Student Announcements
Announcements and Opportunities
Portfolio Review Day: Sign-ups Open this Wednesday 3/26 at Noon!
Be the first to sign-up to meet with the external reviewers you most want to talk to! Set a calendar reminder for this Wednesday, 3/26 at noon! For more information on the event and to sign up, click here.
Now Accepting Submissions: Annual Awards
Submissions for annual awards are being accepted through Friday, March 28. Submissions will be juried by faculty and an external curator. Winners of these awards will receive a monetary prize and will be invited to participate in our Year End Show. Review the awards here.
Call for Applications: SMFA Studio Team Graphic Design Intern
The SMFA Studio Team is looking to hire a Graphic Design Intern. The intern will focus on creating a school-wide design program for multi-lingual instructional signage found in the SMFA studios. They will use the existing SMFA style guide to create unique design templates for in-studio signage. Interested students can learn more and apply via this link. The deadline for the applications is Friday, April 4.
Open Call for Art: Spaces to be Human
We invite artists to submit up to three artworks that explore their relationship to spaces of connection—whether through a physical shared space, the landscape of your own body, or an emotional space that holds meaning for you. Spaces to be Human will be held in Goddard Chapel and is co-curated by SMFA students Tainá Rocha and Elijah Mirman in collaboration with the University Chaplaincy.
The StAAR Center is Hiring Graduate Students for the 2025 - 2026 Academic Year!
Work on the SMFA campus (or combine with Medford hours) to support Tufts students. Graduate Writing Consultants work collaboratively with students to support writing across disciplines. Graduate Academic Mentors work holistically with students to develop foundational skills for academic success across disciplines. The positions offer a pay rate of $21/hour to start, paid training, and flexible hours. Applications due March 30. Full job descriptions and application instructions at go.tufts.edu/workwithstaar.
Zine Library Crawl
This entire month of April, you’re invited to check out as many zine libraries in the Greater Boston area as you can! Complete your Zine Library Crawl passport for the opportunity to win prizes, including free goodies from the participating libraries, zine making supplies and physical zines from area zine makers! Zine Library Crawl passports will be available at participating libraries. Participating public and academic libraries include Boston Public Library, Framingham Public Library (Main Library), Harvard University’s Schlesinger Library, MassArt Morton R. Godine Library, Somerville Public Library (all locations), and Watertown Free Public Library.
Call for Illustrations
Tufts Breakthrough Research Journal is seeking illustrations for articles within the next month. Illustrators will be informed of the topic of the article and they can make an illustration in any design/style they want! Their name and art will be published in a physical journal that will be distributed around the Tufts undergraduate campus. If you are interested in this opportunity please reach out to the Journal at tuftsresearch@gmail.com.
Events
Tufts University Chaplaincy, Buddhist Chaplaincy: Meditation & Mindful Dialogue
Join us on Wednesday, March 26 from 12- 12:30 pm at SMFA room A310 for a meditation and mindful dialogue event. Snacks will be provided. We hope to see you there.
Discover Tufts Programs Abroad
Meet Tufts Programs Abroad directors, explore education abroad options, and experience a taste of global cultures— all in one place. Stop by and start your adventure! Located in Dowling Hall 745A+B on Wednesday, March 26, 5-7 pm!
Brown Bag Lunch with Marilyn Arsem and Natalie Loveless
Join Tufts University Art Galleries on March 27 from 12-1 pm in Aidekman 12 for a Brown Bag Lunch with performance artist and founder of Mobius Artists Group, Marilyn Arsem, and Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory in the Department of Art & Design at the University of Alberta and Tufts alumna, Natalie Loveless, for an informal conversation about performance art, collective practice, and research-creation. Learn more and register.
Life’s Excess: Nature Beyond Scarcity, Supremacy and Toil
Please join us on March 27 from 4:30 - 6 pm in Alumnae Lounge for the first event of a new series, University Ecologies and the Question of the Commons. Kriti Sharma will be in dialogue with AB Huber from RCD and Patte Loper from SMFA about Narrow visions of nature forged in the biological sciences form a robust ideological pillar of racial capitalism and are enjoying a resurgence. Dismantling this pillar and the increasingly naked brutality it upholds requires careful attendance to what vastly exceeds the dominant bio-economic vision of life and the human. Please contact Amanda.pepper@tufts.edu with any questions.
Tufts New Music Ensemble
Join Tufts University Art Galleries on March 27 at 5 pm to hear the Tufts New Music Ensemble (with special guest John McDonald), perform a selection from Tom Johnson’s Imaginary Music series (1974-1975, 1993). Containing a total of 104 scores, these drawings of musical symbols or loose suggestions of notes promote non-linear interpretations, and Johnson used them as tools to imagine new musical possibilities. Learn more and register.
Artist Lecture by Chitra Ganesh!
Join the MFA Program on Friday, March 28 at 11 am on the 2nd Floor Mission Hill Studio Building for an artist talk with Chitra Ganesh. Ganesh has developed an expansive body of work rooted in drawing and painting. Her oeuvre stretches across a twenty-five-year practice and spans South Asia, North America, and Europe. Her art has evolved to encompass animation, wall drawings, prints, collage, video, and sculpture.
Horizontal Pedagogies and Research-Creation: A Panel on Mobius Artists Group with Marilyn Arsem and Natalie Loveless
Join Tufts University Art Galleries for a conversation on Friday, March 28 at 12 pm in Anderson Auditorium with artist and Mobius founder Marilyn Arsem and scholar Natalie Loveless, co-moderated by PhD Candidate in Performance Studies Wenxuan Xue, and TUAG curator Laurel V. McLaughlin. The panel will center upon Mobius Artists Group’s artist-driven embodied and new media pedagogies and forms of research-creation within and adjacent to institutions such as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. For more information and registration, see here.
Oxford First Years Information Session for 2026-27
First-year students are invited to attend this information session about the Tufts in Oxford program for the 2026-27 academic year. The director of Tufts in Oxford will share information about this unique program and go over the application timeline. Located in Dowling Hall 745A from 12-1pm on Monday, March 31!
Trans Day of Visibility
We invite the entire SMFA community to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility with an evening of bingo, trivia, free food, prizes, performances and lots of joy! Stop by the Atrium on Monday, March 31, from 5-7 pm to join the celebration! Candace Persuasian (recently named Boston's Favorite Performer and Hostess of The Dollhouse) will be hosting and performing, so you won't want to miss this event!
Soldering Workshop: Learn about the New Soldering Cart
The Digital Fabrication Studio (DFS) in A212 is hosting a soldering workshop on Monday, April 7 at 2:30 pm to introduce the new soldering cart! The workshop will cover basic soldering skills, and how to code and solder to make neopixels to light up. Available spots are limited, so please sign up for the workshop via the QR code in the poster!
News From The Career Center
Register Now: Communications, Marketing & Media Networking Night THIS Wednesday 3/26, 6pm at Breed Hall (Medford)
Are you interested in knowing more about careers in communications, marketing, and media? Join a group of Tufts alumni and employers from a variety of organizations for an evening of conversations. Food will be served. Register here.
DSDI Center Sponsored Career Fair
This career fair will be held on Saturday, March 29 at the Joyce Cummings Center on the Medford campus. Learn more and register here.
No Internship? No Problem! Great Alternatives to Summer Internships
Join the Tufts Career Fellows on Friday, April 4 at noon in the Milmore Room in Dowling Hall to learn how to build skills and utilize summer to its fullest potential and much more. Pizza will be served! Register here.
Open Studio Residency at Haystack
Haystack’s two-week Open Studio Residency is designed to foster artistic exploration at the highest level, and those selected for the highly competitive program attend for free.
City of Boston: Call for Art!
Apply to our Open Call for Art! We're looking for proposals for 2D and 3D installations to be displayed in Boston City Hall's Mezzanine Gallery. Apply by May 18.
Interstride International Student Career Summit
Join career experts, international alumni, and employers on April 10th for a dynamic, half-day virtual event designed to empower international student careers in the US. Explore career tips, job search techniques, visa pathways, work authorizations, industry trends, and more. This virtual event will be held on April 10 from 12 - 6 pm. Learn more.
Creative Space Classifieds
Find or list creative live/work or work space in Massachusetts.
Featured Opportunities
Summer Jobs with The Fund
Curatorial & Comms Intern at Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
Media Intern at Gupta Media
Public Art Ambassador at the Boston Triennial
Marketing & Comms Fellow at the Boston Triennial
Project-Based Infographic Graphic Designer at Educational Advocates College Consulting
Reminders
Call for SMFA Commencement Student Speakers
Student Life is seeking student speakers for the 2025 commencement ceremony. There will be an undergraduate representative and a graduate (MFA/post-bacc) representative. Students must be graduating in spring of 2025 to be eligible. Speeches should be no longer than 5 minutes in length. Submissions will be reviewed by a small selection committee and those selected will be contacted. SMFA Commencement (Phase II ceremony) will take place on May 18 on the Medford Campus. Interested students should submit a recording and draft of their speech here. Please reach out to Stephen Green with any questions. Submissions are due on April 1.
Submit Work for the SCP + FIB Annual Exhibition
This show is a juried exhibition that will be installed at the Mission Hill Gallery and throughout space in the building. Applications are due by Midnight of April 4. Dates for the exhibition are from April 18 through April 26. All 3D media (sculptures, installation, performance, metals area -based works, ceramics, etc.), are welcome. Applicants for all levels (undergrad, post-bacc, and MFA) are encouraged to apply. Learn more on the exhibition website. Questions? Email professor Sean Glover.
Applications Open for 2025-2026 SMFA Student Government Association
Want to help host SGA Snackin's? Bring your voice to the curriculum committee and drive our educational philosophy? Organize external exhibitions at SoWa and ACM? Applications are open for the 2025-2026 Student Government Association board! The deadline is March 14 at 5pm and elections will take place form March 31 - April 4. Submit a candidacy form here.
Save the Date - Arts and Society: Dialogues Event at SMFA
Please join SMFA, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research (OVPR), and Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) on Friday, April 4 from 10am – 3pm for an event featuring thought-provoking, interdisciplinary discussions around the ideas that shape the arts and contemporary society and inform the prestigious work of SMFA faculty. A keynote talk by SMFA alum Daniela Rivera will be followed by a panel discussion led by Professors Patte Loper (SMFA), Keith Maddox (AS&E), and Ng’endo Mukii (SMFA), Dean Danya Cunningham (Tisch), and SMFA MFA candidate Schuyler Dragoo. Learn more here. Register to attend by March 21.
Apply to First Vendors to Sell Your Works
FIRST Vendors will be happening in the Remis Sculpture Court on March 28 from 12pm-3pm. The event's purpose is to provide a platform for FIRST artists who own a small business to sell and promote their products. Even if you don't have a small business but have items you would like to sell, that works too. Applications are open now and can be found here.
Submit to the Harvard Undergraduate Art Journal
Submissions are now open for the spring 2025 issue of the Harvard Undergraduate Art Journal! Visit our website or Instagram @harvardartjournal for submission details. Please send all submissions (or questions) via email to harvardcollegeartjournal@gmail.com by midnight on Friday, March 28. Should your submission be accepted, our editors will be in touch with feedback and revision suggestions prior to publication. Our previous issue can be accessed on our website.