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Queens, Gods, and Devotees: Selections from the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery 1 College St, Worcester

Featuring over 30 paintings, sculptures, photographs, prints, and fiber works from c. 1900 to the present, Queens, Gods, and Devotees foregrounds earthly and divine greatness, and their associated devotional objects and ritual practices. On view at the Cantor Art Gallery from August 25-November 24, 2026.

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Boroughs Theatre - Prior Performing Arts Center 1 College St, Worcester

This ferocious, unsettling and often hilarious work by the Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins transforms the American family play into a riveting examination of race, memory and the stories families tell themselves.

Clement Valla | Improbable Images: Making Pictures with Machines

Hogan 406/407 1 College St., Worcester

Best known for Postcards from Google Earth (2010–ongoing), a collection of the melting bridges, draping highways and folded terrain thrown off by Google's automated 3D maps, Clement Valla is an artist interested in how machines and humans see. Join us for this Artist Talk from the Beyond The Magic: AI Image Speaker Series presented by the Department of Visual Arts at Holy Cross and sponsored by the Ruettgers Grand Challenge Grant.