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Hampden Gallery is a program of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Hampden Gallery has a reputation as a launching pad for emerging artists working in all disciplines.

10/13/2026

This Friday at 4 p.m., take a tour of Ghosts, Echoes, and Other Wonders by Anita S. Hunt. The tour will be led by our student gallery attendants. Come learn about this incredible exhibition!

Tours will take place October 16, October 30, and November 20 at 4 p.m.

Link to register in bio.

10/07/2026

“After a severe arm injury upended her life in the middle of the COVID-19 shutdown, Anita Hunt felt like she was trapped in a dark abyss. An artist since her youth, Hunt’s injury rendered her incapable of printmaking, her area of artistic expertise.

‘It was this huge identity crisis that I feel like I’m still going through,’ Hunt said. ‘It shifted everything into this unknown territory of, ‘Well, if I’m not making art, then who am I?’’

Read more by Max Della Fera, assistant arts editor at the Massachusetts Daily Collegian. Link in bio.

10/06/2026

Tomorrow, October 7 at 6 p.m., come hang out at Hampden Gallery! We’ll have hot cocoa, amazing exhibitions, and a craft space. ☕️🍫🎨

Free and all are welcome!

09/29/2026

What happens when we slow down enough to see the stories hidden in nature?

In her body of work, Anita S. Hunt transforms wood carved by beetle larva (literal maps of the beetle’s lifecycles, which “in an uncanny twist… resemble the fantastic insects themselves,” Hunt says) into unexpected matrices for printmaking. The marks become maps, symbols, insects, and traces of lives that came before.

The works in the exhibition are a collaboration between the artist and the “ghosts of other life forms.”

On view at Hampden Gallery through December 15.

09/21/2026

Hampden Gallery’s Hands On series returns this fall with a trio of workshops led by UMass alumna and local artist Eva Lin Fahey. Fahey’s work has been exhibited at Augusta Savage Gallery, and as a student her BFA thesis was presented at Hampden Gallery. Now, she returns to campus as a teaching artist, creating a full circle opportunity for students and community members to learn from an alumna. The series is supported by a Women for UMass grant.

Upcoming workshops
September 25: nature stamps and texture prints
October 23: bookmaking
November 13: watercolor shadow paintings

Learn more and register: umassarts.site/HandsOn2026

09/18/2026

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night at the reception for Ghosts, Echoes, and Other Wonders by Anita S. Hunt! We’re so excited to share this exhibition with the community.

Come visit during our regular gallery hours: Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Friday, 1-5 p.m.; Tuesday, Wednesday, 1-7 p.m.

📷: Noah Lev Bartell-Mangel Photography

09/15/2026

First-year students! Join us this Friday, September 18 at 2 p.m. for a tour of Hampden Gallery’s exhibitions, followed by a fun collaging activity. Come get creative, connect, and make new friends at the gallery!

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🗓️ Friday, September 18, 2 p.m.

09/14/2026

We are so excited to share Anita S. Hunt’s new exhibition, Ghosts, Echoes, and Other Wonders.

Join us for the opening reception this Thursday, September 17 from 5-7 p.m., with an artist talk at 6 p.m.

Hunt transforms nearly forty years of observations, photographs, prints, drawings, and collected materials from the New England landscape into collages, assemblages, books, and paper sculptures. The exhibition beautiful meditation on memory, impermanence, light, shadow, and the quiet magic of the natural world.

Hampden Gallery
September 17
5-7 p.m., artist talk 6-6:30 p.m.

Register in advance: umassarts.site/ghosts

09/08/2026

Anita S. Hunt’s creative work centers around printmaking, drawing, photography, artist’s books, writing, and, more recently, collage, sculpture, and installation.

Open today, her new exhibition at Hampden Gallery, Ghosts, Echoes, and Other Wonders, reflects on her sustained engagement with New England’s natural environment, invoking themes of impermanence mortality, memory, and the ordinary magic of light and shadow.

We hope you’ll join us for Hunt’s artist talk on September 17 at 6 p.m. A reception will be held 5-7 p.m.

Register in advance: umassarts.site/ghosts

09/01/2026

Exhibitions open in one week at Hampden Gallery!

We’re excited to welcome you back to the gallery for a new season of exhibitions, featuring a collection of stunning prints by Anita S. Hunt Anita S. Hunt in the Main Gallery and beautiful digital photographs by Alvaro Alejandro Lopez in the Incubator Project Space. The exhibitions open September 8, with a reception on September 17.

Hampden’s craft studio in the back room will also be open during regular gallery hours. Plus, we’re excited to continue our Hands On workshop series throughout the semester!

Visit umassarts.site/MakeArt26 for Hampden Gallery’s full fall programming.

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131 Southwest Circle, Amherst Massachusetts 01003
Amherst, MA
01003

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+14135453394

Website

http://www.fineartscenter.com/hampden

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