Art POP!

This year-long public art festival will be a unique UMass campus celebration of artistic creativity from September 2022-Spring 2023. The lineup of performances and visual arts events will bring together professional artists/performers wiht UMass students from a wide range of disciplines in collaborative projects. These events will emphasize the fusion of art and life as well as bring public aweareness to lesser known sites and gardens on our campus.

Fall 2022

 

Art Walk image sign outside UMCAFall Art Walk

October 14 | 3 p.m.
Augusta Savage Gallery, Hampden Gallery Pop-Up, & Univeristy Museum of Contemporary Art

Join us for the Fall FAC Artwalk on Oct. 14! Students are invited to visit the FAC's three visual arts venues on campus -- Augusta Savage Gallery, Hampden Gallery, and the University Museum of Contemporary Art -- to collect stamps on a FAC Artwalk passport. The event will include hands-on art activities, live performances, visual arts exhibitions, and snacks. Collect a stamp from all three venues and be entered to win great prizes! 

 

Saturday Night, Richard YardeDance Party

October 14 | 6:30 - 9 p.m.
Outside the University Museum of Contemporary Art - Pond Side

End your afternoon at the University Museum of Contemporary Art for an outdoor dance party from 6:30-9pm. A live DJ, large-scale projections, and pop-up dance performances will transform the facade of the Fine Arts Center into an outdoor party to celebrate fall. The museum will be open late so you can look at art, dance under the stars and enjoy the music by the pond.

 

New Africa House entrance HANDS & STARS by Carris Adams

On View Now! West face of New Africa House

Through research on the history of New Africa House, artist Carris Adams highlights the signs, shapes, signifiers and colors tied to the social, cultural, political and economic struggles of the past that continue today and the eternal fight and hope for justice.

 

 

Borderland Where Freedom Grows by Alex CallenderBorderland: Where Freedom Grows

Begins September 30
University Museum of Contemporary Art & other locations

The artist Alex Callender uses images and objects drawn from UMass archival collections to create a series of four drawings. The drawings have been reproduced as art posters and are available for FREE at the UMCA, Augusta Savage Gallery, and other campus locations for the entire 2022-23 academic year. The drawings reimagine ecology as part of our public and are accompanied by audio of a speech by scholar W.E.B. Du Bois accessible via a QR code on each poster.

 

Bright Moments Poetry Night, Spoken Word Night

Spetember 29, October 27, & December 1 | 6 p.m. Free
Randolph W. Bromery Center for the Arts - Lobby

Hosted by acclaimed performer Lyrical Faith, this new series is dedicated to building the local community of emerging artists while featuring some of the best spoken word poets from the national scene. Come join us for open mic performances, DJ entertainment, and more.