off the pedestal is a group exhibition in the Media Art Gallery, comprising contemporary artists whose work addresses the national conversation around monuments featuring visual artists Laura Anderson Barbata, New...
By Kameelah Janan Rasheed Emerson Contemporary has commissioned a public art campaign by Kameelah Jana Rasheed where she responds to Boston's memorial landscape exploring the layered histories of the Boston...
Emerson Contemporary seeks critically engaged photographic series and lens-based works for a three-week exhibition considering ideas and issues related to "movement/s." This topical and timely show is a part of...
Un-Monument is a two-year initiative that reimagines and fosters discourse around Boston’s monuments and memorials in a way that centers and amplifies a multiplicity of voices and creates authentic learning...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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