Current Exhibitions
Clay & Color: Red Planet Resonance
February 3–28, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, Feb 6, 5–7pm
Clay & Color: Red Planet Resonance is an intimate exhibition that brings together 16 ceramic artists from across the country to explore the deep connections between clay, memory, and the cosmos. At its core, the exhibition considers clay as both material and metaphor: a quiet listener shaped by water, heat, pressure, and time. Like the scarred surface of Mars, clay remembers the marks of all it has encountered, recording histories in layers, fissures, and textures that invite close looking and reflection.
This exhibition is curated by Anne Thiam, a ceramic artist whose work distills the essence of lived experience into sculptural form. Click HERE to explore her work.
Visit the exhibition HERE.
soul/less
February 3–28, 2026
Closing Reception: Friday, Feb 27, 5–7pm
soul/less juxtaposes work from several of Nate’s series from the last decade or so. In reverse chronological order: soul/less, the seven panel “piece;” the witch scrolls; the ongoing rag paintings and 21st century Caprichos drawings; freak show; the ongoing icon encaustic series; and unicorn hunt. Each series differs in subject and medium, you might say style. Here is a sample of what to expect from this new exhibition.
Click HERE for more information about Nate.
Visit the exhibition HERE.
Attend Nate's Artist Talk HERE.
Upcoming Exhibitions in 2026
Curiously Gorey
March 3 – March 28, 2026
An imaginative and playful exhibition inspired by the macabre wit, meticulous line work, and dark humor associated with Edward Gorey–esque sensibilities. Curiously Gorey invites viewers into a world where curiosity, narrative, and the slightly unsettling coexist.
Heatwave:
Visualizing the Science of Climate Change
March 30 – April 25, 2026
Heatwave bridges art and climate science through Marine Heatwaves, a collaboration between artist Deb Ehrens and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientists Caroline Ummenhofer and Svenja Ryan. Translating climate research into visual form, the exhibition connects global ocean warming to the lived past and future of coastal communities, inviting viewers to engage with climate science through art.
Rodney Madison:
Solo Exhibition
April 27 – May 23, 2026
A solo exhibition shaped by a lifetime of art, music, teaching, and social engagement. “What is important is that my artwork conveys energy, creativity, beauty, and soul.”— Rodney Madison
2026 Pastels Exhibition
May 25 – June 22, 2026
A celebration of pastel as both medium and method, this annual exhibition features works ranging from traditional realism to contemporary abstraction. Soft, luminous, and expressive, these works demonstrate the versatility and immediacy of pastel art.
Visual Symphonies: A Residency Retrospective
Evans Arnold
June 22 – July 19, 2026
This retrospective highlights the culmination of Evans Arnold’s residency, presenting work that explores rhythm, movement, and visual harmony. Visual Symphonies reflects the evolution of ideas developed over time through experimentation and engagement.
Grand Curio Charade
Richard Neal
July 20 – September 17, 2026
Drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and installation will all be involved in producing the Greatest Show on Earth, the likes of which nobody's ever seen before! Thrill to the spectacle of art forged from fire! Come marvel at the live exotic plant!
She Spoke Up
Linda Pearlman Karlsberg
October 13 – November 12, 2026
She Spoke Up centers women’s voices through art that addresses advocacy, identity, and personal truth. Linda Pearlman Karlsberg presents a powerful body of work that honors courage, expression, and the act of being heard.
Edward Gorey,
photographed by Richard Avedon
Artwork by Deb Ehrens
Rodney Madison
Signature #5, Evans Arnold
Salacia, Richard Neal
She Spoke Up III,
Serena Williams, Linda Pearlman Karlsberg
Calls for Art
For full descriptions and submission details of our
Calls for Art click HERE or on the images below:
Curiously Gorey
March 3–28, 2026
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
In Curiously Gorey, we invite artists of all media to honor the peculiar brilliance of Edward Gorey—his meticulous draftsmanship, mordant wit, and gift for transforming the ordinary into the delightfully unsettling. This exhibition calls for interpretation rather than imitation and asks artists to explore Gorey’s elegant melancholy and dry theatricality. Artists may draw inspiration from his precision of line, his stage-like compositions, or his unsettling narratives that linger between humor and discomfort. Mysterious or absurd, irreverent or inexplicable, your submission should embody the same exquisite tension that makes Gorey’s world so curiously irresistible.
Frame by Frame
Opening: Friday Mar 20, 2026
Entry deadline: Friday, Mar 13, 2026
Frame by Frame invites photographers to capture the pulse of life in the Cultural Center's new online exhibition. We’re looking for images that vibrate with motion, energy, and nighttime possibility—the blur of streetlights, the pulse of a crowd, your favorite city in motion. And most importantly, we want people in these frames: figures, family, and friends – in motion, gestures caught mid-story, characters who seem to continue living beyond the image. Imagine a single frame cut from a film – singular and separate, perhaps telling a fleeting story. All and every style is welcome!
Awards: 1st: $300, 2nd: $200, 3rd: $100