| Tufts University Art Galleries |
| Press Preview: New Exhibitions Coming to TUAG Spring 2027 |
| Oct 28, 2026 |
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For our Spring 2027 season, Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) is thrilled to present Beneath a Heavy Sky and SMFA at 150: Proof of Context in the 21st Century, two sweeping group exhibitions that challenge conventions of material, media, and understanding. We invite you to learn more about our upcoming season below and browse our current exhibitions and programming at artgalleries.tufts.edu. MEDIA CONTACT |
| Exhibition • Medford • January 20, 2027 – April 18, 2027 |
| Beneath a Heavy Sky |
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Beneath a Heavy Sky explores the intersecting languages of abstraction and landscape painting through the work of contemporary artists Lisa Alvarado, Judith Belzer, N. Dash, Keltie Ferris, Hong Hong, Patrick Dean Hubbell, Eva Lundsager, Rodney McMillian, Jeff Perrott, Kianja Strobert, Mary Weatherford, Suara Welitoff, and Emmi Whitehorse with additional selections from the Tufts University Permanent Collection, including the work of modernist forebears Helen Frankenthaler and Sam Gilliam. Critically, the exhibition presents paintings that push against categorization. Playing creatively with the structure, mark-making, and materiality of painting, the artists of Beneath a Heavy Sky make works that broaden our understanding of painting itself as well as the landscape genre. Beneath a Heavy Sky is organized by TUAG Guest Curator Caitlin Julia Rubin, with conceptual grounding from former TUAG Director and Chief Curator Dina Deitsch and School of the Museum of Fine Arts Lecturer Eva Lundsager. |
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| Exhibition • Boston • January 28, 2027 – April 18, 2027 |
| SMFA at 150: Proof of Context in the 21st Century |
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At TUAG / Boston, SMFA at 150: Proof of Context in the 21st Century continues a year of recognizing the School of the Museum of Fine Art (SMFA) at Tufts University’s 150th anniversary, building upon the Fall 2026 exhibition SMFA at 150: Looking Back. Upending the colloquialism “proof of concept,” Proof of Context centers recent alumni artists of the BFA and MFA programs Creighton Baxter (BFA ’13), Miguel Caba (BFA ‘25), Furen Dai (MFA ’16), Cathy Lu (BFA, ‘07), Sara Magenheimer (BFA/ BA, ‘04) with Michael Bell-Smith, Courtney McClellan (MFA, ‘13), Antonia Kuo (BFA, ’09), Dawit L. Petros (MFA, ‘07), and Daniela Rivera (MFA, ‘06). Together, these works reject the necessity of an evidentiary endpoint, instead speculating, critiquing, and relishing in process as practice. Proof of Context is organized by TUAG Interim Co-Director and Chief Curator Laurel V. McLaughlin with research assistance from TUAG interns Avery Davis (BFA ’26), Jordan Hobson (MFA ‘27), Rylan Nguyen (BFA ’26), and Curatorial Fellow Ayla Tanurhan (MA ’27) and features a new public billboard commission, You Missed & Again Again Again by exhibiting artist Creighton Baxter, on the exterior wall of the 230 Fenway campus. |
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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. We strive to make our exhibitions and programming accessible for all audiences. If you have any questions or would like to discuss how to best make a program accessible for you, please email galleryaccessibility@tufts.edu Locations and Hours Aidekman Arts Center SMFA at Tufts Tues–Sunday 11am-5pm. At Tufts we take care of your personal data, if you want to know more about our privacy notice, please see our privacy statement. |