2025 Art Faculty Exhibit

September 5-October 2

Gallery talk Wednesday September 17, 12 p.m.

The Art Department presents works by art faculty Chenda Cope, Kelly Popoff, Nick Meyer, Johanna Hoogendyk, Jen Simms and Joan O'Beirne.

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Gallery Hours
M-Th, 7am-9pm
F, 7am-5pm
Sat, 8am-6pm
The South Gallery is fully accessible

For more information

Jen Simms, simmsj@gcc.mass.edu

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Save the date for an upcoming artist talk with Jonathan Ryan Storm, Tuesday, November 4th at noon! This exhibit is up through November 6. Please come visit anytime during open GCC hours. @gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment #southgallery

Jonathan Ryan Storm reimagines the rug as more than an object—it becomes a sensory experience: tactile, optical and spatial. His tufted works are not mere surfaces but immersive environments pulsing with rhythm and vibration that invite participation.

Guided by intuition, Storm embraces rhythm and repetition through the meditative act of tufting, creating compositions that feel unearthed rather than constructed. Though colorblind, he works with a striking sensitivity to hue and contrast, privileging bodily perception over intellectual design.

On the autism spectrum, Storm channels his deep connection to rhythm, repetition and automatic movement as a source of generative power. What soothes and compels him in the making becomes transmittable—offered to viewers through optical rhythm, tactile texture and a vibrating sense of presence. Primateria emerges not as an exhibition of static works but as a living environment, an invitation to feel, follow and lose oneself in the oscillating flow.

Jonathan Ryan Storm (b. 1980, Arizona) lives in Western Massachusetts and works in Southern Vermont.

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Jonathan Ryan Storm (b. 1980, Arizona) lives in Western Massachusetts and works in Southern Vermont.

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This exhibit opened today! The artist Jonathan Ryan Storm reimagines the rug as both object and experience: tactile, optical, and spatial. The tufted works in the exhibit are not simply surfaces, but environments—fields of rhythm and vibration that invite interaction.
Storm’s practice begins in intuition. He follows rhythm and repetition through the hypnotic motion of tufting, creating compositions that feel discovered rather than designed. Though colorblind, Storm deploys hue and contrast with heightened sensitivity, allowing the body’s perception to take precedence over thought.
Being on the autism spectrum, Storm embraces his “obsession” with rhythm, repetition, and automatic movement as a generative force. What feels compelling and soothing in the act of making is transmitted to the viewer through optical rhythm, tactile texture, and vibrating presence. Primateria is not an exhibition of static objects, but a sensory environment—an invitation to feel, to follow, and to lose oneself in the oscillating flow.”
Jonathan Ryan Storm (b.1980 Arizona) lives in Western Massachusetts and works in Southern Vermont. @jonathanryanstorm @gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment #southgallery

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So many ways to draw the landscape! Students in Drawing Foundation and Drawing II have been outside enjoying the nice weather and interpreting the landscape through observational abstract methods. Charcoal and color pastel work , hanging in the upstairs hallway, come by and have a look! @gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment #drawingclasses

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Students in Computer Arts I just had their first critique!

Responding to speculative utopian and dystopian futures, they used technology as a tool, theme, and physical medium in order to imagine alternate futures. From fishbowls to collaged screens to blinking machines, the computer and its networks become objects.

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Students in Computer Arts I just had their first critique!

Tomorrow: Tuesday, September 30th at Noon! Please join the GCC Art Department and Professor Kelly Popoff in the South Gallery to learn more about her recent work in the faculty show and the preceding work of the last few years. Also, there will be pizza! All are welcome. @gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment #southgallery #artisttalk @popoffkelly

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Students in Visual Concepts with Johanna Hoogendyk have been making their own botanical inks and tools to explore mark making techniques and patterns. This emphasizes the artist’s relationship to our tools, materials, processes and responsibility to sustainable practices while making art. @gccartdepartment @gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment @gccpermaculture

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Today at Noon! South Gallery @gccgreenfield

Please join us today, 9/17 for an artist talk in conjunction with the Annual Art Faculty Exhibit. The art faculty will be discussing the work on display in the South Gallery. Free pizza will be provided and all are welcome! Hope to see you there.

Pictured: Sculpture work by Chenda Cope

Participating Artists:
Joan O`Beirne
Jen Simms
Johanna Hoogendyk
Nick Meyer
Kelly Popoff
Chenda Cope
Kelly Clare

#gccartdepartment #southgallery

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Today at Noon! South Gallery @gccgreenfield

Pictured: Sculpture work by Chenda Cope

Participating Artists:
Joan O`Beirne
Jen Simms
Johanna Hoogendyk
Nick Meyer
Kelly Popoff
Chenda Cope
Kelly Clare

#gccartdepartment #southgallery

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Figure Drawing is off to a great start! @gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment

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Figure Drawing is off to a great start! @gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment

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Welcome new and returning art students to the Art Department at GCC! Hope you are having a good start and we look forward to seeing you working in the studios this semester.

Pictured: Kieran working in the drawing studio:)
@gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment

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Welcome new and returning art students to the Art Department at GCC! Hope you are having a good start and we look forward to seeing you working in the studios this semester.

Pictured: Kieran working in the drawing studio:)
@gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment

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The GCC Art Faculty Exhibit is installed in the South Gallery @gccgreenfield 9/04 – 10/02, Gallery Talk on Wednesday, 9/17 at noon. All our welcome to come by!

GCC Art Faculty
Kelly Clare @kelly.clare_
Chenda Cope
Kelly Popoff @popoffkelly
Nick Meyer @nickmeyerstudio
Johanna Hoognedyk @johanna_hoogendyk
Jen Simms @simmsjen
Joan O`Beirne @joanieob1

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The GCC Art Faculty Exhibit is installed in the South Gallery @gccgreenfield 9/04 – 10/02, Gallery Talk on Wednesday, 9/17 at noon. All our welcome to come by!

GCC Art Faculty
Kelly Clare @kelly.clare_
Chenda Cope
Kelly Popoff @popoffkelly
Nick Meyer @nickmeyerstudio
Johanna Hoognedyk @johanna_hoogendyk
Jen Simms @simmsjen
Joan O`Beirne @joanieob1

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Accordion books made in the summer session Visual Concepts I class, on display in the GCC Library. Come take a look when you get back to campus! @gcc_library @gccgreenfield

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Accordion books made in the summer session Visual Concepts I class, on display in the GCC Library. Come take a look when you get back to campus! @gcc_library @gccgreenfield

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Self-portrait experiments from Drawing Foundation. To alleviate some of the anxiety associated with self-portrait work, the class engaged in quick experimental exercises including blind contour, tracing while your face is smooshed up against the paper, two-handed drawing, `feeling` only with eyes closed – all encouraging new mark-making and gestural methods to be included in their longer, observational drawings. The class also experimented with self-portraits through monoprinting. Here`s some of the work from this past week. (Summer session Drawing Foundation with Jen Simms) @gccgreenfield #gccartdepartment #drawing #selfportrait

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