Directions to Student Union Art Gallery
The Student Union Art Gallery is located on the lowest floor of the Student Union in Room 235, between the Craft Center and the Black Box Theater. The Student Union is near the Campus Pond, between the W.E.B. DuBois Library and the Campus Center at Hotel UMass.
Once inside the Student Union, elevators are available (past the SORC office and to the left) which will take patrons to the lower level. Alternatively, visitors can use the platform steps or the tunnel from the Campus Center to access the lower level.
The closest bus stop is the PVTA Morrill Science Center/Integrated Learning Center stop, which is serviced by the 30, 31, and 33 bus. For guests arriving by car, covered parking is available for a small fee at the Campus Center Parking Garage. For additional instruction, please refer to the TikTok showing How to Get to SUAG!
A SPACE FOR ALL
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Justice, and Belonging are paramount to the Gallery’s vision and success. In every aspect of its operation, SUAG is focused on promoting a culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging both on campus and in creative spaces at UMass-Amherst.
As stated in the 2023-2024 Strategic Plan, SUAG is actively taking steps to increase the accessibility of the gallery, including implementing audio guides and using more accessible wall text. To stay up-t0-date with these and other initiatives at SUAG, please join our mailing list or follow us on social media! If you have accessibility questions or concerns, please reach out via one of the methods below.
The University of Massachusetts Amherst acknowledges that it was founded and built on the unceded homelands of the Pocumtuc Nation on the land of the Norrwutuck community.
We begin with gratitude for nearby waters and lands, including the Kwinitekw -- the southern portion of what’s now called the Connecticut River. We recognize these lands and waters as important Relations with which we are all interconnected and depend on to sustain life and wellbeing.
The Norrwutuck community was one of many Pocumtuc Indian towns, including the Tribal seat at Pocumtuc (in present day Deerfield), Agawam (Springfield), and Woronoco (Westfield) to name just a few. The Pocumtuc, who had connections with these lands for millennia, are part of a vast expanse of Algonqiuan relations. Over 400 years of colonization, Pocumtuc Peoples were displaced. Many joined their Algonquian relatives to the east, south, west and north— extant communities of Wampanoag, including Aquinnah, Herring Pond, and Mashpee, Massachusetts; the Nipmuc with a reservation at Grafton/Hassanamisco, Massachusetts; the Narragansett in Kingstown, Rhode Island; Schagticoke, Mohegan and Pequot Peoples in Connecticut; the Abenaki and other Nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy extending northward into Canada; and the Stockbridge Munsee Mohican of New York and Massachusetts, who were removed to Wisconsin in the 19th century. Over hundreds of years of removal, members of Southern New England Tribes would make the journey home to tend important places and renew their connections to their ancestral lands. Such care and connection to land and waters continues to the present day.
Today, Indigenous Nations in southern New England continue to employ diverse strategies to resist ongoing colonization, genocide, and erasure begun by the English, French, Dutch, Portuguese and other European Nations, and that continued when Tribal homelands became part of the United States. Native Americans from Tribal Nations across the U.S. and Indigenous peoples from around the world also travel into these Pocumtuc homelands to live and work. This land has always been and always will be, Native Land.
We also acknowledge that the University of Massachusetts Amherst is a Land Grant University. As part of the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862, Tribal lands from 82 Native Nations west of the Mississippi were sold to provide the resources to found and build this university.
This Land Acknowledgement is the first step in the university’s commitment to practice intellectual humility whilst working with Tribal Nations toward a better shared future on Turtle Island. We aim to foster understanding, deep respect, and honor for sovereign Tribal Nations; to develop relationships of reciprocity; and to be inclusive of Native perspectives and thriving Native Nations far into the future. Members of Massachusetts-based Tribal Nations who are kin to the historic Pocumtuc contributed their insights in composing this acknowledgement -- namely Tribal representatives from Mashpee, Aquinnah, and Stockbridge Munsee. As an active first step toward decolonization, we encourage you to learn more about the Indigenous peoples on whose homelands UMass Amherst now resides on and the Indigenous homelands on which you live and work.