The Tufts University Art Galleries present “Picturing Us: The Power of the Gaze,” a conversation with Dr. Deborah Willis hosted by Monroe France, the inaugural Vice Provost for Institutional Inclusive Excellence at Tufts. France and Willis will discuss Willis’s extensive photographic career, connecting her artistic practice to the work of Christian Walker, a photographer, critic, and curator who graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 1984. Walker was a path-making gay Black photographer active in Boston and Atlanta, who made compelling and experimental work about queer sexuality, race, and their intersections from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s. His work is the subject of an exhibition “Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant,” organized by the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, and on view at the Tufts Art Galleries at SMFA in Boston through April 21. Willis is  University Professor and chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University.