Chapel Art Center

11/27/2025

On this day of gratitude, we extend our heartfelt thanks to our visitors, artists, supporters, and friends.

11/27/2025

On this day of gratitude, we extend our heartfelt thanks to our visitors, artists, supporters, students, and friends. 🙏 Happy Thanksgiving!

11/03/2025

🎨✨ Last week we welcomed students from the French class for a special visit en français!
They explored the exhibition, shared reflections, and discussed artworks entirely in French — bringing language, culture, and creativity together in the gallery space.

We are grateful for opportunities to support interdisciplinary learning and to serve as a site where language study, critical inquiry, and the visual arts intersect.

10/21/2025

A glimpse inside our recent Director’s Tour. Led by Father Iain, the tour offered visitors an opportunity to explore Corita Kent’s work and it’s lasting impact. We extend our gratitude to all who joined us for this program.

09/28/2021

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We hope you join us this Thursday at the Alva de Mars Megan Chapel Art Center for an exciting program called “The Eighteenth Variation.” The presentation starts at 4:30 p.m. and features the famous Eighteenth Variation of Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and its use in films, television, and other media by Professor Steven Swayne. ⁣
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Dr. Steven Swayne, a professor at Dartmouth College, teaches courses in art music from the 1700s to the present day, Opera, American musical theater, Russian music, and American music. He has received fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His articles have appeared in The Sondheim Review, the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, American Music, Studies in Musical Theatre, the Indiana Theory Review, and The Musical Quarterly. He has written two books—How Sondheim Found His Sound (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Orpheus in Manhattan: William Schuman and the Shaping of America’s Musical Life (Oxford University Press, 2011). He is also an accomplished concert pianist.⁣
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We are pleased to open the gallery to off-campus visitors for this event but do require that masks be worn at all times. Please review the college’s visitor policy at www.anselm.edu/covid for up-to-date COVID-19 guidelines. This event is presented as part of the Fine Arts Series, a collaboration between the Chapel Art Center and the Fine Arts Department at Saint Anselm College.⁣
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We look forward to seeing you!

04/09/2019

This Thursday at 4:30! Artist Nick Hollibaugh joins us in the gallery to discuss his work on view in the exhibition "A MOMENT OF TIME: Sculpture by Nick Hollibaugh"

Seating is first-come, first served. See you there!

04/03/2019

Join us for an exciting lecture tomorrow by Dr. Jessica Maier: Tracing History Through Maps: The Case of Rome, the Eternal City.

Thursday April 4 at 4:30 p.m.!

Join us Thursday 4/4 at the Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College at 4:30pm for a fascinating lecture by Dr. Jessica Maier, Associate Professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College

03/21/2019

Only a few seats left for this evening's Chamber Concert in the gallery! Give us a call if you'd like to reserve a spot: (603) 641-7470.

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Tonight's concert features members of the Saint Anselm College Music Performance Faculty, performing works by Schubert, Barber, Hindemith, Prokofiev, and contemporary composers Jeffrey Hoover and NH resident Romeo Melloni.

7:00 p.m. in the gallery

03/14/2019

Opening Tonight! A MOMENT OF TIME: Sculpture by Nick Hollibaugh.

Join us in the gallery for the opening reception from 6-8 p.m.!

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Image: Nick Hollibaugh, Little Love, 2016. Wood and acrylic paint. Photo courtesy Cade Tompkins Projects.

03/13/2019

Looking forward to celebrating the last several weeks of hard work in the gallery coming to an end with the opening of A MOMENT OF TIME: SCULPTURE BY NICK HOLLIBAUGH tomorrow! Special thanks to our talented team of carpenters, lighting techs, and student workers who left no detail un-attended to.

Join us tomorrow at 6:00 for the Opening Reception for A MOMENT OF TIME!

03/04/2019

Opening soon at the Chapel Art Center: A Moment of Time: Sculpture by Nick Hollibaugh

On view March 15 through May 4

Join us for an Opening Reception Thursday March 14 at 6:00 p.m.!

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Working in wood and paint, Nick Hollibaugh builds constructions that engage with our understanding of memory, landscape, and structure. Meticulous in their ex*****on and poetic in their simplicity, his pieces blur the line between painting and sculpture.

Born and raised in Indiana, many of Hollibaugh’s sculptural works evoke the farm landscapes and barns of his youth. Horizontal bands of wood painted in subtly shifting colors recall a sky viewed across flat farmland, while the familiar shape of a pitched roof, paired with Hollibaugh’s precise craftsmanship, reference the simple lines of Shaker barns and furniture. Drawing from his experience as a furniture designer, Hollibaugh exerts precise control over shadow, color, and dimension, arranging each element in accordance with a mysterious, dreamlike logic.

Nick Hollibaugh earned a BFA from the Herron School of Art at Indiana University and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters. Hollibaugh is represented by Cade Tompkins Projects of Providence, Rhode Island.

01/17/2019

Tomorrow! Talking cow creamers and drinking coffee at the Chapel Art Center!

Gallery Attendants Haley ('19) and Morgan ('21) show off the newest additions to the herd. Join us at 12:30 tomorrow for a gallery talk on the Chapel Art Center's collection of 45 ceramic cow creamers. Stay after the talk for tea, coffee, and treats!