Fostering Queer Community at SMFA

The Tufts University Art Galleries in partnership with the SMFA Office of Development and Alumni Engagement welcome current SMFA students, SMFA alumni, and Boston community members to join artists Avram Finkelstein, Gail Thacker, and Shellburne Thurber for a virtual panel conversation moderated by guest curator of TUAG’s Spring 2024 exhibition As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston (January 24-April 21, 2024) Jackson Davidow, PhD. Finkelstein, Thacker, and Thurber’s artworks were featured in the exhibition and explore the relationships among community photographic practices, queer nightlife, and gay liberation in Boston. Their conversation will focus on the intersections of these themes within queer communities at the SMFA and their continued legacies.

Image: Mark Winer, As the World Burns, 1973. Digitized Super 8 film, 18:00 min. Courtesy of the artist © Mark Winer.