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Locations: Nichols Gallery (1st floor Broad Center), Lenzner Family Art Gallery (1st floor Atherton Hall), Kallick Family Gallery (1st floor of West Hall)

10/07/2026

Join us next Thursday, Oct. 15, for a conversation between artist Isabel Beavers and Nora N. Khan, critic, essayist, curator, and educator, where they’ll discuss the complex and timely questions raised in Beavers’s new exhibition, Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams, as the 2026–27 Murray Pepper and Vicki Reynolds Pepper Distinguished Visiting Artist & Scholar Lecture.

🌙 Hex Hexa will be open special hours for viewing before and after the conversation, 3–7 pm. Light bites and drinks will be served.

🔗 in bio to RSVP to the talk and for info and directions.

09/28/2026

Now on View: Isabel Beavers | Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams, through December 12, 2016.

Gallery hours are Wednesday–Saturday, 1–4 pm. We’re located on the Pitzer College campus in Claremont, accessible via the Metrolink San Bernardino Line. If you’re unable to come to the gallery then, reach out to us and we’ll arrange another time for you to visit.

📅 Upcoming program, 10/15: Pepper Lecture: Artist Isabel Beavers and Nora N. Khan in Conversation

Links in bio to directions, event RSVP, more info

Image: Isabel Beavers, Hex Hexa (detail from still), 2026, 3D film

09/19/2026

At a moment when we are at once drawn to AI and unnerved by its reach, Isabel Beavers’s Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams examines the social, ecological, and spiritual implications of mega-computing to raise existential questions about who and what we believe in.

Tracing a line from prehistoric gaming stones to today’s AI agents, Hex Hexa transforms the gallery into a bathhouse for Aphrodite, who was once the Cypriot goddess Kypris, worshipped for the protection of animals and copper—the same metal that runs through our devices. She lingers as a ghost with only her memory to offer.

Hex Hexa is on view Sept. 19–Dec. 12, 2026.

🥂 Opening reception is tonight, 5–7 pm.

🎤 Oct. 15: Isabel Beavers and Nora N. Khan in conversation—info and RSVP at link in bio

09/11/2026

Join us next Saturday, Sept. 19, 5–7 pm, for the opening of Hex Hexa: forget nothing, have no dreams, an exhibition of new work by transdisciplinary artist Isabel Beavers that was developed during Beavers’s two years as the Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellow in Science, Technology, and Society at Harvey Mudd College.

Hex Hexa couldn’t be a more timely exhibition, as it asks us to question our implicit faith in AI at a time when the technology is cast as both daily helper and existential threat.

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🥂The reception is 5-7 pm on the Broad Center patio at Pitzer College. Link in bio for directions and more info.

🕵🏼 7C community preview: Wed., Sept. 16, 3:30-5 pm

📆 RSVP in link in bio for a conversation Isabel Beavers and writer, critic, curator, and educator Nora N. Khan on Oct. 15.

03/31/2026

🚨Starting tomorrow, you have just 4(!) days left to see Atomic Dragons, which Hyperallergic writer Austen Villacis called “a haunting, timely exhibition” that “draws its life force from a collective ability to engage with the many-headed hydra of nuclear politics, including spectacle, remembrance, and survival.”

The galleries are open Wed.–Sat., 1–4 pm

🗓️ This week we are hosting two equally engaging programs—a screening of the documentary “In the Dark of the Valley,” detailing the impact of a nuclear meltdown right in our own backyard, and Art, Science, and the Nuclear Legacy, a day of conversation among some of the nation’s preeminent nuclear policy and public health experts and artists whose work is in Atomic Dragons.

We hope to see you this week!

🔗 links for info on all are in bio.

03/27/2026

☢️ HOT OFF THE PRESS! ☢️

In today’s L.A. Times, Chloe Shrager writes about how the warning call issued in Atomic Dragons takes on new meaning as the U.S. plunges into war with Iran.

In addition to interviewing SWANS artists, Shrager interviewed nuclear policy expert Jim Walsh, who will also be speaking at our April 4 Art, Science, and the Nuclear Legacy symposium.

📰 Link in bio for the full L.A. Times story and to RSVP for the symposium.

03/20/2026

Join us April 4—the final day to see Atomic Dragons—for a day of conversation about the nuclear age and its geopolitical legacy, environmental toll, and the burdens carried across generations.

The morning opens with Jim Walsh, nuclear policy expert and senior research associate at MIT’s Security Studies Program, and David Richardson, epidemiologist and associate dean for research at UC Irvine’s School of Population & Public Health—two scholars whose work has shaped international policy on nuclear issues.

After a midday break to view the exhibition, SWANS artists Nancy Buchanan, Judith Dancoff, Hillary Mushkin, Sheila Pinkel, and elin o’Hara slavick discuss the histories behind their work.

Free and open to the public. Lunch served.
11 am–4 pm, Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College

RSVP at the link in bio.

Image: Installation view, Atomic Dragons, photo by Christopher Wormald

03/18/2026

🚨☢️ We are closed this week for spring break, but we reopen next Wednesday for the final days of Atomic Dragons, which closes April 4!

📆 We also have TWO upcoming related events: a screening of the documentary “In the Dark of the Valley,” on April 1, and a symposium on April 4, with nuclear research and policy experts and SWANS artists Nancy Buchanan, Judith Dancoff, Hillary Mushkin, Sheila Pinkel, and elin o’Hara slavick. Link in bio for more info and to RSVP!

03/10/2026

We’re hiring a Curator of Academic Programs — a role focused on building educational programming that connects our exhibitions to teaching, research, and campus life.

This role leads class visits and gallery-based teaching, develops interdisciplinary faculty partnerships, creates educational resources, and designs programs that link our exhibitions to contemporary issues and broader public audiences.

If you have experience in museum or gallery education, we’d love to hear from you. Link in bio for more information and to apply.

02/27/2026

Are we afraid of one another? Is fear our gross national product? Can we make the world safe enough so that we can once again dream? These are some of the questions posed in Sheila Pinkel’s “Nuclear Questions,” from 1985 that could just as easily be asked today, underscoring both the urgency and the enduring legacy of nuclear imperialism.

ATOMIC DRAGONS brings together works by the intergenerational collective SWANS (Slow War Against the Nuclear State) that reckon with the fallout of the atomic era and place historical narratives alongside contemporary discourse, demonstrating that these concerns are not just relics of a bygone Cold War era but that they have a long-lasting impact that continues to reverberate throughout our world.

SWANS includes: Fiona Amundsen, Nancy Buchanan, Judith Dancoff, Hillary Mushkin, Sheila Pinkel, elin o’Hara slavick, and Lucy HG Solomon of Cesar & Lois, her collaboration with Cesar Baio

ATOMIC DRAGONS is on view through April 4, Wed.-Sat., 1-4 pm

Installation photos by Christopher Wormald

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Wednesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm

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