Donald Hugo Stoltenberg was an American Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1927. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Cape Cod Museum of Art have featured Donald Hugo Stoltenberg's work in the past. This collection was donated by Roger Dunn, Professor Emeritus at BSU.

Ms. Ellen P. Farren (alumni 1957) has donated her collection of Japanese prints that she collected during the time she lived and work in Japan during the 60's and 70's. This gift is composed of contemporary Japanese wooodblock prints dating from the 50's thru the 70's and is highlighted by works done by Kiyoshi Saito, Shiko Munakata and Akemi Inagaki. These works will act as a foundation for the university in providing original materials to our global engagement and international studies programs.

Mark Young's collection represents the span of a life's work of a local Bridgewater self-taught craftsman and artist who worked outside the art world. Mark was a ceaseless explorer of medium and form and style, whose work encompassed everything from watercolor to copper welding in the pursuit of his artistic expression. Much of his work represents an outsider artist whose contemporary times--including the burgeoning civil rights movement as well as his reactions to political and geopolitical change and strife. Neither his constant restlessness in form or style nor his own challenges in life (he was severely dyslexic, and add, as well as dealt with lifelong mental health issues), ever slowed or stimied his incredible output or dampened his constant striving for creation. Mark's collection represents an important outsider artistic voice that was active and working in the Bridgewater community, and one whose story, challenges, and work deserve to be seen as an example of an indefatigable pursuit of artistic practice.

Through scholarly research and social engagement, the Pedro Pires Institute for Cape Verdean Studies fosters knowledge production and dissemination, while highlighting the culture of Cape Verde.