SMFA Art Sale, SMFA Alumni, Faculty, Students & Participating Artist Reception
Join us to celebrate the opening of the 46th SMFA Art Sale. Come mingle with fellow alumni, faculty, current students, and participating artists and explore the works submitted to this year's sale. Beer, wine, and light appetizers will be served. RSVP required.
SMFA Art Sale
The SMFA Art Sale has been the leading contemporary art sale in New England since its creation in 1978. Offering works across all mediums, the sale showcases a diverse selection of work from nearly six decades of talented students, alumni, faculty, and friends of SMFA.
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SMFA Highlights
Professor of the Practice Cathy Lu currently has work featured in several prominent exhibitions: Spirit House at the Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, through January 26, 2025; A Garden of Promise and Dissent at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Connecticut, through March 16, 2025; The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, through September 2025; and Prospect.6 New Orleans, on view through February 2, 2025.
Part-time lecturer Ria Brodell’s conversation with writer and art historian Ellen Caldwell about contemporary art, practice and pedagogy and issues around gender violence, censorship, and erasure is published in the anthology Gender Violence, Art and the Viewer: An Intervention from the Pennsylvania State University Press. Edited by Ellen C. Caldwell, Cynthia S. Colburn, and Ella J. Gonzalez.
SMFA alum Pardis Alipour has curated an exhibition at the BoConcept showroom on Newbury Street, showcasing works by 10 fellow SMFA alumni.