Rochester Museum of Fine Arts

05/21/2026

For this week's bonus episode, Creative Guts is pleased to share this episode of Off the Wall with Matt and Amy from the Rochester Museum of Fine Arts in Rochester, New Hampshire. Off The Wall is a semi-regular series where Matt and Amy chat with a wide variety of visual artists, digging into the nuts and bolts of their creative process to reveal more about the layers of meaning, emotion, and intent behind their work.

In this episode, you’ll hear Denise Manseau discuss "Making Way", an exhibition on view in the Carnegie Gallery until September 4, 2026. The Carnegie Gallery is located in the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more.

Denise Manseau creates paintings that are inventions in response to place—inner landscapes that transform the visible world into tangible form. Her work emerges through a process of discovery, where observation and memory converge to shape environments that feel both familiar and imagined.

Manseau holds a BFA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has attended the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine as an Open Studio Resident and was a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center. Paintings developed during her residency in Monasterace, Italy were included in a traveling exhibition at the Monasterace Museo and at Hillyer Art Space for International Artists in Washington, DC.

Learn more about this exhibit at https://www.rochestermfa.org/denise-manseau/.
View her work at www.denisemanseau.com and follow on Instagram at www.instagram.com/ddmanseau/

Any views or opinions expressed by the RMFA hosts or guests do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Creative Guts.

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05/06/2026

Check out this work in progress by , busy painting a new design onto the obelisk created by .b.pearson at the !Stay tuned for more!

05/05/2026

We love this work by at the Rochester Public Library on the first floor. Check it out!

05/04/2026

We’re excited to announce "Making Way", an exhibition featuring works by Denise Manseau in the Carnegie Gallery, on view from May 4, 2026 to September 4, 2026. The Carnegie Gallery is located in the Rochester Public Library, 65 South Main Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more.

Denise Manseau (b. 1959, Massachusetts) creates paintings that are inventions in response to place—inner landscapes that transform the visible world into tangible form. Her work emerges through a process of discovery, where observation and memory converge to shape environments that feel both familiar and imagined.

For Manseau, the act of painting is a journey into the unknown. She follows each convoluted path with faith, inquiry, and intuition: considering what medium will provide the proper translucency, what color will bring an element forward, or whether an entire area should be obscured. Within the uncertainty of this process, she takes comfort in knowing that every decision makes a way toward an elusive understanding—that moment when the eye and the heart become one.

Manseau holds a BFA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has attended the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Maine as an Open Studio Resident and was a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center. Paintings developed during her residency in Monasterace, Italy were included in a traveling exhibition at the Monasterace Museo and at Hillyer Art Space for International Artists in Washington, DC.

Recent exhibitions include 3S Artspace in Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Five Points Arts in Connecticut; Westbeth Gallery in New York; and The Gallery at Atlantic Wharf in Boston. She currently lives and works in Rye, New Hampshire.

05/04/2026

We’re thrilled to announce "View To A Burnt World", an exhibition featuring works by Richard Yu-Tang Lee in the Bernier Room, on view from May 4, 2026 to September 4, 2026. The Bernier Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more.

Richard Yu-Tang Lee is an emerging Asian American artist. Lee uses pattern as a vehicle to describe time, articulating the excellence and fallibility of memory. His work is informed by observation of natural phenomena and an ever-present awareness of the self as “viewer.” Lee has worked as an art director and a cook, professional backgrounds that inform his painting practice and have given way to multidisciplinary projects such as the collaborative 4-year-long design, cooking, and manufacturing performance piece, “Little Brother Chinese Food,” completed in 2025 (documented on Instagram).

“View To A Burnt World” marks Lee’s fifth solo exhibition and third time showing in New Hampshire. Lee is scheduled to exhibit in his hometown of Chicago at the Bulgarca Cultural Center in the summer of 2027.

05/04/2026

Check out "Community Shapes", a digital exhibition featuring works by Drew DiPasquale in the Pixel Room, on view from April 24, 2026 to September 4, 2026. The Pixel Room is located in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center, 150 Wakefield Street, Rochester, NH 03867. Visit rochestermfa.org to learn more.

Drew is an artist and father of two living in Portsmouth, NH. He has built his practice through deep study of art history, collaborations with artists locally and internationally, and relentless experimentation in the studio. Every opportunity becomes a way to expand his visual vocabulary—one that exists before words, in the space where feeling and material meet. Each painting is a negotiation between control and chaos, memory and invention. His continuous practice connects him to the raw immediacy of seeing and making, where imagination does not need permission or explanation.

05/03/2026

Thank you to .nh for your support this week! We encourage everyone to stop into the Casio from May 1 to May 10, 2026. A potion of the proceeds will directly support our organization, which helps us make exceptional fine art accessible to all throughout the year. Thank you!

04/16/2026

We had an incredible time working with students from Spaulding High School and members of the Senior Activity Center to create a mural in the Community Center! Thank you to everyone who volunteered to make it happen. Be sure to check it out in person at the Senior Activity Center in the James W. Foley Memorial Community Center.