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.

With her Emulsions In Departure project, Dell Hamilton, MFA ’12, is participating in Maria Magdalena Campos-Pon’s #WhenWeGather performance project.

Part-time Lecturer Rhoda Rosenberg was one of two recipients of the 2020 Annual Exhibition award at the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Marla McLeod, MFA ’20 and 2020-21 postgraduate teaching fellow, was featured on the WBUR radio station in a feature called Painting Black Skin, An Artist Navigates Success and Loss in a Pandemic Year.

Part-time Lecturer Ria Brodell has work on view in the exhibition Plural Possibilities at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, WA through May 2021.

Part-time Lecturer Greg Mencoff’s exhibition Meaningful Dust ran through May 2021 at the Howard Yezerski Gallery in Boston, MA.

Professor of the Practice Michelle Samour participated in Poetic Botany, an exhibition at the Suffolk University Art Galleries through April 2021.

Professor of the Practice Michelle Samour’s solo show, Mapping Borders and Boundaries at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, runs through September 2021. It delves into ideas of homeland, exile, and diaspora, specifically in regard to the dispossession of Palestine.

Professor of the Practice Tanya Crane displayed her work in the exhibition By Hand at the Attleboro Arts Museum from April-May 2021.

Professor of the Practice Patte Loper’s solo exhibition of experimental and research-based work, Quiet Country, is running through May 31 at the Platform Gallery.

Professor of the Practice Joel Frenzer debuted his talk The Muse of Alzheimer's: Turning "Tragedy" into Art as part of the 2021 TEDxTufts conference.

Part-time Lecturer Kata Hull participated in the juried exhibition Pivot, presented by the South Shore Art Center in Cohasset, MA through May 2021.

Part-time Faculty Member Steven Labadessa’s exhibition Luna ran through May 2021 at the College of the Mainland Art Gallery.