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

Jonathan Ryan Storm

October 11 – November 6, 2025

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.