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Looking for something hands-on and creative for the kids to do during February Vacation week? We've got you. Inspired by the Embellish Me exhibition, this three-day workshop invites students to explore how artists use pattern, decoration, and layering to create imaginative works. Each day brings a new project full of joy and color.

The Currier presents eight large-scale paintings by New England artist Wendy Edwards (b. 1950) in the museum’s new Concourse Gallery. Let yourself be taken in by the grandeur of these sweeping canvasses, depicting abstract flora and human forms rendered with rich and surprising colors. With a commitment to expressivity and the luscious material qualities of oil paint, these works assert Edwards’ place within a lineage shaped by Edouard Manet, Vincent van Gogh, and Georgia O’Keeffe

During the 1970s, artists in Los Angeles and New York boldly challenged conventional creative norms by pushing the boundaries of form, color, and meaning in their art. This show celebrates this generation of trailblazing artists who championed color, pattern, and craft techniques traditionally associated with women artists.

The works in this gallery were created at a moment when European powers were taking control of regions across much of the globe. Art played a crucial role in that process. Paintings, prints, and decorative objects helped translate the empire into images of order, beauty, and religious morality. In these images, suffering and hardship are rarely explicit. Landscapes appear fertile and serene, masking even when they depict plantation economies built on the backs of enslaved labor. Religious imagery frames colonial expansion as righteous morality.