Artists of Stonington, Connecticut’s Velvet Mill, home to a thriving creative community of artists, entrepreneurs and businesses, will showcase the great variety of artistic styles and practices found there in “Extending the Dialogue,” a 20-artist group show running from March 28 through April 25 at the Hygienic Gallery, 79 Bank Street, New London. “The group is excited to share their art and unique camaraderie with a wider audience in southeastern Connecticut.”
“Home Land,” a solo exhibition of paintings by Putney-based artist Finn Campman that explores “the intimate relationship between place, memory, and artistic practice,” is on view through May 10 at Next Stage Arts, 15 Kimball Hill, Putney, Vermont. “My process is about the act of reaching out to make sure I know where I am — to check my coordinates, to mark a signpost for my memories — as if to say, ‘This is where I am now,’” Chapman explained. His paintings serve as a tether to land, time and mood, affirming a profound connection to the environment around him that invites viewers to witness the landscape as both a personal and universal Home Land.
“Who Will Draw Our History? Women’s Graphic Narratives of the Holocaust, 1944-1949” can be seen through April 30 at the Kniznick Gallery at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University, 515 South St., Waltham, Massachusetts. The collection features little-known “books of memories,” handmade albums, pictorial diaries, illustrated books and portfolio made by 10 Jewish women who survived Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ravensbrück and outside the Warsaw Ghetto under “Aryan” papers and then, days after their liberation, began recording their memories in images and words. “Lacking photographs of what they witnessed and endured, they turned to visual storytelling to represent Jewish suffering during the Holocaust, particularly as it affected women.”
“Dorothea Lange: Life Work,” on view through May 3 at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 625 Williams St., New London, Connecticut, features the rare opportunity to experience, in person, 50 remarkable photographs from Lange’s dynamic life and career, including many of her renowned images of the Great Depression that have become icons of American cultural history, documenting the suffering of the Great Depression and the striking landscapes of the 1930s Dust Bowl era. “In addition to her renowned Depression-era work, the exhibition highlights lesser-known aspects of Lange’s career, including her family life, artistic collaborations with photographers such as Ansel Adams, and projects undertaken during the 1940s, ’50s, and early ’60s.”
The newest project from sound, video and installation artists Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, “Prisoners of Love: Until the Sun of Freedom,” features interviews with former political prisoners made in Palestine that incorporates poetry, music and art as forms of expressing individual and collective survivance within systems of incarceration across time and space; it’s on display at The Bell at Brown University, List Art Building, 64 College St., Providence, Rhode Island. “Continuing their use of opacity and fragmentation as they navigate institutional archives and documentary materials, Abbas and Abou-Rahme incorporate concrete, fabric, and weathered steel as the projection surfaces of this sound-based video installation.” The show is on display through May 31; visitors without Brown IDs are required to pre-register for designated gallery hours Thursday from 5-8 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
“Maine: A Force Within American Art (1890–2026),” a yearlong exhibition in honor of America’s 250th anniversary at the Farnsworth Art Museum, 16 Museum St., Rockland, Maine, has no less of a goal than to assert Maine’s enduring imprint on American art, honoring the artists whose vision and creativity have shaped the nation’s ongoing artistic legacy. “The story of American art cannot be told without Maine,” said Executive Director Christopher J. Brownawell. “For generations, this state has served as both inspiration and influence for some of the most important artists in our nation’s history. This exhibition will demonstrate how deeply Maine is woven into the fabric of American art — past, present, and future.” The show runs through January 3, 2027.