Exhibition

(Included): Annual Members Exhibition

EXHIBITION DETAILS:
LOCATION: Grace Ross Shanley Gallery
EXHIBITION DATES: November 16, 2025 – February 1, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION: Sunday, November 16, from 2:00 – 4:00 PM

This year’s theme, (Included), invites artists to explore ideas of belonging, connection, recognition, and presence. What does it mean to be part of something–whether a place, a community, a memory, or a moment? Where do we look for inclusion, and where do we find it? While the theme may resonate with social or political meaning, we encourage you to interpret it in whatever way feels most meaningful to you–personally, conceptually, abstractly, or poetically. All perspectives are welcome (included.)

Awards Juror

Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye, PhD – Director, Housatonic Museum of Art (HMA)

Jennifer Reynolds-Kaye is the Director of the Housatonic Museum of Art (HMA) at CT State Housatonic in Bridgeport, CT. With a collection of over 7,000 artworks, the HMA is one of the most important community college art museums in the country. Prior to leading the HMA, she has worked at a variety of museums and organizations, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery. She received her PhD in Art History from the University of Southern California.

Dr. Reynolds-Kaye also serves as the Vice President, Programming for the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG) and the Chair of the Academic Museum Professional Affinity Group for the New England Museum Association (NEMA).

Award Winners

Exhibiting Artists:
Christine S. Aaron
Melanie Allen
Betty Ball
Donna Barack
Ron Barack
Lois Bender
Suzanne Benton
Shirley Bernstein
Marian “Bing” Bingham
Karen Brussat Butler
Helen Cantrell
Ruth O. Carlucci
Diane Cherr
Dorothy Cochran
Michael Connors
Jane Cooper
Penny Dell
Katharine Draper
William Evertson
Patricia Gaignat
Jeanine Giddings
Patricia Giraud
Nick Glenn
Hanneke Goedkoop
Mindy Green
Melinda Green Tepler
Mari Gyorgyey
Brian Hart
Holly Hawthorn
Adair Heitmann
Linda Herritt
Elizabeth Higgins
Jennifer Hughes
Natasha Karpinskaia
Gali Katz
Randolph Keltz
Natalia Koren Kropf
Ellen Lazarus
Lynne Lederman
Annie Lewis
Pamela Lindberg
Mary Louise Long
Cynthia MacCollum
Toni Miraldi
Grace Moon
Mary Morant
Danuta Muszynska
Heidi Palmer
Sachin Pannuri
Helen Pasternack
Shelly Ramsay
Stephanie Regen
Janet Scabrini
Esther Schwalb
Wendy Shalen
Barbara Shapiro
Christopher Shore
Jari Siu
Eileen Tavolacci
Anne Louise Tetenbaum
Adrian Tio
Mitchell Visoky
Karen Vogel
Jennifer Zwarich