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Our SMFA community includes faculty, staff, students, and alumni who are accomplished working artists, scholars, researchers, and activists. Below is a running listing of some of their many recent exhibitions, awards, publications, and other notable accomplishments.

Part-time Lecturer Tzu-Ju (Z) Chen has been selected as a 2025 US Artist Fellow. Learn more about Chen's work here.

TUAG Curator and Director of the Collective Futures Fund, Laurel V. McLaughlin has curated an exhibition, Waste Scenes, featuring the work of Maia Chao and Fred Schmidt-Arenales, at the Boston Center for the Arts on view through March 29.

Professor of the Practice Ng'endo Mukii's film, Mtindo, is screening at the Interlaced: Animation and Textiles Art exhibition at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in collaboration with the Len Lye Centre in Plymouth, New Zealand through April 2025.

Professor of the Practice Neda Moridpour has been awarded a prestigious MacDowell Fellowship for Spring 2025. This esteemed honor recognizes her exceptional contributions to socially engaged art and her unwavering commitment to justice and equity through her creative practice. A public announcement will follow soon. 

A photograph by Chris Diani, MFA '25, is currently on view in the Family exhibition at A Photographers Place in Raleigh, NC. The show will run through the end of the month. Selected works are also available to view online.

Professor of the Practice Neda Moridpour will present her collaborative research-based project at two panels during the CAA 113th Annual Conference in New York City, February 12–15. The panels include Hair Power: Culture, Materiality, Politics of Hair in Contemporary Art and Expanding Archives: Drawing, Documentation, and Democratic Impulse.

Part-time Lecturer Ria Brodell's work is included in the exhibition; LGBTQIA+ Stories, at The São Paulo Museum of Art in São Paulo, Brazil. The show is on view until April 13.

Part-time Lecturer Luis Arnías will screen his short film Bisagras at the Media City Film Festival virtually from December 9–30 and in person at the ICA on January 16, 2025, at 7 pm. The screening is part of the Lose Your Mother: A Film Shorts Program by BlackStar Projects.

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.