PAST EXHIBITIONS
Please Note: This Page Does Not Represent All of Our Past Exhibitions!
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Power of the PracticeAUGUST 5 - 29, 2026
This was an exhibition presented by Mickey Voas (Mickey Lee Creative Studios) and Margie Breault (Prism of Brilliance).
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. This exhibition allowed patrons to step into an immersive experience where they were held in the synergy of sound and ignited by the power of the practice. It explored the direct evidence of how it shines through facial features. Alongside photographs was poetry that holds the deep emotional transformations that the models felt through a bio-scalar activation. Artwork was also accompanied by the soundscore of the recorded meditation the models experienced. |
Hidden CensusJUNE 24, 2026 - AUGUST 2, 2026
This pop-up exhibit brought 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 traced 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 featured 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. |
Want to know where this traveling exhibit is going next? Check out their website! |
Presented by Unity Street Soccer, Goals Beyond The Game (GBTG) was not just an exhibition; it was an experience that begins in the streets and culminates in the gallery, bringing together art, culture, and the global language of football (soccer) in one powerful, unifying moment. It was a cultural exhibition exporing how football (soccer) transcends sport to become a force for identity, belonging, resilience, and collective power.
Inspired by the upcoming documentary: More Than A Goal, GBTG reflected on Africa's extraordinary journey from the 1966 FIFA World Cup boycott in protest of injustice to the historic qualification of ten (10) African nations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup - the continent's largest representation in tournament history. |
Goals Beyond the Game
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MAY 13 - 23, 2026
Artist Xiang Li and her daughter and creative partner Fei Wu created an immersive, multi-sensory experience celebrating the art, culture, and stories of Chinese empresses— brought vividly to life through silk scroll paintings, storytelling, tea tasting, incense, and more. This two-week exhibition featured Xiang Li’s internationally recognized Chinese Empress Collection, created using traditional techniques with mineral pigments and gemstone-infused watercolors on 100% silk. In addition to her empress works, Xiang debuted a selection from her Panda and Chinese Zodiac series. These pieces were playful, accessible, and beloved by children, teens, and adults alike. |
Multi-Sensory Chinese Empress Art and Culture Experience
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Molly's World Exhibition
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MAY 13 - 23, 2026
For the first ever time, we held an exhibition in the JMAC Salon! We utilized movable art walls to have Molly Belanger, a local 9-year-old emerging artist, present her debut exhibition. Molly's World welcomed everyone to step inside the fun mind of the artist and open her world of art to the public! |
APRIL 29 - May 9, 2026
MILK was an interdisciplinary dance project by Kristin Wagner/Bodies Moving, premiering as a gallery exhibition at the Jean McDonough Arts Center’s Worcester PopUp space in Spring 2026. Drawing from personal experience and community dialogue, MILK explores the intersections between infant feeding and disordered eating and the tension between nourishment, control, and care. As both a mother and a woman in recovery from disordered eating, Wagner examines how feeding — an act often described as “the most natural thing in the world” — can stir deep emotional complexity. Through contemporary dance, sound, and portraiture, MILK reflects on the intimate labor of feeding, the cultural weight placed on bodies, and the shared struggles and joys of sustaining life. The installation features projected dance performance, an original sound score incorporating interviews with families, and portraits of those who shared their stories throughout the project’s creation. This experience was made possible by a 2026 JMAC Access Grant |
MILK
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CHASING COMFORT
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APRIL 15-25, 2026
Chasing Comfort was an exhibition of 30 pieces that illustrate items found in nature and everyday life.When life gets stressful or hard, I turn on my favorite music, such as Lizzy McAlpine. I close my eyes and remember comforting memories. Every day, there are challenges that we face as individuals and as a society. It is extremely hard to escape when there is a phone at our fingertips replaying difficult moments. When we chase comfort, we are seeking happiness, safety, warmth, and love. Through this exhibit, I capture moments and objects that make the heart slow down when it feels like it is going to beat out of one's chest. Maybe chasing comfort is a way for us to feel something greater than "us". |
APRIL 1-11, 2026
Landscapes of Home and Maps of the Heart was an exhibition and community gathering that explores how Worcester residents with a history of migration in the last few decades define, visualize, and experience “home.” Through large-format mixed media portraits, a series of graphic novel vignettes, and multimedia elements including video, sound, and symbolic objects, the exhibition presents personal and collective stories of belonging, memory, and identity. |
Landscapes of Home and Maps of the Heart
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A Message to the Gods
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MARCH 18-28, 2026
An exhibit inspired by Taino Cosmology and created in dedication to Indigenous cultures everywhere. Featuring visual art and poetry, the show uplifted ancestral wisdom and cultural identity. This was an exhibition of offerings, protest, gratitude, and sacred remembering. It gathered artists who dare to speak beyond the veil to ancestors, to spirit, to future generations, to the unseen forces that shape our becoming. The exhibition happened alongside an evening of poetry, art, and music with Legendary Artist, Ursula Rucker, also hosted by BrujaTheVillain and The Poets Cauldron, with special guest performances by Melo Green and Essma Litim. It was a night of togetherness as audience and performers become part of a living tapestry and took part in the magic of stories, rhythm, and ancestral memory. BrujaTheVillain, both participating artist and curator for the exhibition and poetry event, was a 25/26 recipient of the JMAC Access Grant. Both the exhibition and the poetry event was partially funded by the grant. |
JANUARY 28, 2026 - FEBRUARY 14, 2026
This was JMAC's first curated exhibition and it happened in conjunction with The Hanover Theatre Rep's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Visitors and artists were invited to step into a dreamscape where glitter meets grit, fairies wear leather, and moonlight glows neon. Radical Reverie//Raging Revolt was a group exhibition of 33 artists that reimagined the enchanted forest of A Midsummer Night's Dream as a punk queer nightclub called The Wood. Artists in this exhibition explored the tension between fantasy and rebellion - the dreamy and the defiant. Think whimsical chaos, lush romance with a snarl, a scene clashing with electric color, and the magic of romance, intimacy, and passion fused with underground attitude. |
RADICAL REVERIE//RAGING REVOLT
Participating Artists:
Alexander Castro - Alex O'Neil* - Alexander Nguyen* - Alyssa Soutter* - Cameron Barker - Casey Bailey* - Chris Diani - Clay Tull* - Declan Riordan - Edward Lilley* - Elisa Abatsis - Falcon Laina - Joan Rooks - Katie Croke - Kiki Shu - Leo McNamee - Lucas Teed* - Madilyn Tomaszewski - Mason Bernier - Megan Hyde - M. Accardi - Michelle de Celia Lucia e Genvieve* - Moss Blackburn* - Onyx* - Ping Zheng - Rachel Whipple* - Ren Saucier - Sandy Edwards* - Shane Connolly* - Skye Donaldson* - Valentina Ventura XX* - Will O. Valdes (W.O.V) *Denotes Worcester County Artists |