete.
Envision Resilience Challenge
JANUARY 20, 2024 – MARCH 24, 2024
Opening reception January 26th 4-6pm
The Envision Resilience Challenge exhibition presents the work of local students who were invited to produce visionary and beautifully adaptive designs that illustrate ways that New Bedford and Fairhaven can be resilient in the face of climate change.
UMass Darthmouth 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition
![Napoli Does A Man Also Eat Himself, Also Contain Poison [24x20] (1)](https://newbedfordart.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Napoli-Does-A-Man-Also-Eat-Himself-Also-Contain-Poison-24x20-1-1-scaled.jpg "Napoli Does A Man Also Eat Himself, Also Contain Poison [24x20] (1)")
APRIL 11, 2024 – MAY 17, 2024
The UMass Dartmouth MFA Thesis Exhibition is a much anticipated and celebrated annual event showcasing the artwork of graduating Master of Fine Arts students from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. This year’s exhibition celebrates the work of graduates. The creative work of these graduating students includes painting, drawing, ceramics, digital media, and site-specific installation.
Participating Artists Include:
Ruth Douzinas
Zeph Luck
Matthew Napoli
Fallon Keiko Navarro
Darley Ortiz Garcia
Pathfinders: Paving the Glass Revolution in the U.S.
APRIL 11th - JULY 14th
Produced in partnership with the Sandwich Glass Museum and in consultation with the New Bedford Museum of Glass, Pathfinders: Paving the Glass Revolution in the U.S. chronicles the impact of Dale Chihuly's influence in the studio glass movement.
Chihuly's founding of the Pilchuck School - a place that has nurtured and schooled a community of artists in glass art techniques for more than 50 years - along with his visionary deployment of glass in the creation of monumental environmental sculpture, cemented a new legitimacy for the medium as a vehicle for fine art. The exhibition includes leaders in the world of glass sculpture from the 1960s up to contemporary glass artists.
Participating Artists Include:
William Beattie
Nancy Callan
KéKé Cribbs
Dale Chihuly
Concetta Mason
Marvin Lipofsky
Nick Leonoff
Dominick Labino
Sidney Hutter
Harvey Littleton
Toots Zynsky
William Morris
Paul Seide
Stephen Rolfe Powell
Lino Tagliapietra
David Schwarz
Therman Statom