Discover Six New Exhibitions in March at BMAC in Brattleboro
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Fresh, new exhibitions are coming to Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC)—and you don’t want to miss them.
The new exhibitions will open on Saturday, March 22, bringing a world of imagination, creativity, and culture to Brattleboro.
And that’s just the beginning.
Join BMAC starting at 5 pm for an opening party where you can mix and mingle with the exhibiting artists and curators, enjoy music by DJ Okyn, savor free food from Peruvian-inspired Amaru Gourmet, and sip a drink from a cash bar by Stone Church.
It promises to be a fabulous night of art, conversation, and community.
New Exhibitions: What’s on View?
Let’s start with a fan favorite.
Glasstastic: A Kaleidoscope of Imaginary Creatures
Kids in grades K-6 dream up the wildest, most fantastical creatures imaginable… and professional glass artists from New England bring them to life.
That’s Glasstastic—a biennial favorite that’s back for its seventh edition, featuring 21 incredible glass creatures selected from over 1,000 submissions from kids across the U.S.
Glass artist Marta Bernbaum of Brattleboro loves the challenge.
“It’s a joy to behold the creatures the kids dream up,” she says, “and it’s always a fun challenge to figure out how to turn them into glass.”
Want to see the magic happen?
Join BMAC for a live glassblowing demonstration on Saturday, April 26, when artists Chris Sherwin and Nick Kekic will transform two more kids’ creatures into shimmering glass sculptures.
Dream Homes: Where Monsters Roam
Things get a little eerie in the South Gallery, where internationally best-selling Danish illustrator, writer, and film director John Kenn Mortensen showcases his hauntingly intricate pen-and-ink drawings and his iconic “sticky monsters”—drawings meticulously crafted on yellow Post-it notes.
It’s Mortensen’s first U.S. exhibition, and you can hear from the artist himself in an online talk with BMAC Director Danny Lichtenfeld on Thursday, April 24.
BMAC’s Director of Exhibitions, Sarah Freeman, sees a powerful connection between Mortensen’s creatures and the wild, whimsical beings in “Glasstastic.”
“Mortensen’s fantastic creatures and the wild menagerie on view in ‘Glasstastic’ remind us that we live in a quirky, colorful world where everyone has a place and deserves to be celebrated for their uniqueness.”
Contemporary Ukrainian Folk Art: The Matrix of Resilience
In the Ticket Gallery, tradition meets resistance.
Curated by New England-based Ukrainian ethnographer Sophia Sushailo, this exhibition features three Ukrainian artists—Tetyana Konoval, Hanna Oliynyk, and Rustem Skybin—who use traditional art forms like embroidery, painting, ceramics, and Pysanky (Ukrainian egg decoration) to preserve their cultural heritage.
Sushailo explains:
“Despite Ukraine’s tumultuous history and the systematic cultural genocide inflicted by colonial authoritarian regimes, seeds of hope have continued to germinate among artists.”
Want to try your hand at Pysanky?
Join us on Saturday, April 5, for two egg-decorating workshops, or take a virtual tour of the exhibition with Sushailo and the artists on Saturday, May 17.
Infinite Passage: Migration, Memory, and Belonging
In a stunning retrospective, Guyanese-born, Brooklyn-based artist Carl E. Hazlewood explores themes of migration and movement through paintings, drawings, and installations—50 works in total.
Co-curated by Serubiri Moses and K. Anthony Jones, this exhibition draws from history, the Middle Passage, and the landscapes of Hazlewood’s native Guyana.
On Tuesday, June 3, join the artist and curators in an online discussion about the exhibition’s deeper themes.
And don’t miss the Grumbling Gryphons Traveling Children’s Theater’s interactive performance of “Anansi, the Trickster Spider: A West African Folktale” on Sunday, June 15—a perfect way to bring the storytelling and cultural threads of Hazlewood’s work to life.
Truth IS A Verb! The Art of Nye Ffarrabas
Ready for something totally unexpected?
This exhibition showcases the wildly creative, not-easily-categorized work of 92-year-old Brattleboro resident Nye Ffarrabas, whose career dates back to the 1960s Fluxus movement—a radical art community that blurred the lines between art and life.
Curated by Mark Waskow, the exhibition includes text-based works, instructions, books, and three-dimensional objects that challenge the very definition of art.
Ffarrabas and Waskow will discuss the exhibition on Thursday, May 8.
Then, on Saturday, June 21, come celebrate Ffarrabas’s 93rd birthday at a daylong Fluxus birthday party at BMAC!
Wish You Were Here: The Surreal World of Yeon Ji Yoo
In the Mary Sommer Room, Korean-born, NYC-based artist Yeon Ji Yoo presents a thought-provoking installation of paintings and sculptures that explore the precarious nature of the American Dream.
According to curator David Rios Ferreira, Yoo’s work is:
“… masterfully balancing beauty and unease, drawing us into a surreal yet familiar environment.”
Meet Yoo and Rios Ferreira in an online talk on Tuesday, May 20 to dive deeper into the themes of the exhibition.
Plan Your Visit
BMAC will be closed from March 9-21 for exhibition installation.
The new exhibitions officially open on March 22 and remain on view through early July, except for “Glasstastic” and “Dream Homes,” which run through Nov. 1.
So, what are you waiting for?
Mark your calendar, join BMAC for the opening party on March 22, and experience art that challenges, delights, and inspires.
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