Taber Art Gallery
Art is for everybody.
The gallery features innovative contemporary artists from the western Massachusetts area and beyond and holds an annual exhibition for Holyoke Community College art students.
Free and open to the public, the gallery is accessed through the HCC Library Lobby in Donahue Building. For directions and parking accessibility, see Getting Here.
We are always accepting applications for exhibtions by one or more artists, with application reviews taking place over the summer. See Open Calls for more information.
On View
River Valley Radical Futures
January 20 – March 12, 2026
Travel to a future 100 years beyond the fall of capitalism, imagined by local groups who work towards that future today.
Welcome to an archaeology of our imagination: a vision of a future yet to come, and also a collection of present efforts.
In 2026, the world is dominated by capitalism– a system that stockpiles power and resources into the hands of a few, demands reckless and persistent growth, and makes workers dependent on the companies that extract their labor.
At the same time, there is an abundance of projects and organizations that embody alternative ways of producing and sharing what we need. Over the past two years, we worked with members of ~17 such organizations in the Connecticut River Valley to co-create a vision of a local future 100 years beyond the fall of capitalism. These groups included systems of collective care, worker cooperatives who own the means of production collectively, community land trusts that maintain land for community use, and others. Our work together was not to make a blueprint for the future, but rather to challenge our assumptions and dream together about the world we want.
The works in this gallery have been excavated from this future vision– made by local artists today to imagine what we might find there. We made this uncertain future concrete not as a way to fix it in place, but instead as a tool to continue the conversation. Please join us to consider what we want and don’t want from this vision, and how we might build it today.
The co-creation of this future vision was facilitated by Alix Gerber, through:
- a Post-Graduate Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Design Practices at Smith College
- the Making Radical Futures Lab, a Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences Lab
- a Faculty Fellowship with the Center for the Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability (CEEDS)
Research Assistants Talia Blanchard, Millie Howard, Maggie Huang, Oriana Taylor, and Laura Torraco supported facilitation and co-creation.
Emily Norton supported art direction.
Artist stipends were made possible by the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation.
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This exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the Holyoke Local Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Pressed: Post-war Prints by Fred Becker (1913-2004) from the HCC Collection
November 3, 2025 – January 30, 2026
Library Lobby Display
Curated by Rachel Rushing, Director, and Savannah Comstock, Gallery Assistant
Translated by Mayrangelique Rojas De Leon, Gallery Assistant
Post-War Art refers to work made following World War II, from around 1945 to the 1970s. Because “post-war” is a time period, there is no defining style or movement. Instead, many post-war art movements focused on experimentation either through the tools or materials artists were using, what artists understood as the purpose of their work, how art was presented, and even experimentation with what made something Art. Artists had to make sense of a world that had just experienced, and perpetrated, a level of devastation, death, and destruction that had previously been unimaginable. Becker’s prints from this period fall under Abstract Expressionism, an art movement focused on the emotional inner world of the artist, expressed through increasingly distorted, abstracted forms.
El arte de posguerra se refiere a las obras realizadas tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, desde aproximadamente 1945 hasta la década de 1970. Dado que la "posguerra" es un período, no existe un estilo o movimiento que la defina. En cambio, muchos movimientos artísticos de posguerra se centraron en la experimentación, ya sea a través de las herramientas o los materiales que utilizaban los artistas, lo que los artistas entendían como el propósito de su trabajo, cómo se presentaba el arte e incluso la experimentación con lo que hacía que algo fuera arte. Los artistas tuvieron que dar sentido a un mundo que acababa de experimentar y perpetrar un nivel de devastación, muerte y destrucción que antes era inimaginable. Los grabados de Becker de este período se enmarcan en el expresionismo abstracto, un movimiento artístico centrado en el mundo interior emocional del artista, expresado a través de formas cada vez más distorsionadas y abstractas.
Coming Soon
2026 HCC Student Art Exhibition
April, 2026
Join us for our annual celebration of the remarkable work done by students in the Visual Art Department at HCC.
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