Exhibitions

As a museum, WNDC’s Whittemore House sponsors exhibitions by outstanding local artists as well as historic architecture and period furnishings. Our most recent exhibitions feature a wide range of artistic styles and media.

Current Exhibition

Past Exhibitions

November 6, 2025 - January 27, 2026

Beverly Logan has acquired over 250,000 photographic images throughout her 50-year career.

Logan’s work combines photographs that may have been taken 8 years or 8,000 miles apart to construct stories that are far from the original photographs’ narratives. She recreates her dreams and memories through collage, exploring reality and the ways in which it can so easily become distorted in contemporary life. This exhibition included surrealistic images, as well as images that seem familiar but are nonetheless marked by Logan’s artistic perspective.

Terry Birkel

"Travels With My Brush: Landscapes Real and Imagined"
September 4 - November 4, 2025

This exhibition featured vibrantly colored landscapes inspired by Terry Birkel’s travels through the American West, Maine, Ireland, and Cape May. His works explore color, pattern, and form across both real and imagined terrains, often incorporating shifting clouds and dramatic lighting to evoke an emotional response in the viewer.

Birkel works primarily in oil on canvas for larger pieces, while smaller works are rendered in gouache and pastel. As they took in the powerful beauty of landscape, viewers were invited to embrace a sense of wonder and connection to the natural world.

Iza Thomas

"Moments of the Color of Life"
May 1st - September 2nd, 2025

Iza Thomas says the title of her exhibition aims to convey the importance of color in experiencing joy. Her paintings contrast and combine colors—for example, depicting a red tanager bird on a blue sofa or a vivid bird of paradise against a brown wooden floor.

Inspired by magical realism, her work often juxtaposes the magical with the ordinary to tell stories. Viewers of Thomas’s paintings are encouraged to understand her story and reimagine it according to their own lives. One might say her paintings are surrealist in style, representing familiar objects in an unfamiliar context.

Jack Rasmussen
"After the Garden is Gone"
February 6th - April 29th, 2025

Jack Rasmussen is the curator and director of the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, but he also maintains his own studio practice.

This exhibition featured mixed-media collages, as Rasmussen used scientific illustrations and science classroom posters to address issues of pollution, overpopulation, overdevelopment, climate change, and the loss of natural habitats. His thought-provoking and visually appealing work conveys feelings of loss and the search for resolution.