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.

Heidi Whitman's work was included in Crossing Boundaries: Art/Maps, on view through April 21, 2019 at the Norman B. Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square.

Kendall Reiss had work on view in Mapping Worlds 2 at the Spaceus Annex in East Cambridge in October 2018. Mapping Worlds 2 was organized by alum Isabel Beavers and featured the work of recent MFA alums Laine Rettmer and William Van Beckum, among others.

Gerri Rachins showed work at a group show at the Kent State University art gallery in October.

Gerry Bergstein had work on view as part of Gerry Bergstein and Gail Boyajian: Uncovered at Catamount Arts in St. Johnsbury, VT, in October 2018.

Lani Asuncion performed her piece BLOODLESS on Friday, September 28, 2018, on the stage of the Remis Auditorium at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, as the opening for a screening of the film Narcissister Organ Player, directed by the feminist performance artist Narcissister. In addition, Boston Art Review's recently published second issue features work by both Lani and Cassandra Klos, BFA alum and recent Media Stockroom guru.

Mags Harries' Drawn to Change, drawings that parallel the two installations of Glove Cycle in Porter Square Station and Asaroton 1976 in Haymarket, was on view September 27 through November 2, 2018 at the Nesto Gallery at Milton Academy.

Ottawa International Animation Festival in September 2018 was hosted by a live digital-puppet dinosaur and silent, comedic, on-screen-drawer/commenter (also known as Joel Frenzer) during the Gala event introductions.

Laura Blacklow gave a talk, "Contemporary Artists Using Historical Photo Processes," at the Photographic Resource Center on the evening of Thursday, September 20, 2018. The presentation, which featured painters, performance artists, and photographers, was followed by a book signing for the 5th edition of her book New Dimensions in Photo Processes: A Step-by-Step Manual for Alternative Techniques.

The Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, commissioned Ethan Murrow to make a 100 foot+ wall drawing, two large-scale works on paper, and a 52-foot-long scroll drawing animated by a kinetic sculpture. The exhibition opened on September 15, 2018.

A large number of SMFA affiliates, including Marilyn Arsem, David Armstrong, Bonnie Donohue, and Mike and Doug Starn—members of the iconic Boston School—showed work in the exhibition Under a Dismal Sky, on display through October 28, 2018 at the Stone Gallery at Boston University.

Michael Barsanti participated in LandArtLab, an invitational group sculpture show on King Farm Road in Woodstock, VT. The exhibit was on view through October 2018.