March 2018
Symposium: A Decolonial Atlas
In conjunction with its exhibition “A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas,” Tufts University Art Galleries presents an interdisciplinary conversation with artists, curators and scholars mapping visual strategies across the Americas through the lens of decolonialization. The discussions will be rooted in a sustained engagement with several works of art, drawing connections to the thematic components of the exhibition in environmental activism, resistant archives and indigenous rights. This symposium is co-sponsored by the Consortium of Studies in Race,…
Find out more »Daniel Assayag: Patterns, Cosmologies + Political Futures
Daniel Assayag is a visiting artist at Tufts University from Morocco, living in Paris, France. He works in sculpture, installation and photography utilizing visual symbols from nations, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and nature. He works in the Fabrication Laboratory at the Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity, Paris.
Find out more »Ngudi Raras
Ngudi Raras is a group of master Javanese musicians hailing from Central Java, Indonesia, and is led by the renowned drummer Wakidi Dwidjomartono. Wakidi is a native of Surakarta and has garnered a reputation as one of the most masterful and experienced living musicians, having performed extensively for dance, shadow puppet plays, and klenèngan. In klenèngan, the setlist is not planned beforehand; the bowed fiddle (rebab) player signals each piece by its introductory phrase; the musicians must recognize this to know which piece is…
Find out more »April 2018
Lakota YouthStay Benefit
The Lakota YouthStay Program invites you to a fundraiser for its 2018 program, which provides cultural exchange opportunities in Medford and Greater Boston for Native American youth from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota to foster authentic, mutually fulfilling relationships between Lakota youth and non-natives. The evening will include a performance by Winds of Change Drumming Group (Mohawk, Nipmuc, Blackfoot), and a silent auction will be conducted online and in person. Some examples auction items are arts/crafts by New England…
Find out more »March 2019
Jackson Jills/Manic Optimists
The 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 Jackson Jills are Tufts' oldest all-female a cappella group. The Manic Optimists are an all-male a cappella group from Bates College in Maine. No tickets…
Find out more »October 2019
Beckwith Lecture: Sanford Biggers
Tufts 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 8 through December 15 in the Tisch Family Gallery, Aidekman Arts Center. Organized by the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, the exhibition is accompanied by…
Find out more »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…
Find out more »The Metabolic Museum: New Pathways for Collecting
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 —…
Find out more »November 2023
Reclaiming Our Hands
Over 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 Kyera Singleton about the program. Come see what the students produced over the summer and learn more about the intersection of public history, Northern slavery,…
Find out more »February 2024
Picturing Us: The Power of the Gaze
The 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, and curator who graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 1984. Walker was a path-making gay Black photographer active…
Find out more »March 2024
Homelands, Ancestral Knowledges, and Cultural Stewardship
Tufts 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 fall exhibition. "Véxoa: We Know." This event is free and open to all, but registration is required through Eventbrite as space is limited.
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