SMFA Highlights
Lecturer Mima McMillan and Eli Brown, MFA '18, have been awarded Public Art Accelerator grants through Now and There to bring their public art projects to a Boston neighborhood this summer. Their projects will be designed to unlock curiosity and evoke new ways of being while holding space for community care, equitable living, and collective uplifting.
Selections from Lecturer Ria Brodell's Butch Heroes series are on display as part of the exhibition Agency: Feminist Art and Power on view at the Museum of Sonoma County through June 5, presented in collaboration with The Feminist Art Project.
Professor of the Practice Ethan Murrow has three new large scale paintings in the show History Repeats at Winston Wachter Fine Art in Seattle, WA through March 19.
Professor of the Practice Bonnie Donohue mounted an exhibition of works in progress at Kingston Gallery in Boston through February 27. The work is extracted from an artist book she is drafting with a working title of Colonial Footsteps: A Radical Atlas of Vieques, Puerto Rico. In March, Bonnie will be part of a group exhibition at Kingston Gallery entitled Boundaries/Borders.
Professor of the Practice Anthony Romero co-authored a book entitled Lastgaspism: Art and Survival in the Age of Pandemic, which includes contributions from Professor of the Practice Kelli Morgan and Lecturer Erin Genia. Lastgaspism is a collaborative effort to attempt to make sense of the present moment by engaging with the ecological, political, public health, and spiritual crises of our time in terms of breath, both literal and allegorical. A related exhibition, also entitled Lastgaspism, will be on view at Drexel University's Pearlstein Gallery from March 31 – May 25. This book grew out of a previous collaborative project, Organize Your Own: The Politics and Poetics of Self Determination Movements, the catalog for which was edited by Anthony Romero.
Professor of the Practice David Antonio Cruz has a solo exhibition entitled icutfromthemiddletogetabetterslice at Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago through December 18. Watch a virtual walkthrough of the exhibition here.
Professor of the Practice Chantal Zakari is featured in an exhibition entitled The Bookshop is open at the Kingston Gallery in Boston through January 16. Many of Professor Zakari's pieces were created in collaboration with Lecturer Mike Mandel.
Lecturer Milcah Bassel is participating in the group show Going To The Meadow at ArtYard in Frenchtown, New Jersey through December 26.
Lecturer Emily Gephart's essay Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective appears in a newly released anthology of contributions to the expanding field of ecocritical studies, published by Princeton University Press.
Lecturer Eva Lundsager's painting As Beginning, made in the year 2000, was recently acquired by the permanent collection of the Dallas Art Museum.
Professor of the Practice Kendall Reiss is one of two artists from the U.S. included in the Tincal Lab Challenge 2021: Jewelry & Nature. The exhibition runs through December 31 at Tincal Lab, a contemporary jewelry gallery located in Porto, Portugal. It includes the work of 79 jewelers from 29 countries. Works created specifically for the exhibition address nature as a central theme.
Minnie Xie, CD '24, is featured in a University of the Arts London (UAL) article describing her experience studying at UAL through the Tufts University study abroad exchange program.