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October 2021
Wakpa Mural Tour With Erin Genia
Tufts University Art Galleries present Native artist Erin Genia leading a tour of her commissioned public art mural "Wakpa," located in the Jackson Gym parking lot in the back of Aidekman Arts Center, next to the Tufts University Art Galleries entrance. The mural is on view through the 2021–22 academic year. The tour is co-sponsored with Tufts Environmental Studies as part of the Hoch Cunningham Environmental Lecture Series, which will feature Genia and fellow Native artist Elizabeth-James Perry in conversation at…
Find out more »Royall House Tours Closing Day
The Royall House & Slave Quarters concludes its 2021 guided tour season today. Tours are offered on the hour at 1, 2, and 3 p.m. Capacity is limited to 12 people per tour and attendance is on a first come, first served basis. Mask policy: The city of Medford requires that face-coverings be worn by all individuals ages 5 and older while at indoor public facilities within our community. All visitors, including those who are vaccinated, are asked to please…
Find out more »November 2021
Tufts Art Galleries Tour: Kinship
The current Tufts University Art Galleries exhibition "Staying with the Trouble" is a direct reference to Donna Haraway’s eponymous 2016 book that implores us to find new ways of being in relationship with Earth and its various inhabitants by “making kin.” this afternoon, TUAG invites you to join special guest Dr. Sarah Pinto in a conversation exploring ideas of kinship across each of its fall exhibitions. Pinto is a professor of anthropology at Tufts University, where she teaches and conducts…
Find out more »Tufts Art Galleries Talk: Emily Gephart – Worlding with Water
Tufts Art Galleries present a talk by Tufts art faculty member Emily Gephart, "Worlding with Water," in conjunction with the exhbition "Staying with the Trouble" currently on view at Aidekman Arts Center, Medford. Water’s fluidity and matter-filled viscosity have emerged in many contemporary art projects as fruitful metaphoric sites for expressing resilience. As a medium, bodies of water and their hydrological resources also serve as aesthetic laboratories for narrating alternate histories, envisioning possible futures, and resisting environmental and social exploitation.…
Find out more »December 2021
Tufts Art Galleries Tour: Connecting Threads
Tufts University Art Galleries presents a special tour of its current exhibit "Connecting Threads / Survivor Objects," led by Dr. Helen C. Evans, the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art Emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit, which closes today, contains Armenian objects that tell interwoven stories, and their threads provide visual evidence of vast trade and religious networks. Evans curated The Met’s 2018 exhibition "Armenia!" has lectured and published widely and taught Armenian art and…
Find out more »January 2022
Exhibition Opening: Art for the Future – Artists Call and Central American Solidarities
Tufts University Art Galleries reopen for the spring semester, as well as opens the exhibition “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities,” which focuses on the seminal 1980s activist campaign and will be on view until April 24. Growing out of the friendships, solidarity networks and political organizing amongst artists and activists such as Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Lucy Lippard, Doug Ashford, Leon Golub and Coosje van Bruggen, the campaign resulted in exhibitions, performances, poetry readings, film…
Find out more »March 2022
Tufts Art Galleries Curator Tour: Art for the Future
Tufts University Arts Galleries presents a tour of its "Art for the Future" exhibition with Abigail Satinsky, TUAG curator and head of public engagement. "Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities" focuses on the seminal 1980s activist campaign, Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America. On view through April 24, the exhibition highlights Artists Call’s history through a selection of activities and works from the 31 exhibitions and over 1,100 artists who participated in New York…
Find out more »April 2022
A Lasting Look: Cairn Stacking, Candles & Connection
After two years of being closed due to COVID-19, the Gallery@Sanctuary is reopening with an exhibition honoring our collective experience and celebrating all we’ve created in response to how our lives have been altered during this *$#%* time. Organizers are creating a multi-media gallery installation and multiple interactive moments to memorialize and share our joys and sorrows remembering the last two years. What brought you sorrow? How did you/do we find our way through? What do you remember most? How…
Find out more »Children’s Art Showcase Closing Reception
A closing reception will be held today to celebrate the return of the Children’s Art Showcase, a volunteer-run art display created to highlight artwork from the students in grades 3, 7, as well as featured high school students from the Medford Public Schools. Its mission is to promote arts and to keep students engaged with their creative side and giving them the chance to see themselves as artists. The Showcase artwork is on display through April 23 in the South…
Find out more »Art for the Future Closing Roundtable and Book Release
Tufts University Art Galleries presents a closing reception and book release party for the exhibition “Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities,” which focuses on the seminal 1980s activist campaign and is on view until April 24. The roundtable discussion will feature Artists Call participants and key organizers, and exhibition co-curators, including Lucy Lippard, Doug Ashford, Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Dona Ann McAdams, Sabra Moore, Gregory Sholette, Josely Carvalho, Jerri Allyn, and others. And celebrate the release…
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