Past Exhibitions

Opening Reception: Tuesday January 27, 5 – 8 PM in the McMahon Gallery at the Dairy Arts Center Participating Artists: Sara Mai  (Copenhagen, Denmark), Florian Nörl (Linz, Austria), Giorgia Bel (Newcastle, Australia), Lava Objects (Porto, Portugal), Rebecca Bonaci (Marsaskala, Malta), Ali Enache (LA, USA) Polyglot brings together artists from around the world working across textile, ceramic, […]

November 21, 2025 – February 8, 2026 Opening Party: Friday, November 21, 5 – 8 PM Artist Talk: December 9, 5 – 8 PM (PHOTOS) Death Cafe: January 13, 5:30 – 7:30 About the Exhibition: Continuum A continuum is a continuous range or series where things blend seamlessly into one another without clear dividing lines

Poster by Parisa Tashakori Sept 13 – Nov 11, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, Sept 13, 5–8 PMCurated by Parisa Tashakori Typography is more than design—it’s identity, memory, and resistance. In We Are From Iran, curated by Parisa Tashakori, eighteen Iranian graphic designers share poster works that speak to the urgency and complexity of their lived experiences.

September 13 – November 11, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13 | 5:00 – 8:00 PM Location: McMahon Gallery In Concrete Contrast: A Story of Withheld Spring is a deeply personal and poetic exhibition byBoulder-based artist Samira Hemmat. Through drawing, embossing, and printmaking, Hemmatoffers a body of work shaped by longing, displacement, and the quiet weight of

September 13 – November 11, 2025Opening Reception: Saturday, September 13 | 5:00 – 8:00 PM Artist: Steven TassinLocation: Caruso Gallery Marking the Space is a solo exhibition of paintings by Boulder-based artist Steven Tassin, presenting a dynamic investigation of space, movement, context, and tension through minimalist abstraction. From a bird’s-eye view, Tassin maps interactions between

Opening Reception: 16 May, 5 – 8 PM Poetry as Inspiration Workshop: 18 June, 5 – 8 PM (TICKETED) About the Exhibition Perspectives, like water, shift and slip. This collection explores our human capacity to intentionally alter our perspectival lens. How does the aperture of our looking glass alter what is seen and felt? How

May 16 – June 29, 2025 Events: Opening Reception: Friday, May 16, 5 – 8 PM Vauhini Vara Book Launch: Saturday, May 17, 5 – 7 PM (TICKETED) Go West Artist Talk: Tuesday, June 10th, 5 – 8 PM (TICKETED) Go West Film Screening: Monday, June 23rd DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED Artists: Agnes Ma, Bala

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION Megan McCarthy, a water-based oil painter, begins each piece by instinctively washing her canvas with diluted paint, embracing the unpredictability of the initial marks. Over time, she has come to see these spontaneous foundations as integral to her process, often preserving the energy and rawness of the first strokes. Her painting The

Exhibition: April 3 – May 4, 2025 Boulder Valley School District and The Dairy Arts Center are proud to present the annual art exhibition featuring works by high school students and faculty. Works on display include paintings, drawings, mixed media, digital art, animation, photography, ceramics, sculpture, and more! Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) comprises 56

Exhibition Dates: February 28 – March 30, 2025 Gallery: Locals Only Gallery About the exhibition: gone over… takes its name from a repeated line in Lisa Berley’s poem UnChosen, encapsulating the unpredictable waves of grief and the collapse and expansion of time that follow profound loss. This deeply personal exhibition invites viewers into a collage

Exhibition Dates: 17 January – 23 February, 2025 Feel the Love invites you to journey through the lives of legends from history, reimagined through the unique perspective of artist Jocelyn Roy. Each piece is rendered in a different style, offering a kaleidoscope of interpretations that reveal how Jocelyn sees these figures through her creative lens.

Exhibition: 17 January – 30 March, 2025 EVENTS: Floral Altar Workshop: 4 February, 7 – 8 PM Artist Talk: Thursday, 13 February, 5 – 8 PM Art & Movement Workshop: Ancestral Movement Practice: 8 March, 1 PM (Tickets Required) Art & Movement Workshop: Yoga Nidra Meditation: 22 March, 1 PM (Tickets Required) Closing Reception:  27

Ghosts in the Light Benjamin Stanford and Bruce Tetsuya November 17th – December 30th, 2023 Opening Reception: November 17th, 2023 from 5:00 – 8:00pm Benjamin Stanford Bruce Tetsuya Something shifts when you lean into the middle spaces; an internal landscape opens up in that liminal boundary that exists between reality and the edge of perception

Portrait Gallery November 17th – December 30th, 2023 What is a portrait and how is it defined?  Portrait Gallery, a large-scale group exhibition that was sourced from a public call for portrait based works, is created around this very question.  Inspired directly by portrait galleries in prominent art institutions around the world, this salon-style hang

From Me in Her to Her in Me Irene Delka McCray November 17th – December 30th, 2023 McMahon Gallery Opening Reception November 17th, 2023 from 5:00 – 8:00pm “Can we imagine that at the essence of human being is an insistence upon being witnessed – by others, by gods, by the cosmos itself – and

Open Studios Preview Exhibition September 15th – October 22nd Opening Reception: September 15th from 5:00 – 8:00pm Kathryn Moller BOULDER’S “OPEN STUDIOS TOUR,” a beloved 28-year-old fall tradition, is thriving and expanding in the post- pandemic environment. The 2023 Tour marks the first time since its founding in 1995 that its footprint is growing beyond

Unlearning the Garment from the Body: Sasha de Koninck July 14th – September 9th, 2023 Opening Reception: July 14th @ 5:00pm – 8:00pm Unlearning the Garment from the Body is a process of taking apart existing garments–garments that I have found and collected over the years, and garments that I have made myself–in order to

Control: Juvana Soliven July 14th – September 9th, 2023 A year ago, Roe v. Wade was overturned by the US Supreme Court. Control. Control over our bodily autonomy, our rights toward self-determination, our gender expression, our narratives — control over what is inherently ours is under attack. This exhibition features works from Soliven’s Body Weaponized