Northeastern Gallery 360

It's that time of year again! This week, Art + Design professors Sophia Ainslie, Doug Scott and John Wegner are hard at work in the gallery installing the annual CAMD senior show.

Join us at the opening reception next Wednesday, April 22 from 3:30-5:00pm!
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Photos courtesy of Sophia Ainslie.

It’s the last week to see “The Data at Hand” before the exhibition closes on Apr. 4!

Don’t miss your chance to see the intricate sculptures of and the soft, tactile maps of .

Gallery hours this week are Monday-Saturday, 12 to 5 p.m.
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Installation view of “The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space” at Gallery 360, Boston, 2026. Photo: Tim Correira.

It was great to hear more last Friday about the process and ethos behind "Touching Toxicity" and "Soft City," and how the dynamic duo of just practice has evolved their collaborative creative practice over the years.

Sophie Chien and Amanda Ugorji first started felting together while working on "Soft City" as roommates in grad school at Harvard GSD. In their makeshift apartment studio, they spent a grueling few weeks putting the massive series of rugs together. By the end of that process, Chien's hands were exhausted—she vowed she'd never felt again.

Luckily, our commission for "Touching Toxicity" brought them together again for more textile work. This time, Chien and Ugorji were in different time zones, carefully divvying up the production work asynchronously to produce a striking and cohesive series of panels.

Thank you to everyone who made Friday's event so engaging! Be sure to check out "The Data at Hand" before it closes on Apr. 4 💫

There's just three weeks left to see "The Data at Hand" at Gallery 360! As we get into the home stretch of this show, we're excited to welcome artist duo just practice to campus next Friday for a conversation about their "Soft City" and "Touching Toxicity" projects and process.

Following the discussion at the Center for Design, we'll move to the gallery for a reception and some light refreshments.

If you're interested in learning more about just practice's work or meeting the artists, now is your chance!

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/processing-data-just-practice-and-cara-michell-in-conversation-tickets-1982227668316?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Installation view of "The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space" at Gallery 360, Boston, 2026. Photo: Tim Correira.

Next Friday, Mar. 20 at 2pm, join us for a conversation between exhibiting artists Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien of with Northeastern's Cara Michell.⁠
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By weaving data into material form in their series "Soft City" and "Touching Toxicity" on view in Gallery 360, Ugorji and Weston Chien invite viewers to imagine planning processes grounded in care, participation, and ecological justice.⁠
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Presented as part of Design Research Week 2026, this program will explore how structural inequities become embedded in ecological systems and the built environment and how creative practice research can model approaches to urban-scale thinking that move beyond top-down decision-making, centering the lived experiences and spatial knowledge of residents as essential to imagining more just futures.⁠
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Reception with light refreshments and snacks to follow at Gallery 360.⁠
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This event is free and open to the public. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/processing-data-just-practice-and-cara-michell-in-conversation-tickets-1982227668316?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Installation view of "The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space" at Gallery 360, Boston, 2026. Photo: Tim Correira.

After a whirlwind of a blizzard, we are planning to reopen our doors today! But get your visits in while you can; we'll be closed from Mar. 2-7 for Northeastern's spring break. ⁠
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We will reopen again for our normal hours on Monday, Mar. 9. ⁠
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Installation view of The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space at Gallery 360, Boston, 2026. Photo: Tim Correira.

Hours update: Gallery 360 will be closed tomorrow, Feb. 23 due to the incoming snowstorm.
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Photo by Tim Correira.

Thank you to everyone who came out to our open house last week! We had so much fun sharing the exhibition with you all.

We have some more events to look forward to in March—particularly for Design Research Week—so please stay tuned!
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Photos by Devyn Rudnick.

This Wednesday from 3-5pm! Join us for an artist tour and open house reception at Gallery 360 with exhibiting artist Nathalie Miebach ().

Free and open to the public. Register at the 🔗 in bio or at bit.ly/the-data-at-hand-tour

We're thrilled to announce our next exhibition! Opening on Jan. 21 in Boston, "The Data at Hand: Data Physicalizations of Earth and Space" is the first-ever collaborative show between Gallery 360 and the Mills College Art Museum.

Bringing together new commissions and existing work from artists Nathalie Miebach and just practice (Amanda Ugorji and Sophie Weston Chien), "The Data at Hand" presents data physicalization—or the act of giving a data set physical form—as a potential antidote to the data fatigue that we face in our contemporary world.

From political forecasting to the charting of global temperatures, data visualization has become an ever-present tool today. Yet the richness of information represented in them can be difficult to engage with on a personal level, and at worst can give rise to feelings of numbness and powerlessness. In "The Data at Hand," artists use traditional craft media to make the complexity of our planet concrete and accessible.

Drawing upon datasets from sources ranging from the shifting terrain of riverbeds or practices of redlining, the objects in this exhibition offer a powerful example of craft’s unique contribution to how we understand the world around us.

In Fall 2026, the exhibition will be on view in an expanded form at MCAM in Oakland. In the meantime, we can't wait to share Miebach, Ugorji, and Chien's artworks with you at Boston campus!