Mazmanian Gallery

Remapped Remembered Remade

September 2 - October 26, 2026
Panel discussion with the artists, moderated by curator, Ellie Krakow: Oct 26 at 4pm, followed by a closing reception 5-6pm

Remapped, Remembered, Remade brings together artists Rachelle Mozman Solano, Monika Sziladi, and Jonathan VanDyke in an exhibition that considers collage – broadly defined – as a method for grappling with place, time, and transformation. Across distinct practices, each artist engages processes of assembling, fragmenting, and reconfiguring materials and images to explore how identities and histories are formed, layered, and continually revised.

Swiacki Children’s Literature Festival Exhibition

Exhibition: November 3 - December 11, 2026
Festival: Thursday November 5, 3:30-9pm, with gallery reception 3:30-5pm

In conjunction with the Swiacki Children’s Literature Festival, Mazmanian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of illustrations by local illustrators and our very own illustration Professor, Paul Yalowitz.

Annual Juried Student Show

January 19 - February 19, 2027

Each year Mazmanian Gallery invites an outside juror to curate an exhibition of Framingham State University student artwork. This is a wonderful opportunity to see the breadth of creativity on our campus. Students from all majors are encouraged to apply. This year’s juror is Rachelle Mozman Solano.

Bob Alter: Career Survey Retirement Exhibition

February 22 - March 23, 2027
Mazmanian Gallery is thrilled to show the remarkable work of one of our beloved photography professors, Bob Alter. This exhibition will include works from throughout his career and the is a celebration of the meaningful work he has done in our community. 

NASAD Student Exhibition

April 3 - 10, 2027

Capstone Student Shows

April 15 - May 7, 2027
(exact dates TBD)

Students in the department of Art, Design, & Art History at Framingham State University are immersed in a collaborative, innovative and interdisciplinary learning environment which focuses on academic excellence in the areas of visual art, design, history, and art education. As part of a liberal arts institution, the faculty encourages hybrid and tangential relations with other fields as a way of aiding the student in identifying the most effective way to articulate their individual vision. The program is structured to help students to pursue creative endeavors while also imparting specific skills appropriate to the various disciplines. Students who graduate with a degree in Studio Art select a concentration from Ceramics, Graphic Design, Illustration, Painting, Photography, Printmaking or Sculpture.

The Capstone Experience in the Department of Art, Design, & Art History is designed to support students to work intensively on creating a cohesive body of work in their chosen concentration. Through their final year of study, students receive feedback on this work from their peers, faculty, and professionals in the field. The degree culminates with a public exhibition in Mazmanian Gallery.

2025-26

• Judd Schiffman: Belly of the Void, February 25 - April 1, 2026
• 2026 Juried Student Show, juried by Judd Schiffman, Assistant Professor of Ceramics, Providence College
• James E. Ransome: Good Joy, November 5 - December 8, 2025 
• Shift – Space – Return: Ileana Doble Hernandez, Mary Kostman, Janet Montecalvo, Alice Ridley, and David Roane, October 1 - 31, 2025
• Audrey Kali: Existential Bugs: A Crisis of Compassion, Conscience, and Creativity, September 2 - 26, 2025

2024-25

• Reciprocity, February 26 - April 5, 2025
• 2025 Juried Student Show, juried by David Roane, Artist and Educator, Noble and Greenough School
• Duncan Tonatiuh: Codices, Past and Present, November 6 - December 11, 2024
• Cathy Della Lucia: Drawing in H Mart, September 4 – Oct 25, 2024

2023-24

• Lisa Iglesias: Chivalry Timbers, February 27 – April 5, 2024
• 2024 Juried Student Show, juried by Cathy Della Lucia, Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Boston College
• Ekua Holmes: Black is a Rainbow Color, October 30-December 12, 2023
• Susan Metrican: No Head No Tail, September 13 – October 20, 2023

2022-23

• Record Keeper: Paul Briggs, Elshafei Dafalla, Megumi Naitoh, and Adero Willard, February 15 - March 10, 2023
• 2023 Juried Student Show, juried by Soe Lin Post, Director of Design at Wellesley College
• Framingham Photography: Robert Alter, Ashley McDowell, and Leslie Starobin, November 15 - December 11, 2023
• Raul the Third, October 11 - November 4, 2022
• Soe Lin Post: Typosonic, September 2 - 30, 2022

2021-22

• Hernease Davis: “...we’ll have to make new love.” March 1 - 31, 2022
• 2022 Juried Student Show, juried by Lynne Cooney, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries at Montserrat College of Art
• Keri Straka and Tim McDonald: Internal Blooming and the Ancient Future, November 15 - December 10, 2021
• Sophie Blackall & Javaka Steptoe, October 11 - November 6, 2021
• Arpilleras From the Collection of Marjorie Agosín, September 1 – October 1, 2021

2020-21

• 2021 Juried Student Show, juried by Edwin González-Ojeda, Artist and Educator, Bronx Museum of the Arts
• Tuesday Talks: An Art and Design Lecture Series. During Covid, when our campus was engaged in remote learning, in place of our exhibition programming we hosted a remote lecture series.
  • Edwin González-Ojeda, March 16, 2021
  • Jessica Bellamy, December 1, 2020
  • Heidi Lau, November 17, 2020
  • Amy Khoshbin, October 27, 2020
  • Tim McDonald, October 13, 2020
  • Janine Antoni, September 29, 2020
  • Hernease Davis, September 15, 2020

2019-2020

• Gina Seipel: New World Reconsidered, February 24 – March 20, 2020
• 2020 Juried Student Show, juried by Sam Toabe, Director of University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston
• Boston Printmakers 2019 Student Print Exhibition, November 17 - December 13, 2019
• David Wiesner: In the Making, November 4 - 8, 2019
• Esteban del Valle: Which Ridge is Next, October 3 – 25, 2019
• Katherine Behar: Backups, September 3 – 25, 2019

Earlier:

• 2019 Juried Student Show, juried by Beth Kantrowitz, Independent Curator and Co-Director of Drive-By Projects
• B. Lynch: Extravagantly Absurd, November 13 - December 14, 2018
• The Illustrations of Wendell Minor, November 5 - 9, 2018
• Michael Dixon: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same, October 1- November 2, 2018
• Ellie Krakow: Mirrored Back, September 3 - 28, 2018
• Erika Ranee: Zip-A-Dee-A, September 6 - 29, 2017

Gallery Directors

Ellie Krakow (2019-2026)

Tim McDonald (2006-2019)

Gallery Interns

Erin Gemme, Eda Lindstrom and Ziyaun Zhang (2025-2026)

Eliza Gaston and Marcus Falcao (2024-2025)

Zen Crosby and Aiden O’Rourke (2023-2024)

Jen Koeller and Emily Monaco (2022- 2023)

Jenna Billian, Danille Faria De Pontes, and Jen Hensel (2021-2022)

Haley Donahue and Sam Coombs (2020-2021)

Flavia Arcuri and Casey Wheeler (2019-2020)