Dear Colleagues,   

As the semester winds down, we hope you are finding nourishment in the longer, warmer days.   

We had a busy  Spring 2025 season with over 70 classes visiting across both campuses alongside a robust slate of performances and workshops. Before you leave campus for a much-deserved summer escape, we wanted to reach out with previews of the  Fall 2025 Season  so that you can begin to think about integrating them into your next semester plans.

In a few weeks, we’ll share out more robust Education Guides in the Faculty Connection email from Liz Canter, Manager of Academic Programs.For now, we encourage you to learn more about our upcoming season below and at artgalleries.tufts.edu.

We also invite you to join us in celebrating the 2025 SMFA at Tufts MFA graduates during a public reception to celebrate their thesis exhibition Through Shifting Lenses (on view May 6–18) on Friday, May 16 from 5-8PM at TUAG / Medford (Aidekman Arts Center).

Our best, 

Dina Deitsch and Laurel V. McLaughlin
Director + Curator, Tufts University Art Galleries

Our Medford galleries will feature Beverly Semmes: Boulders/Flag/Flip/Kick,  an ambitious one-person exhibition from Tufts/SMFA alumna  Beverly Semmes  (BFA ’82), who has built an extensive practice in sculpture, painting, film, performance, and fashion that probes the paradoxes and complexities of the body and its representation. 

Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) is pleased to present the most comprehensive survey of Semmes’s work to date, spanning four decades—beginning in her student days, when she tested ideas of ephemerality and scale in the itinerate installation Boulders  on the library rooftop, to her most recent textiles, ceramics, and paintings that continue to explore the boundaries of power and visibility. 

Boulders/Flag/Flip/Kick  is curated by Dina Deitsch with the artist and Camilo Alvarez.

How do you throw a brick through the window… presents new commissions and recent works of art exploring how individuals with disabilities navigate forms of protest despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces.

Opening at TUAG September 2, 2025 and on view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC) February 28–Oct. 25, 2026, the exhibition is part of a two-year research initiative co-organized by TUAG and JMKAC that began in 2024.

How do you throw a brick through the window… features the work of seven artists—Yani aviles, Chloe P. Crawford, Nat Decker, Jeff Kasper, Carly Mandel, Jeffrey Meris, and Libby Paloma—who engage the radical questioning of writer, artist, astrologer, and disabled non-binary Korean-American activist, Johanna Hedva: “How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?”, from their 2016 text “Sick Woman Theory.” 

The exhibition is co-organized by TUAG Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin and JMKAC Associate Curator Tanya Gayer in dialogue with the artists. Exhibition design is provided by Emily Sara.

Generous support for TUAG exhibitions and programming is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The accompanying symposium and pre-exhibition programming at TUAG were supported by a curatorial research fellowship for Laurel V. McLaughlin.