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Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial

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Iwalani Kaluhiokalani, The Radiance Chasers, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation, painting, paper cut-outs, video mapping, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser. Emerson Contemporary – Emerson College’s platform for presenting contemporary visual art – proudly presents Echoes of the Heart: The New England Media Art Biennial, a multimedia juried group exhibition featuring New England visual artists Clint Baclawski,...

Kameelah J. Rasheed: I have Asked Myself: “Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?”

In her public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” Kameelah J. Rasheed responds to Boston's memorial landscape by exploring the layered histories of Boston as discovered in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. Rasheed gathered marginalia and ornate typefaces from their collection of Boston’s oldest books....

Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion

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Elisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of Louis Glapion. Glapion was a French, biracial hairdresser and barber who, together with his friend George Middleton, built and owned what is now considered the oldest extant house in Beacon Hill, located at 5 Pinckney Street....

Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle

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Clareese Hill’s The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel, a 19th-century Black woman from Massachusetts. By blending historical wisdom with future-focused fabulations, the Black Boston Dream Oracle will provide a unique space for reflection, healing, and imagining new possibilities for liberation...

Sue Murad: ASSEMBLE, Performance Action on the Boston Common, 2025

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Sue Murad’s ASSEMBLE: Performance Instructions For Public Arrangement is a participatory performance that reflects on the ways we gather in public space—particularly the historic Boston Common—through the objects we bring with us or discover there. Murad created a series of prompts inviting people into an embodied experience of the Common, creating a temporal micro-culture for each tour group in...

Augmented Reality Public Art Walking Tour: Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill

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Saturday, October 4, 2025, 2-3:30pm Join artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist lead walking tour of their two new public art projects Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. Location: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center, 139 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. Elisa Hamilton’s...