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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.

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.
 

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.

Khaldoun Hijazin, MFA '14, has been named Artistic Director of the National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman, Jordan.

Danielle Abrams and Mary Ellen Strom, Professors of the Practice, received a Live Arts Boston Grant from the Boston Foundation of the Arts.  They will use this grant to produce and tour Lincoln Gave Us a Beach, an intermedia performance about a segregated New Orleans’ beach and the legacy of white supremacy and public recreational space. Both were also awarded a Public Art Residency and grant from Boston Center for the Arts. The residency culminates with an exhibition at the Mills Gallery in Boston.

Jeannie Simms and Anna Gruman, BFA '19, are artists in residence at the Brookline Arts Center where they are collaborating on a new video installation.  With current international border closings and racial and social injustices causing barriers to mobility across the United States, as well as an upcoming national election, they ask people the question, “Where do you want to be?”