CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Events Related to This Exhibit:
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Opening Reception: Evening of June 26, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Panel Discussion with community members and historians: July 12 at 2:00 pm
Closing Community Reception: Afternoon of August 2, at 2:00 pm
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Trigger Warning/
Archival records often reflect the language and assumptions of those who produced them, including terms and classifications that diminish, distort, or overwrite Native identities. These documents also contain derogatory and dehumanizing language used to describe Black people, revealing how racial categories were constructed and enforced. Such labels were never neutral—they were fluid, inconsistent, and shaped to serve colonial interests. In some cases, Indigenous identity was deliberately minimized or obscured, while anti-Black language was used to justify enslavement, exploitation, and the rigid hierarchy imposed by colonial systems.

Hidden Census

ON DISPLAY: JUNE 24, 2026 - AUGUST 2, 2026
This pop-up exhibit brings forward the lives of Black and Nipmuc people in Central Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War. These individuals were often reduced, misnamed, or omitted from the historical record. Drawing from censuses, military lists, tax rolls, and other archival materials, the project reinterprets these documents not as neutral records, but as systems that both reveal and obscure. Through data visualizations, relationship maps, and interpretive storytelling, the exhibit traces names, labor, kinship, and presence across fragmented sources. It highlights women sustaining families, men serving on land and at sea, multi-generational kin networks, and individuals whose lives appear only briefly, if at all, in the archive. The installation features a traveling exhibit alongside original artwork and contributions from descendants of Revolutionary-era participants, grounding the work in both historical research and living memory.

​These pieces extend the archive, offering knowledge, interpretation, and connection that the written record alone cannot hold. An accompanying digital platform expands the exhibit beyond the gallery space, providing access to transcribed records, interactive visualizations, and educational materials for classrooms and the public. The website allows visitors to explore the data more deeply, trace connections across records, and engage with the project as an evolving, community-informed resource.

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Power of the Practice

ON DISPLAY: AUGUST 5 - 29, 2026
This is an exhibition presented by Mickey Voas (Mickey Lee Creative Studios) and Margie Breault (Prism of Brilliance).
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Their mission is to show the power of energetic practices through multiple mediums and the potency of those experiences to be felt through images and poetry. 

Step into an immersive experience where you will be held in the synergy of sound and ignited by the power of the practice. Explore the direct evidence of how it shines through facial features. Read poetry that holds the deep emotional transformations that people feel through a bio-scalar activation. This exhibition will have two immersive experiences. During the immersions, you will have access to a recorded version of the mediation to really weave you into the experience.

August 5th Power of the practice Event rsvp

August 19th Yoga Immersion Event RSVP

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The Canvas Comeback
​Mark Flanagan

​ON DISPLAY: SEPTEMBER 2-12, 2026
In honor of Suicide Prevention Month, the art exhibit titled “The Canvas Comeback” will be on display at JMAC. Close to 200 original works of art will line the walls, with pieces on sale buy one, get one free. The range of Mark’s artwork is something to behold, from hauntingly personal dark pieces to vibrant, colorful, and inspiring artwork. He, who has survived a suicide attempt three years ago, will be available during gallery hours for anyone who would like to speak with him.


The exhibit reception will take place on Saturday night, September 12th, from 5–8 p.m., featuring live music by the NYC-based duo Counter Service.

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Gilded in Two Suns
A Journey in Light, Oil and Self

​Piya Samant

ON DISPLAY: SEPTEMBER 16-26, 2026
"Gilded in Two Suns" is a series of self-portraits inspired by Renaissance and Baroque painting traditions, explored through the lens of a South Asian American experience. Having spent half her life in India and the other half in the United States, Piya Samant's work reflects the space between heritage and reinvention, memory and identity. Through dramatic light, rich symbolism, and intimate portraiture, the exhibition becomes a visual dialogue between two cultures, two histories, and the evolving self.

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