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.

Kata Hull participated in the Open Studios at 11 Miller Street in Somerville. The party kicked off Friday, April 5, 2019 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm and continued on Saturday the 6th and Sunday the 7th from 12:00 to 5:00 pm.

Mags Harries had work in What We Have Wrought: Photographs of Harries, Rantoul, Steinadler opening April 3, 2019 at Galatea Fine Art in Boston's South End. An opening reception was held on Friday, April 5, 2019 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm.

David Antonio Cruz was mentioned in an article about the impact of Taller Puertorriqueño, a Latino cultural arts center in Fairhill, PA. You can read the article here.

Mike Mandel and Chantal Zakari presented at the symposium Image Object Archives: The Multiple Lives of Photographs. The symposium was at the Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University on Friday, March 22, 2019 from 9:00 to 4:00 pm.

Work from Chantal Zakari's Strategic Planning series was featured in I Read the News Today, Oh Boy, at Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville. An opening reception was held on Sunday, March 10, 2019 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm.

Ethan Murrow's exhibition, We Travel in Our Minds curated by Chương-Đài Võ, was on view through March 10, 2019 at Duddell's in Hong Kong. As Chương-Đài Võ described it, "This exhibition plays with ideas of theatricality, the fantastical, travel and exchange. Taking a cue from the bookshelf in Duddell's Library, the exhibition will transform that space of storytelling into a theatrical stage for 2000-year-old figurines."

On Saturday, March 9, 2019, Kendall Reiss led an interactive program at the Museum of Russian Icons in Clinton, MA, in collaboration with Amy Consalvi, director of Education and Visitor Services at the museum, who earned her MA in Museum Studies from Tufts in 2014. More information about the program available here.

The Ford Foundation Gallery featured work by David Antonio Cruz, among others, in its inaugural exhibition, PERILOUS BODIES. An opening reception was held on Tuesday, March 5, 2019 from 6:00-8:00 pm, and the exhibition ran until May 11, 2019.

Jesseca Ferguson had work on view in Shades of Blue at Panopticon Gallery inside Hotel Commonwealth in Boston, which is open 24/7, and the show closed on April 30, 2019. Read Elin Spring's write-up in "What Will You Remember" here.

Kingston Gallery in Boston's South End featured Chantal Zakari's work in Cogent Message, which was on display February 27 through March 31, 2019. An opening reception was held on Friday, March 1, 2019 from 5:00 to 8:00 pm.

Val Valente's work was featured in Fresh Faces at the Abigail Ogilvy Gallery at SOWA, which opened Friday, March 1, 2019.

Jane Gillooly's film Where the Pavement Ends, co-edited with Khary Saeed Jones (from the Tufts Film and Media Studies department and the department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies), has been selected to premiere at MoMA's Doc Fortnight 2019 on February 22, 2019 at 4:30 pm and February 24, 2019 at 7:00 pm. Where the Pavement Ends also screened at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:30 pm. The film premiered at the ICA Boston to a packed crowd in October 2018.