Upcoming exhibits

Let’s be honest — things feel overwhelming right now.

The world moves fast. The headlines don’t stop. Life feels loud, uncertain, confusing, and sometimes hopeful all at once.

What’s Going On? invites artists to reflect on how they are emotionally and creatively living in today’s world — with everything happening.

This exhibition centers real human experience over opinion. We are interested in honesty, curiosity, resilience, and how artists are making sense of “right now.”

Summer — especially in a place like Newport — offers permission to relax, indulge, and imagine that everything is fine, even when life beneath the surface remains complicated.

Let’s Pretend explores the ways we use beauty, leisure, and seasonal rhythm to momentarily step away from reality. Set in the context of Newport’s summer culture, this exhibit invites us to slow down, breathe deeply, and savor the world around us — sandy beaches, sailboats on the water, salty air, glowing sunsets, and oysters at a favorite local spot.

This exhibition celebrates both the relief and the complexity of escapism, honoring the ways summer gives us space to rest, reconnect, and feel alive.

Artists are encouraged to interpret the theme through their own lived experiences and personal relationship to Newport summer.

After awareness and escape, what does it mean to return to yourself?

Coming Home explores resilience, restoration, and the process of learning how to hold life’s complexities with steadiness and self-compassion.

This exhibition focuses on grounding, growth, and finding safety — internally and externally.

Artists are invited to reflect on healing in all its forms and what “home” means beyond a physical place.