September is here, and our doors are now officially open at TUAG / Boston for our Fall 2025 exhibition How do you throw a brick through the window…, and we can’t wait to celebrate with you all this week!

Join us on Thursday from 6–8PM at 230 Fenway for a community-wide reception (RSVP here) featuring new commissions and recent works of art exploring how individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate forms of protest. Then, come back on Friday from 12–2PM for a lecture with featured artist Jeffrey Meris, in collaboration with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) MFA Program (register here).

Later this month on September 18 at TUAG / Medford, we’ll come together for a reception and artist talk with Beverly Semmes and curators Dina Deitsch and Camilo Alvarez.

We’re also delighted to announce the acquisition of new works by Tomashi Jackson, Crystalle LaCouture, and Allan Rohan Crite to the Tufts University Permanent Collection, along with new exhibitions showcasing Collection works by Crite, Edgardo Giménez, and Andy Warhol.

Read more about all the exciting things happening at TUAG this month below, and stay tuned for for a full rundown of programming coming up this fall.

Want to get ahead? Visit artgalleries.tufts.edu/events to explore and register for parties, panels, workshops, and more coming this season.

We are so honored to welcome Boston-area artists Tomashi Jackson and Crystalle Lacouture into the Tufts University Permanent Collection, thanks to the generosity of the TUAG Acquisition Committee (TAC).

Previously on view as part of Tomashi Jackson: Across the Universe at TUAG / Medford, Guns and Butter (Nia in The Morehouse Creed), 2022, features Jackson’s long-time friend and thought-partner Nia K. Evans, founder of the Boston Ujima Project, a unique member-run investment cooperative for communities of color in the Boston area, wearing a knitted cowl made by Jackson against a backdrop of Jackson’s painting The Morehouse Creed (2022).

From Lacouture and Caira Art Editions comes two prints from the “Score Keeper” and “Star Seeker” series—the former, pastel colors and shapes overlaid on Champion SCORE KEEPER shooting targets hauntingly memorializing victims of gun violence, the latter, barely visible inkless etched prints with hand drawn constellations.

Together, the two prints offer us a form of abstraction that is both transcendent and deeply rooted in the world—from the darkness of violence to the celestial realm of the imagination—and mark the debut of a new and important organization within the Boston art ecosystem.

As part of the city wide celebration of SMFA alumnus Allan Rohan Crite (1910–2007) (BFA’36), including presentations at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Boston Athenaeum, Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) is pleased to present our recent acquisition of his iconic print series Madonna of the Subway, made possible by the generosity of Susan Thompson.