SMFA Highlights
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.
Professor of the Practice Ethan Murrow is showing new works at Untitled Art Fair Miami with Winston Wachter (NYC/Seattle) through December 5. Learn more here.
Professor of the Practice David Antonio Cruz participated in a conversation entitled "Radical Figuration in the Spirit of Alice Neel and Robert Henri" organized by The Met Museum on the occasion of the exhibition Alice Neel: People Come First, which features a comparative painting by Robert Henri (1865–1929).
Professors of the Practice Tanya Crane and Triton Mobley will exhibit their work in the group show Splitting the Rent from December 3 through December 11 at the Jay Taylor Gallery in Providence, RI. The opening reception will be held on December 3 from 6-9 pm.
The Massachusetts Book Awards recognize significant works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children’s/young adult literature published by current Commonwealth residents. Ethan and Vita Murrow's book Zero Local: Next Stop: Kindness published by Candlewick Press, was recently awarded a Picture Book, Early Reader Honor.
Professor of the Practice David Antonio Cruz's work is featured in the Monique Meloche Gallery exhibition as part of Art Basel Miami Beach from November 30 through December 4.
Lecturer Ria Brodell is exhibiting work from their Butch Heroes series at The Freedman Gallery at Albright College through December 5. The show brings together new work as well as Butch Heroes from the collections of the Minnesota Museum of American Art, the Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and the Cornel Fine Arts Museum.
Professor of the Practice Kurt Ralske's film Der Tod des Faust (1927, Eugen Schufftan) was screened on Thursday, November 18 as part of the festival Novembre Expérimental at Cinedoc in Paris.
Professors of the Practice Danielle Abrams and Mary Ellen Strom have been selected to be the inaugural artists for the Pauli Murray Residency (PMR) at Eaton Workshop in Washington, D.C. from fall 2021 to spring 2022. The PMR provides creatives with the gift of space and time to work on existing or forthcoming projects that focus on the intersections of race, equity, and justice.