Anderson Gallery Magazine

Hall of Black Achievement

For over twenty years the Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement (HOBA) discovered, detailed and disclosed the significant achievements and contributions of African Americans, Cape Verdeans, and Hispanics of African descent who made significant contributions to the Commonwealth.

Anderson Engaged

The Anderson Gallery aims to serve its diverse public as a dynamic, innovative, and welcoming center for learning through the arts and seeks to act as a catalyst for the broader understanding and exploration of ideas across cultural and visual boundaries.

Greg Wyatt

Greg and Fay Wyatt Sculpture Garden

Dance and poetry use unique languages to create meaning. ... Poetry uses rhythm, cadence and the spoken voice to express a certain idea or set of feelings. Dance is based on rhythms that express ideas and feelings through the movement of the human form.

The bronze works of Greg Wyatt interprets and reimagines famous poems into the language of dance. This intial group of twelve plaques with their accompanying poems are the first phase of the Greg and Fay Wyatt Sculpture garden at Bridgewater State University. These works join the sculpture "Spirit of the Dance" by Greg Wyatt which depicts the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov suspended in mid-leap.

Florence Gendre

Exploring Botanicals
Anderson Virtual

Mon univers artistique ressemble à un cabinet de curiosités : graines, coquillages, papillons. Mais je puise également aux sources de l’architecture, du design, de la science, de la calligraphie... Avec une obsession, l’exactitude.

My artistic universe resembles a curio cabinet: seeds, seashells, butterflies. But I also draw upon the sources of architecture, design, science and calligraphy… With one obsession: accuracy.

Jack Wolfe

Native American Paintings
Anderson Virtual

Jack Wolfe's interest in and affinity toward Native American communities and cultures began in childhood, when he and his sister spent summers in the Lake Tahoe area, often visiting a Washo community where they played with other children and listened to stories. Jack’s concern with the historical and contemporary oppression of Native Americans by the United States, including acts of genocide and cultural genocide (e.g., forced assimilation; proscriptions on use of languages and cultural practices; adoption of abducted or removed Native American children into white families – a practice that persisted through much of the 20th century), the breaking of federal treaties, and exploitation of Native American land, among other acts of overt and structural violence, persisted throughout his life.

Jack Wolfe

Civil Rights Paintings: A Viewing in 2020
Anderson Virtual

In recent weeks, the images flooding traditional and social media of current protests against racial injustice and the killing of black people encourage reflection on similarities and areas of progress between the present and the time of the civil rights movement. Across the over-saturated span of highly polarized contemporary media, some rhetoric has shifted, while other aspects of the dialogue about race and racism echo the past uncannily.