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 Rachelle Mozman Solano's work was included in the exhibition An Active and Urgent Telling at the Schaefer Gallery at Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN.

Jane Gillooly's film Where the Pavement Ends was a featured film at the Yerba Center for the Arts & the San Francisco Urban Film Festival.

Words: What are They Good For?, a conversation between Gabriel Sosa, MFA '16, and Danielle Abrams, appeared in the Winter 2021 issue of the Boston Art Review.

Rachelle Mozman Solano will be giving a lecture for the University of Arkansas School of Art and The Center For Photographers of Color on February 5 at 5:30 pm CST as part of their Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Kurt Ralske's 34-minute video for contemporary classical composer Wim Henderickx's Atlantic Wall will be played during a live musical performance of the score on January 28 at deSingel in Antwerp, Belgium.

Silvia Bottinelli's single-authored book Double-Edged Comforts, Domestic Life in Modern Italian Art and Visual Culture (McGill-Queen's University Press) was released on January 21st, 2021. Peeking into the home through the eyes of artists and image-makers, this book unveils the untold story of Italian domestic experiences from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Laurel Nakadate had work included in the Houston Center for Photography group show Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes' Unseen Photograph.

Eva Lundsager, has work included in the exhibition David C. Driskell's Students at the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of Visual Arts & Culture of African Americans & the African Diaspora, at the University of Maryland. Dr. Driskell was an artist and historian who pioneered the study of African American Art and its history.

Alum Brooke Stewart, MFA '18, has created a series of prints that were on display at the Boston Distillery Gallery. Inspired by grocery displays during time spent in grocery stores since the onset of the pandemic, the series of 23 prints, titled No Potatoes, suggests metaphors to other topics, such as femininity, dating and sexuality.

Laurel Nakadate has work included in HOW TO HUMAN, a group exhibition on view at Galerie Tanja Wagner in Berlin, Germany. HOW TO HUMAN is on view through February 13.

Laurel Nakadate has work included in the group exhibition Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond at the Tang Museum. This show is on view through June 6.

Floor van de Velde, has work in the exhibition, STEAM at Cove Street Arts in Portland, Maine which is on view through January 31.