Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University
Screening + Conversation: Drag, Kinship, and Mourning
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesIn conjunction with the current exhibition "Across the Universe," Tufts University Art Galleries presents an interactive screening and conversation with exhibiting artist Tomashi Jackson, Associate Professor Kareem Khubchandani (LaWhore Vagistan), and two a special guests — multidisciplinary performer and director of opera and theater Alexander Gedeon from the LA Philharmonic, and Rebecca Uchill, Professor of …
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Abolitionist Practices: Then + Now
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University Art Galleries presents the program "Abolitionist Practices: Then + Now," a panel discussion in conjunction with the current TUAG exhibition, "Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe." Panelists will be Nia Evans, executive director of the Boston Ujima Project; Cierra Michele Peters, director of communications, culture and enfranchisement at the Boston Ujima Project; Dayna Cunningham, …
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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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, …
Reclaiming Our Hands
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesOver the summer, artist Stephen Hamilton collaborated with the Royall House & Slave Quarters to offer "Reclaiming Our Hands," a seven-week program to teach African textile arts to Black students from throughout Greater Boston. Today, Tufts University's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy will host a conversation with Hamilton and RHSQ executive director …
The Metabolic Museum: New Pathways for Collecting
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts 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 …
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The Metabolic Museum: New Pathways for Collecting
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts 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 …
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Beckwith Lecture: Sanford Biggers
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesTufts University's annual Beckwith Lecture will be a conversation between exhibiting artist Sanford Biggers and Christa Clarke, independent curator/scholar, Arts of Global Africa, and affiliate, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. The conversation is held in conjunction with the Tufts University Art Galleries exhibition "Sanford Biggers," on view from October …
Jackson Jills/Manic Optimists
Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University 40 Talbot Ave., Medford, MA, United StatesThe Tufts Jackson Jills and the Manic Optimists of Bates College are joining forces for a free concert, "Special Ops and Manic Ops," in Tufts Alumnae Lounge. Join the groups for a night of a cappella singing and spying . . . hear some dank new songs and relive your Totally Spies phase. Founded in 1963, the …