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.

Laura Fischman has a solo exhibition, Stilling Life, in the Elizabeth A. Beland Gallery at the Essex Art Center in Lawrence Massachusetts. The show is on view September 6 through December 12, 2019 with an opening reception on Friday, September 6 at 5 pm.

Kata Hull had work in the New England Collective X regional juried exhibition at Galatea Fine Art in Boston's SoWa neighborhood from July 31 through September 1, 2019. The exhibition was juried by Katherine French.

Silvia Bottinelli gave a talk entitled “Looking Inside. The Home in Italian Art and Visual Culture from the 1940s to the 1970s” on June 25, 2019 at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, Italy. The lecture compared artworks with popular media to show forms of negotiation between personal narratives and societal expectations, with particular attention given to artworks created by women and their domestic experiences.

Danielle Abrams was commissioned by Paper Monuments, a public art and public history project based in New Orleans, LA, to develop a performance and archive that sheds light on the once segregated “Lincoln Beach” (1954-1963). Learn more about Danielle’s work with Paper Monuments here.

Michael MacMahon had work in Meditative Nature, which was on view May 6-28, 2019 at Gallery Tempo in Brookline, MA.

Post Graduate Teaching Fellow Kristen Powell's first solo show will be on view at the New England School of Photography from September 26-October 26, 2019. The show is curated by alumna Erin Carey (MFA '07). There will be a reception on Thursday, October 11, 2019 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm.

Anthony Romero will exhibit his work in When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art, at the ICA, Boston from October 23, 2019 through January 26, 2020.

Abby Satinsky has won a $75,000 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation to mount Art for the Future: Artists Call and Transnational Solidarity in the 1980s, slated to open in the Medford art galleries in Fall 2020.

Val Valente showed a piece in Brookline Art Center's New England Thread. An opening reception was held on Friday, June 14, 2019 from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. The exhibition was on view through July 19, 2019.

Anthony Romero was selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Anthony was one of 55 selected fellows: the program had an acceptance rate of only 3.7%! As a Radcliffe Fellow, Anthony will work on a project called "no noise disturbed the quiet of the morning." You can read more about Anthony's accomplishment.

On May 23, 2019, David Antonio Cruz performed "Thecasementboys" as part of Food for Thought: After Mentorship curated by Queer|Art. "Thecasementboys" was a performance collaboration with Neil Goldberg addressing the complexities of attraction and of being desired and consumed.

Ethan Murrow's solo show, American Commerce, opened on Thursday, May 16, 2019 at Winston Wächter Fine Art in NYC. American Commerce explored concepts of appropriation, colonialism, and trade economics with a delightful, deadpan humor, and was on view through June 22, 2019.