This season brings six new exhibitions and nearly a dozen programs, beginning with an Opening Reception this Saturday, September 20, 4:00–6:00 pm, free and open to the public, no reservation needed! Enjoy drinks, light refreshments, and great art!
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Join assistant curator Rachel Vogel on Zoom to explore the work of photographer Tommy Kha. Examining how we construct belonging and otherness through photography, Kha invents new models for self-portraiture with a critical eye toward the medium’s long history of absences and erasure. This program is presented in partnership with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library; registration is required.
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Join curator Gordon Wilkins on Zoom to explore the work of the Florida Highwaymen, a loosely affiliated group of African American landscape painters who sold their vivid and expressive tropical scenes door-to-door and out of the trunks of their cars along the coastal roads of Eastern Florida from the 1950s through the 1980s. This program is presented in partnership with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library; registration is required.
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| Family Portraits Collage Workshop
Saturday, October 4, 10:30 am–12:30 pm
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Join us at the Addison for ARTful Andover Community Art Making Day and create a collage of the people and things that feel like family to you. Participants are invited to bring their own printed pictures of who you consider family to include in their collage, or send up to 3 pictures to be printed in advance (email pictures to Christine: cjee@andover.edu, by Oct 1). Drop in any time; no registration required. All ages are welcome!
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Join curatorial fellow Ricardo Mercado to explore highlights from the Addison’s permanent collection in two sections: the “ideal” and the “real.” Together, these works reveal how American artists of the era grappled with questions of beauty, truth, and the rapidly transforming character of modern life. This program is presented in partnership with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library; registration is required.
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Join curator Rachel Vogel to explore two exhibitions: In Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered, the artist invents new models for self-portraiture; in conjunction, the exhibition Family Portrait brings together photographs from the Addison’s collection to reveal how artists have engaged the theme of family over a span of nearly two centuries.
This program is presented in partnership with Andover’s Memorial Hall Library; registration is required.
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AANHPI Affinity Workshop:
Story Mapping through Collage: Ways of Belonging
Sunday, October 26, 2:00–4:00 pm
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Members of the AANHPI (Asian American and Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islander) community are invited to gather at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover to reflect on and be inspired by our own lives in relation to places, real or imagined. Our time together will include an introduction to the exhibition Tommy Kha: Other Things Uttered with museum educator Christine Jee and a facilitated session on creating story maps to explore narrative ways of being and belonging, led by artist and cultural organizer Mindy Tsonas Choi.
This program is presented in collaboration with Lucky Knot Arts, a collaborative community centering Asian Americans through creative programming on the North Shore of Massachusetts.
This workshop is free, but space is limited and registration is required. Open to adults as well as participants in middle school and up.
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Images: installation view of Making Their Way: The Florida Highwaymen Painters, photo by Julia Featheringill; Tommy Kha, Flatlands (Addison Gallery variation), Andover, Massachusetts, 2024-25. Dye sublimation on fleece, dye sublimation on aluminum, pigment prints, found paper, cardboard, foam core, cotton twine, adhesive, and tape, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Higher Pictures; Alfred Hair, Beach, c. 1962. Oil on board, 25 x 30 inches. Collection of Jonathan Otto (PA 1975, P 2024, 2027); installation view of Hayes Prize 2025: Tommy Kha, Other Things Uttered, photo by Julia Featheringill; Childe Hassam, Early Morning on the Avenue in May 1917, 1917. Oil on canvas, 30 1/16 x 36 1/16 inches. Bequest of Candace C. Stimson, 1944.20; Wayne F. Miller, Vivian Henley, two hours old. Infants delivered at home by the Maxwell Street Maternity Center medical team had a better survival rate than those at most hospitals., 9/7/47, 1947. Gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches. Gift of the Wayne F. Miller Family, 2023.49
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