Exhibitions Exhibitions

2025 Art + Design Senior Exhibition

Spring 2025 CVPA Campus Gallery

Emerging Young Artists and Designers 2025 Award Winners Exhibition 

March 27 - April 5 | Reception and Awards Presentation: Saturday, April 5, 2 PM - 4 PM

CVPA Campus Gallery Windows on UMass exhibition

A collaborative exhibition featuring art and architectural works by students from UMass Amherst & UMass Dartmouth. Thursday, March 6 - Sunday, March 23, 2025

Open Practice: Studio Art Faculty Exhibition

March 4 - April 5, 2025

Azita Moradkhani: Necklace, detail, 2023, colored pencil, 40x26 in. Courtesy Jane Lombard Gallery and the artist.

Azita Moradkhani: Pink in Ashes

January 25 —February 25, 2025

Emerging Young Artists and Designers 2025 Juried Exhibition

Katie Erwin: Test #6, 2024, 3D printed clay vessel, 4 x 4 x 7 in.

Digital Matter

UMass Dartmouth’s College of Visual and Performing Arts Hosts Digital Matter, Student Exhibition: Showcasing High-Tech Innovations in Typography and Digital Fabrication

Yamamoto, Untitled, Colored pencils on paper, 36x84, 1976

Tamotsu "Tommy" Yamamoto: You Have No Choice

October 1 – November 23, 2024

2024 Art + Design Senior Exhibition

Spring 2024 CVPA Campus Gallery

Collage of images of the 2024 EYAD award winners

Emerging Young Artists and Designers 2024 Award Winners Exhibition 

CVPA Campus Gallery March 27 - April 3, 2024 | Reception and Awards Presentation: Saturday, March 30, 2 PM - 4 PM

Image © Zinaida. Dakini II: Chorus, 2017. Courtesy of artist and Sapar Contemporary

Zinaida: Transformation

CVPA Campus Gallery, 285 Old Westport Road in Dartmouth, MA 02747 | All events are free and open to the public.

Emerging Young Artists and Designers 2024 Juried Exhibition

Virtual Exhibition Opening, Reception, and Awards Presentation: Friday, January 26, 4:30pm

Poetic Variations: Anatomy of a Process | Monoprints by Denny Moers

November 21, 2023 - January 27, 2024 | UMass Dartmouth CVPA Campus Gallery

Heeseop Yoon: Adrift

Exhibition Dates: September 26 - November 12, 2023

Art + Design Senior Exhibition artwork sized for thumbnail

2023 Art + Design Senior Exhibition

Spring 2023

David R. Modler: Draw and Play Here, 2022. Acrylic painted directly to wall (10 x 20 feet), spray enamel painted stencil portraits, and collaborative visual journals.

David R. Modler: Residual Reboots and Recovered Defaults

March 16 - 28, 2023

The Presence of the Past: Empty Stages of Brotherhood and Unity, 2014 – 2018, photograph

Olja Triaška Stefanović: Brotherhood and Unity

January 26 - February 28, 2023

Emerging Young Artists 2023 Juried Exhibition

Virtual Exhibition Opening, Reception, and Awards Presentation: Friday, January 27, 6:30pm - 7:30pm

Organized Insanity

November 17 - December 6, 2022

Sophia Wallace | Cliteracy: The Art of Intimate Justice

September 13 - November 4, 2022

2022 Art + Design Senior Exhibitions

Spring 2022

Conversations: Between CVPA Faculty + Students

February 3 – March 28, 2022

Emerging Young Artists 2022 Poster cropped for banner

Emerging Young Artists 2022 Juried Exhibition

January 21 - February 6, 2022

Nancy Holt (American 1938-2014) Detail of Electrical System, 1982, installed at UMass Dartmouth in 2021. Photographer: Viera Levitt. Courtesy Holt/Smithson Foundation. © Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York

Nancy Holt: Massachusetts

November 11, 2021 - January 23, 2022

Untitled, 1963, canvas on canvas, 12 x 19 feet (mural commissioned by Paul Rudolph) © Norman S. Ives Foundation

Norman Ives: Constructions and Reconstructions

September 7 – October 23, 2021

2021 Art + Design Senior Exhibition

Online, and in the Campus Gallery April 8-15, and April 22-29, 2021

Emerging Young Artists 2021 Juried Exhibition

January 22 – February 6, 2021

Fall 2020 Foundations End-Of-Semester Exhibition

UMass Dartmouth Online Exhibition

Tracey Cockrell: Desire Lines

October 18 - November 23, 2020

2020 Art + Design Senior Exhibition

Online exhibition showcases the work of 95 BFA and BS seniors

Contemporary Iranian Art & the Historical Imagination

February 20 - April 1, 2020

Detail of 2020 Emerging Young Artists Poster

Emerging Young Artists 2020 Juried Exhibition

January 22 – February 8, 2020

Suzanne Schireson: Quilter, Oil on canvas, 2019 Yurie Hayashi: Oh, I Spend my Vacations in Hawaii, 2019 Oil on board

Conversations: Exhibition of CVPA Student-Faculty Pairs at CVPA Campus Gallery

November 6 – December 5, 2019

Through Our Eyes | A Collaborative Photography Exhibition

September 30 – October 30, 2019

Launching; Art + Design Foundations Exhibition

September 2019

BFA Exhibition 2019 poster detail of student work

2019 BFA Senior Exhibition

April 12 – May 10, 2019

Dan Borelli, The Ashland-Nyanza Project: Illuminating Futures, 2016.

Dan Borelli: Chasing Color

February 15 - April 1, 2019

EYA 2019 Juried Exhibition poster detail

Emerging Young Artists 2019 Juried Exhibition

Exhibition Dates: January 22 – February 9, 2019

Conversations Exhibition postcard images

Conversations: Exhibition of CVPA Student-Faculty Pairs

November 6 – December 6, 2018

NONUMENT 01::McKeldin Fountain

The Fall & Rise of a Brutalist Building: Exhibition at UMass Dartmouth CVPA Campus Gallery

Photo of Paul Rudolph building at UMass Dartmouth

A Visionary Campus: Paul Rudolph and UMass Dartmouth 

CVPA Campus Gallery, UMass Dartmouth,  April 16 - 28, 2018

2018 BFA Senior Exhibition

April 2 - 10, 2018 - Reception Saturday, April 7, 12:00 - 3:00 PM

Sound artists visit SMTI Group 1 building, now known as UMass Dartmouth Liberal Arts/LARTS. Photo: Andy Graydon.

Paul Rudolph - Playing the Campus

Sound art/public program series and exhibition

Collaborative work by Stacy Latt Savage and Laura Franz

Take Two

February 15 – March 9, 2018. Faculty working collaboratively with colleagues either within the CVPA or outside the college.

Mouthfeel Exhibition

February 15 - March 9, 2018. Five video artworks exploring the sense of taste and touch curated by Megan Fizell, Sydney, Australia

Emerging Young Artists 2018 poster, detail

Emerging Young Artists 2018 Juried Exhibition

January 22 – February 10, 2018

Jeremy Duval: Broom Handle, 2017. Acrylic and Collage, 22

Fine Arts Faculty & Collaborative Aggregates Scholarship Exhibition

An exhibition of recent faculty work in painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed-media, along with the juried exhibition of Collaborative Aggregates Art Scholarship winners.

Sabbatical Exhibition

An exhibition of work by Rebecca Hutchinson, Anthony Fisher, Adrian Tió, Eric Lintala, and Pamela Karimi.

Studio Art Foundations: Student Work Exhibition

The Foundation Student Exhibition highlights work produced by our first-year students during their studies in the Foundation Program. Curated by Megan Abajian, Director of Studio Art Foundations