March 2023
The Metabolic Museum: New Pathways for Collecting
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…
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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 —…
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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.
Find out more »Exhibition Closing Event: re:imagining collections
Tufts University Art Galleries concludes the exhibition “re:imagining collections” with a curator tour and a performance by artist and choreographer NIC Kay. In the exhibition, five artists reconsider and readdress Tufts’ collection of relatively understudied antiquities from the Americas and the Mediterranean. The collection includes some 200 objects that date from the fifth century BCE to the seventh century CE, including early Greco-Roman ceramics and stone carvings, and a trove of pre-Columbian vessels, jewelry and textiles. Each artist in this…
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