Media Art Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12-6pm
Huret & Spector Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12-5pm
PUT THE SOIL OVER EVERY YEAR August 12–August 16, 2025 Isabella Gierbolini Esteva, Hanna Sato, and Gabriela Tamar In this dynamic exhibition of experimental works, these three artists introduce audiences to the various ways memories are constructed and how they transform recollection processes and sensibilities into an experiential ‘document’ that envisions the past in a...
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’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. It is a guided, interactive experience that unfolds across the landscape, inviting participants into temporary arrangements shaped by memory, proximity,...
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...
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,...
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...
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. Meeting Point: Boston Common Visitor's Center Elisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring...
Walking Tour: Join guide and curator Shana Dumont Garr to see the public art created by Hidden Histories artists Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Clareese Hill, Elisa Hamilton, and Sue Murad. We'll see archival materials and ideas gleaned from old books and maps made public in poetic and slyly rebellious ways. Walk will take place in and...
Huret and Spector Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat, 12-5pm
Media Art Gallery Hours: Tue – Sat, 12-6pm