Past Exhibitions

2024-2025 Visual Arts Season

Under Our Umbrella
May 3 - May 30, 2025

Artrageous Gala Auction
March 28 - April 5, 2025

Kat O'Connor, Twice the Speed of Bliss
January 13 - March 23

Liza Carter, Moving with the Season: Portrait of a Mongolian Family
February 3 - March 23

Ways of My Ancestors - Imagery: Lighting the Path to Awareness
February 28-March 23
Installation of photography by Scott Strong Hawk Foster

The Alchemy of a Life - Selected Works by Thorpe Feidt - October 1 - December 16

2023-2024 Visual Arts Season

Reflections: Selfhood/Motherhood - Artists in Residence Jasmine Chen and Catherine LeComte Lecce, June 28 - Sept 2

random assembly - Ceramics Artist in Residence Kyle Johns, June 28 - Sept 2

Earthworks: Tradition, Influence, Innovation - Juried by Ayumi Horie, May 10 - June 23

TAPPED IN: Moving Hearts and Minds through Art and Science - Curated by Stephanie Marlin-Curiel and Dr. Linda Booth Sweeney. April 11 - June 8, 2024

Jane Goldman: Global Warming Series 2018-2023, April 2 - May 5, 2024

Artrageous Art Auction and Exhibition - Part of the annual Artrageous Gala. March 29 - April 5

Portraits in Red - Portraiture from the Missing & Murdered Indigenous People Painting Project by Nayana LaFond. February 28 - March 24

Kaleidoscope: Changing as We Change - New work by Umbrella Studio Artists, part of Open Studios 2024. February 28 - March 18, 2024

Fresh Ink: Contemporary Explorations in Printmaking - Juried by Carolyn Muskat, this exhibition includes printmakers from all across New England who use a variety of techniques in unexpected ways that push the boundaries of printmaking and speak to contemporary audiences. November 16 - January 4, 2024

Banned - On view in the Outside the Box Gallery, second floor, paintings by Maryam Safajoo narrate the stories of the contemporary situation of the systematically persecuted Iranian Baha’i community – Iran’s largest religious minority – after the 1979 Iranian revolution. October 5 - November 19

Zero Toys and Death of Print: Photography by Jordan Kessler - With humor and poignancy, this Main Gallery exhibition of photographs by Jordan Kessler explores materiality, digitality and the tactile experience of vanishing media. - September 29 - November 12

Art Ramble 2023: Geo-Metric - Annual temporary outdoor public art installation in historic Hapgood Wright Town Forest, in collaboration with the Concord Natural Resources Division. September 1 - November 18

Margaret Savage: A Celebration of Color - An exhibition of work by Umbrella Studio Artist Margaret Savage, who has worked in these spaces from the former Emerson Umbrella's humble beginnings in the 1980s. - August 25 - September 30

Ripple Effect: Works by Umbrella Faculty & Staff - Summer showcase featuring artwork by teachers and employees of The Umbrella Arts Center in a variety of media. - July 11-August 18

2022-2023 Visual Arts Season

Points of Return - Twenty-seven artists from around the globe explore wide ranging aspects of the climate emergency, offering commentary and creative nature-based strategies, with a host of related commuity engagement, discussion, and multimedia activities. Curated by a la luz. - May 1-Jun 25, 2023

Reflections: Earth Month Exhibition - Annual nonjuried exhibition of artwork presented by The Umbrella Arts & Environment - Apr 6-23, 2023

A Wish for Change: Arts as Activism Youth Exhibition - Youth art exhibition on curated by Nayda Cuevas - Mar 31-Apr 23, 2023

Finding Structure - A snapshot of the progression of work by Ceramics Artist-in-Residence, Katie Bosley Sabin. March 27 - May 3, 2023

Earth, Sea & Sky - Landscape and seascape have been an inspiration for artists since the first artists tried to represent the world around them. In Earth, Sea & Sky, Suzanne Hill, Liz Newell and Barbara Willis present unique visions of landscapes in clay and fiber arts. January 8 - February 12, 2023

Lost and Found - Juried by Jessica Straus, this show examines our relationships with familiar, unfamiliar and defamiliarized objects. Sometimes we find things we never knew we lost. They have been hidden away in our attics or our drawers. Other things we discover in the dailiness of our lives. We find meaning and even healing in found objects and pieces from the past. Meanings are created somewhere between claiming and severing relationships with objects, between reviving and recasting their history. November 17 - December 30, 2022

Go Out Doors - Neighbors 2022 - The Umbrella's expansive and evolving regional public art project returns this year with new displays of creatively painted and sculptural "artdoors" installed in surprising locations around Concord and in Man National Historical Park. Through November 15, 2022

"Are We Home Yet?" Culminating solo exhibition of work from 2021-2022 Umbrella Artist-in-Residence, Sally Lee. October 6-November 12, 2022

Work by Umbrella Studio Artists - Black Box Gallery featuring work by Umbrella Studio Artists Max Payne and Craig Elliott, selected in collaboration with The Umbrella Stage Company's production of Dracula, A feminist revenge fantasy, really. September 30-October 23, 2022

Barefoot Books 30th Anniversary Exhibition: Interactive gallery exhibit commemorates the 30th anniversary of the global multicultural children's publisher, Barefoot Books, with related free, family friendly activities every weekend and a live theatrical production of The Boy Who Grew Flowers, adapted from the book by Jen Wojtowicz, by Manhattan-based Treehouse Shakers. September 9-25, 2022

Boutique Guitar Showcase: Minuteman Guitars presents the New England premier of the internationally-acclaimed Boutique Guitar Showcase - a unique collection of world class guitars handmade by luthier artisans from around the globe. September 4

Sustainable Solutions: Documentary Photographers Explore the Climate Crisis - In partnership with ZEKE Magazine and Social Documentary Network. July 5-August 15, 2022

2021-2022 Gallery Season

The Colored Museum: Past, Present, Future: Works by Thomas "Kwest" Burns, Justin Printice Douglass, Barrington Edwards, Ifé Franklin, Nettrice Gaskins, Nicholas Johnson, Shea Justice, Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Keith Morris Washington, curated by Cedric Vise1 Douglas. May 20-June 30, 2022

Emergence: Umbrella Studio Artists Group Exhibition: April 29 - May 13, 2022

Stories from the Earth: 2022 Earth Month Exhibition: April 6 - 23, 2022

"Home": The 2022 Artrageous Art Exhibition and Auction: March 23 - April 1, 2022

Artcubator Pop-Up: Nicholas Johnson: March 3 - 13, 2022

ArtSpace Maynard @ The Umbrella: Visiting exhibition by artists from ArtSpace Maynard - Jan 20 - Feb 26, 2022

New Directions: Creating in Chaotic Times, Works by five new Studio Artists, Linda Bond, Sally Lee, Kim Blodgett, Jared Green and Jill Goldman-Callahan, and faculty of The Umbrella Ceramics Studio - Nov 19, 2021 - Jan 3, 2022

2020-2021 Gallery Season

Off-the-Wall: Annual Holiday Season Small Works Show

Wrack Line, Solo exhibition featuring the work of Michael MacMahon, The Umbrella Arts Center Artist in Residence 2020-2021 - Sep 23 - Oct 31, 2021

Dazzleship, Multimedia Group Exhibition, July 21 - Sept 12, 2021

Pop Up Show, informal show featuring Umbrella artists' works in progress, June 7 - July 7, 2021

Artfest Auction Exhibition, May 1, 2021 - May 15, 2021

Change is in the Air, Annual Musketaquid Earth Month Exhibition, February 15-April 25, 2021

Natural Form: Three Journeys, work by Louise Arnold, Craig Elliott, and Suzanne Hill, December 7, 2020 - January 31, 2021

2019-2020 Gallery Season

One Day I Will Walk Into The Umbrella, September 1 - December 1, 2020

Earth Month: Fresh Water and Our Watershed, Annual Musketaquid Earth Month Exhibition, April 15 - May 20, 2020

Voyage of the Yellow Wellies, interactive digital installation by Liz Helfer, April 15 - May 20, 2020

Aperture, The Umbrella Studio Artists Annual Group Exhibition, March 2 - May 1, 2020

A Change in Atmosphere, January 9 - February 16 2020

She4She, in collaboration with Heading Home, November 14 2019 - February 16 2020

Off the Wall 2019, November 14 2019 - January 3 2020

StoryArt: Children’s Book Illustration, September 26 - November 3 2019

2018-2019 Artist-in-Residence: Nicholas Mancini, August 1 - September 15 2019

2018-2019 Gallery Season

Beginning at the End: Portraits of Dementia, Photography and text by Joe Wallace, May 17 - July 7 2019

The Art of Craft Beer, at The Gallery at Villageworks, Mar 7 - May 29 2019

Embracing Diversity in a Climate of Change, Annual Musketaquid Earth Month Exhibition, April 18 - May 14 2019

Passage, an exhibition on new and in process work, The Umbrella Studio Artists Annual Group Exhibition, Mar 7 - Apr 7 2019

Migration, a curated fiber arts exhibition, January 10 - February 28 2019

Off the Wall 2018: Transitions, our annual small works show, November 30 2018 - January 3 2019

The Umbrella ‘Pops-up’ Summer 2018, July 1 - September 1, various artists & locations filled spaces with art while 40 Stow Street was under construction 2018

seasonal affections: Elizabeth King, 2017-2018 Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, June 26 - September 10 2018 at the Trinity Episcopal Church

2017-2018 Gallery Season

Parallel Paths: Andy Newman & Gregory Maguire, May 10 - June 5, 2018

Gathering Places: Annual Earth Month Exhibition 2018

DUALITIES on view during Open Studios 2018

Off the Wall: A small works show December 1, 2017- January 30, 2018

Contemporary Traditions: The Work of North Bennet Street School October 26 – November 26, 2017

Driven to Abstraction @ Villageworks A juried show inspired by Gifford Pierce October 1 – October 31, 2017 Presented by The Umbrella Community Arts Center in The Gallery at Villageworks

Steve Klein: Breaking the Mold, 50 Years of Innovation in the Art of Guitar Building, September 21 – October 22, 2017

Art and Agriculture @ the Concord Council on Aging August 25 – October 27, 2017 Presented by The Umbrella Community Arts Center in the Harvey Wheeler Community Center

Selfless: An Exploration of Relationships through Portraiture, 2016-2017 Artist-in-Residence Show, Aug. 16 – Sep. 14, 2017