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2026

Fisher Performance Room | 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford (Granoff Music Center)

Arnold J. Kemp: Three Performances

Oct 17, 6 – 8:30pm

Anderson Auditorium | SMFA at Tufts, Boston

Language and Improvisation: Arnold J. Kemp & Mira Dayal in Conversation

Oct 16, 12 – 1:30pm

Grossman Gallery + Anderson Auditorium, SMFA at Tufts (230 Fenway)

Spotlight Talks | Jim Dow & Dell Hamilton

Oct 8, 6 – 7:30pm

Anderson Auditorium | SMFA at Tufts, Boston

Arnold J. Kemp: Artist Lecture-Performance

Sep 25, 12 – 1:30pm

Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford

“Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing” Community Reception

Sep 24, 6 – 8pm

SMFA at Tufts (230 Fenway)

“SMFA at 150: Looking Back” Community Reception

Sep 17, 6 – 8pm

Online, Medford

New Social Environment: Arnold Kemp and Sampada Aranke (Online Event)

Sep 8, 1 – 2pm

Aidekman Arts Center | 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford

Performance: Keep Their Heads Ringin’  

Mar 28, 10 – 11:30am

Anderson Auditorium | SMFA at Tufts, Boston

Visiting Artist Talk: Michelle Lopez

Mar 27, 12 – 1:30pm

Aidekman Arts Center | 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford

Student-Led Highlights Tour of “Michelle Lopez: Shadow of a Doubt”

Mar 10, 4:30 – 5:30pm

African Meeting House at the Museum of African American History, Boston / Nantucket | 46 Joy Street, Boston, MA 02114

Performance: suite for a minor meeting

Feb 28, 5 – 7pm

Anderson Auditorium | SMFA at Tufts, Boston

Panel: Surfacing Site

Feb 25, 6 – 7:30pm

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2025

Aidekman Arts Center | 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford

Artist Tour of Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick

Nov 16, 2025, 2 – 3pm

Anderson Auditorium | SMFA at Tufts, Boston

Disability Culture Now: A Panel with Emily Watlington & Jeff Kasper

Oct 28, 2025, 6 – 8pm

Grossman Gallery + Anderson Auditorium, SMFA at Tufts (230 Fenway)

Collective Futures Fund Grantee Reception and 5-Year Celebration

Oct 24, 2025, 7 – 9pm

Koppelman Gallery | Aidekman Arts Center, Medford

Panel: Fashion Forward

Oct 16, 2025, 6 – 7:30pm

Anderson Auditorium | SMFA at Tufts, Boston

Beckwith Lecture: Johanna Hedva

Oct 9, 2025, 6 – 8pm

Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford

Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick Artist Conversation + Reception

Sep 18, 2025, 6 – 8pm

Anderson Auditorium | SMFA at Tufts, Boston

Jeffrey Meris Artist Lecture: “I. Held. Up”

Sep 5, 2025, 12 – 1:30pm

Grossman Gallery + Anderson Auditorium, SMFA at Tufts (230 Fenway)

How do you throw a brick through the window… Public Reception

Sep 4, 2025, 6 – 8pm

Anderson Auditorium / SMFA at Tufts (230 Fenway)

Artists in Academia: artistic research as practice

Apr 16, 2025, 6 – 7:30pm

Grossman Gallery, SMFA at Tufts (230 Fenway)

Hollow Center: A Performance by Takahiro Yamamoto

Apr 12, 2025, 12 – 4pm

Anderson Auditorium / SMFA at Tufts (230 Fenway)

a desire to learn: performance in practice with Mobius Artists Group

Apr 11, 2025, 12 – 5pm

Aidekman Arts Center / Medford

Friday Activations: Conlon Nancarrow Compositions

Apr 4, 2025, 12 – 12:30pm

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2024

Aidekman Arts Center / Medford

Workshop: Community Crocheting

Dec 8, 2024, 2 – 4pm

Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center / Medford

Screening + Conversation: Drag, Kinship, and Mourning

Nov 13, 2024, 6 – 8pm

Anderson Auditorium / SMFA at Tufts

Workshop: Ulises x BB Workshop, Gerrit Rietveld Academie/Sandberg Instituut

Nov 2, 2024, 12 – 4pm

Anderson Galleries, Atrium + Courtyard / SMFA at Tufts

Templates for Public Art (TFPA) Vol. 7 with Limited Time Engagement (LTE)

Oct 30, 2024, 2:30 – 6pm

Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center / Medford

Abolitionist Practices: Then + Now

Oct 23, 2024, 6 – 7:30pm

Remis Auditorium / MFA, Boston

Leo and Betty Beckwith Lecture: American Artist

Oct 10, 2024, 7 – 8pm

Anderson Auditorium / SMFA at Tufts

Workshop: Ulises x Lizania Cruz

Oct 5, 2024, 12 – 2pm

Anderson Auditorium / SMFA at Tufts

Visiting Artist Talk: Tomashi Jackson

Oct 4, 2024, 12 – 2pm

Aidekman Arts Center / Medford

Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe Reception

Sep 18, 2024, 6 – 8pm

Fostering Queer Community at SMFA

Sep 12, 2024, 4 – 5:30pm

Anderson Auditorium / SMFA at Tufts

Workshop: Ulises x Nontsikelelo Mutiti

Sep 6, 2024, 12 – 2pm

SMFA at Tufts / Boston

Reception for Ulises: Assembly

Sep 5, 2024, 6 – 8pm

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2023

Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford

Véxoa: Closing Event & Curator Tour

Dec 10, 2023, 2 – 3:30pm

Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Avenue, Medford

Capoeira Workshop

Nov 16, 2023, 7 – 8pm

SMFA at Tufts, 230 The Fenway, Boston

Double Arrows: Artist Talk

Oct 18, 2023, 12 – 1pm

Beckwith Lecture: Catherine Opie

Oct 12, 2023, 7 – 8pm

Aidekman Arts Center, Medford

Centering Indigenous Voices in the Arts

Oct 3, 2023, 4 – 6pm

Véxoa: Reception & Artist Program

Sep 20, 2023, 6 – 8pm

Double Arrows: Toast, Tour, & Workshop

Sep 13, 2023, 5 – 8pm

Curator Tour + Closing Performance: NIC Kay

Apr 23, 2023, 12 – 2pm

Drawing in the Gallery

Apr 13, 2023, 6 – 8pm

IN-PERSON: Alumnae Lounge / Aidekman Arts Center / 40 Talbot Ave / Medford, MA

The Metabolic Museum: New Pathways for Collecting

Mar 30–31, 2023

Digital Fabrication Workshop

Mar 10, 2023, 12 – 2pm

Beckwith Lecture: Raquel Gutiérrez

Feb 9, 2023, 6 – 8pm

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2022

Artist Performance, Curator Tour, & Conversation

Dec 11, 2022, 1 – 2:30pm

Barnum Hall (Barnum 08) / Medford

Film Screening: Ali Cherri & Anton Ginzburg

Nov 17, 2022, 6 – 8pm

Highlights Tour with the Student Programming Committee

Nov 4, 2022, 12:30 – 2pm

Workshop with UnBound Bodies

Oct 21, 2022, 12 – 2pm

The Sun Rises in the West and Sets in the East Reception

Oct 6, 2022, 6 – 8pm

Sofía Córdova Reception

Sep 15, 2022, 6 – 8pm

Aidekman Arts Center / Medford

Art for the Future Closing Artist Roundtable & Book Release Party

Apr 23, 2022, 2 – 4pm

SMFA at Tufts / Boston

Latinx Solidarities in Boston: Panel

Apr 3, 2022, 2 – 4pm

Aidekman Arts Center / Medford

Arte Voz Workshop: Muriel Hasbun

Mar 16, 2022, 6 – 8pm

Aidekman Arts Center / Medford

Curator Tour

Mar 13, 2022, 1 – 2pm

Aidekman Arts Center / Medford

Faculty Talk: Katrina Burgess

Feb 16, 2022, 12:15 – 1:15pm

230 Fenway, Boston, MA 02115

Curator Tour

Feb 13, 2022, 1 – 2pm

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2021

Aidekman Arts Center

Tour of Connecting Threads / Survivor Objects

Dec 5, 2021, 2 – 4am

Aidekman Arts Center

Workshop with Samantha Fields

Nov 18, 2021, 6 – 8am

Sunday Tour: Land Histories

Oct 3, 2021, 2 – 4pm

Workshop: Forming Home

Oct 1, 2021, 1 – 3pm

Fall 2021 Exhibitions Reception

Sep 23, 2021, 6 – 8pm

Notes for Noticing

Mar 22–26, 2021

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2020

SYMPOSIUM BRIDGES: WALLS TURNED SIDEWAYS

Mar 5–6, 2020

Artist Talk: Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Feb 19, 2020, 6 – 7pm

The Wall That Divided a Prison: Liberalism and the Carceral Project in the…

Feb 12, 2020, 12 – 1pm

Opening Reception

Jan 23, 2020, 6 – 8pm

Opening Reception & Artist Talk

Jan 16, 2020, 6 – 8pm

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2019

Eat Your Words: Binding Techniques & Edible Books

Nov 24, 2019, 2 – 4pm

Lunchtime Talk: Living Materials

Nov 20, 2019, 12 – 1pm

The Black Studies Reading Room: “Can you Be Black and Look at This?”

Nov 14, 2019, 6 – 8pm

Workshop: Press Press “What Is Sanctuary? A Manifesto”

Nov 8, 2019, 12 – 2pm

Visiting Artist Lecture: Firelei Báez

Nov 6, 2019, 7 – 9pm

Visiting Artist Lecture: Aliza Nisenbaum in conversation with Anthony Romero

Oct 30, 2019, 6 – 8pm

Bookworks Exhibition Tour

Oct 26, 2019, 2 – 4pm

Alumnae Lounge, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford

Beckwith Lecture: Sanford Biggers + Christa Clarke

Oct 16, 2019, 6 – 8pm

MFAmplified

May 3, 2019, 7 – 9pm

Lunchtime Talk: A poetry reading of The Lone Acceptable Application of Daylight

Apr 10, 2019, 12 – 1pm

Beckwith Lecture with Harry Dodge and Amy Sillman

Mar 6, 2019, 7 – 9pm

Gallery Tour with Harry Dodge

Mar 6, 2019, 10am–12pm

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2018

Closing Weekend Public Tour

Dec 9, 2018, 2 – 4pm

Drawing in the Gallery

Nov 29, 2018, 6 – 8pm

Panel Discussion: “Does an Education make an Artist?”

Nov 8, 2018, 4 – 6pm

Frankenreads in the Gallery

Oct 31, 2018, 10am– 8pm

Gallery Tour: Dina Deitsch, Director

Oct 19, 2018, 11am–12pm

Workshop: Body Part Casting (Alginate Demo and Workshop)

Oct 18, 2018, 6 – 8pm

TuftsPublic / Heidi Neilson: Go Goes Radiotelescope Artist Talk

Sep 27, 2018, 12 – 1pm

Opening Reception

Sep 6, 2018, 5 – 7pm

Tortilla Social: Salvador Jiménez-Flores

Apr 12, 2018, 6 – 8pm

Through the Repellent Fence: A Land Art Film

Apr 5, 2018, 6 – 8pm

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Beckwith Lecture: Arthur Jafa + Christina Sharpe

Mar 28, 2018, 6 – 8pm

Jeffrey Gibson: Performance

Mar 15, 2018, 6 – 8pm

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2017

A Staged Reading of Occupant by Edward Albee

Apr 18, 2017, 7 – 9pm

Coded_Couture tour with Curator Judith Hoos Fox

Mar 8, 2017, 12 – 1pm

create DATE: Floating Artifacts

Feb 16, 2017, 6 – 8pm

art + science mash-up

Feb 7, 2017, 4 – 6pm

Opening Reception

Jan 26, 2017, 5 – 7pm

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