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...
Tuesday October 14, 12-1pm Lecture by Ruth Clemens, “Cultures, Technologies, and Media of the Sonic War Machine." Focusing on aural media and forgotten sound technologies from the early 20th century, this lecture presents a story of unexpected consequences that connects the international Dadaist avant-garde to 1940s Hollywood to military technologies and communication systems. Clemens' broad...
Hidden Histories Artists Elisa Hamilton and Dr. Clareese Hill will be in conversation with scholar Dr. Ruth Clemens. Moderated by Curator-in-Residence Dr. Leonie Bradbury for a discussion about the expansive role of speculative, cartographic, and de-colonial historical research methods. Dr. Ruth Clemens' broad research interests cover film, cultural analysis, and comparative literary studies. Her work...
Tuesday October 21, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm, 6pm doors In Conversation: Join multidisciplinary installation artists Iwalani Kaluhiokalani and photographer Clint Baclawski as they discuss space, time, color and motion in their work on view as part of Echoes of the Heart until December 13, 2025. Moderated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury. Location: Media Art Gallery, 25...
Wednesday, November 19, Artists talk 6:30- 7:30pm, 6pm doors - In Conversation: Artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis of VHF Studio will talk with Malic Amalya, Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and Film Production, about the conceptual underpinnings of their installation “Narcissus look back: and they love you,” that is currently on view at the Emerson Media...
In conjunction with A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests, Beetles, Salt, and Air Thursday, January 22, 2026 | 12–1 PMEmerson Contemporary25 Avery Street, Boston, MA 02111 Join artists Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Margaux Crump for an intimate conversation about their innovative practices of collaboration with the natural world. Rajotte will discuss her work with bio-sonification...
Thursday, March 26, 12–1 PM Join us for a conversation with artists Julia Krupa and Eileen Ryan as they discuss their work in A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests, Beetles, Salt, and Air. Krupa and Ryan will explore their innovative artistic practices that blur the boundaries between creator and material. Through methods, including oral...
Learn how Julia makes dyes with plants, along with her doctoral research informing this process.
Join us for this unique opportunity to hear student-curators deliver short talks about the artists of GATHER! GATHER was curated by upper-level Emerson undergraduate students (listed below) as part of the seminar VM415 “Curating Contemporary Art,” taught and led by Leslie K. Brown, PhD. As a part of the class and the exhibition, students are...
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