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We are open M-F 10-5 when there is an active exhibition (check our main landing page) or by appointment during the acadmeic year.
The McCarthy Art Gallery is the SMC Art & Design program's primary exhibition space. It is located in the McCarthy Art Center on the campus of Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, VT (map).
Our mission is to showcase a diversity of regional, national and international contemporary artists. We are particularly interested in artists who are committed to a research-based practice and artists who are focused on social and environmental issues. We encourage visiting artists to use the space for experimentation, especially for those interested in the space as an installation site. We are committed to exhibiting work that interacts with local or regional sites and subjects. The vast majority of our visiting artist exhibitions are by invitation, but we do periodically review unsolicited proposals.
The gallery hosts visiting artist exhibitions by professional contemporary artists each fall and host solo exhibitions by our graduating seniors every spring. Our gallery is primarily supported by the Marc and Dana vanderHeyden fund for Fine Arts and the McCarthy Fund for Fine Arts.
Professor Brian Collier is the Curator & Director of the gallery, a role he has held since 2013. He manages a team of student workers who assist with all gallery operations.
The current gallery and art on campus team is:
Abbey Gyurko, Lead Gallery Assistant
Eden Milcznkowski, Gallery/Art on Campus Assistant
Sage McCabe, Gallery/Art on Campus Assistant
Mia Simonici, Media and Publicity Assistant
Sonnet Lawson, Website and Image Archive Assistant