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A collaborative exhibition featuring art and architectural works by students from UMass Amherst & UMass Dartmouth

March 6 - March 23, 2025

Eco print on textiles by fiber artist Robyn Borges

Botanical Print Demo at the UMass Dartmouth, Art and Design Studios on Friday, April 18, 3:30 - 5:00 PM. Open to the public and free of charge.

Open Practice: Studio Art Faculty Exhibition

March 4 - April 5, 2025

Visiting Artist: Carole D'Agostino

Puppetry and Fiber Arts: Making Magic Together, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Rita Grendze, Collective Comfort expanded

Visiting Artist: Rita Grendze

Virtual Artist Talk, 3:00 - 5:00 PM, Friday, April 11, 2025

Crumbs Under My Pillow, ca. 2017-2023, wallpaper, adhesive, Tyvek, cast paper, wood 120 × 240 × 80 in.

Visiting Artist: Elizabeth Alexander

Lecture and Demo, 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM, February 21st, 2025

Cabin, 2023, ceramic and glaze, 19.5 x 18.5 x 12.5 in.

Visiting Artist: Dan Falby

Lecture and Demo: 9:00-11:30 AM, Friday, November 22, 2024

Visiting Artist: Molly Hatch

Lecture and Demo: 9:00-11:30 AM, Friday, November 15, 2024

IAD Professor Rose Mary Botti-Salitsky and CVPA Dean Lawrence Jenkens award Heather Cachia inaugural Tamotsu Yamamoto Scholarship

UMass Dartmouth awards inaugural Tamotsu Yamamoto Scholarship

Heather Cachia awarded $10,500 in recognition of her commitment to interior architecture + design

Mary Barringer, Black and Red Jar, 2024 | Photo credit: John Polak

Visiting Artist: Mary Barringer

Lecture and Demo: 9:00-11:30 AM, Friday, October 4, 2024

Interior architecture + design program receives NKBA Excellence in Education award

CVPA program is one of three recognized nationwide

CVPA students and alumni featured in ceramics exhibition

"Earthworks: Tradition, Influence, Innovation" will run May 11 to June 23 at the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, MA

Aerial view of UMass Dartmouth's main quad.

UMass Dartmouth is trending up

Highlights of an extraordinary academic year

Winners of the Universal Design Symposium

CVPA students win awards at "Design-athon"

Universal Design Symposium event focused on accessibility and universal design

Anna Foro - Margot, oil on paper, 8 x 10 inches

Painting and drawing students selected for highly competitive national juried exhibition

Anna Foro and Connor Chan to exhibit in RITES OF PASSAGE Emerging Artists Exhibition

Light + Fashion

Join us Saturday, April 20th, 2024, 6:30pm for LIGHT + FASHION, a night of fashion on the runway in the MacLean Campus Center Main Auditorium followed by a Festival of Lights and Interaction Festival!

2024 Art + Design Senior Exhibition

CVPA Campus Gallery

Visiting Critic: Derek Eller

Lecture: 10:00 AM, Tuesday, April 16th, 2024

Sculpture Monster! A Creature from the Plasticine Era (now)

Made from 30,000 collected, non-recyclable plastic bottles + recyclable materials

Andrea Bowers: Art that Activates

Artist Lecture on Wednesday, April 10th at 3 pm

Installation view of Andrea Bowers, Dear Earth Art and Hope in a Time of Crisis, 2023, photo credit: Mark Blower. Courtesy the Hayward Gallery.

Visiting Artist: Andrea Bowers

Visiting Artist Lecture: Art That Activates, 3:00 PM, April 10, 2024, CVPA 153

2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition postcard image

UMass Dartmouth 2024 MFA Thesis Exhibition Presented in New Bedford and Fall River

April 4 - May 17, 2024 at The Ignition Space | April 11 - May 17, 2024 at New Bedford Art Museum

Collage of images of the 2024 EYAD award winners

Emerging Young Artists and Designers 2024 Award Winners Exhibition

CVPA Campus Gallery March 27 - April 3, 2024

Susan O'Byrne, Goat, 27Hx33Lx14W, porcelain. Image credit: Shannon Toffs

Visiting Artist: Susan O'Byrne

Virtual Artist Talk: 9:00am – 12:00pm, April 5th, 2024

Animation & game arts major wins 1st place in JoyArt Boston competition

Jared Gula's "Atlas Resprite" places first in Pixel Art category

Ellen Altfest Green Spot 2017 Oil on canvas 8 5/16 x 6 7/8 in. (21.11 x 17.46 cm) © Ellen Altfest. Photo © White Cube (Christopher Burke, New York)

Visiting Artist: Ellen Altfest

Artist Lecture, 3:00 pm, Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Visiting Artist: Jeremy Jernegan

Artist Talk and Demo, 9:00-11:00am, March 1st, 2024

Between Thresholds III, 2021, North Carolina, unfired porcelain, fiber, fishing line,

Visiting Artist: Kate Roberts

Virtual Artist Talk: Practicing Vulnerability, 9:00-10:20am, Friday, February 2, 2024

EYAD 2024 poster designed by Fernando Goyret

Emerging Young Artists and Designers 2024 Juried Exhibition

Virtual Exhibition Opening, Reception, and Awards Presentation: Friday, January 26, 4:30pm

Group photo of students with Fall River Mayor Paul Coogan

College of Engineering and College of Visual and Performing Arts students join forces to revitalize Fall River waterfront

Students in civil engineering and interior architecture and design work together to benefit the city's future and leave their mark on the SouthCoast.

students in a classroom listening to a lecture

UMass Dartmouth partners with local high schools

From remote lectures to campus visits, local students find a supportive early college pathway through the Commonwealth Collegiate Academy program.

CVPA Professor wins Faculty Federation Scholar of the Year

Art History and Art Education Professor Pamela Karimi awarded prestigious honor

Illustration student Chloe Canterbury paints an electrical box alongside Route 18

CVPA students bring captivating color to New Bedford

Illustration and fashion design students bring life to electrical boxes

CVPA students pictured in downtown New Bedford

CVPA first-years embark on Envision Resilience Challenge

Visual & Performing Arts students explore historical public art collections in New Bedford

Visiting Artist: Ann Agee

Friday, November 17th, 2023

One-of-a-kind handmade bowls for Empty Bowls fundraiser in New Bedford

Ceramics students produce 220 bowls to raise money for hunger alleviation in New Bedford

$11,000 raised for New Bedford Salvation Army Food Pantry

Danielle Rante, Core 19 (cyanotype, ink, mica on paper)

Visiting Artist: Danielle Rante

Virtual Artist Talk and Cyanotype Demo, 8:00 AM, Tuesday, November 7th, 2023

Jacinda Russell, Antarctica and Indianapolis, IN

Visiting Artist: Jacinda Russell

Metaphorical Antipodes: Stories of Ice, Virtual Artist Talk, 3:00 PM, Monday, November 6th, 2023

CVPA professor and alumna curate solo exhibition commemorating Iran's "Woman, Life, Freedom" uprising

Sept. 22 exhibition features the works of Tehran-based activist artist Meysam Azarzad

Stephanie McGoldrick, Professor of Interior Architecture and Design

Stephanie McGoldrick receives Manning Prize for teaching excellence

Assistant Teaching Professor of Interior Architecture + Design recognized for exemplary teaching and service

Dylan Kaplowitz Receives the 2023 Art & Civic Engagement Award

Branding solutions for the Cambodian Community of Fall River

Sound in Space, Sound in Place

Art History Featured in Celebrated “Sound Art” Exhibition at the New Bedford Art Museum

UMassD’s Rosie Amato ’22 lands residency at Arrowmont School of Arts & Craft

Amato will join four other artists for an eleven-month program that strengthens their creative talents in Gatlinburg, TN.

IAD 302: Institutional Design students pose at a presentation of their designs for renovations to CO-OP

Institutional design class partners with CO-OP for service-learning experience

IAD 302 class redesigns local nonprofit's facility for practical learning experience

Brutalist angles in the Liberal Arts Building

UMassBrut to unveil modernist virtual tour at AHA! Night

Public launch will celebrate new virtual tour of Paul Rudolph’s iconic brutalist campus Thursday, May 11, at 6:30pm

A Public Launch and Celebration of the Virtual Tour of Paul Rudolph’s Iconic Brutalist Campus, UMass Dartmouth

AHA! Night, Thursday May 11, 2023 from 6:30 p.m.

2023 MFA Thesis Exhibition and Artist Talks

March 28 – Saturday, May 13, 2023

Visiting Artist: Haley MacKeil

Friday, April 14th, 2023

Visiting Critic: Ruth Erickson

10:30 AM, Thursday, April 13th, 2023

Heart Teapot: Petrol Hostage -Yixing Series, 2013, stoneware, 6.5 x 11.25 x 5.75 inches

Visiting Artist: Richard Notkin

March 20 - April 2, 2023

Katie (bass) and Vanessa (violin) are adding their instrumental expertise to a hip-hop song that the sound production class is creating.

Music Majors Partner with Our Sisters’ Middle School

CVPA Music Majors volunteer with area middle school music program

Emerging Young Artists 2023 Juried Exhibition

Virtual Exhibition Opening, Reception, and Awards Presentation: Friday, January 27, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Lara Henderson's fall 2022 motion graphics class pictured outside the amphitheater at UMass Dartmouth.

CVPA graphic design class partners with DATMA

Students gain real-world experience promoting non-profit artwork

Pat Coomey Thornton: Moment to Moment

University Art Gallery, January 11 - March 9, 2023

Year in Review: Top stories of 2022

A year full of momentum, accomplishments, and successes

UMassD students Brad Ferris, Kelly Grodecki, Patrice Strague, Parker Sowersby, and Taha Bin Amer with [names] at [place] celebrating the launch of their app prototype.

UMassD students launch app prototype at Global Entrepreneurship Week

Students across disciplines work together to create New Bedford-based restaurant review app "Downtown NB"

Sangram Majumdar, dance, magic, night, 2021, oil on canvas, 78 x 90 inches

Visiting Artist: Sangram Majumdar

Virtual Lecture, Friday, October 7, 2022, 12:30pm

Artist-in-Residence: Tara Thacker

October 4-9, 2022

Visiting Artist: Ibrahim Said

Artist Lecture, Friday, September 30th, 9:00am

Cover of Karimi’s book, Alternative Iran.

Professor Pamela Karimi Publishes New Book with Stanford University Press

Alternative Iran offers a unique contribution to the field of contemporary art

Dr. Walker Peterson Downey Joins the CVPA

Art History Full-Time Lecturer, Dr. Downey joins us from MIT

The brutalist exterior of the Claire T. Carney Library

UMassBRUT campaign wins Docomomo US Modernism in America Award

Collaborative project celebrated for its efforts to raise awareness and appreciation of Brutalist architecture on the UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst campuses

Marc Dion, Cabinet of Marine Debris – East Coast/West Coast, 2022

Visiting Artist: Mark Dion

Artist Lecture, Monday, September 19th at 4pm

Transatlantic Art Discourse Exhibition

UMass Dartmouth Painting and Drawing Faculty Exhibit in Bulgaria

Sophia Wallace | Cliteracy: The Art of Intimate Justice

UMassD CVPA Campus Gallery, September 13 - November 4, 2022

Corinne Spencer: What we saw through the veil, 2021

Visiting Artist: Corinne Spencer

Artist Lecture, Thursday, September 8th, 12:30pm

Collaborative project by students in Social Practice Topics I (AXD 217) and City Life: Introduction to Urban Studies (URB 201).

Exploring Justice on Campus

A collaboration with Crime and Justice Studies convened students in discussions about local justice issues on the UMass campus.

Professor Hutchinson's students at work on the empty bowls project in the ceramics studio at the Star Store (spring 2021)

CVPA Ceramics in Public Service

CVPA Ceramics Professor Rebecca Hutchinson continues her longstanding commitment to art in public service.

New Bedford Electrical Boxes Become Artist Canvases

Students of CVPA Foundations classes bring new color to New Bedford with painted electrical boxes!

Sheltered

Exhibition on view May 24 - September 8, 2022 at the UMass Dartmouth University Art Gallery, Star Store Campus

Katy Rodden Walker Enmeshed (detail), 2022, clay slip, cheese cloth, glue, led lights, wire, string, ~9’ x 10’ x 5’

Katy Rodden Walker, MFA ‘22, receives Outstanding Student Award from SDA

Graduate ceramics student’s “Enmeshed” (2022) rewarded for innovative work in textile and fiber media by a student artist

Part of an architectural tour of New Bedford. The style shown here is the Second Empire. Photograph courtesy of Pamela Karimi.

CVPA Student Awarded Fellowship

Art History major Kayla Rausch is the 2022 recipient of the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! Fellowship.

Bhen Alan, recycled plastic and canvas, 2022

Bhen Alan, BFA '19 Awarded Fulbright

CVPA alum, Bhen Alan, receives the 2022-2023 Fulbright award to the Philippines to study indigenous mat weaving.

Visiting Artist: Abelardo Morell

Artist Lecture, Thursday, April 14, 2022, 10:30am

Visiting Artist: Michelle Millar Fisher

Artist Lecture, Monday, April 11, 2022, 10:30am

Visiting Artist: Angelik Vizcarrondo-Laboy

Artist Lecture, Thursday, April 7, 2022, 9:30 am

Robert in Mother’s Chair, oil on canvas, 48”x42”, 2019

Visiting Artist: Ann Gale

Artist Lecture, Thursday, March 31, 2022, 1:30pm

Stephanie McGoldrick awarded two international interior design honors

Professor of Interior Architecture and Design recognized for revitalization efforts in local community

Dr. Sherwin leads the group in an outdoor performance in Bridgewater, April 2021.

Music with “a message of change”

Community choral group’s work goes beyond the recital hall

Architectural Styles of New Bedford

Travel through history with an architectural walking tour of New Bedford led by Prof. Pamela Karimi and the New Bedford Preservation Society!

Graphic design students worked with curator Jamie Uretsky to design branding and identity for the exhibition Uncommon Threads: The Works of Ruth E. Carter at the New Bedford Art Museum (Spring 2021)

CVPA Graphic Design learns through community engagement

AXD451 has a long history of working with community partners

Labor Education Center Artist Residencies

CVPA Community Engagement Initiatives is pleased to collaborate with the Labor Education Center (LEC) on two new CVPA student artist in residence fellowships!

Year in Review: Top 21 stories of 2021

A return to campus brought UMass Dartmouth together to achieve new heights

CVPA Recognized for Civic Engagement Work

The 2021 annual report of the Leduc Center for Civic Engagement features multiple contributions from the CVPA community.

Professor McGoldrick with senior students Jay Weygand, Axel Jeremie, and Alexis Canaday on the lighting installation day

Phillips Avenue Pocket Park Enhancements

Over the past year, Stephanie McGoldrick, faculty member in Interior Architecture + Design, has worked alongside her students to propose solutions for revitalizing a pocket park space in New Bedford.

Star Store Stories: Celebrating 20 years of the Star Store Campus

Submit what the Star Store means to you!

Nancy Holt: Massachusetts exhibits open to public

Two-gallery exhibition will remain open through Jan. 23, 2022.

Visiting Artist + Designer: Cas Holman

Wednesday, November 17, 2021, 3:00pm

UMass Dartmouth to debut exhibition featuring new interpretations of campus sculpture on November 11

Nancy Holt: Massachusetts celebrates the artist's regional connections and showcases new research

UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst host symposium on brutalist architecture

Collaborative two-day event celebrates the history, preservation, and future of brutalist architecture.

Nancy Holt (American 1938-2014) Spinwinder 1991) at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Photograph: Chris Diani, 2021.

Nancy Holt: Massachusetts

November 11, 2021 - January 23, 2022

Artist-in-Residence: Anna Hepler

November 2021

Marianna Ramos Ortiz, La Peregrina, stenciled sand, 15' x 15', 2021

Visiting Artist: Mariana Ramos Ortiz

Artist Lecture November 4th at 6:00 pm, in person or via Zoom

Satellites, oil on linen, 30 x 32 inches, 2019

Visiting Artist: Stephanie Pierce

Artist Lecture Monday, October 18, 1:30 pm

UMass Brut Symposium announces interactive public art events

The free events are part of the two-day collaborative UMass symposium, "Brutalism + the Public University: Past, Present and Future"

Illuminating Engineering Society of North America

IESNA Boston Student Scholarship Design Competition 2021

Visiting Artist: Rick Griffith

UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts to host designer, activist, and visual artist Rick Griffith.

UMass Dartmouth and UMass Amherst to Host a Symposium on our Brutalist Architectural Heritage

October 22-23, 2021

Students preview Ives’s work in the CVPA Campus Gallery

The College of Visual and Performing Arts Presents Norman Ives: Constructions & Reconstructions

The exhibition in the CVPA Campus Gallery will run from September 7 through October 23. This major exhibition of Ives's work as artist and designer showcases some early works that will be on display for the first time.

UMass Dartmouth Interior Architecture + Design Program receives re-accreditation

One of the University’s newest programs quickly gains acclaim from industry

Can you see us now? A Diversity, Equity, & Inclusivity Ceramics Symposium

October 12th and 13th, 2021

UMass Dartmouth Professor making a change in the world through choral music

Associate Professor Ronald Sherwin uses song to enact social change in communities

Lost at Home; a short film made by the students of Gabo Camnitzer’s AXD 217: Social Practice

For their final project in AXD 217: Social Practice, students Finn Bates, Mako Burke, Maddy Keating, Adam Moniz, Kane Reese, and Riley Thomas worked collectively to make a short documentary reflecting on life during COVID.

Art of the Gardens: Double Bloom exhibition announcement

Ceramics Professor Rebecca Hutchinson in a two person show in Provincetown MA

Art of the Gardens: Double Bloom at Providence Art Association and Museum

UMass Dartmouth exhibition "Nancy Holt: Massachusetts” receives Luce Foundation grant

New exhibition celebrates artist Nancy Holt’s regional connections, features Holt’s room-sized installation Electrical System, and showcases gifts of artworks by Holt/Smithson Foundation

Michelle Bowers recognized by the Type Directors Club

Michelle Bowers, CVPA Graphic Design Professor, has poster published in prestigious international typography annual and part of traveling exhibit to eleven countries

Festival of Light + Fashion

Live stream virtual event Friday, April 23rd, 2021

Visiting Artist: Francesca DiMattio

Virtual Lecture, April 23, 2021

Petah Coyne, The Memory Police (detail), 2019

Visiting Artist: Petah Coyne

Virtual Lecture, April 16, 2021

Professor Rebecca Hutchinson featured in groundbreaking exhibition

CVPA Ceramics Professor work part of international Particle & Wave: PaperClay Illuminated

María Magdalena Campos-Pons. Blue Refuge.

Visiting Artist: María Magdalena Campos-Pons

2021 MFA Thesis Exhibition Reception + CVPA Star Series (outside) AHA! Night, Thursday, April 8th, 6:00 pm

Zoey Frank. After the Pool, 2021, oil on linen, 72

Visiting Artist: Zoey Frank

Virtual Lecture, April 2, 2021

Visiting Artist: Deborah Zlotsky

Virtual Lecture, March 26, 2021

What's Afta?

An evening with four of CVPA Graphic Design Alumni, Wednesday, March 24, 2021

Nathalie Miebach, The Burden of Every Drop

Visiting Artist: Nathalie Miebach

Virtual Lecture, March 23, 2021

UMass Dartmouth to host video game design event

Collaboration with MassDiGI offers computer science and animation design skills to students

David Hicks, Poly Structure (detail), 2017-2020, 89

Visiting Artist: David Hicks

Virtual Lecture, March 5, 2021

Visiting Artist: Erin Wheary

Virtual Lecture, February 26, 2021

Visiting Artist: Carson Fox

Virtual Lecture, February 19, 2021

Visiting Artist: Chynna Monforte

Virtual Lecture, February 16th, 2021

CVPA Star Series

The 13-weeklong series showcases visual and performing arts from the inside out

IIDA New England Student Scholarship Competition

Two UMASSD Interior Architecture and Design Seniors selected as scholarship recipients.

CVPA student awarded fellowship

Integrated Studio Art major Rosalia Elizabeth Amato Bauer is the inaugural recipient of the New Bedford Art Museum/Artworks! Fellowship

Inter-disciplinary team of faculty receive $99,947 National Endowment for the Humanities grant

The project, led by Associate Professor Anthony Arrigo, will explore the history of the Hoover Dam using virtual reality

UMassD hosts virtual Startup Weekend

The 54-hour online event, which takes place February 19-21, is an engaging, risk‐free experience designed to help students across all disciplines get their startup ideas off the ground.

Animation Career Review ranks CVPA's Illustration program #2

CVPA's Illustration Program ranked #2 in Massachusetts

Animation Career Review ranks UMass Dartmouth's Illustration Program at the College of Visual & Performing Arts #2 in Massachusetts based on academic reputation, value, and geographic location.