Open Now —'Material Dialogues: Artist Unresidency, 2025-2026 at UMB Archives' Exhibition
When:
Monday, Jan 26, 2026 9:00a -
Friday, May 15, 2026 3:00p
Monday, Jan 26, 2026 9:00a -
Friday, May 15, 2026 3:00p
Where:
Healey Library at UMass Boston
100 Morrissey Blvd.
Boston, MA 02125
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Art, Kid Friendly, University
Event website:
https://bit.ly/3NLUNgP
On view from January 26 through May 15, 2026, during the Healey Library’s open hours. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, February, 20, 2026, from 3:00 pm-5:30 pm in the Grossmann Gallery on the 5th floor of the Healey Library.
Material Dialogues: Artist Unresidency, 2025-2026 at UMB Archives is now open January 26 - May 15, 2026, during the Healey Library’s open hours. An opening reception is scheduled for February 20, 2026, from 3:00 pm-6:00 pm in the Grossmann Gallery, 5th floor of the Healey Library, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA.
The exhibition showcases UMB Archive's Artist Unresidency Pilot Program, which invited five artists to create new artwork in response to archival collections to expand how archives are encountered and understood while bringing these materials into contemporary dialogue. Participating artists explored themes of cultivating care, lifting voices, and looking at how the past can shape the future. This exhibition features work by: Caleb Cole, Nanc Hart, Christina Hunt Wood, Brooke Toczylowski, and Brian Wilson. Curated by Meghan Bailey, Carol Scollans and Jeremy Andreatta.
Working across mixed media, painting, collage, sculpture, and handmade books, each artist engages a different archival collection, including the Carol McEldowney papers, the Theresa-India Young papers, the Massachusetts Hip-Hop Archive, the University of Massachusetts Boston permanent site selection records, the Boston School Bus Drivers Union records, USW Local 8751 records, the Elizabeth Bouvier collection of radical and leftist posters, and the Stephen Lewis poster collection.
