The Hutchins Galleries are a home for the Lawrenceville School's permanent collection of art and a host for rotating exhibits of working, regional artists.
We hope to integrate art into the lives of people, inspiring individual reflection, community dialogue, and historical and cultural awareness. We believe in the power of art to stimulate creative thinking, aesthetic appreciation, and enjoyment. The exhibitions and programs of the galleries are intended to inspire and challenge the school community while offering a resource for teaching in all disciplines.
Current Exhibition | SEP 11 - NOV 14, 2025
Tunnel #3: Sandhogs
Work by Tom Grimes '78
Gallery Reception
September 25, 2025
6:30pm
Current Exhibition | NOV 10, 2025 - JAN 16, 2026
Iceblink Ballet
Work by Scot J. Wittman
Gallery Reception
November 13, 2025
6:30pm
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The Hutchins Galleries
The Lawrenceville School
2500 Main Street
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648
The Galleries can be accessed through the entrance to the Gruss Center for Art and Design (GCAD). The main entrance for the Hutchins Galleries is at the rear of the building, and can be accessed during open viewing hours.
| Monday | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Tuesday | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Wednesday | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Thursday | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Friday | 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 - 4:30 p.m. |
| Saturdays | by appointment |
| Contact |
hutchinsgalleries@lawrenceville.org |
Tunnel #3
Sandhogs
Work by Tom Grimes '78
September 11 - November 14, 2025
For more than a century, a brotherhood of urban miners - known as sandhogs - has toiled in the shadows beneath New York City. Far below the streets, they dig and blast through bedrock, laying the foundations for bridges, subways, sewers, and water tunnels that keep the city alive.
The name comes from their earliest job: digging the caissons for the Brooklyn Bridge, burrowing into the riverbed “like hogs in sand.” From those first foundations, sandhogs have shaped nearly every major piece of underground infrastructure: the subway system, the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, the city’s vast sewer network, and the monumental water tunnels that still bring fresh water from upstate reservoirs.
These workers endure darkness, dust, deafening noise, and the constant press of the earth itself. Their labor is dangerous, their craft precise, and their camaraderie legendary. Every tunnel is a story written in stone—one of sweat, skill, and stubborn persistence.
This portrait series documented by photographer Tom Grimes ‘78 offers a rare glimpse into their world: the grit on their faces, the geometry of their machinery, and the hidden landscapes carved by human hands. Step inside, and meet the men who built the veins of the city you walk above every day.
Today, the sandhogs are still at work, digging new tunnels for water, transit, and power—projects that ensure New York can keep pace with its millions of residents and withstand the pressures of the future. They are the unseen builders of the city’s lifelines, maintaining a tradition of labor, ingenuity, and grit that spans more than a century.
Iceblink Ballet
Work by Scot J. Wittman
November 10, 2025 - January 16, 2026
Iceblink Ballet explores the fleeting beauty of natural resources and human talent through photography, video, sculpture, painting, drawing, and ice. Rooted in the artist’s fascination with the dancer as a symbol of human drive, the exhibition highlights moments of balance between nature and technology, reality and artifice, the ordinary and the extraordinary. This installation includes new works created specifically for the Hutchins Galleries, presented alongside earlier pieces to form a dialogue of art, innovation, and possibility.
Comprising sculpture, video, and photography Iceblink Ballet offers a suite of experiences celebrating the human condition amidst challenges of today’s world. Drawing from my TEDx Talk and an ongoing global photographic project, I am primarily showcasing photographs where I have collaborated with dancers around the world. I have been recording celebrated ballerinas at their most graceful moments in the air, amidst striking landscapes. While the dancer is photographically frozen at the most beautiful moment, so too is the landscape captured at its apex – at a more profound scale. At its heart Iceblink Ballet reflects on what it means to leap (or fly!) – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – in today’s uncertain world. From the frozen moments of the dancer in a photograph, the Lawrenceville gallery goer will also experience frozen moments more literally; a statue of dancer encased in ice offers meditation on impermanence, transformation, and the intersection of the body and environment. Video projection of slow-motion dance movement will poetically reinforce notions of melting, preservation, and perseverance.
This is the third iteration of this traveling exhibition, and I am extremely happy and grateful to be showing my work in the most exciting space of the three. "JUST ICE" was featured in Boston two years ago, and "Fondu & FREEZE" was featured earlier this year. Ongoing discussions lead towards the next iteration returning to Boston, because I am currently collaborating with Harvard University faculty to create works using new technologies. The yin to that yang will be traditional dance incorporated into the show’s experiences offered.
It is my hope that here at the Lawrenceville School Iceblink Ballet invites viewers to pause, ponder, and witness beauty – in motion and in stillness. As dancers leap, hopefully so too do viewers’ imaginations...landing somewhere between art, nature, and the sublime.
Past Exhibits
Collection and Spaces
The generosity of Glenn H. Hutchins '73, provided the gift that allowed the Hutchins Galleries to be instituted on campus. The Hutchins Galleries are a gift of the Hutchins Family Foundation in honor of Marguerite and James Hutchins. The Lawrenceville School's art collection is made possible through the generosity and goodwill of its alumni and parents; The collection has grown rapidly in the past decade to well over 500 works of art that include an impressive collection of photography, sculpture, paintings, works on paper, ancient artifacts and textiles. Education remains the primary focus for the growth of Lawrenceville's collection.
Renovated and reopened in 2021, the Galleries will continue to provide arts education and a welcoming community space through rotating exhibitions of working artists and display of our permanent collection. The permanent collection is also intended to be a resource to the entire faculty, to encourage object and inquiry-focused opportunities that lend themselves well to the Harkness style of teaching. Through exhibition work, the Galleries will be yet another area on campus where students, faculty, alumni, and the local community are provided the opportunity to explore and appreciate the perspectives and identities of others, as well as their own.
