June 2, 2026
Millbrook Art Museum's New Summer Exhibition Puts Local Voices Front and Center
The Millbrook Art Museum opens its most ambitious summer show yet this weekend, featuring 34 works by artists who live or work within 50 miles of the city.
MILLBROOK, June 3 — The Millbrook Art Museum will open "Rooted: Art from the Heartland" on Saturday, a juried exhibition featuring 34 works — paintings, sculpture, photography, and mixed media — by artists who call the region home. The show, which runs through August 31, is the museum's largest locally focused exhibition since its 2019 retrospective on landscape painting, and museum director Claudette Fern says the caliber of submissions this year was "genuinely extraordinary."
Highlights of the Show
Among the featured pieces drawing early buzz is a large-format photographic series by Millbrook Community College instructor Jerome Askew, whose work documents the closing of the Waverton textile mill through intimate portraits of former workers. Also on display is a striking installation by sculptor Anya Creed, who fashioned a 10-foot steel tree from reclaimed farm equipment sourced at auctions across the county. The exhibition was juried by three guest curators from the Northfield Regional Arts Council, ensuring, Fern said, that selections were made "completely at arm's length from personal relationships."
- Opening reception: Saturday, June 7, 6–9 p.m. (free with museum admission)
- Artist talk series: Every other Sunday beginning June 15
- Family workshop tied to the exhibition: July 12, 10 a.m.–noon
Museum admission is $10 for adults, $6 for seniors and students, and free for children under 12. Members get in free all summer. The museum is located at 412 Renfrew Boulevard and is open Tuesday through Sunday. Parking is available in the adjacent Renfrew Street garage for $2 with museum validation.
