SMFA Highlights
Professor of the Practice Jennifer Schmidt was recently awarded artist-in-residence fellowships at TYPA in Tartu, Estonia, Directangle Press in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, and The Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.
Professor of the Practice Jennifer Schmidt had an article published in the Printmaker’s Diary in Printmaking Today, the journal of the Royal Painter-Printmakers in the UK.
Student Rei Gencal was awarded a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, which awards student figurative painters up to $20,000.
Lecturer in Visual and Material Studies, Erin Hyde Nolan has co-edited a book with Sophie Junge entitled, Survey Practices and Landscape Photographs Across the Globe (Routledge, 2022). She also has published a short-form presentation entitled, "Ottoman Costume Portraits: Photographs in the Elbise-i Osmaniyye" on Khamseen: Islamic Art Online (University of Michigan).
Professor of the Practice Ethan Murrow was recently invited by D+S Fine Art Editions to complete a new stone lithograph at their shop in Paris. Over the summer in La Force France, Ethan also worked with D+S at their second shop to create large-scale lithographs on a Marinoni Voirin Press from 1880, one of just four of its kind in the world, and one of the biggest still in use. Master printers Deb Chaney and Stéphane Guilbaud celebrated the release of three new editions at an opening at their shop with Ethan on December 2 in Paris. This project was supported in part by the generous funding of a Tufts FRAC grant.
Professor of the Practice Kelli Morgan is a 2022-23 Emily Hall Tremaine Journalism Fellowship for Curators recipient. Read more here.
Lecturer Maya Erdelyi-Perez will be presenting an artist talk and rough-cut screening of Anyuka, an animated documentary, as part of her solo show Pattern Language at Trustman Gallery at Simmons University.
Susan Barahal, Director of the Art Education Program, has a sculpture in a juried exhibit at The Brush Art Gallery in Lowell, MA through December 23.
Professor of the Practice Patte Loper, a Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) Faculty Fellow, will present her project, Laboratory for Other Worlds: Scientific Data, Environmental Humanities, and the Public Imagination.
Professor of the Practice, Kendall Reiss's project, Being [with] Trees, was recently published in: Anthotype Emulsions, Volume 1: The collective research from photographers on World Anthotype Day. The book includes a Rosa rugosa emulsion and the resulting anthotype of a tulip tree leaf, both generated by a community of Being [with] Trees workshop participants.
Lecturer Maya Erdelyi-Perez has a solo show, Pattern Language, at Trustman Gallery at Simmons University which is on view through December 16. The show features new works and experiments in collage, 3-D drawings, animated objects, including a geodesic dome, a quilt-inspired mural, a paper mobile and more. Investigating the kinetic and visceral language of pattern, color, repetition and gesture relationships; the show features special collaborations and activations throughout the duration of the exhibit.
Professor of the Practice Triton Mobley was recently interviewed in Bomb Magazine by Patrick Harrison about his practice.