Daniel Assayag is a visiting artist at Tufts University from Morocco, living in Paris, France. He works in sculpture, installation and photography utilizing visual symbols from nations, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and nature. He works in the Fabrication Laboratory at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris.

The Lakota YouthStay Program invites you to a fundraiser for its 2018 program, which provides cultural exchange opportunities in Medford and Greater Boston for Native American youth from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to foster authentic, mutually fulfilling relationships between Lakota youth and non-natives. The evening will include a performance by Winds of Change Drumming Group (Mohawk, Nipmuc, Blackfoot), and a silent auction will be conducted online and in person. Some examples auction items are arts/crafts by New England…

Tufts University Art Galleries begins the two-day program The Metabolic Museum: New Pathways for Collecting, with a keynote by Clémentine Deliss, Global Humanities Professor in History of Art at the University of Cambridge. As public calls for responsibility and transparency in museums have increased — specifically around historic collections — audiences are demanding greater acknowledgment of the colonial ideologies at the foundation of some institutions, questioning provenance and modes of acquisition, and urging for the return of cultural artifacts to…

Tufts University Art Galleries concludes the two-day program The Metabolic Museum: New Pathways for Collecting, with a panel discussion featuring Nicole Cherubini, artist; Kelli Morgan, Director of Curatorial Studies at Tufts University; Nicholas M. O’Donnell, Partner, Sullivan & Worcester LLP; and Kajette Solomon, Social Equity and Inclusion (SEI) Program Specialist at the RISD Museum, and moderated by Dina Deitsch, TUAG director and co-curator of the exhibition re:imagining collections. As public calls for responsibility and transparency in museums have increased —…

Over the summer, artist Stephen Hamilton collaborated with the Royall House & Slave Quarters to offer "Reclaiming Our Hands," a seven-week program to teach African textile arts to Black students from throughout Greater Boston. Today, Tufts University's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy will host a conversation with Hamilton and RHSQ executive director Kyera Singleton about the program. Come see what the students produced over the summer and learn more about the intersection of public history, Northern slavery,…

Tufts University Arts Galleries presents a roundtable conversation around institutional collecting and cultural representation by and for Indigenous peoples in the Americas. "Homelands, Ancestral Knowledge, and Cultural Stewardship" is the public portion of a multi-day convening that brings together Indigenous curators and cultural producers from Brazil and North America. Developed as an extension of TUAG’s fall exhibition. "Véxoa: We Know." This event is free and open to all, but registration is required through Eventbrite as space is limited.