| Tufts University Art Galleries |
| April at TUAG |
| Apr 1, 2024 |
| Three Weeks Left to See Spring Exhibitions |
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It’s hard to believe April is here and there are less than three weeks left to see the exhibitions at TUAG before they close Sunday, April 21 at 5pm. Don’t miss Kenneth Tam: Standing in Soft Formation at Aidekman Arts Center in Medford, and Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant and As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston at SMFA at Tufts in Boston. |
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| Event • Medford • Apr 7, 2:00pm |
| Tour: Kenneth Tam: Standing in Soft Formation |
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| Join TUAG director and chief curator Dina Deitsch and SMFA faculty Ihnmi Jon for an interdisciplinary conversation about the sculptures, photographs, and videos on view in Kenneth Tam: Standing in Soft Formation. |
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| Event • Boston, Online • Sep 12, 4:00pm |
| Fostering Queer Community at SMFA |
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| In partnership with the SMFA Office of Development and Alumni Engagemen, TUAG welcomes current SMFA students, SMFA alumni, and Boston community members to join artists Avram Finkelstein, Gail Thacker, and Shellburne Thurber for a panel conversation moderated by guest curator of As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston Jackson Davidow, PhD. Finkelstein, Thacker, and Thurber’s artworks are featured in the exhibition and explore the relationship 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. |
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| Event • Medford • Apr 25, 4:30pm |
| Design, A.I., and Afro-nowism |
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Co-produced with Tufts Art & Art History and moderated by faculty member Diana Martinez, this panel brings together designers, programmers, and academics thinking and working at the intersection of race and Artificial Intelligence to consider both the promise and risks of machine learning and data driven scholarship and design, especially as it relates to just outcomes. Featuring Curry J. Hackett, a transdisciplinary designer, public artist, and educator; Minne Atairu, an interdisciplinary Artist, and doctoral student in the Art and Art Education program at Teachers College Columbia University; and Anna Haensch, a senior data scientist in the Tufts University Data Intensive Studies Center. |
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| Recent Press Highlights |
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As the public center for visual arts at Tufts University, the Art Galleries create a dynamic learning space through a responsive program of contemporary art exhibitions, events, collecting, and scholarship, across our two locations in Medford and Boston. We are driven by our belief in the impact of art and artists on our world and grounded in the values of care, learning, dialogue, and the creative process.
Locations and Hours Aidekman Arts Center 40 Talbot Ave. Medford, MA 02155 SMFA at Tufts 230 Fenway Boston, MA 02115 Tues-Sun, 11am-5pm Images: Installation view of Kenneth Tam: Standing in Soft Formation, 2024 at Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford. Photography by Mel Taing; Mark Wine, As the World Burns, 1973. Digitized Super 8 film, 18:00 min. Courtesy of the artist © Mark Winer; Curry J. Hackett, AI Image for Bloomberg’s CityLab. At Tufts we take care of your personal data, if you want to know more about our privacy notice, please see our privacy statement. |