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Modernist Architecture Tour of the Campus by Professor Rohan

Saturday, October 29, 2022

  In the generation following the Second World War, the University of Massachusetts Amherst engaged in one of the most ambitious academic building programs in the United States. Following a 1963 ma...

Illuminating Brutalism: A Projection Art and Music Experience

Saturday, October 29, 2022

  In conjunction with University of Massachusetts Amherst’s 2022 Homecoming Weekend, UMassBRUT is partnering with the Bromery Center for the Arts on a large public event centered on projecting artw...

Cat Dawson talks on Monumentality without Monuments

Friday, October 28, 2022

  Monuments telegraph ideological values through formal characteristics like impermeable materials, larger-than-life scale, and public placement that reinforce those principles. While the form has ...

The late Nelson Stevens, who taught art at UMass for 3 decades, has two of his historic murals recreated

Sunday, October 16, 2022

  Stevens, who spent more than three decades teaching in the art department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as well as the W.E.B. DuBois Department of Afro-American Studies and whose wor...

Second Annual Ray Johnson (Un)Birthday Celebration

Thursday, October 13, 2022

A graduate of the MA program in Art History at UMass Amherst, Julie Thomson will co-host on Thursday, October 13 from 6:30-7:30 pm a Zoom webinar commemorating the birthday of the late twentieth...