Exhibition Closing: Impossible Music
2025-04-20 11:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
Today is the final day to view the Tufts University Art Galleries exhibition “Impossible Music,” a survey of the sonic vanguard. Organized by curator Candice Hopkins and composer, performer, and installation artist Raven Chacon, “Impossible Music” brings together sculptures, sounds, scores, video, and live performances to explore the radical, interdisciplinary potential of conceptual and experimental music. From the banned to the bombastic, the exhibition highlights the work of visionary artists who pushed music forward, defying norms and piloting new forms of expression. Featured artists include Terry Adkins, Black Quantum Futurism, Nikita Gale, Sarah Hennies, Tom Johnson, Christine Sun Kim, Conlon Nancarrow, Aki Onda, and C. Spencer Yeh.

Exhibition Opening: Medford High Photo Contest
2025-05-01 09:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library, 111 High Street, Medford, MA, 02155
This month’s art exhibition at the Medford Public Library showcases the top entries from the Medford High School Photography Contest. The annual contest is open to all high school students and judged by a panel of professional photographers. The students’ photos will be on display in the library’s second-floor gallery throughout May during regular library hours.

Opening Reception: EventThem Spring Art Exhibit
2025-05-01 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | EventThem Studios, 344 Salem St., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
EventThem Studios on Salem Street invites you to celebrate local artists and their artwork at an opening reception for EventThem’s Spring Art Exhibit. Participating artists are Uncle Ev, Madeline Manning, Kristen Freitas, Rose Lambias, Kanz Lifetsyle, Arsenia’s Arts, Caoin O’Durgy, Rahim Gray, Doodz Designs, Nikia Holmes, TJ Reynolds, Erica Mei Mei, Sasscraft Society, Sav’s Weird Wurld, David Edmundson, Mindy Nierenberg, Rita Ortolino-Dioguardi, and S. Draper the Artist. Artwork from eight artists will be on view from May 1 through May 30.

Art and Soul Circle: Room to Breathe
2025-05-02 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
Sanctuary UCC presents an Art and Soul Circle program based on “Room to Beathe,” an exhibition on view at Arts Collaborative Medford through May 26. Step into a circle shaped by color, courage, and contradiction. “Room to Breathe” is more than an exhibit; it’s a deeply human outcry. From Elaina Bates-Egan’s bold, visceral paintings to the textured layers of collage and print from 12 powerful artists, this show invites you into a space where rage and grief meet resilience and hope. Come ready to reflect, share, and reclaim your breath in community. Led by Rev. Wendy Miller Olapade.

Spring Art Market at EventThem Studios
2025-05-04 12:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | EventThem Studios, 344 Salem St., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
EventThem Studios on Salem Street is holding a Spring Art Market in conjunction with its exhibition taking place throughout May. The event features 20+ artists whose vibrant work includes pour art, embroidered pieces, illustrations, ceramics, pet portraits, metal collage art, abstract coasters, terrariums, and knits. Participating artists are Uncle Ev, Madeline Manning, Kristen Freitas, Rose Lambias, Kanz Lifetsyle, Arsenia’s Arts, Caoin O’Durgy, Rahim Gray, Doodz Designs, Nikia Holmes, TJ Reynolds, Erica Mei Mei, Sasscraft Society, Sav’s Weird Wurld, David Edmundson, Mindy Nierenberg, Rita Ortolino-Dioguardi, and S. Draper the Artist. Today’s event also will feature a live music performance by DM Collective. Artwork from eight artists will be on view from May 1 through May 30.

SMFA at Tufts MFA Thesis Exhibition: Through Shifting Lenses
2025-05-06 11:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
Tufts University Art Galleries presents “Through Shifting Lenses,” an exhibition of works by 14 graduating Masters of Fine Arts students from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts. “Through Shifting Lenses” invites audiences to traverse a kaleidoscopic series of shifting perspectives on space, time, identity and imagination. Bringing together works that span scale, mediums and multitudes, these artists compose a picture of thoughtful invention and unbridled enthusiasm for the making of new worlds in the face of uncertainty. They confront an anxious present with work that snaps with tension between oscillating frameworks: microscopic and vast, universal and individual, reflective and speculative. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, May 18. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday. A reception with the artists will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Friday, May 16.

Artists Reception: SMFA at Tufts MFA Thesis Exhibition
2025-05-16 17:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
Tufts University Art Galleries presents a reception with the 14 graduating Masters of Fine Arts students from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts whose work is featured in exhibition “Through Shifting Lenses.” The exhibition invites audiences to traverse a kaleidoscopic series of shifting perspectives on space, time, identity and imagination. Bringing together works that span scale, mediums and multitudes, these artists compose a picture of thoughtful invention and unbridled enthusiasm for the making of new worlds in the face of uncertainty. They confront an anxious present with work that snaps with tension between oscillating frameworks: microscopic and vast, universal and individual, reflective and speculative. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday, May 18. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday.

Closing Reception: EventThem Spring Art Exhibit
2025-05-30 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | EventThem Studios, 344 Salem St., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
EventThem Studios on Salem Street invites you to celebrate local artists and their artwork at a closing reception for EventThem’s Spring Art Exhibit.

Opening Reception: MHS Unfiltered
2025-05-30 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
The Medford Public Schools Department of Fine Arts invites you to an opening reception for MHS Unfiltered at Arts Collaborative Medford. A showcase of expression and identity, MHS Unfiltered features selected works of AP Portfolio Students.

Medford Art Walk
2025-06-01 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Medford, Medford, MA, 02155, United States
ArtsMedford and the Medford Chamber of Commerce invite you to enjoy the second annual Medford Art Walk, which will feature the work of local artists in the windows of 24 businesses across the city throughout June. The Art Walk creates a sense of community celebration while supporting local artists and boosting foot traffic and exposure for local businesses. A list and map showing participating artists and businesses will be available on the ArtsMedford website.
An opening reception with participating Art Walk artists will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 4, at Medford Brewing Company on Harvard Avenue. The event will include a short tour of eight participating businesses in West Medford.

Exhibition Opening: Michelle Schapiro - Something Other Than
2025-06-02 09:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Charlotte & William Bloomberg Medford Public Library, 111 High Street, Medford, MA, 02155
The June art exhibition at the Medford Public Library is “Something Other Than,” a collection of portraits by photographer Michelle Schapiro of LGBTQ+ adults who are a part of the richness of all communities. A 2024 poll revealed that roughly 7.6% of American adults identify as
something other than cisgender heterosexual. Schapiro is a white, queer, cis woman whose identities inform a lot of her professional priorities; she makes photos that recognize the beauty in our intersecting identities and don’t cater to just one group. The photo exhibit will be on display in the second-floor gallery all month during regular hours.

Young at heART Exhibit at Senior Center
2025-06-05 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Medford Senior Center, 101 Riverside Ave., Medford, MA, 02155
The Medford Council on Aging presents an exhibit showcasing the works of participants in the weekly ARTitude class at the Senior Center led by Tom Wojciechowski. Each participant will have up to six pieces in the exhibit, which will be on view from 1 to 4 p.m. today, and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday, June 6.

Young at heART Exhibit at Senior Center
2025-06-06 09:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Medford Senior Center, 101 Riverside Ave., Medford, MA, 02155
The Medford Council on Aging presents an exhibit showcasing the works of participants in the weekly ARTitude class at the Senior Center led by Tom Wojciechowski. Each participant will have up to six pieces in the exhibit.

Royall House Tours Opening Day
2025-06-07 13:00 - 16:00 UTC | Royall House & Slave Quarters, 15 George St., Medford, MA, 02155
The Royall House & Slave Quarters reopens today for its 2025 tour season. The museum will offer guided tours at 1, 2 and 3 p.m. each Saturday and Sunday through mid-October. Admission for guided tours of the mansion is $15 for adults, and $10 for seniors and students. Admission is always free for Royall House & Slave Quarters members; for children age 12 and under; for Massachusetts Teachers Association members and retirees; and for active duty military personnel and their families. Admission to the Slave Quarters, which also houses the archaeological exhibit, gift shop, and restrooms, is free of charge. No reservations are required for groups of fewer than 10 people. Groups of 10 or more are considered group tours and must have a reservation. Visit the Group Tours page on the RHSQ website for group rates and scheduling.
In the 18th century, the Royall House & Slave Quarters was home to the largest slaveholding family in Massachusetts and the enslaved Africans who made their lavish way of life possible. Today, the Royall House & Slave Quarters is a museum whose architecture, household items, archaeological artifacts, and programs bear witness to intertwined stories of wealth and bondage, set against the backdrop of America’s quest for independence. The Slave Quarters is the only remaining such structure in the northern United States, and the Royall House is among the finest colonial-era buildings in New England.

Royall House Juneteenth Tours
2025-06-19 10:00 - 14:00 UTC | Royall House & Slave Quarters, 15 George St., Medford, MA, 02155
The Royall House & Slave Quarters is offering free tours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in celebration of Juneteenth. In the 18th century, the Royall House & Slave Quarters was home to the largest slaveholding family in Massachusetts and the enslaved Africans who made their lavish way of life possible. Today, the Royall House & Slave Quarters is a museum whose architecture, household items, archaeological artifacts, and programs bear witness to intertwined stories of wealth and bondage, set against the backdrop of America’s quest for independence. The Slave Quarters is the only remaining such structure in the northern United States, and the Royall House is among the finest colonial-era buildings in New England.

Juneteenth Exhibition and Community Panel
2025-06-19 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
In celebration of Juneteenth and in collaboration with the Resilient Sisterhood Project and Neighborhood Birth Center, Arts Collaborative Medford is hosting the groundbreaking exhibition, “Call and Response: A Narrative of Reverence to Our Foremothers in Gynecology.” This two-week educational exhibition highlights the stories of Anarcha, Betsey, and Lucy — three young enslaved ancestors whose bodies were used for medical experiments during the 1840s by Dr. James Marion Sims in Montgomery, Alabama. This evening’s program will feature a panel discussion with the artist Jules Arthur. “Call and Response” will be on public view at ACM Medford from June 19 to 30. No registration is required to attend tonight’s program.

Exhibition Opening: Migration - The Ongoing American Revolution
2025-06-29 13:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Medford Historical Society & Museum, 10 Governors Avenue, Medford, MA, 02155, United States
The Medford Historical Society & Museum invites you to the opening of the exhibition “Migration: The Ongoing American Revolution,” a celebration of Medford’s migrant and immigrant heritage. Featuring interviews with Medford residents telling their stories of migration, the exhibit will demonstrate how migration and immigration continue to enrich the city of Medford today, as they have in the past. Visitors are welcome to visit the exhibit every Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. through the fall. The exhibition is free to attend and made possible in part by a grant from the Freedom’s Way National Heritage Area.

Community Reception: "How do you throw a brick through the window..."
2025-09-04 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
Please join us at TUAG / Boston for a community-wide reception to celebrate How do you throw a brick through the window…, coming up in just over two weeks!
How do you throw a brick through the window… features the work of seven artists—Yani aviles, Chloe P. Crawford, Nat Decker, Jeff Kasper, Carly Mandel, Jeffrey Meris, and Libby Paloma—who engage the radical questioning of Korean American writer, artist, and musician Johanna Hedva: “How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?” to explore how individuals with individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate forms of protest despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces.
Learn more about the event and RSVP using the links below:
COMMUNITY RECEPTION
Thursday, September 4
6–8PM
230 Fenway / SMFA at Tufts
Register for the Community Reception here.
The exhibition is co-organized by Laurel V. McLaughlin and Tanya Gayer in dialogue with the artists.
The accompanying symposium for HDYTB and pre-exhibition programming at TUAG were supported by a curatorial research fellowship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for Laurel V. McLaughlin. Access for programming support for the exhibition is provided by an anonymous donor.

Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick Artist Conversation + Reception
2025-09-18 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, 02155, United States
Join us for a public conversation at 6PM at TUAG / Medford (Aidekman Arts Center) with exhibiting artist Beverly Semmes, exhibition curator TUAG Director Dina Deitsch, and Camilo Alvarez followed by a reception celebrating the exhibition.
Tufts/SMFA alumna Beverly Semmes (BA/BFA ’82) has built an extensive practice in sculpture, painting, film, performance, and fashion that probes the paradoxes and complexities of the body and its representation. Best known for her oversized dress sculptures, begun in the early 1990s—followed by her FRP (Feminist Responsibility Project) series of over-painted pornographic images and clay sculptures—Semmes has played with the scale, exposure or covering, and abstraction of the female form for over three decades.
You can RSVP and learn more here.

Panel: Fashion Forward
2025-10-16 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, 02155, United States
Since the early 1990s, Beverly Semmes has created installations and sculptures of enormous dresses—some reaching over three-stories high, others taking over entire gallery spaces. Since those early days, her relationship with fashion has grown and deepened—from sculptures and installations to an ongoing collaboration with fashion designer Jennifer Minniti—CarWash Collective—that creates wearable garments cut and patterned with Semmes’s images.
Join us for an open conversation with Semmes, Jennifer Minniti, and fashion curator Michelle Finamore, moderated by Lynne Cooney about the intersection of fashion and art.
Register and learn more here.

SPLASH! with Arts Collaborative Medford
2025-10-16 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
Arts Collaborative Medford warmly invites you to SPLASH!, a special evening to celebrate nearly two years of creative impact in Medford and the bridges we continue to build between artists, neighbors, and networks.
Date: Thursday, October 16, 6–9 PM
Location: ACM, 162 Mystic Ave, Medford, MA 02155
SPLASH! will feature a small works sale and a silent auction, offering opportunities to take home unique artworks and support our mission. Guests will enjoy live music by Matt Heaton and the Electric Heaters, along with food and drink from some of Medford’s favorite eateries. Most importantly, SPLASH! is an occasion to gather with friends, neighbors, and fellow supporters of the arts, and to honor the role that creativity and community play in shaping our shared future.

In Good Company Exhibition Opening Reception
2025-11-14 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Arts Collaborative Medford, 162 Mystic Ave., Medford, MA, 02155, United States
In Good Company marks the inaugural ACM Studio Artist Group Show, celebrating the creative energy that has filled Arts Collaborative Medford since its opening. Featuring work by fourteen current and former studio artists, this exhibition showcases the diverse practices and perspectives that have taken shape within our shared walls. Each piece reflects the growth, experimentation, and community that emerge when artists create—in good company.
Free – Open to the Public – Light Refreshments

Artist Tour of Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick
2025-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, 02155, United States
Join us to celebrate the closing of Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick for a tour with the artist, Beverly Semmes in conversation with Jennie Jieun Lee, SMFA Professor of the Practice in Ceramics. This walkthrough of the exhibition will highlight the tactility and materiality of her work in ceramics, textiles, and painting, as well as her artistic process over four decades of making.
Register and learn more here.

Michelle Lopez: "Shadow of a Doubt" Artist Conversation + Opening Reception
2026-01-15 08:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University, 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, 02155, United States
Please join us at Tufts University Art Galleries / Medford for an Artist Conversation and Opening Reception to celebrate Michelle Lopez: Shadow of a Doubt.
Shadow of a Doubt traces two decades of Lopez’s sculpture in dialogue, for the very first time, with her longstanding drawing practice. Steeped in the material and historic language of minimalism, Lopez’s sculptures, installations, and drawings—including a new wall drawing—underscore the precarity of our moment and the institutions we have long expected to support us.
Learn more about the opportunities to celebrate with us and please RSVP below:
RSVP for the Artist Conversation and Opening Reception here.
TUAG / Aidekman Arts Center / 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford
Thursday, January 15, 2026
For directions and more information about parking, event location, and more, visit https://artgalleries.tufts.edu/visit.
ARTIST CONVERSATION
6PM
Join us for a public conversation with exhibiting artist Michelle Lopez, exhibition curator Dina Deitsch, and art historian, critic, and curator Gloria Sutton, followed by a community-wide opening reception.
OPENING RECEPTION
7PM
Michelle Lopez: Shadow of a Doubt is organized by TUAG Director Dina Deitsch and supported by Girlfriend Fund and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
