Join us for the dedication of Northwest Passage by Olafur Eliasson, a site-specific work for the ceiling of the breezeway of Building 12, MIT.nano.
In this talk, David Hartt will focus on the relationship between the speculative and documentary aspects of his practice and, in particular, works that continue this narrative forward into our own age of fiction.
Rochelle Feinstein explores and collapses the history of painting, including text-based work, Neo-Expressionism, and collage, to create her distinctive and varied oeuvre.
Join us as we welcome Brooklyn-based artist, Caitlin Cherry for an Artist Talk and Scholarly Roundtable on the occasion of her solo exhibition at PC–G, "Dirtypower".
Join us for a talk by exhibiting artist Sheila Pepe. From ancient Rome to feminism to her personal biography, Pepe weaves together many far reaching subjects through her expansive fiber art installations and multimedia works.
Come join Montserrat faculty Sarah Trahan and her partner, MIT Media Lab researcher and designer Andrew Sliwinski as they discuss the ins and outs of relationships between people, technology, art, and design.
Tammy Nguyen is a multimedia artist working with geopolitics, fiction, and lesser-known histories.
In conjunction with the exhibition Harry Dodge: Works of Love, Los Angeles-based artist and writer Harry Dodge joins painter Amy Sillman in a public conversation.
Encompassing film, video, installation, photography, and prints, Khalili's practice articulates language, subjectivity, orality, and geographical explorations to investigate strategies and discourses of resistance as elaborated, developed, and narrated by individuals- often members of political minorities.
Steve Locke is an artist and educator based in Boston. Portraiture is a central concern of Locke’s paintings, which deconstruct the codes of masculine desire, intimacy, and violence.
Join us in welcoming Sara Henry to the Ceramics Program for a talk about her life and work as a ceramic artist.
Catherine Sullivan creates ensemble work in film, theater, and visual art. She is concerned with the ways in which history is projected through the body, and with questions of redress in American social life.
Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk/Pechanga) creates moving-image works that explore ideas of indigenous homeland and landscape, language as a container of culture, and the play between the known and the unknowable.
Beth Stryker works between NYC and the Middle East and has recently curated exhibitions and programs for the Ford Foundation in Cairo, Beirut Art Center, the AIA/Center for Architecture in New York (where she held the position of director of programs), and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
Judith Barry is a pioneer of performance art, video, and installation art. Her research-based practice engages viewers through visually immersive environments that make use of emerging technologies.
David Brooks’ sculptures and installations are concerned with humans’ relationships to both the natural world and the built environment. His work investigates how cultural concerns cannot be divorced from the natural world, while also questioning the terms under which nature is perceived and utilized.
Mozambican filmmaker Inadelso Cossa’s work reaches different phases of Africa’s, particularly Mozambique’s, history from a personal perspective. Exploring the Colonial, Post Colonial, Independence, and Post Civil War periods, Cossa finds it his duty to document what he refers to as ‘acts of memory.’
William Forsythe is counted among the foremost choreographers of our time. Parallel to his stage productions, he has also developed installations, sculptures, and films that he calls Choreographic Objects. In this public program, Forsythe will be in conversation with Barbara Lee Chief Curator Eva Respini.
Together, the Duennebier sisters intertwine their distinctive imagery, figures and narratives, combining their disparate styles to conjure fantastical wonderlands. Love Superior, a Death Supreme will feature both their collaborative and solo work. The Gallery will also host the Duennebier sisters for an artist talk on Tuesday, February 19 at 6pm.
Join us at Gallery Kayafas for an evening of conversation with Jack Lueders-Booth and Karen Shafts, Assistant Keeper of Prints at the Boston Public Library. They will examine his documentary project, Chinatown to Jamaica Plain, a series photographed for the UrbanArts Committee, sponsored by the MBTA in 1985.
Join us in welcoming James Lee Webb to the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard to talk about his life and work as a ceramic artist. Webb is currently the Artist-In-Residence at Mudflat Studio in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Emily Mae Smith’s crisply imagined paintings reference classic animation, art history, mythology, and science-fiction kitsch as tools for tongue-in-cheek reflections on gender, the gaze, and the role of the artist.
Eva and Franco Mattes are an artist duo originally from Italy, living in New York. They have continually made work that responds to and dissects the contemporary networked condition, always approaching the ethics and politics of life online with a darkly humorous edge.
Join us for an artist talk and demonstration with artist William Van Beckum. In "Ghost Lands: Pictures in Silver", Van Beckum recreates landscape images from past and present using a combination of modern and antique photographic techniques to challenge the idea that photography may have a role in the protection of public lands.
Adrienne Sloane’s presentation will start with the historical roots of knitting and politics through the lens of American wartime knitting and lead up to an overview of current trends, including Sloane’s own work and stories about using knitting to convey political messages.
Join us to celebrate the opening of our latest special exhibition, The Bauhaus and Harvard, on view February 8–July 28, 2019. Following an introduction to the exhibition by curator Laura Muir, Berlin-based artist Judith Raum will present a lecture-performance titled “Fabric in space, fabric out of space.”
Working in collage, painting, and sculptural assemblage, Troy Michie engages with the presence and absence of body through a queer lens. His work deconstructs the codes that inform our understanding race, gender, sexuality, and other fields of identity and power.
Join us during opening weekend of Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen for a conversation with the artist. Celebrating the final stop of her major touring retrospective, the Rose Art Museum will host Pindell and exhibition co-curators Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Interested in the mediated realities we construct, normalize and inhabit, Jim Skuldt’s work probes our dwindling relationship with physicality: from the construction (and locking) of a renegade structure in the back yard of his Art school, to the acquisition and distribution of the 48-foot-diameter circular rotating touring stage formerly belonging to Neil Diamond…
Join us for a special artist talk with Nancy Baker Cahill. Cahill is a visual artist whose works encompass drawing, augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) Her one-person exhibition, Hollow Point is currently on view at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery.
Join empathic photographer Bill Franson as he presents his current series made along the Mason-Dixon Line, one of the most important historical and cultural boundaries in the United States.
Join us for the exhibition opening and reception, featuring a reading by Harry Dodge. "Harry Dodge: Works of Love" features a selection of recent sculptures, drawings, and videos that revel as much in theoretical ideas about a posthuman future as they do in the ecstasy of the workaday present
“All Languages Welcomed Here” is Dell Marie Hamilton's first solo exhibition which will include the debut of a new body of mixed-media work entitled “Punta: Pregunta" which references personal obsessions, the oceanic as well as a wide-range of source materials including Gray’s Anatomy, weather forecasts, and geographical maps.Dell M. Hamilton is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and independent curator.
Zenovia Toloudi is an artist, architect, and Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Dartmouth College. Zenovia makes art to realize imaginative architectures that generate inclusion through digital and organic media, and to experiment with subjective perception of space and engagement.
On Dec. 15, local violinist and composer Shaw Pong Liu will engage diverse communities through multidisciplinary collaborations, creative music, and social dialogue around the topics of violence and loss at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Code Listen 3.0.
Why RED? For nearly 20 years, the Cambridge Art Association has hosted a fall exhibit, open to artists from the New England states, centered around a color – RED or BLUE, depending on the year.
Join us for a FREE artist's presentation and reception from BCA Fall 2018 Artist Resident Woomin Kim. Woomin has spent this fall working with the Boston art community in a series of small group workshops to create a large textile woven from personally meaningful donated objects and materials.
Join us for a creative twist on the traditional artist or curator talk. Featuring a lively conversation aroundThe Great Bare Mat, a carpet created by Raqs Media Collective in 2013 as a platform for discussion, Elaine Reichek, Nevet Yitzhak, and Sibyl Kempson join curators Pieranna Cavalchini and Christina Nielsen for an open dialogue about history and the stories we share through time.
The second of this two-part exhibit, Materials Matter 2 is a group exhibit of the work by Lavaughan Jenkins and four other Boston area artists. It explores the physicality of paint as an imperative, a rationale for the process and its conclusion.
Rivera received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, where she became fascinated with the social history of photography and the evolution of identity, sexuality, and gender in relationship to material culture.
Pamela Allara, Professor Emeritus from Tufts University and Brandeis, along with exhibiting artist Mira Cantor will focus on the topic of integration as a white artist creating this powerful body of work featuring people of all colors.
Join us for a conversation between artist Sheila Pepe and Dr. Nancy Bauer, Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, to learn how philosophy, gender, and feminism inform Pepe’s work.
Why RED? For nearly 20 years, the Cambridge Art Association has hosted a fall exhibit, open to artists from the New England states, centered around a color – RED or BLUE, depending on the year.
Join us for this exciting talk with Sally Taylor, artist and musician, and Dr. Nadine Gaab, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Boston Children's Hospital, where they will discuss the creative and intellectual strengths of those with dyslexia and how it can be an advantage for innovation.
Alexandria Smith is a mixed media visual artist and co-organizer of the collective, Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter. In Smith’s large-scale, mixed media works, humor and a dark probing of social issues are filtered through her personal mythology.
Shirin Neshat‘s lecture will offer an overview of the development of her art and her ongoing multi-media practice involving still-photography, video installations, performance, and feature length films.
Sara Cwynar’s videos and photographs of found objects and images court feelings of time passing. Using studio sets, collage, and re-photography, she produces intricate tableaux that draw from magazine advertisements, postcards, or catalogs.
