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.

SMFA Professor of the Practice in Sculpture, Megan McMillan, together with her partner and collaborator Murray McMillan, have a new video installation at the Providence Children’s Museum, What Is Possible Is Here Now.

Alumn JooLee Kang’s Rock Scissors Paper, Slug Frog Snake exhibition will make its California premiere at Cuesta College’s Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery from February 2 through March 10.

Professor of the Practice Ethan Murrow will be in Paris this February for the inaugural opening of Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire's second exhibition space in the Marais. Ethan and other artists represented by Les Filles du Calvaire are part of the show Persona.

Professor of the Practice Ethan Murrow, along with his co-author Vita Murrow, will be recognized by legislators at the State House on January 18 as part of the Massachusetts Book Awards. Their mostly wordless book for young readers, Zero Local, with Candlewick Press was chosen as an Honor Book for this award program.

Professor of the Practice Jennifer Schmidt was recently awarded artist-in-residence fellowships at TYPA in Tartu, Estonia, Directangle Press in Bethlehem, New Hampshire, and The Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio.

Professor of the Practice Jennifer Schmidt had an article published in the Printmaker’s Diary in Printmaking Today, the journal of the Royal Painter-Printmakers in the UK.

Student Rei Gencal was awarded a grant from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation, which awards student figurative painters up to $20,000.

Lecturer in Visual and Material Studies, Erin Hyde Nolan has co-edited a book with Sophie Junge entitled, Survey Practices and Landscape Photographs Across the Globe (Routledge, 2022). She also has published a short-form presentation entitled, "Ottoman Costume Portraits: Photographs in the Elbise-i Osmaniyye" on Khamseen: Islamic Art Online (University of Michigan).

Professor of the Practice Ethan Murrow was recently invited by D+S Fine Art Editions to complete a new stone lithograph at their shop in Paris. Over the summer in La Force France, Ethan also worked with D+S at their second shop to create large-scale lithographs on a Marinoni Voirin Press from 1880, one of just four of its kind in the world, and one of the biggest still in use. Master printers Deb Chaney and Stéphane Guilbaud celebrated the release of three new editions at an opening at their shop with Ethan on December 2 in Paris. This project was supported in part by the generous funding of a Tufts FRAC grant.

Susan Barahal, Director of the Art Education Program, has a sculpture in a juried exhibit at The Brush Art Gallery in Lowell, MA through December 23.

Professor of the Practice Patte Loper, a Center for the Humanities at Tufts (CHAT) Faculty Fellow, will present her project, Laboratory for Other Worlds: Scientific Data, Environmental Humanities, and the Public Imagination.

Professor of the Practice, Kendall Reiss's project, Being [with] Trees, was recently published in: Anthotype Emulsions, Volume 1: The collective research from photographers on World Anthotype Day. The book includes a Rosa rugosa emulsion and the resulting anthotype of a tulip tree leaf, both generated by a community of Being [with] Trees workshop participants.