Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University
Arte Voz Workshop: Muriel Hasbun
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries presents an interactive workshop with Salvadoran/U.S.-based artist Muriel Hasbun around her artwork Arte Voz, a relational artwork that acts as a site for the exchange of stories and heartbeats elicited by the art of Central America. For the workshop, Hasbun will invite recent immigrants and first-generation Americans in the Tufts community …
Tufts Art Galleries Faculty Talk: Katrina Burgess
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries presents a Faculty Talk with Katrina Burgess, associate professor of Political Economy at The Fletcher School at Tufts. Her talk is part of the Art for the Future Programs collection, which includes the current exhibition "Artists Call and Central American Solidarities." Her current project addresses the conditions under which emigrants engage …
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Tufts Art Galleries Tour: Connecting Threads
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries presents a special tour of its current exhibit "Connecting Threads / Survivor Objects," led by Dr. Helen C. Evans, the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator for Byzantine Art Emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit, which closes today, contains Armenian objects that tell interwoven stories, and their threads provide …
Tufts Art Galleries Workshop: Samantha Fields – Hand Space
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries presents a workshop with sculpture faculty member Samantha Fields titled "Hand space--the need to make special," offered in conjunction with the exhibition "Connecting Threads / Survivor Objects," on view at Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, through December 5. Ornament has been a contested space throughout history, at times a signifier of wealth …
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Tufts Art Galleries Tour: Kinship
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesThe current Tufts University Art Galleries exhibition "Staying with the Trouble" is a direct reference to Donna Haraway’s eponymous 2016 book that implores us to find new ways of being in relationship with Earth and its various inhabitants by “making kin.” this afternoon, TUAG invites you to join special guest Dr. Sarah Pinto in a …
Wakpa Mural Tour With Erin Genia
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries present Native artist Erin Genia leading a tour of her commissioned public art mural "Wakpa," located in the Jackson Gym parking lot in the back of Aidekman Arts Center, next to the Tufts University Art Galleries entrance. The mural is on view through the 2021–22 academic year. The tour is co-sponsored with …
Tufts Art Galleries Tour: Land History
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesWhat is our relationship to the land we occupy? How do we interact with our natural environments? How do artists and archivists present counternarratives and possibilities for change via alternate landscapes? Join Tufts University Art Galleries for a special tour of TUAG’s fall exhibitions through the lens of land where we will begin to grapple …
Artists Workshop: Forming Home
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries presents Forming Home, a "comida casera" workshop with artist Evelyn Rydz. Join Rydz for a community conversation and collective art-making workshop centered on ancestral foods, cooking, health, home, and belonging. Together, attendees will experiment with spices, inks, drawing, and printmaking to create a series of images inspired by the people, places, …
Bridges: Walls Turned Sideways Symposium
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesTufts University is presenting a two-day symposium in conjunction with "Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System," currently on exhibit at the Tufts University Art Galleries. The event brings together nationally recognized artists, advocates and scholars to discuss issues of community impact, reentry, and the role of educational initiatives. Today's concluding schedule includes the …
Bridges: Walls Turned Sideways Symposium
Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, United StatesTufts University is presenting a two-day symposium in conjunction with "Walls Turned Sideways: Artists Confront the Justice System," currently on exhibit at the Tufts University Art Galleries. The event brings together nationally recognized artists, advocates and scholars to discuss issues of community impact, reentry, and the role of educational initiatives. Today's opening schedule includes keynote …