Tapestries From the Wild World SEPTEMBER 12th - OCTOBER 29th Tapestries From the Wild World by Shannon Goheen, Artist and Thom Huettner, Frame Artist This Autumn, Highfield Hall will feature the ‘wild world weavings’ of Shannon Goheen. Shannon and her partner Thom are currently included in the End to End: Cape and Island Artists and the Land exhibition with two large works, and for the remainder of the season we turn over the first-floor galleries to Shannon and Thom to showcase a great number of weavings and masterful mounts and frames made over the past several years [...]

I Am My White Ancestors: Claiming the Legacy of Oppression by Anne Mavor SEPTEMBER 12th - OCTOBER 29th I Am My White Ancestors: Claiming the Legacy of Oppression I Am My White Ancestors is a multi-disciplinary installation and public engagement project. It contains thirteen life-size photographic portraits that explore European-American heritage, family history, and its role in the history of race, class, colonization, and genocide. The real and imagined characters span over 2000 years from the Celtic Iron Age to the present day with the artist’s contemporary persona. The 84” x 54” portraits, printed on fabric panels, are accompanied [...]

End to End: Cape and Island Artists and the Land JUNE 20th - SEPTEMBER 3rd End to End: Cape and Island Artists and the Land The hooked shaped peninsula that forms Cape Cod has appealed to artists for well over two centuries. How the topographical and geological character of Cape Cod informs artists who make their home here is the exhibition theme for summer 2023. The land that makes up Cape Cod’s Barnstable County is relatively young in geological terms. Glacial movement that began over 25,000 years ago is evident today by Cape Cod’s diverse landscape consisting of outwash plains, [...]

Entanglements MAY 2nd - JUNE 11th Entanglements Maine Artist Nancy Grice visits Highfield Hall for Spring 2023. After years of painting representationally with realism at its core, Grice now looks to shape and color to inform her primary subject of nature. Spherical geometric forms inhabit the canvases, suggesting elements beyond our immediate sight – planetary, celestial objects, to sub-atomic particles—Grice still paints nature subjects, but the lens has been adjusted. Artist statement: I work with glazes, transparent surfaces, and interactive finishes such as metallic pigments which respond to the light in the environment. I describe forms that are [...]

no blue no green MAY 2nd - JUNE 11th no blue no green This Spring artist Sven Atema will present his stunningly original paintings and drawings in Highfield Hall’s second-floor galleries. A finely tuned collection of imagery appears-and-reappears in his mystical renderings. Atema works with permanent water-based pigments of which he literally and figuratively pours forms suggestive of earth and sea life onto wood, stretched linen, and paper. The artist visually expresses earth’s fragility and its dynamism at counterbalancing stress on its resources through his continuous experiments with various media. no blue no green alludes to the ocean’s significant role in sustaining [...]