PATRICIA DORAN GRADUATE GALLERY

The Patricia Doran Gallery is a graduate-specific gallery space on campus, located on the first floor of the Design and Media Center. The space offers a range of opportunities to graduate students from all programs, including curatorial projects / exhibitions, experimental blocks for student projects, and installation space for Walkthroughs and end-of-semester reviews.

SUMMER 2025 DORAN GALLERY SCHEDULE:

JUN – JUL | 2025 Phot Post-Baccalaureate Exhibition
JUL 13 – AUG 13 | 2025 SUMMER MFA THESIS EXHIBITION
AUG 17 – OCT 4 | FACULTY EXHIBITION

FALL 2025 DORAN GALLERY SCHEDULE:

AUG 17 – OCT 4 | FACULTY EXHIBITION
OCT 5 – NOV 8 | GRAD STUDENT EXHIBITION
NOV 22 – DEC 13 | 2025 MARCH THESIS EXHIBITION
DEC 14 – 20 | Reviews Week

ACCEPTED EXHIBITION PROPOSALS / INFO

EXHIBITIONS are curatorial opportunities for graduate students.

The SPRING MFA THESIS block is open to graduating MFA students who wish to curate a concurrent on-campus show as a companion to the exhibition at MassArt x SoWa.

WAKTHROUGHS and REVIEWS blocks offer opportunities for MFA students to use the Doran Gallery for installation of work in progress, for reviews and critiques.

EXPERIMENTAL BLOCKS are open to students’ interpretation and can involve a range of projects and approaches, including individual/group, site specific, pop-up, studio extension, etc.

This student-led programming is designed to offer valuable experience in coceptualizing, planning, curating, and installing exhibitions, working with peers in a dynamic setting. Support from the grad team is provided for exhibitions. *While primarily a graduate student focused space, the Doran Gallery shares time blocks with other programs and departments at the college, particularly during the spring semester.

DORAN EXHIBITION ARCHIVE:

A FERVENT CHORUS: MFA SP25 THESIS EXHIBITION (April 22 – May 30, 2025)*
Cut Once: 2025 Furniture Design Showcase (February 3 – 21, 2025)*
RE: 2024 Master of Architecture Thesis Exhibition | reflect | reforest | relearn | remove(d) | repair (November 25 – December 13, 2024)*
Broken Amulet (September 11 – 20, 2024)*
Emergence: Spring 2024 MFA Thesis (April 27 – May 26, 2024)*
Reshaping Urban Communities: Explorations of Modern Placemaking: 2023 Master of Architecture Thesis (November 27 – December 14, 2023)
Pictures and Progress (November 1 – November 19, 2023)*
In Dialogue (September 18 – October 8, 2023)*
North 280 (June 20 – June 25, 2023)*
My Feelings These Days : MFA Spring Thesis 2023 (May 1 – June 2, 2023)*
Drift ( April 10 – April 24, 2023) *
Joint Effort: Furniture Design Certificate Showcase (February 6 – March 3, 2023)
MFA 3D Program: Conversation Starter (December 20, 2022 – January 20, 2023)*
Interrogating Commonplace: 2022 Master of Architecture Thesis (November 30 – December 7, 2022) *
Penumbra (October 10 – November 11, 2022) *
From Darkness to Light… and back again (August – October 2022)*
Common Ground: MFA Summer Thesis 2022 (July – August 2022)
VERS Jonathan Vandyke + Francisco-Fernando Granados (June – July 2022)

*alumni/student-curated