South Gallery The South Gallery (S258) is centrally located within the Art Department and is considered vitally important to student enrichment and experience, as well as provides an open cultural resource for the greater community. Each year, six exhibits are held which include a faculty exhibition, visiting professional artists and a student exhibition. Artist talks accompany each exhibition and everyone is welcome to attend. Hours The South Gallery is open and free to the public during the College’s normal hours of operation: Monday-Friday 8am-5pm Saturday 10am-5pm Contact Questions concerning gallery exhibits may be addressed to the gallery coordinator, Joan O’Beirne. Current & Upcoming ExhibitsPast Exhibits Fade Like a Sigh: Zora Murff & Rana YoungOctober 7 – November 7 2024Together, Zora Murff and Rana Young began mining their own family histories, exploring the void left by an absent parent. The images in Fade Like a Sigh reflect their dialogues of this shared experience. Using their personal small collections of family photographs and reinterpreting them through their own contemporary imagery, Murff and Young highlight the complicated relationship between photographic record and the fragmented and abstract nature of memory. Zora Murff and Rana Young are artists and educators based in Providence, RI; both earned their MFA in Studio Art at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Their work has been written about for Hyperallergic and British Journal of Photography, featured by Huffington Post, published in-print with LensCulture and Gnomic Book, and was collected by SFMoMA. Exhibitions of their work have been hosted by Glass Gallery (University of Georgia), Brick City East Gallery (Missouri State University), and Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Art (Nebraska City, NE). Their curatorial project, Take it from Here, featuring artworks by ten emerging photographers who use the camera as a multifaceted site of imagination, play and self-exploration, was awarded an exhibition at Filter Space (Chicago, IL) in 2021. The catalogue from this exhibition, published by There, There Now, was awarded a juror’s special mention at the 2021 Paris Photo Aperture Photo Book Awards. 2024 Art Faculty Exhibit (September 4-October 2) 2024 Annual Student Art Exhibit (April 18 — May 17, 2024) Breaking the Frame (March 4 – April 5, 2024) Jonathan Mark Jackson: Gone, and therefore Vanished from the Face of the Earth (January 24 – February 23) Jacqueline Strauss: Elemental Playthings (November 8 – December 7) Emily Noelle Lambert: Less Like A March, More Like a Polka (October 4-November 3, 2023) 2023 Art Faculty Exhibit (September 5-29) 2023 Annual Student Art Exhibit (April 20 — May 10, 2023) Imo Nse Imeh (March 1 – April 7 2023) Jon Gitelson (January 25 – February 24) Andrea Moreau (November 16 – December 14) Connections: UMass at GCC (October 13 – November 11) 2022 Art Faculty Exhibit (September 7 – October 6) 2022 Annual Student Art Exhibit (April 21 — May 9, 2022) 2021 Annual Student Art Exhibit (Online) Within, Without: Living the Remote Life (Online) Juana Valdes (January 23-February 27) Roya Amigh: Fragmented Tales (November 12-December 12) Peter Dudley: A Retrospective (October 7 — November 7) 2019 Art Faculty Exhibit (August 29 — October 3) 2019 Annual Student Art Exhibit (April 18 — May 9, 2019) Penne Krol: Florals & Abstracts (March 4 — April 10, 2019) Anna Hepler: Well Enough Alone (Jan 24 — February 28) Omid Shekari: The Body of the Condemned (October 8 — November 9) 2018 Art Faculty Exhibit (August 30 — October 4) 2018 Annual Student Art Exhibit (April 19 — May 10, 2018) Tekla McInerney: Monotypes (March 5 — April 11) Sandy Litchfield: Deciduous Cities (November 13 — December 13)