The Gallery at Sanctuary presents a reception with four local Haitian artists whose work is featured in a new multimedia exhibition, "Haitian Colors," the second installment in the gallery's IamMigration Series. The internationally recognized artists -- Michele David, Bitho Faustin, Myriam Pitte and Sylvestre Telfort -- each unique in their use of form and color, express the powerful vision and beauty of the world seen through the Haitian artists’ eyes. The exhibition is on view throughout October; hours are Thursdays…

Today is the final day to view the Medford Public Library's fall art exhibition "Autumnal Equinox," featuring works by members of ArtsMedford. The autumnal equinox is celebrated in a variety of ways around the world. Visit the exhibit on the library's second-floor gallery during regular hours to see how ArtsMedford artists embrace autumn and what it means to them. For November and December, the library gallery will display a collection of paintings by a new Medford artist, Estrid Eklof, titled…

The Gallery at Sanctuary invites you to the second of two "Art Circles" to discuss the current multimedia exhibition "Haitian Colors," part of the gallery's IamMigration Series. This evening's session will feature reflections and conversation with spoken word artist Jean Dany Joachim. The poet in residence at First Church in Cambridge, he also created the Many Voices Project, a series of readings and follow-up poetry workshops inspiring conversations about race and equality. Participation also is available via Zoom; visit The…

EventThem Studios invites you to an opening for a new exhibition by JJ Gonson, a prolific photographer of musicians and bands from the 1980s and '90s, first in the Boston area and then in Portland, Oregon. Shooting both live events and posed photos for magazines, newspapers, and promotional materials, she amassed a collection of intimate portraits of musicians, friends and fans, both live on stage and candid off of it. Come meet the remarkable artist and take in decades of…

The Medford Public Library opens its art exhibition for November-December, "Shapes From Nature: Paintings Sensing Nature," featuring the work of Medford resident Estrid Eklof. Eklof's paintings are based on a many layered water color foundation, often with graphite and Conté stick marks added. "Twig Series" was inspired by the restless patterns of pine needles and broken twigs found in snow. "Shadow Series" was inspired by the quiet patterns made on sand from scrub pine trees. This is the first Massachusetts exhibit for…

Tufts University Art Galleries presents a closing tour of the exhibition "Véxoa: We Know" led by co-curator Claudia Mattos Avolese, a senior lecturer in visual and materials studies at SMFA at Tufts. The talk will be presented in English and Portuguese. "Véxoa" is a survey exhibition of living Indigenous artists of Brazil. Véxoa, which means “we know” in the Terena language, reaffirms Indigenous agency and struggle for self-determination as well as Indigenous contributions to the richness and diversity of Brazilian…

Today is the final day to view the exhibition "I'll Be Your Mirror," five works by Boston-based artist Annette Lemieux, in the Tisch Library at Tufts University. Lemieux's body of work is inspired by advertisements, popular music and art history; she navigates the image in the age of mass media, traversing both mainstream and fringe. “I’ll Be Your Mirror” references Lemieux’s immersion in popular culture, taking its name from a 1967 song by The Velvet Underground. Lemieux holds a mirror…