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SUMMARY:Second Nature: A Photo Exhibition Presented by the Spring 2026 Photo Practicum Class
DESCRIPTION:This exhibition features photography by students in the Photo Practicum course who spent their semester working on one specific project.  The resulting works encounter themes of time\, growth\, exploration\, and a sense of self. Each project uniquely asks questions about the world we live in and how we occupy it. Students worked with analog and digital photography\, along with bookmaking and mixed media\, to create their various projects.Presented by Doris (Leping) Cao\, Kaileigh Clark\, Natalie He\, Andrés Herrera\, Yixin Hu\, Danny Kennedy\, Lilli Drescher\, Grace Kinney\, Ela Moss\, Hammond (Shi) Qi\, Kiki Tobor\, Maya Wang\, and Wendi Zhang.Opening reception: April 27\, 6-9 PM.The exhibition can also be seen during gallery hours from 12-6 PM\, April 27-April 29. \n\n\n\n* Please note: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Visitor registration and ID are required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP. Contact mailto:contemporary@emerson.edu contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit. Hours are Monday through Friday\, 12-5 pm.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/second-nature-a-photo-exhibition-presented-by-the-spring-2026-photo-practicum-class/
LOCATION:Huret and Spector Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:What Distance Holds: An MFA Thesis Exhibition Featuring video installations by Sarasa Kikuchi and Rui Shen
DESCRIPTION:Sarasa Kikuchi\, 13 Hours Ahead\, video stills\, 2026\n\n\n\nSarasa Kikuchi and Rui Shen invite viewers into the contemplative textures of fluid identity\, invisible labor\, and immigrant guilt\, exploring what remains amid absence with innovative aesthetics and immersive strategies that invite viewers to linger and feel. \n\n\n\nView the trailer \n\n\n\nSarasa Kikuchi — 13 Hours Ahead \n\n\n\nSix-channel spatial cinema \n\n\n\nThirteen hours separate a mother in Japan from her daughter in the US. In Kikuchi’s immersive six-channel installation\, that gap becomes something one can feel in their body: two lives unfolding in parallel\, connected\, yet never quite touching. Through quiet domestic scenes\, layered soundscapes\, and a fractured screen arrangement\, 13 Hours Ahead asks what it means to love someone you can only reach across time zones. It holds space not only for the immigrant who left\, but for the parent left behind — a perspective rarely given its full weight. \n\n\n\nRui Shen\, Elsewhere\, installation view\, 2026\n\n\n\nRui Shen – Elsewhere \n\n\n\nVideo Installation \n\n\n\nShen considers the continuous becoming of identity. The moment one tries to answer who they are\, something shifts. Shen’s installation uses a single word\, I\, — the most personal word in any language — to meditate on the essence of becoming. \n\n\n\nA fan stirs the suspended surface of horizontal screens upon which projections of “I” form and dissolve. They gather\, briefly cohere\, then scatter again. The quiet circuit demonstrates how alive it is\, always moving\, always just beyond the labels we reach for. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat Distance Holds Opening reception: April 22\, 2026\, 5 – 7 PM at 25 Avery Street\, Boston \n\n\n\nOn view April 21 – May 10 · Tuesday through Sunday\, 11am – 6pm  \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/what-distance-holds-an-mfa-thesis-exhibition-featuring-video-installations-by-sarasa-kikuchi-rui-shen-and-siqi-xiong/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:"Dis-placement / This-placement"
DESCRIPTION:Dis-placement of home.       This-placement of identity.  \n\n\n\nDis-placement of identity.  This-placement of meaning.   \n\n\n\nDis-placement of meaning.  This-placement of home. \n\n\n\n“Dis-placement/This-placement” brings together nine works that explore the inseparable mechanics of loss and emergence. What is displaced does not leave a void; it makes room for what could not have appeared otherwise. The works do not resolve this loop; they inhabit it. \n\n\n\nOpening reception: April 16\, 5-7:30 pm. \n\n\n\nParticipating artists: \n\n\n\nBahar Hassani Dorabadi \n\n\n\nDouglas Tarnovean \n\n\n\nDuo “AlGol” (Aleksandra Borovikova\, Gökçe Oraloğlu) \n\n\n\nFadime Icin \n\n\n\nMahdokht Molaei \n\n\n\nRebecca Williams \n\n\n\nYang Han \n\n\n\nYifei Chen \n\n\n\nYinyin Lu \n\n\n\n* Please note: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Visitor registration and ID are required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP. Contact mailto:contemporary@emerson.edu contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit. Hours are Monday through Friday\, 12-5 pm.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/dis-placement-this-placement/
LOCATION:Huret Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:"GATHER"
DESCRIPTION:Image Credit: Shannon Johnson\, With one look you take me back to everything I used to be\, 2025\, from the series “Gathering Rosebuds\,” archival inkjet print and ink on Rives BFK paper\, 29 x 40 inches\, courtesy of the artist.\n\n\n\nHuret & Spector Gallery \n\n\n\nMarch 31 – April 8\, 2026 \n\n\n\nGATHER\, a student-curated exhibition of photographers and lens-based artists exploring meaning\, memory\, connection\, and community at a transformative moment. \n\n\n\nStudent Lightning Talks: Friday\, April 3rd\, Noon \n\n\n\nOpening Reception: Friday\, April 3rd\, 5-7 pm \n\n\n\nPhotography and related media have the power to knit together people\, places\, and things\, both literally and metaphorically. The present moment seems fraught with peril\, and systems appear to be unravelling. Yet\, at the same time\, we have witnessed the power of unity\, of people coming together to empower and support each other.From a thematic\, regional open call\, 14 emerging student-curators selected 14 emerging artists from New England\, ranging from undergraduate to graduate students\, emerging to more established\, and several pieces per person to present a fuller picture. The resulting exhibition GATHER showcases a broad range of media and genres\, including portrait and vernacular photography; printing and sewing on fabric; collaborative and woven imagery; video and 16mm film installation; and kinetic and multi-media sculpture — using analog\, digital\, and historical processes.  \n\n\n\nIn the pieces selected for GATHER\, we were delighted to see new themes emerge including communities and collection\, identity and queerness\, nostalgia and nature — all with an overall meditative and hopeful tone. In addition\, the chosen artists represent a wide geographical range\, gathering together artists from across Great Boston and New England. GATHER aims to weave these various threads together to make a larger whole and make a difference. \n\n\n\nGATHER 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 responsible for all aspects of the exhibition\, encompassing graphic designs\, loan agreements\, object checklists\, educational didactics\, social media assets\, and press materials. \n\n\n\nThe Artists of GATHER: \n\n\n\n“Alchemy of the Unknowns”:Lisa Tang Liu & James David Tabor (Stoughton\, MA & Phoenix\, AZ) \n\n\n\nalina balseiro (Medford\, MA)  \n\n\n\nDouglas Breault (Bridgewater\, MA) \n\n\n\nHaley Cooper (Abington\, MA)  \n\n\n\nBeth D’Elia (Barnstable\, MA) \n\n\n\nPorter Gifford (Cambridge\, MA)  \n\n\n\nMonica Hamilton (Salem\, MA)  \n\n\n\nJessie James (Medford\, MA) \n\n\n\nShannon Johnson (Boston\, MA) \n\n\n\nLee Kilpatrick (Arlington\, MA) \n\n\n\nLisa Tang Liu (Stoughton\, MA) \n\n\n\nJordan Marshall (Brookline\, MA)  \n\n\n\nMichelle Schapiro (Roxbury\, MA)  \n\n\n\nFrancine Weiss (Newport\, RI) \n\n\n\nEmerging student-curators of GATHER: Abigail Andrews\, Anjali Bakhru\, Dylan Boyd\, Sophie Dodd\, Claire English\, Julia Giammarco\, Lang Han\, Ruyi Huang\, Kitty Lei\, Daniel Petrylka\, Arlo Rader\, Jie Sun\, Bianca Todini\, Maya Wang.The students in Emerson Curatorial Practices represent majors from Media Arts Production (SOF)\, Writing\, Literature & Publishing (WLP)\, and Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS)\, with minors as diverse as Art History\, Curatorial Practice & Visual Culture\, History\, Philosophy\, Psychology\, Religion\, and Science. \n\n\n\n* Please note: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Visitor registration and ID are required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP. Contact mailto:contemporary@emerson.edu contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit. Hours are Monday through Friday\, 12-5 pm. \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Lightning Talks \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Opening Reception
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/gather/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:Leaning Against The Wall: Photo Practicum Fall 2025
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to attend this year’s Photo Practicum Fall 2025 exhibit \n\n\n\nThis semester\, students in Lucie March’s photography class dove into themes such as identity\, the passing of time\, and our roots represented through six different personal projects. We invite you to join us for the reception of our show at the Huret & Spector Gallery on December 9th\, from 6 pm – 8 pm. We hope to see you there! \n\n\n\nExhibiting artists: Emilie Dumas\, Kiki Tobor\, Natalie He\, Danny Kennedy\, Zoë Grandstaff-Gruber\, Cooper Rich
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/leaning-against-the-wall-photo-practicum-fall-2025/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:Lisa Tang: "Be Whole In Everything" MFA Thesis Show
DESCRIPTION:This work is a non-doctrinal spiritual practice made visible. It draws on prehistoric abstraction\, sacred geometry\, and the ordinary courage of repetition. Each element invites a small\, complete gesture: to strike\, to bow\, to trace. The videos loop; the stones hang; breath returns. Nothing is illustrated\, yet everything is implicated — matter\, memory\, tide\, light.  \n\n\n\nTo be whole in everything is not to be grand. It is to become exact in presence: to place your full attention inside the tiniest coordinate\, until the world answers back.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/lisa-tang-be-whole-in-everything-mfa-thesis-show/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250430T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250510T235959
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SUMMARY:Between the Worlds: Traces of Inner Landscapes feat. Christina Yijia Ren
DESCRIPTION:Between the Worlds: Traces of Inner Landscapes is a multi-sensory exhibition centered around a VR experience. It follows the journey of a painter who enters their own unfinished work and wanders through shifting landscapes shaped by memory\, perception\, and fragments of the subconscious. The exhibition brings these inner worlds to life through a layered combination of canvas paintings\, installation elements\, and virtual reality\, inviting viewers to step inside a story suspended between imagination and reality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristina Yijia Ren is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting\, illustration\, animation\, graphic design\, and new media. Her work explores the fusion of traditional art with emerging technologies such as AR and VR\, creating immersive\, interactive experiences and new forms of visual storytelling.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/between-the-worlds-traces-of-inner-landscapes-feat-christina-yijia-ren/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241209T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241213T235959
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SUMMARY:What You Are I Was\, What I Am You Will Be
DESCRIPTION:The B.F.A Photo Practicum \n\n\n\n\n\nEmerson’s College presents the Fall 2024 Photo Practicum\, What You Are I Was\, What I Am You Will Be.   \n\n\n\nFeaturing works by the following artists:Madison BrownTianyun Chen Xinzhu DongMadeleine Feldman Ilana Grollman  Elie Largura Arthur Li Rian NelsonBianca Pupo Anna Schoenmann\, Willow Torres  Madla Walsh \n\n\n\nThis exhibition will have a reception on December 9th from 6-8pm at the Emerson College Huret & Spector Gallery.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/what-you-are-i-was-what-i-am-you-will-be/
LOCATION:Huret And Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241202T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241205T235959
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SUMMARY:The M.F.A Thesis Shows: Christopher Lee & Asma Khoshmehr
DESCRIPTION:Emerson’s Master’s in Fine Arts candidates\, Christopher Lee and Asma Khoshmehr share deeply personal stories of their family’s past\, interpreted through new media.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition will have a reception on December 5th from 6-8pm. \n\n\n\nMemory Lost by Christopher Lee\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemory Lost is a multimedia installation that probes the fragile nature of human memory through the lens of AI generated media. Drawing inspiration from the artist’s personal experience witnessing his grandfather’s battle with Alzheimer’s Disease\, this work explores the parallels between artificial intelligence and human cognition. The installation revisits formative moments from the artist’s life from childhood through adulthood\, using AI to reconstruct and reinterpret these memories.  \n\n\n\nBy highlighting the biases and limitations of both AI and human recollection\, the piece invites viewers to contemplate the ephemeral quality of our lived experiences. Memory Lost serves as a poignant meditation on mortality\, loss\, and the imperfect mechanisms through which we preserve and recall our past\, challenging us to consider the essence of what makes us human. \n\n\n\nThroughout his artistic journey\, Chris has been driven by an innate curiosity to acquire new knowledge\, leading him to constantly push the boundaries of his creative toolkit. Early in life he explored drawing and painting before developing a deep affinity for music. By high school Chris had built up a home studio filled with guitars\, synthesizers\, and other gadgets. As an adult\, Chris briefly explored a business career before realizing his true calling lay in creative work.  \n\n\n\nHe enrolled in Emerson College’s Film & Media Art program to work with other artists and to find a personal and professional outlet for his creativity. Since then\, Chris has contributed to dozens of student and independent projects\, specializing in location sound recording\, sound design\, and mixing. His personal work leverages diverse digital technologies\, reflecting his evolution from a young artist to a versatile multimedia professional adept at integrating multiple artistic disciplines. \n\n\n\nAct.No.06: 1001 Nights in Zanzibar by Asma Khoshmehr\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAct.No.06: 1001 Nights in Zanzibar is a multimedia installation that uncovers the silenced stories of forced child marriages and political persecution following the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964. The work explores a 1971 presidential decree that allowed officials to forcibly marry underage girls\, including many women in the artist’s family. These policies led to deportation\, imprisonment\, confiscation of family properties\, and decades of silence about the trauma endured. Asma\, the first in her generation to uncover this hidden history\, conducted years of research\, discovering the secret stories of many women in her family impacted by these events. She traveled across Tanzania\, Kenya\, Oman\, UAE\, and Iran to gather testimonies\, family documents\, and archival records\, piecing together her family’s survival through forced marriages\, captivity\, and eventual escape.Inspired by One Thousand and One Nights and Scheherazade’s storytelling to transform a vengeful king into a compassionate leader\, Asma’s project reflects her hope to mirror Scheherazade’s journey. It combines archival materials\, 3D laser scans\, virtual reality experiences\, and video art\, exploring how storytelling can confront power and inspire transformation. By sharing these stories\, this project reflects on how Scheherazade used storytelling to change a vengeful king\, drawing attention to the tyrants of today who continue to use women’s bodies as tools of revenge in war and revolution.Asma Khoshmehr is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker whose work combines immersive storytelling\, documentary filmmaking\, and new media. With a BFA in Performing Arts and currently pursuing an MFA with a focus on new media\, her practice draws deeply from her East African and Middle Eastern heritage\, exploring themes of generational trauma\, forced displacement\, and political sexual violence.   \n\n\n\nAsma’s work has earned recognition through prestigious awards and residencies\, including the MacDowell Fellowship\, the MASS MoCA\, Andrew Freedman Home (AFH)\, and the ON::VIEW Artist Residency. She has also received the Carole Fielding Grant from the University Film and Video Association (UFVA) and the Virgin Unite Grant. Her international journey includes a scholarship to study Beijing Opera at the Shanghai Theater Academy and mythology at Sanskriti Kendra in India.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/the-m-f-a-thesis-shows-christopher-lee-asma-khoshmehr/
LOCATION:Huret And Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Exhibition,Performance,Reception,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240813T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240817T235959
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SUMMARY:I Thought I Saw You Watching: Emerson's GBFA 2024 Artist's Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Emerson College is proud to present a series of installations\, crafted by the school’s Global BFA cohort of 2024. Installed in our Huret & Spector gallery space\, the show spans one week\, and features the following artists with their work: \n\n\n\nStill from A recorded conversation between electricity pylons\, translated for human understanding by Kelsey Cohn\n\n\n\nA recorded conversation between electricity pylons\, translated for human understanding \n\n\n\nby Kelsey Cohn Three-channel colour projection\, HD video\, sound\, 60 min loop.A recorded conversation between electricity pylons transcodes a conversation between two solitary pylon towers\, left standing together in a distant\, post-human future. Through their casual musings on life\, nature\, time\, and cosmology\, the audience is invited to reflect on existence from a structuralist vantage point. \n\n\n\nAcross three projections\, the pylons tower over an empty landscape. Here\, they seem more like monuments than infrastructure\, their ability to communicate reframing them as angelic messengers rather than utility structures. As the pylons pass the time reflecting on ecological curiosities and ancient discoveries\, their characterization and banter invites an empathetic humor. \n\n\n\nAt once spiritual\, scientific\, historical\, and whimsical\, the work invites a universal reflection on our origins and place in the ecological sphere. From their divine point of view above the landscape and history\, the pylons alone notice the wires that link our lives deeply to the world around us.  \n\n\n\nThe Normandy Tree Tape  \n\n\n\nby Roz Pederson Single channel display on CRT monitor\, 11minCombining documentary and fiction\, The Normandy Tree Tape exists in the oft forgotten space between story and history\, real and unreal. It challenges our preconceived notions of true and false and allows for a shift in perspective that is rarely considered. Indeed the tension between viewpoints provides the driving force of the piece. It bridges science and mythology\, knowable and unknowable.  \n\n\n\nWhile clearing land in an old growth forest in Normandy\, workers discovered a VHS tape stuck in the roots of a fell tree. When this tape was played back\, they discovered a unique alteration to it. The tape originally was a home recording of a TV documentary\, but through methods currently being studied by scientists\, some of the data on the tape was replaced with narration from the forest. After extensive restoration\, Roz Pederson and her team are excited to present the first public exhibition of The Normandy Tree Tape. \n\n\n\nThis is the myth The Normandy Tree Tape creates\, a story somewhere between folklore\, scientific discovery\, and tourist trap. The installation serves to convince you of this myth. This piece was born from the idea that it is human nature to assume all people to have a set of experiences more or less similar to ours. Through communication\, we learn ways in which this is and isn’t the case\, and approximate the innate human experience. There may be\, however\, sensations so human they become difficult or impossible to identify because the opposite has never been known.  \n\n\n\nThe work imagines what exists beyond the limits of modern communication\, what the sensory experience of the inhuman may be and stands against the truth and for the complete subjectivity of all things. \n\n\n\nInside the Screen by Lisa Siera\n\n\n\nInside the Screen \n\n\n\nby Lisa SieraLive video\, sculpture\, light\, sound\, 1:40Inside the Screen is a spatial interpretation of the world inside the phone screen. It compares the social design created in the digital world to the physical system of the panopticon jail. After years of experience in front of and behind the camera\, the artist examined the intertwined dynamics between cameras\, eyes\, bodies\, and screens. A panopticon originally devised by Jeremy Bentham is a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well\, from which prisoners could at all times be observed.  \n\n\n\nOne-Way Street by Sid Tian Shi\n\n\n\nOne-Way Street  \n\n\n\nby Sid Tian Shi Single channel color projection with videos and soundThis project is an interactive video installation where the audiences take a walk and play around the urban landscapes of Paris. During this journey\, every anecdote\, signs and spectacle of the streets are listed up and collected as an appendix to it.  \n\n\n\nIt consists of one main screen showing the landscapes\, and a supplement screen showing the commentary images and texts. Within the screening area\, the audience can interact with the pace of this journey by stepping into sections in the space\, which will be detected by the monitor camera installed to the ceiling. \n\n\n\nThe journey starts with a call between two friends living in Paris. A calls B\, saying that he is gonna take a walk from his home to B’s. After that call\, the audience is on a street with A\, traveling through the route from Italy 13 to Pére Lachaise. We have no way of knowing about A’s past or his present life. It’s just that we are viewing the city through his scope. He is curious\, loves to observe\, and always looking around\, instead of finishing this journey which leads us to the city fragments and comments we then see. \n\n\n\nThe panopticon allows a watchman to observe occupants without the occupants knowing whether or not they are being watched. The installation’s structure is inspired by the guard tower(the central well) and draws attention to how we are illusioned to hold power over our digital selves through our phones\, essentially becoming the prisoners while thinking we are the watchmen. \n\n\n\nArtist Reception\, Monday August 12th\, 5-7:30pm.  \n\n\n\nLocation: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Please note: visitor registration and ID required for visitors without Emerson Badge.  
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/global-paris-bfa-thesis-projects-2024/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:Face to Face: Photo Practicum
DESCRIPTION:An exhibition featuring student work from the photo practicum course.  \n\n\n\n\nTIANYUN CHEN\, SOPHIA CHIARAMIDA\, YIFAN DU\, LIZ FARIAS\, ILANA GROLLMAN\, PAIGE TRACEY-KAISER\, ARTHUR LI\, JENNIFER WAI YI SHING\, RACHEL TARBY\, WILLOW TORRES\, DEYI ZENG\, YIZHANG ZHANG .
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/face-to-face-photo-practicum/
LOCATION:Huret And Spector Gallery\, Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T170000
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SUMMARY:Water Memories: A Happening...
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate a multi media installation environment created by Zhiyao Ding\, Mila Jafarnejad\, Alexander Nezam\, Nikita Potnis\, Marcus Santos\, Yangyanyun Tang\, Siqi Xiong\, and Yishu Yu whose work is the culminating project from the Film and Media Arts graduate installation art course “Space\, Place\, Image\, Sound.”  Location: Huret and Spector Gallery\, please enter on the 7th Floor. \n\n\n\nAlthough we don’t remember it\, every newborn human being develops in the amniotic fluid of their mother. Our first interaction with the external world is to leave the water and breathe land’s air. One of the criteria for exploring a planet’s habitability is evidence of water\, because without it life cannot live. Water exists in many forms: oceans\, rivers\, clouds\, snowflakes and even inside our bodies. \n\n\n\nJapanese scientist Masaru Emoto studied the molecular structure of water and discovered that when water was exposed to different human emotions the molecular structure of water changed. He realized that the water we drink\, use and interact with every day has memory. Water remembers. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition explores many modes of interacting with water including memories of water\, the biological and cultural significance of water. How would it feel to submerge yourself in water again? Fear? death? cleansing? or a warm embrace? After all\, every drop of water once belonged to the sea\, and all life will eventually meet again as one. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/water-memories-a-happening/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Public Program,Reception,Student Projects
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SUMMARY:SURROUNDING: Anny Dai\, Yue Hua\, and Tomás Orrego
DESCRIPTION:Composite image from left to right: Anny Dai\, Yue Hua and Tomás Orrego\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSURROUNDING\, an MFA in Film and Media Arts thesis exhibition explores sound\, visuality\, and touch through compelling multi-channel video and sculptural installations by visual artists and filmmakers Anny Dai ‘24\, Yue Hua ‘24\, and Tomás Orrego ’24. \n\n\n\nSURROUNDING serves as a sensory testament to the lived experiences and reflections of three emerging artists. Dai’s Reveries Echo of Touch is an immersive\, multi-sensory installation that challenges viewers to awaken their tactile sense while interacting with the piece. This interactive artwork combines sculptural objects\, video projections\, live video feed\, and soundscapes created by the audience’s participation. Hua’s 16mm film installation Cine-labyrinth works to understand a sense of self through landscape projections and poetry. Mirroring the physical journey through the labyrinth\, the entwining 16mm images induce a dream-like trance. In Tolerances of the human face Orrego explores absurdism through a single channel video installation of his film Fever. Entirely shot on a soundstage\, the piece utilizes practical effects and a hyper stylized aesthetic that embraces artificiality. \n\n\n\nArtist talks will take place during the Emerson’s Visual Media Art Department “Open House” on Tuesday\, April 30 at 6 p.m.\, which is open to the public.  \n\n\n\nPlease note: after May 2\, 2024 gallery will be open by appointment and for special events. Artist talks will take place during the Emerson Visual Media Art Open House on Tuesday\, April 30 from 6 – 7 p.m.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/surrounding/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240229T210000
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SUMMARY:Rhythm & Art: A Polyvocal Song of Blackness and Being
DESCRIPTION:In this exhibition\, Rhythm & Art: A Polyvocal Song of Blackness and Being\, local Black artists bring to the fore a wide range of topics: sisterhood\, coming of age\, nature as a family member\, being of a diaspora\, and more. Much like Blackness\, this exhibition resists the boundaries that labels and language often attempt to enforce. Viewers are encouraged to question what “Black art” is and contemplate how the Black experience may contour and highlight the creative practice. \n\n\n\nRECEPTION: THURSDAY\, FEBRUARY 29\, 7-9PM \n\n\n\n We hope that this multimedia exhibit pushes at the walls of this space and reaches far beyond them — much like the minds of the brilliant artists who created the work on display. Each artist dutifully crafted lyrical works\, commenting on the human condition. On their own\, each piece stands powerfully but woven together here the art becomes a Sunday choir singing a polyvocal song.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/rhythm-art-a-polyvocal-song-of-blackness-and-being/
LOCATION:Huret and Spector Gallery\, 10 Boylston Place\, 6th Floor\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02116
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231215T180000
DTSTAMP:20260525T061514
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SUMMARY:PURPOSEFULLY LOST
DESCRIPTION:Presenting the Fall 2023 Photography Practicum: Purposefully Lost\, a varied collection of reflections and expressions by Emerson artists in the BFA program.  \n\n\n\nFeaturing exhibits by the following resident artists:Aquaholic by Kyra Badger \n\n\n\nUrban Eden by Molly Berard \n\n\n\nShit Show by Maya Bergman \n\n\n\nStarring… by Charlene Cheung \n\n\n\nCardboard Reality by Jose Benito Guevera \n\n\n\nConcurrent by Yangyang Huang \n\n\n\nSecond Spine by Yiyi Lu \n\n\n\nDouble Take by Xiaoke Ma \n\n\n\nempathic fluorescence by Mia Moore \n\n\n\nDeinstitutionalised by Julia Tweedie  \n\n\n\nTraces Echo by Yuchun (Emily) Zhou
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/purposefully-lost-photos/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231204T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231206T180000
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CREATED:20231207T172143Z
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SUMMARY:BECAUSE I COME FROM YOU
DESCRIPTION:Maya Seri’s BFA thesis project BECAUSE I COME FROM YOU features photographs\, video projection and sculptural installation\, a project about home\, identity and belonging. Seri’s perception of identity has changed through the making of this work. As she embarks in this period of transition as a 21-year-old\, she realizes that she is no longer a girl. Feeling the departure from childhood\, the artist can’t help but wonder\, “Where is home?” She feels connected to Ohio\, where the artist grew up\, where she’s from. When in Boston\, she feels a loss of identity and have to find herself over and over again. She asks: “Who am I? What am I? I am made of everything. I am made of the experiences I have had\, the people I have met\, and the places I have been.” \n\n\n\nThis project began as a journal entry to the artist’s younger self: “I just want to give you a hug. I want to see you smile and laugh. But that’s what I see in the mirror\, isn’t it? I just don’t recognize it. You are me? I am you. I’m different\, of course. I’m older. ‘Soiled’ by the world\, as some would say. But I have you in me. I can be who I want to be because I come from you.” \n\n\n\nAbout the ArtistMaya Seri’23 is a senior at Emerson College\, is a passionate storyteller who uses the camera as a tool to connect with others and to understand herself and the world around her more thoroughly. Her work portrays themes of identity\, girlhood\, nostalgia\, home\, and connection.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/because-i-come-from-you/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Student Projects
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