Past Exhibitions

Dates: January 25-February 28, 2022

Process Meets Practice shines a light on five women artists who have taught and led at Plymouth State University and the PSU Art Department. This exhibit explores how these artists created, instructed, and inspired hundreds of art students over the years in a traditionally male-dominated field. Process Meets Practice features drawings, paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, and stories that celebrate these women and their lasting impact on PSU.

Dates: October 16, 2021- February 18, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic affected the Plymouth Region’s artists and artisans, isolating them from not only the ways they had shared or sold their artworks, but also from their communities and local experiences that had often inspired and supported their practice.

Dates: October 1-December 15, 2021

NH NOW is a two-year project to photographically record life in New Hampshire. Nearly 50 photographers traveled throughout the state between 2018 and 2020, making thousands of images that collectively create a twenty-first-century portrait of the people, places, culture, and events in New Hampshire.

Not only does the White Mountain region have a long history of maps and map makers, it also boasts one of the richest assortment of map designs of any mountainous region. Each map describes specific places and routes, and also tells a story of the knowledge, curiosity, purposes, pleasures, and design ideas of the people of its time. This interactive exhibit will feature maps from the far and recent past, as well as new map tools for today’s hikers, tourists, scientists, weekend explorers, and enthusiasts. 

The annual BFA capstone exhibition features the work, passion, and educational journey by PSU senior students. Graphic Design and Studio student artists working in a variety of mediums spend the academic year exploring and assembling a collection of works, personal to their interests.

Karl Drerup (1904-2000) is one of Plymouth State University’s most notable artists and professors. His legacy and work lives on within the art community of the town, his life story […]

Museum of the White Mountains Open March 8: Physical exhibition open to students an faculty with valid ID. Celebrating all levels of student art making at PSU  Welcome to EMERGING: […]

In celebration of Plymouth State’s 150 year anniversary in 2021, this exhibition will be a three-dimensional timeline running through the Silver Center for the Arts Lobby, telling the history in 150 objects. The exhibition aims to highlight the sense of place at Plymouth State that has always been important for the people who live, work, teach, and learn here.  Images, artifacts, and stories gathered from all corners of the past and present PSU community will illustrate how Plymouth State continues to grow and evolve, responding to the needs and circumstances of its campus and community. 

This exhibition is installed in Silver Center for the Arts Lobby Gallery and can be visited in person by Plymouth State University students, faculty & staff with a valid PSU ID, beginning on February 15, 2021.  

Science inspires Art.  The natural world and its systems have motivated Artist and PSU Professor Kimberly Ritchie’s art practice, leading her to explore at- risk environments, and to experiment with communicating ecologies via a mixture of media including printmaking, photography, and sculptural objects.  Her passion for bridging disciplines in her work infuses her teaching through cluster connected class projects.

The Space 2 Place Exhibition showcases Dr. Maria Sanders’ Fall 2019 sabbatical from Plymouth State University, during which time she and her 13-year-old son traveled for five months to all fifty states exploring the various ways people intentionally create important places and innovatively repurpose existing structures.