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Left: 2025 Summer MFA Thesis Exhibition: Porous Interiorities, MassArt x SoWa First Friday reception, Aug 1, 2025. Photo: Amy Fink. Right: Exhibition image from Fish Don't Sleep - 5th Annual Juried Alumni Exhibition, MassArt x SoWa, Aug 30 – Oct 19, 2025.
Explore work by students, alumni, faculty, and visiting artists in our galleries year-round.
MassArt exhibitions showcase bold ideas and creative innovation across art and design. From gallery shows and artist talks to performances and community celebrations, our exhibitions engage the public year-round—and all events are free and open to everyone.
Throughout the academic year, the MassArt campus becomes a dynamic showcase of creative expression. Visit our galleries, attend a talk, or join an opening reception to experience the energy of Boston’s only public college of art and design.
Current Exhibitions
- Exhibition
- Reception
- public
- Tuesday, September 1, 2026 / 5:00pm to 7:00pm
- Doran Gallery
- Exhibition
- public
- Tuesday, September 1, 2026 / 8:00am to 8:00pm
- Doran Gallery
- Community Engagement
- Exhibition
- public
- Tuesday, September 1, 2026
- Exhibition
- public
- Tuesday, September 1, 2026
- South Crackatorium
- Exhibition
- public
- Free
- Wednesday, September 2, 2026
- MassArt x SoWa
- Exhibition
- MassArt Off-Campus Event
- Reception
- Social Activity
- public
- Free
- Friday, September 4, 2026 / 5:00pm to 8:00pm
- MassArt x SoWa Gallery
- Exhibition
- Networking
- Social Activity
- Free
- Thursday, September 10, 2026 / 6:00pm to 8:00pm
- OPEN
- Exhibition
- Panel
- public
- Thursday, September 17, 2026 / 6:00pm to 7:30pm
- DMC Lecture Hall
- Celebration
- Exhibition
- Networking
- Social Activity
- Free
- Wednesday, September 23, 2026 / 6:00pm to 8:00pm
- Palitz Gallery at Lubin House
- Exhibition
- Reception
- Social Activity
- public
- Free
- Wednesday, September 30, 2026 / 6:00pm to 9:00pm
- MassArt Art Museum
Visit MassArt x SoWa
The MassArt x SoWa satellite gallery in Boston’s South End allows graduate students to display their work publicly while honing their curatorial skills.
MassArt x SoWa (opens in new tab)Screenings & Performances
LOVE, JOY, AND POWER screening
- Wednesday, September 23, 2026 / 6:30pm to 9:00pm, MassArt Tower Auditorium
A feature-length documentary film about Black Voters Matter, directed by Daresha Kyi Follow the founders of Black Voters Matter as they empower African American voters to turn out in record-breaking numbers, flipping Georgia blue in 2020 despite dangerous threats. In the face of today’s powerful attempts at voter suppression, their vital, brave story sheds keen light on the work that...
- Screening
- public
URGH! A MUSIC WAR — Live screening and post-film presentation
- Friday, October 9, 2026 / 7:00pm, MassArt Tower Auditorium
A live screening and discussion with The Professors of Urgh: Chaki and Chris Slusarenko, Hosts of “A Very Opinionated Look at Urgh!” Podcast with Special Guest, Gang of Four’s Hugo Burnham About the film: Widely regarded as one of the essential documents of the late-1970s and early-1980s New Music scene, URGH! A MUSIC WAR has rarely been shown theatrically...
- External Event
- Screening
- public
ASTEROID CITY screening with a talk by set decorator and MassArt alumna Kris Moran, BFA ‘89 Painting
- Wednesday, October 14, 2026 / 7:00pm, MassArt Tower Auditorium
Join us for a screening of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, a visually dazzling, delightfully offbeat journey to a fictional desert town in 1955, where artists, scientists, teenagers, and strangers from across the country collide under extraordinary circumstances. Following the screening, hear from set decorator and MassArt alumna Kris Moran, BFA '89 Painting, about her process for creating the film’s meticulous...
WOMEN LAUGHING documentary screening and panel discussion
- Monday, October 26, 2026 / 7:00pm, MassArt Tower Auditorium
Join us for a screening and Q&A of Liza Donnelly and Kathleen Hughes's documentary film Women Laughing, about humor and cartooning by women cartoonists from The New Yorker magazine. Panel discussion to follow featuring: filmmaker and cartoonist Liza Donnelly cartoonist Amy Hwang MassArt Illustration Chair Lisa Kennedy Moderated by President Mary Grant
- Screening
- public
- Free
MAC Underground Spring Concert 2027
- Thursday, March 11, 2027 / 8:00pm to 11:00pm, Tower Auditorium
The MAC Underground Spring Concert promotes emerging student bands within the COF Community & underground artists across New England.
- Performance
- public
- Free
