Please join us at TUAG / Boston for a community-wide reception to celebrate How do you throw a brick through the window…, coming up in just one week. And now, there’s even more to celebrate! We’re thrilled to announce that TUAG has received a significant grant from Teiger Foundation to support the presentation of this exhibition. Read more about this exciting news and register to celebrate with us below.

COMMUNITY RECEPTION
Thursday, September 4
6–8PM
230 Fenway | SMFA at Tufts

RSVP for the Community Reception here.

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 Korean American writer, artist, and musician Johanna Hedva: “How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can’t get out of bed?” to explore how individuals with individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate forms of protest despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces.

Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) are thrilled to have been named a 2025 Teiger Foundation grantee . This grant will support the exhibition How do you throw a brick through the window…, co-organized with the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (JMKAC). The exhibition will be on view at TUAG / Boston September 2–November 9, 2025, with community-wide reception on September 4.

The funds granted by Teiger Foundation will enable TUAG to present new commissions and recent works of art from seven artists exploring how individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate forms of protest despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces. 

This grant will also support the creation of an accompanying publication expanding the histories and themes of the exhibition through essays by activists, scholars, artists, and poets, Amanda Cachia, torrin a. greathouse, Mev Luna, and the co-curators.

The generosity of Teiger Foundation will considerably impact TUAG’s ability to collaboratively realize this exhibition across two locations, allowing the Galleries to operate beyond and even against normative exhibition models through methods of “crip time” for elongated timelines, artist cohort cultivation, and programming. Such processes are catalytic for both institutions, providing roadmaps for accessible capital improvements at JMKAC and strengthened accessibility practices at TUAG.