2025 EXHIBITIONS
Arctic Voices
November 14, 2024 – February 23, 2025
The New Bedford Art Museum in partnership with the New Bedford Free Public Library and Look North Gallery presents: Arctic Voices, an exhibition representing artistic responses to the arctic region across time and cultures. The exhibition offers a range of perspectives from 19th century explorers/artists, Inuit and indigenous peoples of the Arctic region and 21st century contemporary artists. Consider how the competing ideas throughout history motivate artists’ investigations and shape their approach to the landscape and representations of culture.
Participating Artists Include:
Betsey Biggs
Zaria Forman
Rena Bass Forman
William Bradford
George Critcherson
John Dumore
Lucassie Echalook
Viktor Iadne
Kenojuak Ashevak
Germaine Arnaktauyok
Abraham Anghik Ruben
Helen Kalvak
Janet Keegooseot Kigusiuq
Nicotye Samayualie
Lene Tangen
Quvianaqtuk Pudlat
Ningiukulu Teevee
Nebulae: The Universe Unveiled
December 10, 2024 – March 9, 2025
Nebulae: The Universe Unveiled celebrates a remarkable new gift to the Art Museum: six awe-inspiring NASA photographs of deep space, captured by the Webb and Hubble Telescopes. Selected by Mark Munkacsy, President of the Astronomical Society of Southern New England, these images are more than just breathtaking; they are rich visual documents that reveal and contextualize some of the universe’s most profound events, from the birth and death of stars to the echoes of the Big Bang, the ongoing expansion of the cosmos, humanity’s origins, and the search for extraterrestrial life.
At the intersection of art and science, this exhibition presents these celestial images as radiant works of art, framed by contemporary artists’ imaginative explorations of the night sky, deep space, and our place within the cosmos.
Radical reinvention: contemorary ceramic sculpture
March 13, 2024 – May 25, 2025
Radical Reinvention: Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture presents the work of artists who have redefined the possibilities of ceramics as a medium for sculpture. The exhibition showcases works that push the boundaries of material, form, and cultural interpretation and highlights the cross-over of ceramics from the worlds of utility and craft into the mainstream of contemporary art. The exhibition features innovative pieces influenced by ceramic practice and bodies of knowledge from diverse cultures—Ancient Egypt and Greece, Portugal, Southeast Asia—while incorporating contemporary sensibilities, themes, and ideas.
Participating Artists Include:
Deb Coolidge
Chris Gustin
Zemer Peled
Don Reitz
Ibrahim Said
Dana Sherwood
Nancy Train-Smith
Rigoberto Torres
Peter Voulkos
Betty Woodman
Provincetown prints: white-line woodcuts from the collection of Edward Yasuna
March 13, 2024 – May 25, 2025
Publicly displayed for the first time, the Edward Yasuna white-line woodcut collection offers an opportunity to view the evolution of a uniquely American innovation, the white-line woodcut print. Based on traditional Japanese woodblock printing, the white-line technique is a form of relief printmaking developed on Cape Cod at the beginning of the 20th century. The collection contains examples of some of the earliest examples of the genre by Blanche Lazzell, one of the founding members of the Provincetown Printers, and spans to present-day practitioners including local artist, Peter Michael Martin.
Participating Artists Include:
Pat Canavan
Ora Coltman
William Evual
Kate Hanlon
Ruth Hogan
Blanche Lazzell
Kathryn Lee Smith
Grace Martin Taylor
Peter Michael Martin
Angèle Myrer
Ferol Sibley Warthen
Marjorie Windust