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 Common. Rasheed will expand her textual practice by animating the typographical history of this region to create a library of typefaces – fragments (letters, textures)...
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 an upper-level seminar on Curatorial Practices in the department of Visual & Media Studies. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Artists are welcome to submit 3-5 artworks for consideration. Works should be...
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 moments across the city. It invigorates public spaces through artist interventions that bring to the fore the rich histories that are often hidden. Emerson Contemporary...
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’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’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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