Gallery Program
The Joanne Toor Cummings Gallery, located in Cummings Arts Center, is free and open to the public.
Adaptation: 2025 Art Department Faculty Exhibition
The exhibition features the work of our talented art faculty, and explores the central theme of adaptation—a process of change in response to new conditions. The works on display reflect how artists, much like all living things, navigate challenges and embrace new perspectives to create and evolve.
On view: September 8 - October 17, 2025
Gallery hours: M-F 9am-5pm; S/S 1pm-4pm
Reception: Saturday, September 27, 2025. 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Related programming: Gallery Talks with the Artists
Friday, September 19, 4:15pm - 5:15pm. Tim McDowell and Annika Tucksmith
Monday, September 22, 4:15pm - 5:15pm. Andrea Wollensak, Denise Pelletier, and Nadav Assor
Tuesday, September 30, 4:15pm - 5:15pm. Amanda Russhell Wallace and Greg Bailey
Unbodied, curated by Art SAB
A student-curated show exploring in and beyond human forms and vessels in figurative and literal ways.
On view: November 4 - November 21, 2025
Gallery hours: M-F 9am-5pm; S/S 1pm-4pm
Reception: Friday, November 7, 2025. 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Borderlands: Soft Margins, Hard Truths
Borderlands: Soft Margins, Hard Truths dismantles the social constructs of race, space, and place, imagining an end to the living legacies of colonialism that bind the three.
Curated by nico w. okoro in collaboration with the CCSRE 20th Anniversary Celebration.
Featured artists: Ophelia Arc, Nic[o] Brierre-Aziz, Alexis Callender, Adger Cowans, Lewis Derogene, Adama Delphine Fawundu, Shabez Jamal, Fidelis Joseph, Nsenga Knight, Ron Norsworthy, Theda Sandiford, Toby Sisson, Dina Nur Satti, and Amanda Russhell Wallace.
On view: January 20 - March 6, 2026
Gallery hours: M-F 9am-5pm; S/S 1pm-4pm
Reception: Monday, January 26, 2026. 4:30pm - 6:30pm
ALL TOO HUMAN
Special Projects from The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology 18th Triennial Symposium Exhibition
On view: March 26 - March 28, 2026
Gallery hours: M-F 9am-5pm; S/S 1pm-4pm
All-Student Exhibition
Curated by the Art SAB
On view: April 6 - April 18, 2026
Gallery hours: M-F 9am-2pm; S/S Closed
Reception: Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
2026 Senior Art Major Thesis Exhibition
On view: May 1 - May 17, 2026
Gallery hours: M-F 9am-2pm; S/S Closed
Reception: Friday, May 1, 2026, 5:00pm - 7:00pm. Awards presentation at 6pm.
The Leo & Ann Higdon Annual Art Awards
Established in 2007 by former Connecticut College President Leo I. Higdon and his wife Ann, avid art collectors, several prizes are given to outstanding art students.
Leo & Ann Higdon Award - First Prize
Mark Warren, inaugural recipient, 2007
Samantha Wickman, 2008
Madeleine Ignon, 2009
Julia Byrne, 2014
The Leo & Ann Higdon Merit Award
Julia Pope, Dave Shanfield, Hallie Selinger, Georgia Naumann, 2014
The Leo & Ann Higdon Purchase Award
Wai Ying Zhao, 2014