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Make October a little more creative!

Discover upcoming classes, workshops, and programs for all ages. From making art to exploring the museum, there’s something for everyone this month.

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#october by @artmuseumnb

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16 days ago

Michael Cochran’s sculpture in agriCultural: A Biennial Exhibition reflects on the lessons, skills, and traditions passed down through generations of farming. Inspired by his experiences growing up on a Northern California farm, his work explores the connections between agriculture, family, and the knowledge we carry forward.

Cochran’s early work reflects days growing up on the farm, but after making visual artworks professionally for over fifty years his current work draws on a lifetime of research, travel, and personal experiences.

Visit agriCultural, on view through November 29, in partnership with SEMAP.

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Michael Cochran
A Long Row to Hoe, 1973
Copper-plated leather gloves
3 x 10 x 10 in.

#agriculture by @artmuseumnb

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15 hours ago

"Over time, my passion for capturing and sharing the beauty and lessons of the natural world have only grown stronger," -Robert Feingold

Finding beauty in the everyday, Robert Feingold’s photography reflects a deep appreciation for the natural world and the lessons it offers. In Cart in Morning Garden (2012), Feingold captures a moment that invites us to slow down, look closely, and find beauty in our surroundings.

A New Bedford native, Feingold draws inspiration from his time immersed in nature and his own gardening practice, where he grows heirloom tomatoes and dahlias for charity.

Presented in partnership with the Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership (SEMAP), agriCultural: A Biennial Exhibition is on view through November 29.

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Robert Feingold
Cart in Morning Garden, 2012
Photograph
12" x 20"

#agriculture by @artmuseumnb

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3 days ago

A wonderful visit with artists Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow!

We’re grateful for the opportunity to learn more about their individual artistic practices and their collaborative work. We can’t wait to share Identical Twins with our community as part of Intuitive: A Survey of Visionary Art, opening November 5 at the New Bedford Art Museum.

A special thank-you to Dana Ellyn, Matt Sesow, and the American Visionary Art Museum for making this collaboration possible! by @artmuseumnb

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5 days ago

Today is the final day to experience Vanishing Ecologies: Speculative Futures.

Over the past few months, this exhibition has invited us to reflect on the evolving relationship between humanity and the natural world. Through the work of eight contemporary artists, we’ve explored ecological resilience, planetary memory, and the uncertain futures that lie ahead.

As we say goodbye to Vanishing Ecologies, we leave with questions about our changing planet and the role imagination plays in envisioning what comes next.

Thank you to everyone who visited and engaged with this thought-provoking exhibition. Today is your last chance to experience it before it closes!

The exhibition features works by Rachel Berwick, Thomas Deininger, Beth Lipman, Aimée Lamaire, Minga Opazo, Rachel Ostrow, Anaïs Tondeur, and Nicolas Touron.

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Lemaire & Touron
Nature 21 (2023)
3D printed stoneware and borosilicate
15" x 11" x 21" by @artmuseumnb

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6 days ago

Jason Fiering’s practice explores the botany of urban weeds and our cultural response to them. In Common Weed: Bromus Tectorum (Downy Brome) Fiering documents a plant commonly found on streets and human-disturbed landscapes throughout New England.

Fiering draws specimens directly from his own studio lot before they wither. He uses careful observation to become more intimately acquainted with the natural world. His practice encourages us to look beyond labels like “weed”.

As an artist and scientist, Fiering invites us to reconsider the plants we classify as pests and recognize how awareness of our everyday environment can foster a greater sense of responsibility to the planet.

agriCultural: A Biennial Exhibition on view through November 29.

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Jason Fiering
Common Weed: Bromus Tectorum (Downy Brome), 2025
Colored Pencil and Graphite
10" x 8" by @artmuseumnb

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7 days ago

Final weekend of Vanishing Ecologies: Speculative Futures!

Explore the work of eight contemporary artists examining the fragile relationship between humanity, technology, and the natural world. Through immersive installations and thought-provoking works, the exhibition invites us to reflect on climate change, extinction, ecological resilience, and the uncertain futures of our planet.

There’s still time to experience Vanishing Ecologies before the exhibition closes October 11!

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Hovering Close to Zero: Crystal Skull, 2000-2006
Rachel Berwick
Cast crystal, stainless steel
4 x 3 x 8 in. by @artmuseumnb

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8 days ago

Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day at KidZone! 🌽

Join us this Sunday from 2–5 PM for a fun afternoon of hands-on artmaking and storytelling inspired by the cultural importance of corn. Children will explore through colorful, corn-inspired projects designed for different ages.

We’ll also share Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story, introducing a Wampanoag perspective on the harvest and exploring themes of community, gratitude, and connection to the land. Come create, learn, and celebrate together!

#indigenouspeoplesday by @artmuseumnb

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10 days ago

Final Week to experience Vanishing Ecologies: Speculative Futures. On view through October 11, the exhibition brings together a group of international artists exploring the shifting relationships between humans, technology, and the natural world.

Among them are Amy Lemaire & Nicolas Touron, whose collaborative sculptures combine 3D-printed porcelain and handblown glass. Their works blur the boundaries between organic forms and technological systems, imagining speculative worlds where nature, architecture, and data intersect. Don’t miss your chance to see the exhibition before it closes.

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Nature 27, 2023
Amy Lemaire & Nicolas Touron
3D printed stoneware and borosilicate
17 x 11 x 20 in. by @artmuseumnb

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11 days ago

Only one week left of Vanishing Ecologies: Speculative Futures!

There’s still time to experience Vanishing Ecologies: Speculative Futures, on view through October 11, 2026. The exhibition brings together an international group of contemporary artists working across sculpture, installation, painting, photography, sound, and time-based media and examines artistic responses to the Anthropocene.

From fragile ecosystems to post-human possibilities, Vanishing Ecologies asks us to consider what is disappearing, what might endure, and how art can help us imagine the uncertain futures ahead.

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Sounding Measures: Human, 1993
Rachel Berwick
Cast copal resin containing negative impression of human death mask, wood, light
55 x 18 x 26 in. by @artmuseumnb

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13 days ago

JP Powel is a Massachusetts based artist whose work explores the mystery and wonder within the everyday. A Harvard graduate in English Literature and former RISD sculpture student, Powel served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador, where he met his wife, Betsy. Together they founded Salt Marsh Pottery on the edge of Allens Pond in Dartmouth.

After decades devoted to the pottery business, Powel returned to painting, drawing inspiration from the salt marshes and waters of Dartmouth and Kezar Lake in Maine. Working from direct observation, memory, and imagination, he calls his approach “imaginative realism.” Through distorted perspective, selective detail, and vibrant observation, Powel invites viewers to see the familiar world differently, to find something radiant and mysterious beneath the surface of everyday life.

JP Powel is featured in agriCultural: A Biennial Exhibition, on view through November 29.

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JP Powel
Panic Grasses, 1972
Oil on panel
27" x 18" by @artmuseumnb

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14 days ago

This National Hispanic Heritage Month, the Art Museum spotlights the art of Rigoberto Torres.

In Jack and Jill, 1984, Torres takes the classic children’s nursery rhyme as a point of departure to create a whimsical bas-relief suitable for an elementary school or community art center.

Torres embedded a clock in the sculpture as a fun colorful timepiece but also as a tool to teach children how to tell time.

Join us Sunday, October 4, for KidZone, featuring a project inspired by Hispanic Heritage Month, and discover the work of Rigoberto Torres in the Lower Level Gallery, on view now!

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Rigoberto Torres
Jack and Jill, 1984
Ceramic and plaster
43 x 43 x 1.5 in.

#ceramics #HispanicHeritageMonth by @artmuseumnb

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