UMassD Gallery 244

02/04/2023

Last chance to see Chloe Bachstein's incredible exhibition, Digging Deep: The Remnants of Childhood in the Age of Adulthood, is this weekend. Don't miss it!

Featuring the work of Chloe Bachstein, January 25 - February 5, 2023

08/25/2022

We are thrilled to announce that our current exhibition, "Colors of Pride," has been extended through Thursday, September 8th!

Colors of Pride is a series of vibrant photographic portraits of members of New England's LGBTQIA+ community, shot by UMass Dartmouth photography student Chris Diani and presented in Gallery 244 at Star Store Campus. The series aims to celebrate the diversity within the LGBTQIA+ community. It was inspired by the "More Color, More Pride" flag that added black and brown stripes to the traditional Pride flag in 2017 to establish a commitment to diversity and reject white supremacy within the q***r community.

An artist talk with Chris Diani is planned for the exhibition's closing night, Thursday, September 8th from 8-9 pm.

The galleries at Star Store Campus are open Monday through Saturday 9am to 6pm, Sundays 9am to 5.30pm, free of charge. Open until 9pm during AHA! Nights (the second Thursday of every month). Closed major holidays.

06/10/2022

June 9 - July 19, 2022

05/31/2022

Join us on Thursday, June 9th for the opening reception of 's Colors of Pride show at in 's Star Store Campus in New Bedford. Co-sponsored by and part of 's Pride Block Party! ***r ***an

02/01/2022

Installation + Performances Scheduled February 7-18, 2022

12/01/2021

Rosie Amato
little, like a vision
November 22 - December 4th, 2021

In this exhibition of jewelry, Amato examines the tension between meaning and materiality through a collection incorporating the miniature figure. Through the processes of lost wax casting and sandcasting, cavities left by hand-carved wax figures were filled with molten metal, yielding the figures used throughout the collection. Utilizing a range of other traditional and inventive jewelry techniques, the figures became wearable jewelry. Their juxtaposition against the living body of the viewer and/or wearer is intended to both activate the artificiality of the miniature, and the emotive, narrative quality of the figure. Drawing from sources of memory and mental visualization, the works broadly explore the novel position of the miniature figure, placing it somewhere between object, simulation, person, and character.

10/21/2021

Joseph Schairer
Drawn to the Emptiness
Gallery 244, CVPA Star Store Campus
October 20 - November 3, 2021

October 20 - November 3, 2021

07/02/2021

Eric Lintala: Question of Balance
Location: Gallery 244, UMass Dartmouth Star Store Campus
Dates: June 30- Sept 5, 2021
Gallery Hours: Mo-Fri 9 am - 6 pm

Professor emeritus Eric Lintala was the faculty supervisor of graduate student-run Gallery 244 from its inception at the Swain School of Design in 1983 until his retirement. This summer, Gallery 244 hosts sculpture and photographs representing Lintala’s 45 years of research into the prehistoric rock art of the American Southwest.
Professor Lintala has traveled extensively throughout the United States and abroad researching prehistoric rock art, a broad term for prehistoric human-made markings found on natural surfaces, including petroglyphs and pictographs. These travels, most concentrated in the American southwest, have had a profound influence on his work. In 1994, Lintala made a major discovery of a rock art panel not yet recorded in Salt Creek Canyon, located in South Central Utah.
Professor Lintala has received numerous awards, grants, and commissions including the Holocaust Memorial for Buttonwood Park in New Bedford, the 9/11 Memorial in Acushnet Massachusetts, the 9/11 Memorial in Westport Massachusetts, the Silver Medal for sculpture at the International Art Competition LA Summer Olympics 1984, a Sculpture Fellowship from the Artist Foundation in Boston, and several research grants from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

This exhibition is open concurrently with Marc St. Pierre: Black & White at the University Art Gallery, celebrating the rich cultural heritage of the Swain School of Design in New Bedford. Both Eric Lintala and the late Marc St. Pierre were originally hired as professors at Swain and taught alongside one another throughout its evolutions, as it was absorbed by Southeastern Massachusetts University in 1988 which later became the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Gallery 244, like many elements of the current College of Visual and Performing Arts, originated from Swain where it was founded by alum Don Wilkinson.
Image: Eric Lintala: Ghost Panel, photography

03/02/2021

Please join us tomorrow evening (Wednesday, March 3 at 5pm) for the closing reception of Paulina Fuenzalida's exhibition, The Cord of Life! https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77490373604?pwd=d2Vra0VJYkdjbDNVOG9vRGhZcVVUUT09

Meeting ID: 774 9037 3604
Passcode: MUZ3is

Paulina Fuenzalida-Guzmán is a graduating MFA student in Fibers. Originally from Santiago, Chile, Paulina has a background in interior design and journalism. Her earlier work addressed human rights violations during the collapse of democracy in Chile; and her current body of work reflects the concept of identity as the result of oneself plus one’s circumstances.

11/05/2020

Please join us tomorrow (Friday, Nov. 6) at 5pm for the closing reception of Shabnam Jannesari's Exhibition, Life in a Bubble. Zoom link below, Passcode is 244.

https://umassd.zoom.us/j/96324085959?pwd=N1RmY3FaemsyeUJiOFVVUTNla2J5UT09

11/02/2020

Shabnam Jannesari’s exhibition is up in Gallery 244 through this Friday! Be sure to stop by if you’re at the Star Store! Details on a virtual reception to come soon.

“Shabnam Jannesari is an Iranian painter and MFA Candidate at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, exploring the memories and nostalgia of distant intimacies in her life through narrative, she is creating imaginary spaces from personal reference and patterns.”

10/16/2020

As promised; photos from Heather Stivison's Waking Dreams! Beautiful work, Heather!