SMFA Highlights
Heidi Whitman, recently retired SMFA faculty member, has work in Wayfinding: Contemporary Artists, Critical Dialogue and the Sidney R. Knafel Map Collection at the Addison Gallery in Andover. The exhibition is on view through February 28, 2021.
Eulogio Guzmán, was in conversation with Alberto Fierro, Consul General of Mexico in Boston, on November 10. The virtual conversation was hosted as part of the Consul General’s public diplomacy program.
Julia Csekö, MFA '10, will be featured in the "Home Alone" series organized by the Somerville Arts Council on November 19. Julia will talk about her trajectory as an art maker and community organizer.
ArtSpace Maynard launched FACES & VOICES — a traveling, public art exhibition by alum George Herman and Amanda Loebelenz. The exhibition is set to travel throughout Massachusetts.
The Tisch College Community Research Center co-sponsored, with Tufts Office of Scholar Development, a student-centered research panel that featured SMFA student Alberto Checa, BFA '21 and Tufts University Film and Media Studies Program's Elon Perry-Stiner, A21. They discussed their research on marginalized communities and issues of identity, power, and representation in media.
Michelle Samour participated in the conversation "Women in Art and Science, The Criticality of Hope" in partnership with the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Other speakers included journalist and policy expert Bina Venkataraman, institute member of the Broad Institute and assistant professor of pediatric oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School Cigall Kadoch, and multimedia artist Maggie Stark. Samour is also participating in the concurrent exhibition Worlds of Marvel with Maggie Stark.
Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz is participating in the Cambridge Arts Open Studios 2020 Online Marketplace and the Krakow Witkin Gallery AIDS Benefit Exhibition.
Danielle Abrams and Mary Ellen Strom exhibited at the Performance Biennial “Live Artists Live III: Despair/Repair,” livestreamed from USC Roski School of Art and Design on November 7. Danielle Abrams and Mary Ellen Strom performed Lincoln Gave Us a Beach, followed by a discussion and Q&A with CSUSB professor and curator Jane Chin Davidson and Patty Chang.
Robert Siegelman is showing a new 16-foot installation piece: Keep America Great at the Gallery at 259 A Street in Boston. This work can be seen from the sidewalk each day from 6 pm to midnight at 259 A Street, Boston. The Gallery at 259 A Street is organized by Steven Muller.
Angelina Gualdoni, has new work included a group show called Garden School at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Garden School includes work from five artists whose paintings explore nature and plants from distinct perspectives and is on view through November 21, 2020.
Kingston Gallery hosted a one-hour Facebook Live conversation between Bonnie Donohue and Chantal Zakari about Donohue's exhibition A Thin Green Line: Borderlands.
Khaldoun Hijazin, MFA '14, has been named Artistic Director of the National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman, Jordan.