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  • Mirror Fields: A Series of Art-Led Reflections in the Media Art Gallery

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    Special Gallery Event in conjunction with the Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind exhibition Join Rabbi Lisa Eiduson for a contemplative experience inside the newest exhibition Larissa Sansour and Søren Lind: Entire Nations Are Built on Fairy Tales. On view are two films and a dramatic reflecting pool that invite meditations on memory, multigenerational trauma, and...

  • Launch Party Hidden Histories

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    Join us for a spectacular event celebrating the launch of Emerson Contemporary's public art exhibition Hidden Histories featuring art projects by Elisa Hamilton, Clareese Hill, Sue Murad, and Kameelah J. Rasheed. Artist will be present to discuss their unique works and visitors can partake in student led walking tours of the projects. Part of the...

  • 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...

  • Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr

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    Wednesday, October 8, 2025, 12-1:30pm This event has been rescheduled for Monday October 20, 12-1:30pm. Join Hidden Histories Curator Shana Dumont Garr on a special walking tour to view Kameelah Jana Rasheed, Sue Murad, Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill's new public art projects in and around the Boston Common and Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston,...

  • In Conversation: Clint Baclawski and Iwalani Kaluhiokalani

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    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...