Michael S. Currier Center

Free and open to all, our art gallery and performing arts center is a hub for student artwork, plays, and creative expression.

Featured Exhibit

The Weight

January 10 — March 1, 2025

Artist Ruth Shafer sculpts at the intersection of craft, domesticity, and feminism. By conflating the female form with furniture and furnishings, Shafer explores the feminine body’s place in the home, in art history, and in the ways that the past becomes the future. With humor, abstraction, and the familiarity of repurposed fabrics, Shafer’s work confronts the dualities of domesticity; safety vs confinement, decoration vs identity, opportunity vs obligation. She works from her home studio in Brattleboro, Vt.

Opening Reception 
Friday, January 10, 4:30 p.m. — 6 p.m.

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A Place to Create

Through offerings that spark ideas, conversations and experiences relevant to current topics, we build connections in our community, and beyond. Our space includes a 300-seat auditorium and stage, an art gallery, dance studio, music library and practice rooms, a green room, and office and storage space. Our gallery exhibits are constantly changing, and are always free and open to the public.

A Unique Space

Designed with the future in mind, the Currier Center building features a sustainable design with plenty of natural light to contribute to the feeling of movement and activity within. Inside, bold colors heighten the experience of the performance spaces, gallery walls can be moved to reconfigure the exhibition space, and gorgeous views connect visitors to the surrounding landscape.