EXHIBITIONS
ARTISTIC LUMINARIES: THREE LOCAL ICONS
WILLOUGHBY ELLIOTT, SEVERIN HAINES, MARC ST. PIERRE
December 11 - February 23, 2026
For decades, three friends — Willoughby “Bill” Elliott (1943–2016), Severin “Sig” Haines (1946–2023), and Marc St. Pierre (1952–2019) — served as leading figures in the studios and classrooms of the Swain School of Design and the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Their collective influence established a model of artistic and educational excellence that continues through successive generations of artists, remaining central to the South Coast’s creative identity.
Nebulae: The Universe Unveiled Experience the Cosmos
December 13 - January 30, 2026
The Art Museum annually presents NASA photographs of deep space captured by the Webb and Hubble telescopes from its permanent collection. 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.