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
Best of Southcoast
Participating Artists Include:
Robert Anderson
Clifford Ashley
Douglas Balder
Ronald Barboza
Anthony Barboza
Albert Bierstadt
Tamala Boone
John Borowicz
William Bradford
Alex Buchanan
Deborah Coolidge
Meredith Wildes Cornell
Joan DeCollibus
Peter Dickison
Mark Dion
Erik Durant
Lemuel Eldred
Willoughby Elliot
Robert Finegold
Ana Forro
Charles Henry Gifford
Harvey Goldman
Chris Gustin
Severin Haines
Pamela Hoss
David Jeffery
Elizabeth Lind
Jay MacLaughlin
Gayle Mandle
Peter Michael Martin
Heather McLeod
Charles Parsons
Mark Parsons
Marc St. Peirre
Leander Plummer
John P. Powell
Roy Rossow
Benjamin Russell
William Shattuck
Joyce Shi
Nancy Train Smith
Rosanne Somerson
Pete Souza
Peter C. Stone
Clement Nye Swift
Pat Coomey Thornton
Dwight Tryon
Jane Tuckerman
Susan Tuckerman
William Allen Wall
Ellen Watson
Alison Wells
June 12 - August 31, 2025
For centuries, the creative energy of SouthCoast artists has been fired by a rich combination of the natural beauty of the land, sea, and sky, by the taste and prosperity of generations of patrons and collectors, by the manifold cultural inspirations of successive waves of immigrants and an enduring Indigenous community, and by the artists themselves by force of their collaboration and community.
Best of SouthCoast brings together the works of 75 artists working in a wide array of media and forms over a span of hundreds of years. The New Bedford Art Museum is proud to mark its 30th year with a show that is both an investigation of the diverse visual art produced locally and a celebration of the artists who have made this work.
We invite you to come in, trust your eyes and your ideas, and discover the common threads and the unique visions that join and distinguish these artists.
Welcome.
Best of Southcoast: Juried exhibition
June 12 - August 31, 2025
The New Bedford Art Museum presents the Best of SouthCoast Artists Exhibition, a juried showcase curated by Carmen Hermo, The Lorraine and Alan Bressler Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. As part of our 30th Anniversary celebration, this exhibition honors the region’s artistic excellence and heritage. It celebrates artists of all backgrounds who thrive creatively in the SouthCoast, while looking ahead to a vibrant and inspiring future.
Participating Artists Include:
Beatrice Alder
Amy Araujo
Duygu Aytac
Taylor Baldwin
Paula Stebbins Becker
Anis Beigzadeh
Arghavan Booyeh
Mark Brennan
Aaron Brodeur
Maren Brown
Jennie Cao
Laurence Cuelenaere
Steven Daiber
Arianne Allende Driscoll
Serra Victoria Bothwell Fels
Keith Francis
Julie Francois
Lauren Kalita
Roger Kizik
Frantz Lexy
David Meyers
Jackie Reeves
Stephanie Roberts-Camello
Adrian Tio