SMFA Highlights

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.

Professor of the Practice Jennie Jieun Lee will be in the group exhibition Shadow’s Mirror at Snow Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The exhibit opens on Friday, April 25.

Schuyler Dragoo, MFA ’25, has been awarded a place in the Kennedy Center 2025 Access/VSA Emerging Young Artists Program.

Part-time Lecturer Timothy Hyunsoo Lee's work is included in a group exhibition on view at the Governor Healy’s Executive Office Suite in the Massachusetts State House for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. The AAPI exhibit is on view through Friday, May 16.

Part-time lecturer Ria Brodell’s new book More Butch Heroes, published by MIT Press, will be available Tuesday, April 29. There will be a talk at All She Wrote Books in Somerville on May 14 at 7 pm.

Professor of the Practice Lauren O'Connor-Korb received an Honorable Mention for the 2025 Tufts Teaching with Technology Awards. Each year, Tufts Educational Technology Services (ETS) asks students across the University to nominate instructors whose use of technology has had a markedly positive impact on their learning and engagement in their Tufts courses. Lauren was recognized for her work with the SMFA Digital Fabrication Studio.

Maryam Safajoo, MFA '16, has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in the area of Fine Arts.

Alum Jilaine Jones has been awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship in the area of Fine Arts.

Professor of the Practice Patte Loper will be giving an artist talk titled "Spiders in the Death Zone: recuperative ecologies in a time of political collapse" at MassArt in the Tower Auditorium at 621 Huntington Ave Boston, MA on April 23 from noon to 1 pm.

Professor of the Practice Neda Moridpour was awarded the Mass Cultural Council’s Grants for Creative Individuals in March 2025. They will be participating in a panel titled Creative Disobedience: Iranian Artists on Feminism, Protest, and Power as part of Layers of Place: MIT Augmented Reality exhibition, on Thursday, April 17 from 11:30 am to 1 pm at MIT.

Studio Operations Manager Laura Beth Reese has a solo show, #influenced, at the Blue Sky Gallery at the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts in Portland, OR. The exhibition is on view through April 26, 2025.

Part-time Lecturer Michael MacMahon and Michael Zachary have new work featured in Shallow Time, Deep Time at Simmons University. This exhibition is on view from Monday, April 7 through Thursday, May 15 with an opening reception on Thursday, April 10, from 5-8 pm and an artist talk on Thursday, May 1, from 6:30-7:30 pm.

Schuyler Dragoo, MFA '25, will be showing her work as part of Between a Frame and a Soft Place: A Hybrid Exhibition Exploring the Digital Body with the Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn.