{"id":35249,"date":"2026-10-20T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=35249"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T15:48:00","slug":"new-show-highlights-careers-in-art-and-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/2026\/10\/20\/new-show-highlights-careers-in-art-and-design\/","title":{"rendered":"New Show Highlights Careers in Art and Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Haverhill, MA (October 20, 2026) \u2014 The latest exhibition to open in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/about\/facilities\/library-artspace-gallery\/\">Linda Hummel-Shea ArtSpace<\/a> on the Haverhill Campus of Northern Essex Community College is showing what it&#8217;s like to work as an artist.\u00a0 <i>Professional Practice: Inside Art &amp; Design Careers <\/i>takes viewers behind the scenes of four different art and design careers. Curated by NECC Professor Michelle Carter, the exhibit showcases animation by Ng&#8217;endo Mukii, illustrations by Corey Corcoran, public art by Jenn Houle, and architecture from the firm NDNY. Sketches, process photos, and interviews illuminate the process of creating and the work of attaining commissions.<a href=\"http:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/birds-by-bus11_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34190 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/birds-by-bus11_1.jpg\" alt=\"houle sits on a bus stop bench with a red bird affixed to it\" width=\"500\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/birds-by-bus11_1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/birds-by-bus11_1-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/birds-by-bus11_1-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/birds-by-bus11_1-427x260.jpg 427w, https:\/\/necc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/05\/birds-by-bus11_1-705x429.jpg 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/>Public Art by Jenn Houle:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Public artist and NECC professor Jenn Houle recently won a design competition for Merrimack Valley Transit (MeVa) with \u201cBirds + Bugs by Bus.\u201d For many years, her vibrant paintings and digital art have encouraged environmental action, highlighting issues like the importance of planting native seeds and limiting light pollution. Houle\u2019s MeVa project brings various species to twenty-two different bus shelters in Lawrence, Amesbury, and Haverhill \u2014 including a blue \u201csummer azure\u201d butterfly for NECC!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Animation by Ng&#8217;endo Mukii:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Ng\u2019endo Mukii is a Boston-based artist and Professor of the Practice at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. As the writer and director of <i>Enkai<\/i>, she represented Kenya in the Afrofuturist Disney anthology <i>Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire<\/i>. She collaborated with Blink Industries and Triggerfish animation studio, taking an innovative \u201cmixed media\u201d approach of combining techniques such as CGI, 2D animation, and stop motion animation. In 2024, Enkai won the Best Limited Series award at the prestigious 51st Annie Awards in LA.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Architecture by Mary Kohilam Chandrahasan and Ananth Robert Sampathkumar:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">Is it possible to make New York City waste yards both functional and aesthetically appealing? How would you plan an urban outdoor classroom where public school students learn to farm, harvest, and cook? And how would you design a Brooklyn restaurant that reflects the industrial history of Williamsburg while also conjuring a home-cooked Mexican meal? Manhattan-based architecture firm NDNY (\u201cNew Delhi New York\u201d), founded by husband-and-wife team Mary Kohilam Chandrahasan and Ananth Robert Sampathkumar, has provided award-winning solutions to these challenges and many others.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Illustration by Corey Corcoran:<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<div class=\"elementToProof\">In late August 2024, Boston-based illustrator Corey Corcoran received a job request from <i>The New York Times:<\/i> an image for an editorial about the character of the witch in the movie <i>Wicked<\/i>. As with most newpaper timelines, Corcoran had just a couple of days to submit three visual ideas, or \u201croughs.\u201d Corcoran\u2019s final illustration was published on September 15th and was later recognized by several national illustration showcases.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/>The exhibit is open now on the Haverhill Campus. Special screenings of the animated short &#8220;Enkai,&#8221;\u00a0 will take place on October 27 at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. and October 28 at 1 p.m.<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/necc.edu\/about\/facilities\/library-artspace-gallery\/\">The\u00a0Linda Hummel-Shea ArtSpace<\/a>\u00a0is located on the first floor of the Bentley Library. Gallery events are free and open to the public. For more information on this exhibition, contact\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mcarter@necc.mass.edu\">Michelle Carter.<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong> <br class=\"avia-permanent-lb\" \/>Gallery Hours:<\/strong><br \/>\nMonday-Thursday: 8 AM \u2013 8 PM<br \/>\nFriday: 8 AM \u2013 4 PM<br \/>\nSaturday and Sunday: closed<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haverhill, MA (October 20, 2026) \u2014 The latest exhibition to open in the\u00a0Linda Hummel-Shea ArtSpace on the Haverhill Campus of Northern Essex Community College is showing what it&#8217;s like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":34190,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[756,12,759,14,758,16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","category-events","category-faculty-staff","category-featured","category-headline","category-press-releases","category-spotlight"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - 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