The McCoy Gallery hosts several exhibits each year and serves as an on-campus showcase for professional artists practicing in a wide range of styles. Each fall and at the end of each academic year, we open the gallery to our student artists for a group show.
Cosmic Threads brings together work by three artists from the surrounding region – Funlola Coker, Erin Genia, and Maria Molteni – that considers humanity’s relationship to the universe outside the dominant lens of technological expansion and colonization. In their work, the cosmos becomes a site for reflecting on the interconnectivity wedded across all matter, human and non-human alike.
The works in Cosmic Threads bound across timelines and through space. Each artist carefully weaves together their own set of personal, cultural, spiritual, mythical, and historical references. The works travel into deep time, dialoguing with spiritual traditions from Yoruba, Dakota, and syncretic Catholic lineages. Collapsing the past, present, and future, the works in Cosmic Threads propose new models for considering our place in the world—centered on relationality and interdependence across vast and microscopic scales.
The exhibition is curated by Boston-based artist and Merrimack adjunct lecturer Megan Hyde in collaboration with the artists.
All questions pertaining to the gallery may be directed to Allyson Lewis, Administrative Asst. Visual & Performing Arts: [email protected]
Gallery Hours: Mondays through Fridays, 8:30am – 4:30pm
Open select weekends during on-campus events
Address: Rogers Center for the Arts
McCoy Art Gallery
150 Walsh Way
North Andover, MA 01845
Visitor Parking Lots
Lot B, Lot C, Lot E, Lot F, Lot M
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The McCoy Art Gallery is a vibrant cultural hub within the Merrimack community. Embodying the College’s mission to enlighten minds, engage hearts and empower lives, each year the gallery hosts a diverse range of exhibitions, showcasing the work of professional artists across various styles and mediums, as well as ones championing the artwork of the Merrimack student body.
In the spirit of the Augustinian tradition of seeking truth through inquiry and dialogue, the gallery promotes reflection and conversation around the themes presented in its exhibitions. The McCoy serves as a dynamic resource for the College’s arts curriculum, hosting regular artist talks and panels, employing student workers and acting as a professional platform for students to present their own artworks.
Through these initiatives, the McCoy Gallery not only celebrates artistic expression but also builds a community of scholars that support diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
While the McCoy Gallery is currently not accepting outside submissions for upcoming exhibitions, artists and curators interested in showing at the McCoy Gallery may submit their artwork here for future consideration.
