May 2018
Opening Reception: SMFA Thesis Show
The Tufts University Art Galleries presents an opening reception the School of The Museum of Fine Arts thesis exhibition, t(here). The exhibition will celebrate the work of 42 graduating master of fine arts students from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. t(here) represents the collapse of "here" and "there" into one unified paradigm. The artists see our globalized world as both "here" and there; that problems of the past are the problems of today. It acknowledges that the contemporary…
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MFA Amplified
The Tufts University Art Galleries and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University invite you to experience the Medford campus galleries through a series of guided soundtracks that explore the thematic links between art and music. Silent disco-style headphones will be provided, playing songs selected by artists featured in the SMFA’s Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, "No time for laundry." The exhibition presents the work of 14 graduating master of fine arts students from the School…
Find out more »Artist Reception: No Time For Laundry
The Tufts University Art Galleries and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University proudly present "No Time for Laundry," the Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, SMFA at Tufts, on view from May 1 to 19. You're invited to a public reception at the Aidekman Arts Center. The exhibition presents the work of 14 graduating master of fine arts students from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. Titled by the graduating class,…
Find out more »August 2019
Exhibit Opening: Julie S. Graham – Stack, Layer, and Arrange
Tufts University Art Galleries presents "Stack, Layer, and Arrange," the first comprehensive retrospective of Julie S. Graham (1947–2018), Boston-based painter and beloved instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts. Guest curated by Martina Tanga, "Stack, Layer, and Arrange" presents paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs spanning Graham’s career, reflecting an artist consistently inspired by architecture and the incidental alignment of shapes in the world. The exhibit will be on display in the Aidekman Arts Center through Sunday, September…
Find out more »Exhibit Opening: Student-Facing, Student-Focused
Tufts University Art Galleries presents "Student-Facing, Student-Focused," an exhibition celebrating 50 years of black excellence at Tufts centered on the university's Africana Center. The 1969 inception of the Africana Center was a catalyst for progressive change on campus that had started in the mid-1950s following the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, amplifying the voices of student-activists who called for improved university-wide support—both for themselves and for their peers. This exhibit is a comprehensive look at the Africana Center’s efforts over the…
Find out more »September 2019
Opening Reception: Tufts Art Galleries Fall Exhibitions
Tufts University Art Galleries presents opening receptions for its three fall exhibitions, in the Tisch Family Gallery and the Koppelman Gallery: “Bookworks,” which presents a wide-ranging exploration of the practice of artist-made books, drawing on the contemporary artists’ books and special collections at Tufts. “Stack, Layer, and Arrange,” a comprehensive retrospective of Julie S. Graham (1947–2018), Boston-based painter and beloved instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. “Student-Facing, Student-Focused,” celebrating 50 years of black excellence at…
Find out more »Curator Tour: Stack, Layer, and Arrange
Guest curator Martina Tanga will lead a tour of the Tufts University Art Galleries exhibit "Stack, Layer, and Arrange," a retrospective of Julie S. Graham (1947–2018), Boston-based painter and beloved instructor at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. "Stack, Layer, and Arrange" presents paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs spanning Graham’s career, reflecting an artist consistently inspired by architecture and the incidental alignment of shapes in the world. Tanga is a curatorial research and interpretation associate at the Museum of…
Find out more »Angela Lorenz: Chewing Tzu
"Chewing Tzu—The Rumination Book" (1993) by Angela Lorenz is an edible performance piece consisting of ancient Taoist philosophy by Chuang Tzu, Lao Tzu, and others printed on four kinds of gum. At this event, the public is invited to read the text aloud and ruminate over the conceptual pairings of phrase and flavor. Angela Lorenz is one of the artists in the "Bookworks" exhibition at the Aidekman Arts Center through December 15.
Find out more »December 2019
Fall Exhibit Closings: Tufts Art Galleries
Today is the final day to view three fall exhibitions at the Tufts University Art Galleries: “Bookworks,” which presents a wide-ranging exploration of the practice of artist-made books, drawing on the contemporary artists’ books and special collections at Tufts. "Sanford Biggers," the first exhibition focused on the artist’s BAM series, begun in 2015, which memorializes and honors unarmed black victims of police gun violence in America “Student-Facing, Student-Focused,” celebrating 50 years of black excellence at Tufts centered on the efforts of…
Find out more »January 2020
Opening Reception and Talk: Walls Turned Sideways
Tufts University Art Galleries presents a public conversation with curator Risa Puleo and participating artist Autumn Knight on the new exhibit, "Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System," on view in the Tisch and Koppelman Galleries in Adiekman Arts Center from January 23 through April 19. The exhibit offers a comprehensive look at how 40 contemporary artists over the past 40 years have created work related to the criminal justice system. Representing a range of contemporary art made in…
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Bridges: Walls Turned Sideways Symposium
Tufts University is presenting a two-day symposium in conjunction with "Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System," currently on exhibit at the Tufts University Art Galleries. The event brings together nationally recognized artists, advocates and scholars to discuss issues of community impact, reentry, and the role of educational initiatives. Today's opening schedule includes keynote talks at 6 p.m. by Laurie Jo Reynolds and Shaun Leonardo. Reynolds is a policy advocate and artist who challenges the demonization, warehousing, and social…
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Tufts University is presenting a two-day symposium in conjunction with "Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System," currently on exhibit at the Tufts University Art Galleries. The event brings together nationally recognized artists, advocates and scholars to discuss issues of community impact, reentry, and the role of educational initiatives. Today's concluding schedule includes the session, "Bringing Experiences of Incarceration to the Classroom: Experiential and Experimental Education," at 1:30 p.m. Please check the event web page for more details and…
Find out more »October 2021
Artists Workshop: Forming Home
Tufts University Art Galleries presents Forming Home, a "comida casera" workshop with artist Evelyn Rydz. Join Rydz for a community conversation and collective art-making workshop centered on ancestral foods, cooking, health, home, and belonging. Together, attendees will experiment with spices, inks, drawing, and printmaking to create a series of images inspired by the people, places, and foods that form our connection to home. Participants will have the opportunity to create in community, exchange prints with guests around the table, share…
Find out more »Tufts Art Galleries Tour: Land History
What is our relationship to the land we occupy? How do we interact with our natural environments? How do artists and archivists present counternarratives and possibilities for change via alternate landscapes? Join Tufts University Art Galleries for a special tour of TUAG’s fall exhibitions through the lens of land where we will begin to grapple with these questions. With special guest Dr. Ninian Stein from the Tufts Environmental Studies Program. The fall exhibitions include "Unsettling the Archive: Exploring Tufts’ Relationships…
Find out more »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 »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 Workshop: Samantha Fields – Hand Space
Tufts University Art Galleries presents a workshop with sculpture faculty member Samantha Fields titled "Hand space--the need to make special," offered in conjunction with the exhibition "Connecting Threads / Survivor Objects," on view at Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, through December 5. Ornament has been a contested space throughout history, at times a signifier of wealth and high status and at other times a signifier of low class and bad taste. Yet we each, in our own way, have a desire…
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…
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Tufts Art Galleries Faculty Talk: Katrina Burgess
Tufts University Art Galleries presents a Faculty Talk with Katrina Burgess, associate professor of Political Economy at The Fletcher School at Tufts. Her talk is part of the Art for the Future Programs collection, which includes the current exhibition "Artists Call and Central American Solidarities." Her current project addresses the conditions under which emigrants engage in politics back home with an emphasis on the role of outreach strategies by homeland states and parties. Guests will be required to follow Tufts University…
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Arte Voz Workshop: Muriel Hasbun
Tufts University Art Galleries presents an interactive workshop with Salvadoran/U.S.-based artist Muriel Hasbun around her artwork Arte Voz, a relational artwork that acts as a site for the exchange of stories and heartbeats elicited by the art of Central America. For the workshop, Hasbun will invite recent immigrants and first-generation Americans in the Tufts community to share their migration stories. These audio stories in turn will be added to a larger, transnational archive housed by laberinto projects — an arts,…
Find out more »October 2022
Tufts Art Galleries Reception, Performance
Tufts University Art Galleries presents a reception for its current exhibition "The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East" and a performance of "Four Moments of the Sun" by Nyugen E. Smith. The exhibition, on view through December 11, brings together 11 artists who address themes of social and political disorder and instability from local and global perspectives through the poetic language of the art of our time. Employing the media of film, installation, photography and performance,…
Find out more »April 2023
Drawing in the Gallery
The Student Programming Committee at Tufts University invites you to "Drawing in the Gallery" at the Tufts Art Galleries. Join the SPC for a brief tour of the exhibition "re:imagining collections," where you will see how contemporary artists reflect on and reanimate ancient objects. Then settle in with drawing instructor Patrick Carter to sketch an object of your choosing, speculating on and crafting its life story in words or imagery. Register through Eventbrite.
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Tufts Art Galleries Capoeira Workshop
Tufts University Art Galleries presents a capoeira workshop and demonstration led by instructors from Sinhá Capoeira. Capoeira is a mixed martial arts cultural practice that incorporates dance-like practices, originating from Afro-Brazilians, and continues to be practiced as an indigenous movement to this day in Brazil. Come learn about the history of capoeira and practice a beginner friendly exercise with a professional instructor. All ages and levels are welcome to this workshop. No equipment or accessories necessary; just come with comfortable…
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