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SMFA Highlights
Professor of the Practice Pamela Pecchio has new work in Horizontal Vertical at ArtBuilt inside the Brooklyn Army Terminal from November 22 through December 20, 2025. The reception is November 22 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Open hours with the artists are December 6 from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m., December 20 from 1p.m. to 4 p.m., and by appointment.
Professor of the Practice Neda Moridpour was awarded the prestigious Onassis ONX Fellowship, an international program supporting innovative artists working at the intersection of immersive media, social justice, and emerging technologies. This fellowship recognizes Moridpour’s groundbreaking work in community-engaged artistic research and her commitment to reimagining archives of resistance through XR and participatory storytelling.
Part-Time Lecturer Matthew Hipps was awarded an Early Development grant through the LEF Foundation's 2025 Moving Image Fund. The grant will support his current documentary film project exploring the historic and contemporary overlap of queer public spaces and film exhibition sites as venues for queer world-building and transgressive expression in Greater Boston.
That Slippery Moment
Gonzalo Fuenmayor, MFA ‘04, sets out to playfully trick and challenge viewers with his monumental charcoals
Announcing Chantal Zakari as SMFA Associate Dean of Curriculum and Instruction
When the Teacher Becomes the Student
Reflecting on a decade of the SMFA Faculty Travel and Research Fellowships, established by Carol, DIP ’09, and Richard Daynard, Lilly and Ted Yun.