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Chandler Gallery
The Chandler Gallery, located on the ground floor of our main building at 20 Sacramento Street, began as an artist collective in the late 1970s and contributed to the community by showcasing local artists for many years. It continues as a community and gallery space today, exhibiting work by both professional and student artists.
Welcome to the Chandler Gallery
History
Established in the late 1970s as the Sacramento Street Gallery, the gallery was renamed and dedicated in 2010 in honor of the artist Fay Chandler.
Purpose
The purpose of the Chandler Gallery is to foster and honor the creativity in the Baldwin neighborhood while expanding and promoting connections with all of Cambridge and the wider Boston art community. Our exhibition program balances a diversity of media by professional, emerging, and student artists while showing work of the highest quality and topical interest.
Current Exhibition
Watercolors & Monotypes:
County Mayo, Ireland
March 4th-April 29th, 2026
The dramatic beauty of Ireland’s west coast has inspired many an artist! The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, located in the town of Ballycastle, Co Mayo, offers workshops and residencies. Local artists Catherine Kernan, Jane Goldman, and Wendy Prellwitz have deep connections there, traveling multiple times over many years to do their work.
Watercolors & Monotypes features a small selection of works created independently and at workshops there. At a recent workshop in 2025, led by Wendy, Cynthia Smith & Mara Callahan painted watercolors in the landscape, which inspired watercolor monotypes, printed in the Foundation’s print shop. In 2019, Jane Goldman led a watercolor workshop with Diane Norris and Chris Pullman.
Jane and Catherine’s work reflect their strong attachment to Mayo’s amazing landscape, in both watercolor and watercolor monotype. All of the artists also have connections with the Maria L. Baldwin Community Center and are strong advocates for supporting the arts.
How to Visit the Chandler Gallery & More Information
The Chandler Gallery is open during our normal business hours:
Monday through Friday 10 AM – 5 PM.
For security purposes, we keep our front door locked during the hours we run children’s programs (2-5 PM during the school year and 8:30 AM-5 PM during the summer). These hours are posted on our front door. Gallery visitors can enter by ringing the bell by our front door or arranging time to visit the gallery space with a member of our staff.
Some of our recent exhibitions include:
Visual Visions: The Voice and Face of Intuitive Artists (September 19-November 14, 2025)
The Visual Visions: The Voice and Face of Intuitive Art exhibit features a unique collection of paintings, drawings, printmaking, and three-dimensional artworks created by artists who pursue their art-making despite the many challenges that confront them. Each artist follows a distinct thread that reflects personal meaning-making, which is found in mark-making, media exploration, and risk-taking.
Foremothers and Forefathers: Paintings by Roz Sommer (October 7-December 6, 2024)
In 1929, my grandparents took my then 6-year-old mother from NYC to visit the family in Poland. I have two small black and white photographs of the family group. I studied the tiny faces and painted the individuals in gouache. The color is invented, personal and intense, as was the experience of getting to know my family in this way. My mother and grandparents returned to the U.S. The rest were killed in the Holocaust.
Baldwin: A Community Story (November 6, 2023-April 30, 2024)
“Baldwin: A Community Story” is part art exhibition and community space, dedicated to our organization’s 53 years of history and the namesakes who inspire our work — Maria L. Baldwin and Maud Morgan. Featuring art pieces and historical archives that tell our long and richly layered story, highlights of the exhibition include handmade busts inspired by the likeness of Maud Morgan and Maria Baldwin, created by all of our agency’s afterschool students and team members; large scale Polaroid prints taken by Cambridge’s own Elsa Dorfman; as well as antique archives from our own collection; and pieces from our community partners, such as the Baldwin School. Special thanks to the Cambridge Historical Commission, which assisted us in identifying and dating many of our pieces.
If You’re A Chair, I’m A Chair: Hilary Tait Norod (March 9-27, 2020)
In this exhibition of sculptures, Tait Norod set out to “explore the romantic tension of a loving relationship with an autobiographical and feminist lens.” It’s both about her own relationship as well as “gender roles and familial and societal expectations of partnership.” The title of the show, which is also the title of a sculpture by Tait Norod, represents the two conversations the artist hopes to foster in the work. Both the personal and romantic aspects of her own relationships and the larger concept of gender equity in modern relationships are topics that frequently inspire her.