Founded in 1990, Gallery X is a contemporary, nonprofit art gallery of visual, performing, and literary artist members and volunteers. Gallery X promotes its mission of cultural outreach through community partnerships, programming, and monthly art exhibits to stimulate artistic awareness in New Bedford and the surrounding communities. We provide a platform for artists, performers, and creatives of all ages, skill levels, and backgrounds to showcase their talents in a safe, professional space.
Staff
Zachary White
Executive Director
Zachary is a printmaker and mixed media who began as executive director of Gallery X in January 2020 after initially joining as an artist member in 2016 and later serving as secretary on the board of directors from 2018–2019. During his tenure as executive director the rehabilitation of the Gallery’s historic 1855 home and expanding access to the organization’s arts-based programming have been among his top priorities. He currently serves on the New Bedford Creative Consortium and the board of directors for Spinner Publications, a community-based, nonprofit publishing house and photo archive. Outside of his work in nonprofits and the arts Zachary owns and operates a monument cleaning business.
Board of Directors
Tom Kummer
President
Regina E. McIntyre
Vice President
Johan Santiago
Treasurer
Mary Monteiro
Secretary
Mary Monteiro started her journey with art at UMass Dartmouth in the early seventies. She left to apprentice with a classical oil painter in Providence, choosing a more focused line of study. Later she apprenticed with a nationally known illustrator, giving her the tools she needed to start her own freelance illustration career. Mary maintained several clients in the book publishing and advertising industries. Her work led her to new clients in the collectible industry. She successfully designed several giftware lines that sold nationally and internationally.
In retirement Mary now is dedicated to her first love, oil painting, seeking to share the immense joy she receives from the creative process. She credits Gallery X with significant growth as a painter and as an artist in a thriving artistic community.
Kate Frazer Rego
Development Director
Kate Frazer Rego is an artist and educator living in the South Coast of Massachusetts. She attended the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Art, where she earned a BFA in Sculpture. She went on to earn her MFA from Boston University’s College of Fine Art.
Kate’s work spans multiple media including sculpture, installation, mixed media, painting, performance and puppetry. Within the past few years, her process has expanded to include her writings which have been published in Anomaly Poetry’s “Tidings” and “Rituals” annual editions. She also hosts People’s Poetry over at the New Bedford Art Museum.
She has been an art educator in public schools and art organizations across the South Coast for the past thirteen years. Her pedagogy focuses on process, building strong studio habits within her students, and art history through a lens of inclusion and social justice.
When she’s not teaching for the Commonwealth, she’s holed up in her studio with a cup of coffee.