UMass Boston

(Re)Visiting

• On view: January 27, 2025  – April 5, 2025
• Reception and Programs: TBA

Artists include:

Rachel Beach, Beth Campbell, Tory Fair, Colin Hunt, Lucy Kim, Joiri Minaya, Todd Pavlisko, Zoe Pettijohn Schade, Enrico Riley, Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez

About the exhibition:

This group exhibition presents a selection of past participants from the Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS) at UMass Boston. Celebrating the history and impact of the program, this exhibition intends to present our students with a variety of practices by highly skilled, professional artists to help inspire and guide them towards their own careers in the arts.

VALS is organized by Associate Professor Christopher Schade and presented by the Art & Art History Department. It invites several nationally and internationally renowned artists each semester to visit the campus for a day to visit a studio art or art history class in the department to participate in visual art critiques and conversations about art. While the exhibition honors past participants of the program, we will also present a suite of artworks by Providence-based artist, curator, and educator, Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, who will be participating in VALS for the first time this semester.

The exhibition is organized by Gallery Director Sam Toabe, with the support of student Gallery Assistants Helina Almonte, Rafaela Astudillo, Erika Perez, and Isabella Slonka.

Image above:

Bethany Campbell, Shifting, 2020
Elisabeth Bernstein Photography

Other Upcoming Projects and Programs

Cannupa Hanska Luger's new artwork Transmutation, coming to UMass Boston as part of the Boston Public Art Triennial

On View: May, 2025 – October, 2025

About Transmutation:

Arts on the Point and University Hall Gallery are proud to announce that we are participating as a partner in the Boston Public Art Triennial. Through this partnership, we will be welcoming internationally renowned artist Cannupa Hanska Luger to develop and install his newest public artwork Transmutation on our campus, adjacent to University Hall, this spring, with participation from UMass Boston students.

New Mexico based artist Cannupa Hanska Luger (b.1979) continues his exploration into the visual language of the bison, through a participatory artwork titled “Transmutation.” Partnering with localBoston Indigenous community members, the UMass Boston Native + Indigenous Studies Program and NAICOB (North American Indian Center of Boston), the piece explores the loss of America’s buffalo population, while also celebrating indigenous resilience.