Common Thread is a solo exhibition featuring works created by artist Joy Nutt that showcase vibrant paintings patterned after traditional geometric quilts and elaborate collaged quilts. Joy's inspiration stems from a rich Trinidadian family tradition of quilting and sewing. Her work is also influenced by West African Ankara textiles. The artist aims for viewers to get lost in the complex layered paintings–returning to find a new perspective, ask questions, and leave with a sense of satisfaction after taking in color, pattern, and texture. Common Thread elevates the complexity of quilts and textiles and the fond memories that they evoke.

July 3 - August 1, 2026
Park View Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday | 10am- 6pm

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Common Thread is a solo exhibition featuring works created by artist Joy Nutt that showcase vibrant paintings patterned after traditional geometric quilts and elaborate collaged quilts. Joy's inspiration stems from a rich Trinidadian family tradition of quilting and sewing. Her work is also influenced by West African Ankara textiles. The artist aims for viewers to get lost in the complex layered paintings–returning to find a new perspective, ask questions, and leave with a sense of satisfaction after taking in color, pattern, and texture. Common Thread elevates the complexity of quilts and textiles and the fond memories that they evoke.

July 3 - August 1, 2026
Park View Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday | 10am- 6pm

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Common Thread is a solo exhibition featuring works created by artist Joy Nutt that showcase vibrant paintings patterned after traditional geometric quilts and elaborate collaged quilts. Joy's inspiration stems from a rich Trinidadian family tradition of quilting and sewing. Her work is also influenced by West African Ankara textiles. The artist aims for viewers to get lost in the complex layered paintings–returning to find a new perspective, ask questions, and leave with a sense of satisfaction after taking in color, pattern, and texture. Common Thread elevates the complexity of quilts and textiles and the fond memories that they evoke.

July 3 - August 1, 2026
Park View Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday | 10am- 6pm

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Common Thread is a solo exhibition featuring works created by artist Joy Nutt that showcase vibrant paintings patterned after traditional geometric quilts and elaborate collaged quilts. Joy's inspiration stems from a rich Trinidadian family tradition of quilting and sewing. Her work is also influenced by West African Ankara textiles. The artist aims for viewers to get lost in the complex layered paintings–returning to find a new perspective, ask questions, and leave with a sense of satisfaction after taking in color, pattern, and texture. Common Thread elevates the complexity of quilts and textiles and the fond memories that they evoke.

July 3 - August 1, 2026
Park View Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday | 10am- 6pm

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Common Thread is a solo exhibition featuring works created by artist Joy Nutt that showcase vibrant paintings patterned after traditional geometric quilts and elaborate collaged quilts. Joy's inspiration stems from a rich Trinidadian family tradition of quilting and sewing. Her work is also influenced by West African Ankara textiles. The artist aims for viewers to get lost in the complex layered paintings–returning to find a new perspective, ask questions, and leave with a sense of satisfaction after taking in color, pattern, and texture. Common Thread elevates the complexity of quilts and textiles and the fond memories that they evoke.

July 3 - August 1, 2026
Park View Gallery Hours:
Monday - Saturday | 10am- 6pm

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The Stone Tower Gallery presents Confluence and Connections. Bettina Ammann, Meg Dickerson, and Barbara Stauffer are artists whose practices were profoundly shaped by their shared time in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Post-Baccalaureate Ceramics Artisanry program. This exhibition highlights how the experience in this rigorous and collaborative environment led the artists to develop distinctly personal styles united by a shared exploration of human fragility, the natural world, and the remnants of human systems. Through form, surface, and conceptual inquiry, each artist reflects on the delicate balance between humanity and the environment. From Stauffer’s exploration of biological fragility and resilience to Dickerson’s explorations of leftover fragments that pay homage to coastal communities to Ammann’s meditations on discomfort, their work reveals the vulnerability embedded in our relationships, the quiet persistence of organic forces, and the haunting traces of systems once thought permanent. Together, their voices form a compelling meditation on human resilience, collapse, and the blurred boundaries between human, natural, and constructed worlds. 

July 3 - August 2, 2026
Stone Tower Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday | 12pm - 6pm

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The Stone Tower Gallery presents Confluence and Connections. Bettina Ammann, Meg Dickerson, and Barbara Stauffer are artists whose practices were profoundly shaped by their shared time in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Post-Baccalaureate Ceramics Artisanry program. This exhibition highlights how the experience in this rigorous and collaborative environment led the artists to develop distinctly personal styles united by a shared exploration of human fragility, the natural world, and the remnants of human systems. Through form, surface, and conceptual inquiry, each artist reflects on the delicate balance between humanity and the environment. From Stauffer’s exploration of biological fragility and resilience to Dickerson’s explorations of leftover fragments that pay homage to coastal communities to Ammann’s meditations on discomfort, their work reveals the vulnerability embedded in our relationships, the quiet persistence of organic forces, and the haunting traces of systems once thought permanent. Together, their voices form a compelling meditation on human resilience, collapse, and the blurred boundaries between human, natural, and constructed worlds. 

July 3 - August 2, 2026
Stone Tower Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday | 12pm - 6pm

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The Stone Tower Gallery presents Confluence and Connections. Bettina Ammann, Meg Dickerson, and Barbara Stauffer are artists whose practices were profoundly shaped by their shared time in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Post-Baccalaureate Ceramics Artisanry program. This exhibition highlights how the experience in this rigorous and collaborative environment led the artists to develop distinctly personal styles united by a shared exploration of human fragility, the natural world, and the remnants of human systems. Through form, surface, and conceptual inquiry, each artist reflects on the delicate balance between humanity and the environment. From Stauffer’s exploration of biological fragility and resilience to Dickerson’s explorations of leftover fragments that pay homage to coastal communities to Ammann’s meditations on discomfort, their work reveals the vulnerability embedded in our relationships, the quiet persistence of organic forces, and the haunting traces of systems once thought permanent. Together, their voices form a compelling meditation on human resilience, collapse, and the blurred boundaries between human, natural, and constructed worlds. 

July 3 - August 2, 2026
Stone Tower Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday | 12pm - 6pm

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The Stone Tower Gallery presents Confluence and Connections. Bettina Ammann, Meg Dickerson, and Barbara Stauffer are artists whose practices were profoundly shaped by their shared time in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Post-Baccalaureate Ceramics Artisanry program. This exhibition highlights how the experience in this rigorous and collaborative environment led the artists to develop distinctly personal styles united by a shared exploration of human fragility, the natural world, and the remnants of human systems. Through form, surface, and conceptual inquiry, each artist reflects on the delicate balance between humanity and the environment. From Stauffer’s exploration of biological fragility and resilience to Dickerson’s explorations of leftover fragments that pay homage to coastal communities to Ammann’s meditations on discomfort, their work reveals the vulnerability embedded in our relationships, the quiet persistence of organic forces, and the haunting traces of systems once thought permanent. Together, their voices form a compelling meditation on human resilience, collapse, and the blurred boundaries between human, natural, and constructed worlds. 

July 3 - August 2, 2026
Stone Tower Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday | 12pm - 6pm

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The Stone Tower Gallery presents Confluence and Connections. Bettina Ammann, Meg Dickerson, and Barbara Stauffer are artists whose practices were profoundly shaped by their shared time in the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Post-Baccalaureate Ceramics Artisanry program. This exhibition highlights how the experience in this rigorous and collaborative environment led the artists to develop distinctly personal styles united by a shared exploration of human fragility, the natural world, and the remnants of human systems. Through form, surface, and conceptual inquiry, each artist reflects on the delicate balance between humanity and the environment. From Stauffer’s exploration of biological fragility and resilience to Dickerson’s explorations of leftover fragments that pay homage to coastal communities to Ammann’s meditations on discomfort, their work reveals the vulnerability embedded in our relationships, the quiet persistence of organic forces, and the haunting traces of systems once thought permanent. Together, their voices form a compelling meditation on human resilience, collapse, and the blurred boundaries between human, natural, and constructed worlds. 

July 3 - August 2, 2026
Stone Tower Gallery Hours:
Saturday & Sunday | 12pm - 6pm

Learn More >> | Park Map >>