Herter Art Gallery

The oldest exhibition space on campus, Herter Art Gallery is a significant landmark in the University’s commitment to public education as well as the cultural history of the region. Herter Art Gallery supports the teaching mission of the UMass Amherst Art Department, to which it belongs, by supporting, pioneering, and redefining contemporary art.

Our Mission

The visual arts have a unique capacity to create shared experiences, with galleries becoming in the process, powerful transmitters of ideas and shapers of values in society. Exhibition facilities such as Herter, can therefore become ideal places for achieving this. it is the mission of Herter Art Gallery to establish a forum between the humanities and sciences for the discussion of important issues that can contribute to the intellectual life of the university, and the larger community which it serves.