News & Stories | School of the Museum of Fine Arts

MFA exhibit highlights women in activism

Bay State Banner | November 11, 2021

Alumna Helina Metaferia's exhibition "Helina Metaferia: Generations" is featured in this piece.

Tufts Auctions Student and Alumni Artworks to Benefit Financial Aid Programming

Hyperallergic | October 29, 2021

The 2021 SMFA at Tufts Art Sale is featured in this article from Hyperallergic.

A black and white image of a vintage camera and snapshots of people from early in the 20th century.

Does Everything Get Better with Age?

Tufts Now | October 27, 2021

From people to fine wine to TV shows, a Tell Me More podcast explores the good and bad of getting older

A group of Black women stand contemplatively in front of a harbor in this still from one of Helina Metaferia's videos

“Helina Metaferia: Generations” Explores Matrilineal Inheritances and BIPOC Liberation Movements

Tufts Now | October 26, 2021

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition inspired by travel made possible by SMFA at Tufts Traveling Fellowship

Yellow fall leaves on the Tufts University Medford/Somerville campus. Photo: Alonso Nichols/Tufts University

Coming Soon: A New Center for Indigenous and Native Students at Tufts

Tufts Now | October 25, 2021

The Indigenous People Center will open to the Tufts community as the newest identity center in the Division of Student Diversity and Inclusion

Shining a Light on U.S. Latinx Art and Artists

Tufts Now | October 20, 2021

Professor Adriana Zavala co-founded an organization to bring visibility to often-overlooked artists of Latin American and Caribbean ancestry in the U.S.

Inside the Experiment to Create Mars on Earth

Smithsonian Magazine | October 20, 2021

Cassandra Klos, BFA ’14, and her photographs are featured in this photo essay about life inside Mars simulation facilities and the goals of the research being conducted.

An illustration includes photos of Tufts students with film and television cameras and other movie-related gear in the foreground and poster art from classic movies and television in the background.

How Film and Media Studies Grew at Tufts

Tufts Now | October 19, 2021

From movie fans like me to working filmmakers and scholars of the cinema, Tufts faculty have sharpened the university’s focus on the subject

Mixed media art piece, combining drawing, painting, and collage, including ticket stubs and pieces of journal pages. The SMFA at Tufts will hold its annual fall art sale online October 22 to November 4

Givers and Makers Join Forces at the SMFA at Tufts Art Sale

Tufts Now | October 19, 2021

The annual event supporting art students takes place online October 22 to November 4

Detail of a blue cloth crown heavily embroidered with gold thread. An exhibition of Armenian liturgical textiles at Tufts University Art Galleries highlights what’s preserved—and lost—in a civilization under fire

Connecting the Stories of the Past in Art

Tufts Now | October 12, 2021

An exhibition of Armenian liturgical textiles at Tufts University Art Galleries highlights what’s preserved—and lost—in a civilization under fire

How to Tell a Fortune: Rebecca Wakim, MFA '22

Danna Lorch | October 6, 2021

Rebecca Wakim, MFA '22, makes work drawing attention to the situation in her home country Lebanon.

The Moment Where You Push Yourself: Jorge Gomez-Gonzalez, MFA ’22

Danna Lorch | October 6, 2021

Jorge Gomez-Gonzalez, MFA '22, uses performance, video work, and photography to address their experiences as a gay-Mexican activist artist.