Arts
The Schumacher Gallery
Challenging and Approachable Contemporary Exhibitions
The Schumacher Gallery at Westover School facilitates dialogue between students, professional artists, and the community through challenging and approachable contemporary exhibitions. The gallery provides a space where viewers can make meaningful connections between artwork, curriculum, and culture. Through its three to four rotating exhibitions each year featuring professional and student artists in varying media, the gallery functions as a viewing and instructional space for an inquiring student body and the school's surrounding and varied communities. The gallery engages our exhibiting artists with the community in a variety of ways, from individual class collaborations to course collaborations to community-wide art projects and installations.
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Recent Shows
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Jacquelyn Gleisner: I Yield the Balance of My Time
This exhibition brings together three ongoing bodies of work, connected through my use of patterns and bright colors. Explicitly created on paper — an accessible yet fragile material — the scrolls draw from quilt patterns and other types of handiwork, celebrating these forms on a bold scale. The knots are representations of unity and complexity: they are functional, spiritual, and ambiguous at the same time — a hopeful metaphor for our confusing times. The final series began during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic when I started incorporating short expressions that I had heard, read, or encountered. Most of the short phrases have a positive undertone: they are personal mantras or words of affirmation. Together, these works consider the overlap between text and textiles, words and worth. -
Catherine Solari: Collaborative Play
Solari is an interdisciplinary artist and educator, working throughout New England. Her work investigates physical, psychological and social spaces to echo the norms, roles, and rules of human behavior. She is particularly interested in the transition between child and adult states of body and mind. Through sculpture and her ongoing series, Collaborative Play, Solari aims to reactivate our capacity for playfulness beyond childhood. -
Westover Community Art Show
At the end of the year the Schumacher Gallery presents artwork made by the creative members of our community. All faculty, staff, students and alums are encouraged to submit their work. All mediums are accepted and all are encouraged to think broadly about creativity and how they express it. A call for submissions will be coming out this winter.
Be Boldly You
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