Past Exhibits

Spring 2026 Exhibit

Hub City: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of History, Art, and Identity by Jaymes Jorsling

Hub City is a multidisciplinary project that brings together visual art, theater, and music to examine America’s racial traumas through the lenses of family legacy, spirituality, and historical reckoning. Centered on the often-overlooked history of slavery and freedom in New Brunswick, the exhibition reimagines the city as a historic “hub” of both bondage and liberation.

Through layered paintings, symbolic textures, and narrative-driven imagery, the work explores themes of ancestry, autonomy, and resilience. Hub City confronts difficult historical truths while also celebrating Black family joy, survival, and continuity. By weaving personal memory with collective history, the exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the enduring impact of the past and the power of art as a space for healing, dialogue, and remembrance.

Hub City was created while Jaymes Jorsling was in residence with Calabar Gallery at coLAB Arts in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Fall 2025 Exhibit

Meryl Lettire: Heroes of the Holocaust

Heroes of the Holocaust is a series of fabric assemblage portraits honoring stories of creative resilience during one of the darkest chapters in human history. These works pay tribute to artists who, despite enduring unimaginable hardship, found solace, strength, and voice through their art. After years of research into the lives of artists persecuted during the Holocaust, Lettire came to see their work not only as expressions of survival but as acts of resistance—powerful affirmations of their humanity.

Spring 2025 Exhibit

Weiling Pan: Journey of Growth

Weiling Pan created this exhibition which portrays emotions, experiences, and memories while also embracing one's right to live authentically. Utilizing differing mediums, Pan invites the viewer to explore the marvelous content of each moment in one's lives, as well as the depths of personal identity.

Fall 2024 Exhibit

Pierre Dalpé: Wigstock Beauty in Diversity

As a Canadian photographer, Dalpé captured individuals and their bright personalities in his personal exploration of the Wigstock festival - which began in Manhattan from 1984 through 2001. His captures took place during the festivals peak. The moments of joy and community in these photos evoke a sense of coming together in strength and pride. 

Spring 2024 Exhibit 

Athena LaTocha: Mesabi Redux

Athena LaTocha (Lakota and Ojibwe) created the works in her Mesabi series on-site at iron deposits in the Mesabi Mountain Range of northern Minnesota, which is known to the local Ojibwe as Misaabe-wajiw, “Giant Mountain” or “Sleeping Giant.” This is one of the world’s largest open-pit iron ore mines. LaTocha cast iron reliefs during a month-long residency, coordinated by the MacRostie Art Center in Grand Rapids and supported by the Minnesota Museum of Mining in Chisholm, where iron mining started in the 1880s and continues today.