Today 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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Tufts 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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Tufts University Art Galleries presents a reception and artist program for its new exhibition "Véxoa: We Know," a survey exhibition of living Indigenous artists of Brazil. Originally organized for the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo in 2020, "Véxoa" was the first exhibition curated by an Indigenous person to be shown in an art museum in …

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Tufts University Art Galleries today opens "Véxoa: We Know," a survey exhibition of living Indigenous artists of Brazil. Véxoa, which means “we know” in the Terena language, reaffirms Indigenous agency and struggle for self-determination as well as Indigenous contributions to the richness and diversity of Brazilian visual culture. Developed by curator and educator Naine Terena …

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Today is your last opportunity to visit the Tufts Universities Art Galleries exhibition "Been Here Before," which features the work of 23 graduating master of fine arts students from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. The show is described as exploring “thoughts of returning or revisiting — whether that is a …

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Tufts Universities Art Galleries is hosting a public reception for the exhibiting artists in "Been Here Before," which features the work of 23 graduating master of fine arts students from the School of The Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. The show is described as exploring “thoughts of returning or revisiting — whether that is …

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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 …

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Tufts University Art Galleries celebrates this week’s opening of the exhibition “re:imagining collections” with the debut performance of “Before and After (Object Lesson)” by artist and choreographer NIC Kay. “Before and After (Object Lesson)” is one of five new commissions by Tufts Art Galleries for “re:imagining collections,” a group exhibition that reconsiders the university’s antiquities …

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Tufts University Art Galleries opens the exhibition “re:imagining collections,” in which 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 …

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Tufts University Art Galleries presents a closing day tour of the exhibition "The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East" with guest curator Sara Raza. The exhibition explores social and cultural seismic shifts and how the traditional culture and classification of science, philosophy, biology and economics have collapsed in contemporary society. It …

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