STRONG ECLECTIC EXHIBITS
Scott Strong Hawk Foster
Central Massachusetts Artist Initiative
November 6, 2024–May 11, 2025
Sidney and Rosalie Rose Gallery (321)
“My ethos as an Indigenous artist is to represent my family and my community authentically, to record compelling images that make known the true stories of our heritage, values, and oral traditions, and to attest to how we are thriving today. This is ‘the why’ behind what I do.”
– Scott Strong Hawk Foster
Scott Strong Hawk Foster is a Native American photographer whose proud roots include Hassanamisco Nipmuc, Mohegan, and Cherokee lineage. His Central Massachusetts Artist Initiative (CMAI) installation exhibits several photographs from his ongoing series, Ways of My Ancestors – We Are Still Here, which highlights the beauty, pride, and resilience of the Eastern Woodlands People of Southern New England. The selected photographs will predominantly feature Nipmuc(k) people, who are indigenous to Central Massachusetts as well as to northern Rhode Island and Connecticut.
The Central Massachusetts Artist Initiative is supported by the Don and Mary Melville Contemporary Art Fund and John M. Nelson Fund.
Asian Art
Ongoing
Travel around the world through hundreds of years of history with the art of China, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, and the Islamic world. Spanning much of the first floor, the Asian art galleries tell a multitude of stories through breathtaking jade sculptures, intricate metalworking, centuries of ceramics, and more.
Arts of West, South, and Southeast Asia
Ongoing
Gallery 106
The newly redesigned Arts of West, South, and Southeast Asia Gallery displays recent acquisitions and rarely seen works on paper, offering new context to the history and geopolitics of these artworks.
Reimagined displays bring the impactful art in this gallery to life in new ways. Tour the newly redesigned Arts of West, South, and Southeast Asia Gallery with Yagnaseni Datta, the Museum’s Sohail and Mona Masood Curator of Asian and Islamic Art, as she introduces the space and shares one of her favorite objects now on view.
Tour the newly redesigned Arts of West, South, and Southeast Asia Gallery with Yagnaseni Datta, the Museum’s Sohail and Mona Masood Curator of Asian and Islamic Art, as she introduces the space and shares one of her favorite objects now on view.
While We Build
On view from February 1, 2025
Upper Frances L. Hiatt Gallery (215)
The Worcester Art Museum is undergoing an unprecedented transformation. We are currently renovating and upgrading our over 125-year-old campus to create a better experience for our visitors and provide an optimal environment for the art collection we steward. Some of our galleries are temporarily closed, so we have created this gallery to bring many of the beloved works of art from our collections back on view. As renovations are completed, the art shown in this gallery will rotate. You will also be able to watch our conservators treat some of the objects that will later fill our newly renovated spaces.
The artworks on view in the upcoming While We Build gallery include sculpture from the ancient Americas and ancient Greece, Japanese woodblock prints, and contemporary paintings, as well as 17th–19th-century paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts from the United States.
Learn more about our campus transformation and the capital projects currently in progress, all supported by our landmark fundraising campaign A Bold Step Forward: Campaign for the Worcester Art Museum.