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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 8\, 2025\, 12-1:30pm This event has been rescheduled for Monday October 20\, 12-1:30pm. \n\n\n\nJoin 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\, Ma. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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SUMMARY:Lecture by Ruth Clemens: “Cultures\, Technologies\, and Media of the Sonic War Machine."
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 14\, 12-1pm  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLecture 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. \n\n\n\nClemens’ broad research interests cover film\, cultural analysis\, and comparative literary studies. Her work explores the intersections between textuality and materiality\, media and politics\, and language and technology. Her research interests are varied\, with through-lines of critical post-humanism and the avant-garde across media\, film\, sound\, and visual arts and the materiality of culture. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/lecture-by-ruth-clemens-cultures-technologies-and-media-of-the-sonic-war-machine/
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Elisa Hamilton\, Clareese Hill and Ruth Clemens
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\n\n\nDr. Ruth Clemens’ broad research interests cover film\, cultural analysis\, and comparative literary studies. Her work explores the intersections between textuality and materiality\, media and politics\, and language and technology. Her research interests are varied\, with through-lines of critical post-humanism and the avant-garde across media\, film\, sound\, and visual arts and the materiality of culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElisa H. Hamilton is a socially engaged multimedia artist who creates artworks and community-centered projects that emphasize shared spaces and the hopeful examination of our everyday places\, objects\, and experiences. She holds a BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design and an MA in Civic Media from Emerson College. Her most recent project Glimpses of Glapion presents a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of a historic figure Louis Glapion in the augmented reality application Hoverlay as part the the exhibition Hidden Histories and the City of Boston’s Un-monument Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Clareese Hill is a practice-based art researcher in XR and Immersive Media. She explores the validity of the word “identity” through her perspective as an Afro-Caribbean American woman and her societal role projected on her to perform as a Black feminist academic. Her most recent project 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  \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Hidden Histories is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-elisa-hamilton-clareese-hill-and-ruth-clemens/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251020T120000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION: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 around the Boston Common and Beacon Hill neighborhood in Boston\, Ma. \n\n\n\nFor more about the Hidden Histories exhibition click here. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center\, 139 Tremont Street\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Hidden Histories is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr-2/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251021T200000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Clint Baclawski and Iwalani Kaluhiokalani
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday October 21\, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClint Baclawski works with photography\, technology\, light\, and space. He received his BFA in Advertising Photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology\, Post-Baccalaureate from Bucknell University\, and an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art in Design. He is Boston-based and has been an adjunct professor in Graduate Studies at MassArt since 2017. In 2022\, Baclawski had residencies in both Venice\, Italy\, and Wassaic\, NY.  \n\n\n\nHe was awarded a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship Grant in Photography in 2019. Baclawski exhibits his work extensively throughout the United States\, and his work is included in many private and institutional collections including Children’s Hospital\, Dana Farber Cancer Institute\, Whitehead Institute\, and Fidelity. He has been published in Boston Art Review\, FRAME (Amsterdam)\, Boston Home Magazine\, Designboom\, The Boston Globe\, and The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume II (New York\, NY). Clint’s studio is located in Boston’s South End. \n\n\n\nIwalani Kaluhiokalani is a Boston-based painter and interdisciplinary installation artist whose work centers movement. She holds a BFA in Painting with Distinction and Departmental Honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston\, where she also studied dance and performance art in the Studio for Interrelated Media (SIM) program. She later continued studies in Laban Bartenieff Movement Analysis\, completing a Laban Institute of Movement Studies program at Lesley College\, Cambridge\, MA.  \n\n\n\nKaluhiokalani is part of Kingston Gallery\, Boston and her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at Bromfield Gallery\, Boston\, The Pfizer Building and LabCentral of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)\, Cambridge\, New Art Center Newton\, and La Traverse/Catherine Bastide Projects in Marseille\, France. She has created installation work for corporate collections and for the ACTivate residency at Boston Center For the Arts. Kaluhiokalani’s work is held in individual and corporate private collections.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-clint-baclawski-and-iwalani-kaluhiokalani/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T183000
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SUMMARY:Hidden Histories Walking Tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Join Hidden Histories Curator Shana Dumont Garr on a special walking tour to view Kameelah Janan 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\, Ma. We’ll see archival materials and ideas gleaned from old books and maps made public in poetic and slyly rebellious ways. \n\n\n\nFor more about the Hidden Histories exhibition click here. \n\n\n\nLocation: Meet at the Media Art Gallery\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nElisa 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. While more is known about Middleton\, the artist’s research has uncovered glimpses of Glapion that speak to an interesting and noteworthy life based in Beacon Hill. Hamilton seeks to honor Glapion and enliven curiosity about his lived experiences in our city. The AR experience will be available on Hoverlay and accompanied by a research document designed for educational purposes.  \n\n\n\nClareese 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 and collective well-being through early Black feminist thought. The Oracle will be presented as an Extended Reality (XR) experience available on the Hoverlay application\, accompanied by a web-based research document designed for educational purposes. \n\n\n\nSue 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\, and shared attention. The project bears witness to the many generations of people who have gathered together for rest and rallies\, labor and loitering\, play and protest.  \n\n\n\nKameelah J. Rasheed’s public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” responds to Boston’s memorial landscape by exploring the layered histories of Boston as discovered in the archives of the Boston Athenaeum. Rasheed gathered marginalia and ornate typefaces from their collection of Boston’s oldest books. These fragments are interwoven or sampled into digital designs to form visual poems to be displayed on digital signage situated around the Boston Common.  \n\n\n\nOur artist centered public programming is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. Hidden Histories is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/hidden-histories-walking-tour-with-curator-shana-dumont-garr-3/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251104T200000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Erik DeLuca\, ¡wénrán zhào! and Amber Vistein
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 4\, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Join artists Erik DeLuca and Wenran Zhao as they speak with Emerson professor and sound artist Amber Vistein to discuss experimentation\, sonic textures and presence. Moderated by Curator of Special Projects Shana Dumont Garr. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErik DeLuca is an artist and experimental musician whose projects respond to place and invite people to listen—both literally and metaphorically. Working across performance\, installation\, text\, and community-based learning\, he explores how power shapes what weremember and how we communicate. His work has been presented at Kling & Bang\, Fieldwork: Marfa\, and the Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art\, and broadcast on Montez Press Radio. His writing appears in Public Art Dialogue\, The Wire\, and Boston Art Review. DeLuca is Associate Professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and holds a PhD in Music from the University of Virginia. His ongoing collaborations with the 7ajar School of Creative Research/Resistance in Ramallah continue to shape his practice of listening and learning. \n\n\n\n¡wénrán zhào! is a Boston-based artist working with code\, language\, textiles and technology. Her work augments objects and artifacts with custom software\, exploring the textures of technology and revealing its political and cultural relevance to contemporary societies. She holds an MFA in Digital + Media from Rhode Island School of Design\, with works presented at ISEA\, the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) Conference\, Taper\, and The New River Journal. She is a recipient of NMC Judson-Morrissey Excellence in New Media Award\, and member of New Inc Year 12.  \n\n\n\nAmber Vistein (they / them) is a composer and sound artist who delves deeply into the poetics of timbre\, texture\, and gesture. Their highly tactile approach to composition works to unearth invisible events\, networks\, and histories by introducing expressive imperfections that expose the submerged complexities of sound\, the labor of its production\, and its fragility. From 2017-19 Amber was a Composition Fellow with the American Opera Project’s Composers and the Voice program. They have also created numerous site-specific sound installations\, including Growth Continuum for the deCordova Museum\, and collaborated with film-video artists Justice and Hogan Seidel on the short films Murmur\, Landscapes\, and Let’s Look at Florida. Amber holds degrees from New College of Florida (BA)\, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MFA) and Brown University (MA\, PhD). 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-eric-deluca-wenran-zhao-and-amber-vistein/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251106T130000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Artists Margaux Crump and Ash Eliza Williams **on ZOOM**
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 6 *On ZOOM* 12:00 – 1:00 PM \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Learn how artists Margaux Crump and Ash Eliza Williams collaborate with non-human beings to create artwork. Meeting LINK . \n\n\n\nAsh and Margaux consider the natural world an active contributor of aesthetic meaning. They will each describe their current art-making ideas and processes and discuss ideas raised by the exhibitions in which they are showing.  \n\n\n\nThis is a joint program between Emerson Contemporary and Sala 1\, Rome\, Italy. Ash Eliza Williams is a visual artist showing in Learning with Trees\, an exhibition at Sala 1 curated by Martina Tanga. Margaux Crump is a visual artist showing in a sentient land; artistic alliances with forests\, beetles\, salt\, and air\, curated by Shana Dumont Garr and opening at Emerson Contemporary\, Media Art Gallery in January 2026. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMargaux Crump\, photo by Feast Day / @FeastDayStudio\n\n\n\nMargaux Crump is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher exploring the entanglements between magic\, ecology\, and the spiritual Imagination. Born in Houston\, TX\, she spent her childhood playing in gardens where she was steeped in ancestral fairy lore. These experiences wove quietly through the background of her work\, until she returned to Houston after earning her MFA in studio art from Washington University in St. Louis. With a renewed interest in the folklore and myths she grew up with\, she immersed herself in the study of esotericism and ecology. She is currently investigating the phenomena of the unseen\, from the microscopic to the mythic worlds that surround us. Taking form primarily through sculpture\, photography\, painting\, and ritual\, her work traces threads of the mythic\, magical\, and imaginal across disciplines and histories in search of how they inhabit and trouble the present. \n\n\n\nAsh Eliza Williams\n\n\n\nAsh Eliza Williams grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains in SW Virginia. Ash is a painter and multidisciplinary artist making work about interspecies communication\, non-human language\, and more vibrant methods of connection.  Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Denver\, the Anderson Museum\, and the Chautauqua Institute.  Ash often works with scientists\, including as an artist-in-residence at Shoals Marine Laboratory\, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology\, the Museum of Comparative Zoology\, and Mountain Lake Biological Station as a Lucille Walton Fellow. Ash is currently a 2025 – 2026 Roswell Foundation Artist-in-Residence.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-artists-margaux-crump-and-ash-eliza-williams/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251118T200000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Sue Murad and Shana Dumont Garr
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 18 from 6:30 – 7:30pm\, 6pm doors open \n\n\n\nArtist Sue Murad shares about her ASSEMBLE walking tour with Curator Shana Dumont Garr. Based in the Boston Common\, Murad’s part of the Hidden Histories walking tour is inspired by the archival photos of people spending time together in the park from the nineteenth century to the present. Murad created a series of prompts to celebrate the right to peacefully assemble and create a temporal micro-culture for each group during the tour. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\nSue Murad\, ASSEMBLE\, Reimagined Historic Walking Tours in Boston Common\, 2025.\n\n\n\nShana Dumont Garr is a contemporary art curator\, writer\, and educator based in Greater Boston. She is a curator at Emerson Contemporary and a professor in the Department of Visual & Media Arts at Emerson College. She is also curating the independent project NO SLEEPING\, a nomadic\, participatory series of performances by Sue Murad and Deb Todd Wheeler at select historic houses in Massachusetts. Garr is a doctoral student at the Institute of Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts. She earned her MA in Art History from Boston University and her BA in Creative Writing and Art from Colby College in Waterville\, ME. \n\n\n\nSue Murad responds to culture through an intuitive\, sensory engagement with everyday objects\, often in the public or private places they inhabit. Through a combination of attention\, study\, and play\, she may alter\, arrange\, and choreograph a subject\, or set up situations where change and chance happen without direct contact\, such as a subject melting\, falling\, or sliding. She is drawn to both semblance and difference\, and the strange and surreal synthesis that can occur with comparison and contrast. Disregarding notions of usefulness\, common meaning\, and prescribed narratives\, these formal and philosophical explorations feed her interdisciplinary practice of performance\, installation\, sculpture\, collage\, and film. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-sue-murad-and-shana-dumont-garr/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251119T193000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis of VHF Studio will be talking with Malic Amalya
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 19\, Artists talk 6:30- 7:30pm\, 6pm doors –  \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis of VHF Studio will talk with Malic Amalya\, Assistant Professor of Experimental Media and Film Production\, about the conceptual underpinnings of their installation “Narcissus look back: and they love you\,” that is currently on view at the Emerson Media Art Gallery until December 13th. \n\n\n\nThis embodied\, multi-sensory experience with a camp aesthetic explores loneliness as a collective experience in our current moment. They will discuss the tenuous and often shifting relationship between spectator and performer\, loops of identity\, and the duality of being haunted/haunting. With Malic Amalaya\, the artists will discuss major influences on their piece\, the political and moral values intrinsic to their work\, and the challenges they’ve faced making and relating to art at this socio-political moment. \n\n\n\n\nVHF STUDIO is a new media collective founded by artists Jack Gruman and Logan Puleikis. As collaborators they make genre-defying installation work\, blurring the boundaries of “low” and “high” art. They pull inspiration from the queer club scene\, haunted houses\, and popular media to create high concept large-scale multi-channel video and sound installations. \n\n\n\n\nModerated by Dr. Leonie Bradbury \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-artists-jack-gruman-and-logan-puleikis-of-vhf-studio-will-be-talking-with-malic-amalya/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251203T180000
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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:20251204T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251204T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161753
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SUMMARY:Art Party\, End of Semester Celebration 
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 4\, 6-8 PM \n\n\n\nArt Party 2024\, Zine-making table. \n\n\n\nGet ready for Emerson Contemporary’s 2nd ‘Come Make Your Own Art Party! Let’s celebrate the power of art together. Join us for an evening of zines\, buttons\, paint-by-numbers\, and of course\, pizza. Relax\, unwind\, and let your imagination run wild alongside fellow artists and dreamers.  \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/art-party-end-of-semester-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251210T180000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260328T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161753
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SUMMARY:A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air
DESCRIPTION:Nelly-Eve Rajotte\, Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 hertz\, 2024. Video installation: 3-channel 4K video\, colour\, generative sound\, 25 min; modular synthesizer\, electrodes\, and tree. VFX artist and software developer: Codrin-Mihail Tablan Negrei. Courtesy of the artist. \n\n\n\nA Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air\, a four-person exhibition featuring works made through innovative intersections of science\, aesthetics\, and spirituality. \n\n\n\nArtists Margaux Crump\, Julia Krupa\, Eileen Ryan\, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte realize the potential of communicating directly and sharing authorship with the materials they use to make their art. Their artistic practices are intuitive and collaborative\, enabling trees\, stones\, salt\, and air\, among other materials\, to inform the creative process and the resulting potential meanings. Their methods include a cloud chamber\, oral history\, bio-sonification\, LIDAR scanning\, fumage\, and saining. \n\n\n\nThe resulting works of art forge stronger interspecies connections and increased empathy and hope for the future. These innovative modes of working also raise questions: do the artists translate on behalf of the materials? How do speculation and anthropomorphism fit into these explorations of restoration\, time\, and scale? The four immersive installations engage viewers in dynamic aesthetic experiences that may linger beyond the gallery as a shift in perspective. \n\n\n\nCurated by Shana Dumont Garr  \n\n\n\nExhibition catalogue featuring essays by Shana Dumont Garr\, Doctoral Candidate\, and Martina Tanga\, Ph.D. \n\n\n\nSentientLand-Guide-webDownload
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/sentient-land-aesthetic-alliances-with-forests-beetles-salt-and-air/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260121T190000
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SUMMARY:Artist Reception\, A Sentient Land: Artistic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 21\, 5:00 – 7:00 pm \n\n\n\nMedia Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston MA \n\n\n\n\n\nCelebrate the opening of this groundbreaking four-person exhibition featuring artists Margaux Crump\, Julia Krupa\, Eileen Ryan\, and Nelly-Eve Rajotte\, who blur the boundaries between creator and material\, science and art\, human and more-than-human. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExperience immersive installations that invite direct dialogue with the natural world. Through innovative methods including bio-sonification\, cloud chambers\, LIDAR scanning\, and ancient practices like fumage and saining\, these artists share authorship with trees\, stones\, salt\, and air itself. \n\n\n\nThis is your first opportunity to encounter works that challenge traditional notions of artistic agency and forge new pathways for interspecies connection. Witness how forests communicate at 220 hertz\, how materials become collaborators\, and how art can shift our relationship with the living world. \n\n\n\nMeet the artists and the curator\, Shana Dumont Garr\, and explore questions that bridge aesthetics\, ecology\, and empathy: What happens when materials inform their own representation? How do we translate on behalf of the more-than-human? \n\n\n\nLight refreshments will be served. \n\n\n\nExhibition runs January 21 – March 28\, 2026Gallery hours: Tuesday–Saturday\, 12–6 PM \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public \n\n\n\nimage: Eileen Ryan
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-reception-a-sentient-land-artistic-alliances-with-forests-beetles-salt-and-air/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Public Program,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260122T130000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Margaux Crump
DESCRIPTION:Top: Margaux Crump\, bottom: Nelly-Eve Rajotte. \n\n\n\n\n\nIn conjunction with A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air \n\n\n\nThursday\, January 22\, 2026 | 12–1 PMEmerson Contemporary25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA 02111 \n\n\n\nJoin artists Nelly-Eve Rajotte and Margaux Crump for an intimate conversation about their innovative practices of collaboration with the natural world. \n\n\n\nRajotte will discuss her work with bio-sonification and how she enables trees to generate their own sonic landscapes\, including her installation Les arbres communiquent entre eux à 220 hertz\, which translates forest communication into immersive audiovisual experience. Crump will share insights into her process of working with materials as co-creators\, exploring how stones\, beetles\, and other elements inform the artistic outcome. \n\n\n\nTogether\, they’ll explore questions at the heart of A Sentient Land: How do we share authorship with non-human collaborators? What does it mean to translate on behalf of materials? How can art deepen our empathy and connection across species? \n\n\n\nThis conversation offers a rare opportunity to hear directly from two artists reimagining the relationship between maker and material\, challenging us to consider the agency of the more-than-human world. \n\n\n\nFree and open to the publicNo registration required
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-nelly-eve-rajotte-and-margaux-crump/
CATEGORIES:Artist Spotlight,Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260204T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161753
CREATED:20251008T141047Z
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Dr. Cher Krause Knight and Dr. Harriet F. Senie on their new book "Memorials Now"
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, February 4\, 2026\, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm \n\n\n\nIn Conversation: Dr. Cher Krause Knight and Dr. Harriet F. Senie will discuss with attendees their latest book\, Memorials Now\, focused on the present-day challenges of commemorating the past. The authors offer a critical exploration of how varied communities can navigate the complex terrain of commemorative practices. They will provide insights into historical challenges while also encouraging a more inclusive and just memorial landscape for the future. \n\n\n\nLocation: Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, MA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nABOUT THE BOOK: As debates over historical monuments and their meanings unfold\, Memorials Now offers a critical exploration of how communities can navigate the complex terrain of commemorative practices. From controversial statues to emerging forms of public memory\, the topics covered in this timely volume provide insights into historical challenges while also encouraging a more inclusive and just memorial landscape for the future. \n\n\n\nAuthors Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie explore evolving narratives of heroes and victims\, ethical challenges of memorial design\, strategies for promoting inclusivity\, and possibilities for alternative forms of commemoration. Memorials Now analyzes case studies from around the world in which communities are rethinking their memorials and creating innovative memorialization projects that reflect shifting cultural values. \n\n\n\nMemorials Now is ideal for students and educators in art history\, architecture\, urban planning\, and cultural studies\, as well as professionals in fields such as public art\, city planning\, museum curation\, and civic engagement. \n\n\n\nThis public program is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative\, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-dr-cher-krause-knight-and-dr-harriet-f-senie-on-memorials-now/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260317T193000
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SUMMARY:Repair and Renew: A Visible Mending Workshop with Deepika Prakash
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, March 17\, 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm \n\n\n\nCourtesy Deepika Prakash\n\n\n\nRepair and Renew is a hands-on\, slow-making workshop that invites participants to explore visible mending and meditative hand-sewing as both a practical skill and a reflective creative practice. Through simple stitches and intentional repair\, participants will learn how caring for textiles can deepen our relationship with materials\, reduce waste\, and encourage a more mindful approach to consumption.  \n\n\n\nSet within the inspiring environment of the exhibition A Sentient Land\, this workshop draws parallels between attention to materials and mending—both acts of care\, patience\, observation\, and renewal. Participants will leave not only with a repaired garment\, but with foundational hand-sewing skills and a renewed appreciation for sustainability\, imperfection\, and craft.  \n\n\n\nWhat to bring: \n\n\n\n\nSmall scissors\n\n\n\nJeans which need repair\n\n\n\n\nWe will provide: \n\n\n\n\nHand sewing needles and thread\n\n\n\nSome sewing supplies to share\n\n\n\n\nExample of Visible Mending Jeans\, image Courtesy Deepika Prakash\n\n\n\nAbout the Instructor: Deepika Prakash is a textile educator\, community organizer\, and founder of PatternReview.com\, an international sewing community with over half a million members worldwide. She has taught Repair & Renew workshops for libraries and community organizations across Massachusetts for the past two years\, covering topics such as visible and invisible mending\, meditative hand-sewing\, repairing sweaters and socks\, hemming pants\, and upcycling through hand embroidery.  \n\n\n\nDeepika is deeply passionate about sustainability and teaching practical life skills that empower people to extend the life of their belongings and reduce their environmental footprint. Her community work spans over a decade in Acton and Boxborough\, including organizing cultural events\, mentoring youth programs\, and leading inclusive educational initiatives.  \n\n\n\nShe has delivered keynote addresses at national sewing conferences\, contributed to sewing publications and podcasts\, and is the co-author of 1\,000 Clever Sewing Shortcuts & Tips\, with all royalties donated to charity. In 2021\, she was honored as a Commonwealth Heroine by the State of Massachusetts for her work promoting equality and community engagement. 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/repair-and-renew-a-visible-mending-workshop-with-deepika-prakash/
LOCATION:Emerson Media Art Gallery\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston\, Massachusetts\, 02111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Public Program,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260323T190000
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SUMMARY:Messing With Language: A Multimodal Pop-Up Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Open March 23 – 25 \n\n\n\nOpening Reception: March 23\, 5:00 – 7:00 PM \n\n\n\nMark Hernandez-Motaghy \n\n\n\nJihyun Lee   \n\n\n\nGavin Miller \n\n\n\nBrooke Toczylowski  \n\n\n\nRenato Verdugo  \n\n\n\nkathy wu \n\n\n\nLanguage is deeply tied to culture\, history\, and our identity. It is a tool of communication and a carrier of meaning that takes infinite forms\, functions\, and uses. But language also carries implicit politics in how we name\, represent\, and categorize the world around us.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition brings together six artists working in the Northeast whose practices critically examine our perceptions of language\, and\, by extension\, of power.  Working across projection\, sound\, installation\, translation\, and code\, their distinct creative processes explore alternative systems of communication and ways of knowing. Through these interventions\, Mark Hernandez-Motaghy\, Jihyun Lee\, Gavin Miller\, Brooke Toczylowski\, Renato Verdugo and Kathy Wu pick apart linguistic systems\, inviting new possibilities for expression.  \n\n\n\nCurated by Sophie Dodd \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 required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP.  \n\n\n\nContact contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/messing-with-language-a-multimodal-pop-up-exhibition/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T130000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Julia Krupa and Eileen Ryan
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 26\, 12–1 PM \n\n\n\nJoin us for a conversation with artists Julia Krupa and Eileen Ryan as they discuss their work in A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air. \n\n\n\nKrupa and Ryan will explore their innovative artistic practices that blur the boundaries between creator and material. Through methods\, including oral history and specimen collection\, forge collaborative relationships with natural elements—inviting beetles and herbs to become active participants in the creative process. \n\n\n\nThis conversation delves into the intersections of science\, aesthetics\, and spirituality that shape their work. Together\, these artists\, who created immersive installations in A Sentient Land\, address questions central to the exhibition: How do we translate on behalf of non-human materials? What role do speculation and anthropomorphism play in fostering interspecies connections? How can artistic practice generate greater empathy and hope for our shared future? \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public. A Sentient Land: Aesthetic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air is on view through March 28\, 2026\, at Emerson Contemporary\, 25 Avery Street\, Boston.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/in-conversation-julia-krupa-and-eileen-ryan/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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ORGANIZER;CN="Emerson Contemporary":MAILTO:contemporary@emerson.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260326T191500
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SUMMARY:Artist Presention and Mindfulness Exercise with Julia Krupa
DESCRIPTION:Julia Krupa\, Herstory Paintings\, installation view. \n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Julia Krupa creates large-scale paintings with herbs and other plants she forages from rural Poland\, where she is based. She is visiting Boston as one of the four artists in A Sentient Land: Artistic Alliances with Forests\, Beetles\, Salt\, and Air. Learn how Julia makes dyes with plants\, along with her doctoral research informing this process. A fascinating part of her process involves interviewing elder herbalists based in the Carpathian region of Southern Poland. Her field work and research evolve into paintings and innovative\, panoramic video documentation\, both of which are on view in the space where the workshop takes place. \n\n\n\nNo prior skills or materials required to attend.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/workshop-creating-herbal-dyes-with-julia-krupa/
LOCATION:Emerson Contemporary
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260408T170000
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T130000
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SUMMARY:Student Lightning Talks for "GATHER"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this unique opportunity to hear student-curators deliver short talks about the artists of GATHER!  \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\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\nRSVP for the Lightning Talks \n\n\n\nImage: Beth D’Elia\, 45 objects/Mum\, 2025\, from the series “Holding\,” 10 x 8 inch cyanotypes on paper\, 50 x 72 inches\, courtesy of the artist 
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/student-lightning-talks/
LOCATION:Huret/Spector Gallery
CATEGORIES:Gallery Talk,Public Program
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260403T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T161753
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for the student-curated exhibition\, GATHER
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Tang Liu\, Analog Girl In A Digital World\, 2023\, from the series “Self-Reconstructed\,” cyanotype print woven with inkjet print\, 14 x 14 inches\, courtesy of the artist\n\n\n\nThis opening reception celebrates the fourteen artists of GATHER\, a photography exhibition curated by students of a seminar\, Curating Contemporary Art\,” taught by Dr. Leslie Brown.  \n\n\n\nIn the pieces selected for GATHER\,  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\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\n \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Opening Reception
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/opening-reception-for-the-student-curated-exhibition-gather/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Reception
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260418T130000
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SUMMARY:Public Art Walking Tour with artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill\, in Collaboration with MAAH
DESCRIPTION:Join artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist-led walking tour of their two public art projects\, Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. \n\n\n\nMeeting Point: Boston Common Visitor’s Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist-led walking tour of their two public art projects Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle\, followed by a reception and Q&A with the artists at The Museum of African American History at 46 Joy Street\, Boston. The walking tour will begin at Boston Common Visitors Center at 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, at 1:00pm\, with the reception and Q&A at The Museum of African American History beginning at 2:15pm.Emerson Contemporary is thrilled to collaborate with the Museum of African American History (MAAH) for this program. After the walk\, an artist Q&A session will take place at the African Meeting House at 46 Joy Street\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\nElisa 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. While more is known about Middleton\, the artist’s research has uncovered glimpses of Glapion that speak to an interesting and noteworthy life based in Beacon Hill. Hamilton seeks to honor Glapion and enliven curiosity about his lived experiences in our city. The AR experience will be available on Hoverlay and accompanied by a research document designed for educational purposes.  \n\n\n\nClareese 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 and collective well-being through early Black feminist thought. The Oracle will be presented as an Extended Reality (XR) experience available on the Hoverlay application\, accompanied by a web-based research document designed for educational purposes.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-led-walking-tour-with-elisa-hamilton-and-clareese-hill/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260421T120000
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SUMMARY:What Distance Holds: An MFA Thesis Exhibition Featuring video installations by Sarasa Kikuchi\, Rui Shen\, and Siqi Xiong
DESCRIPTION:Siqi Xiong\, Angel Has No Share\, 2026.\n\n\n\nSarasa Kikuchi\, Rui Shen\, and Siqi Xiong 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\nSiqi Kikuchi\, Thirteen Hours Ahead\, still 2026\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 America. 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\, I\, still\, 2026\n\n\n\nRui Shen – I \n\n\n\nInstallation \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\nSiqi Xiong – Angel Has No Share \n\n\n\nMultimedia interactive installation \n\n\n\nIn whiskey-making\, a portion of the spirit evaporates through the barrel each year — lost to the air\, unrecoverable. Distillers call this the “angel’s share.” Meanwhile\, ice wine creation avoids evaporation because it is sealed in stainless steel. Does anything disappear\, regardless? When one compares these processes\, what is missed?  \n\n\n\nXiong’s installation transforms these questions into a factory floor to walk through. The documentation of labor sits alongside imitation and artistic recreations that move together on a conveyor belt. The spectator’s presence\, attention\, and quiet effort to look closely is part of what the work produces. You don’t observe this factory. You complete it. \n\n\n\nWhat Distance Holds Opening reception: April 22\, 2026\, 5 – 7 PM at 25 Avery Street\, Boston \n\n\n\n On 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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