Tufts University Art Galleries
Exhibition Closing Event and Curator Tour: Véxoa
Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries presents a closing tour of the exhibition "Véxoa: We Know" led by co-curator Claudia Mattos Avolese, a senior lecturer in visual and materials studies at SMFA at Tufts. The talk will be presented in English and Portuguese. "Véxoa" is a survey exhibition of living Indigenous artists of Brazil. Véxoa, which means …
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Exhibition Closing: I’ll Be Your Mirror – Annette Lemieux
Tisch Library, Tufts University 35 Professors Row, Medford, United StatesToday is the final day to view the exhibition "I'll Be Your Mirror," five works by Boston-based artist Annette Lemieux, in the Tisch Library at Tufts University. Lemieux's body of work is inspired by advertisements, popular music and art history; she navigates the image in the age of mass media, traversing both mainstream and fringe. …
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Exhibition Closing: Portrait as Place/Place as Portraiture
Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesToday concludes the exhibition "Portrait as Place/Place as Portraiture" in the Slater Concourse Gallery at the Tufts University Art Galleries. The exhibition features new artworks in the TUAG collection from a broad community of artists. While the techniques, materials and subjects vary, the works on view share a common interest in understanding the capacious nature …
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Exhibition Opening: Kenneth Tam – Standing in Soft Formation
Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries opens the Kenneth Tam exhibition "Standing in Soft Formation." Through his choreographed video, photography and sculpture, Tam has long explored the myths and performative culture that uphold conventional American expectations of masculinity and identity. "Standing in Soft Formation" features the artist’s two most recent projects — "Silent Spikes" (2021) and "The …
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Artist Reception: Kenneth Tam – Standing in Soft Formation
Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries invites you to a public conversation with exhibiting artist Kenneth Tam and Daisy Nam, director of Texas contemporary art space Ballroom Marfa, followed by an opening reception for Tam’s one-person exhibition, "Standing in Soft Formation." Featuring Tam’s most recent choreographed videos and sculpture in conversation together for the first time, "Standing …
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Picturing Us: The Power of the Gaze
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe 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, …
Homelands, Ancestral Knowledges, and Cultural Stewardship
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University Arts Galleries presents a roundtable conversation around institutional collecting and cultural representation by and for Indigenous peoples in the Americas. "Homelands, Ancestral Knowledge, and Cultural Stewardship" is the public portion of a multi-day convening that brings together Indigenous curators and cultural producers from Brazil and North America. Developed as an extension of TUAG’s …
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Film Screening and Conversation with Kenneth Tam
Barnum 008, Tufts University 163 Packard Ave., Medford, United StatesIn conjunction with the exhibition "Kenneth Tam: Standing in Soft Formation," and in collaboration with Tufts Film + Media Studies Program, Tufts University Art Galleries is presenting a special screening …
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Exhibition Tour: Kenneth Tam – Standing in Soft Formation
Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries director and chief curator Dina Deitsch and School of the Museum of Fine Arts faculty Ihnmi Jon lead an interdisciplinary conversation about the sculptures, photographs, and videos on view in the TUAG exhibition "Kenneth Tam: Standing in Soft Formation." Through his choreographed video, photography and sculpture, Tam has long explored the …
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Design, A.I., and Afro-nowism
Room 304, Tisch Library, Tufts University 35 Professors Row, Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries presents the program "Design, A.I., and Afro-nowism." In 2020 Stephanie Dinkins coined the term “Afro-now-ism,” which she described as “the spectacular technology of the unencumbered black mind.” A play on Afrofuturism, Afro-nowism acknowledges the urgencies of racial injustice, climate disaster, and their collisions by forsaking speculation in favor of immediate action …