The Thread Between
Works by Jean Sbarra Jones and Rebecca Orcutt
October 22–December 10, 2025
Opening Reception and Artists Talk: Saturday, November 15, 2025, from 4–6 p.m. at the Barrington Center for the Arts
The Thread Between is a new exhibition featuring Rebecca Orcutt ’15 and Jean Sbarra Jones. Rebecca’s paintings have been exhibited internationally—from New York and Amsterdam to Copenhagen. She has been recognized by the National Portrait Gallery (London) and was a finalist for The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters. Jean has exhibited widely across the U.S. and is represented by Alpha Gallery in Boston. Her work has appeared in The Boston Globe, Poets/Artists, and Woven Tale Press. Rebecca and Jean first met at Gordon College, beginning as professor and student. Their ongoing creative connection has now come full circle in this special combined exhibition.
Rebecca Orcutt
Rebecca Orcutt is a painter living and working in Washington State. She received her BA from Gordon College in 2015 and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2017.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at Flowers Gallery (New York), the Muskegon Museum of Art, Galerie Mokum (Amsterdam), and the Art Herning Art Fair (Denmark), with recent solo exhibitions at Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen.
She has been awarded residencies at the Leipzig International Art Programme (Germany) and La Chapelle Saint-Antoine (Naxos, Greece). Her work has been featured in publications such as American Art Collector and Mutual Art, and has been archived as part of the Lunar Codex, an international project preserving works of art on the moon via SpaceX and NASA missions.
In 2021, Orcutt was named a finalist for The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realist Painters, with an accompanying traveling group exhibition across the United States (2021–2023). Her paintings have been selected for the Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, first in 2015 as part of the BP Portrait Award, and again in 2024 for the Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, where she received the Young Artist Award.
She is represented by Gallery Poulsen in Copenhagen.
Jean Sbarra Jones
Jean Sbarra Jones is a painter based in Salem, Massachusetts. She earned her MFA from Boston University and has exhibited widely across the United States, with solo shows at Alpha Gallery in Boston, Cairn University in Pennsylvania, and SZ Gallery in Washington State, among others. Her work has also appeared in juried and group exhibitions at the Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, Cheekwood Museum of Art in Tennessee, and the Bowery Gallery in New York. She has shown in exhibitions selected by artists such as Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago, and her work is included in the private collection of Kenneth Noland.
Jones has received awards from Artists Magazine, the Wausau Museum, and the Vermont Studio Center, where she has held multiple residencies. She has been invited as a visiting artist at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and as a workshop leader at the Harvard Art Museums. Her paintings have been published in The Boston Globe, Poets/Artists, and Woven Tale Press.
She has taught at several colleges and universities in the Boston area and currently teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Jones is represented by Alpha Gallery in Boston.