Media Art Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12-6pm
Huret & Spector Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 12-5pm
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Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial
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Iwalani Kaluhiokalani, The Radiance Chasers, 2025. Multidisciplinary installation, painting, paper cut-outs, video mapping, sound Sound score by Slamber Slusser. Emerson Contemporary – Emerson College’s platform for presenting contemporary visual art – proudly presents Echoes of the Heart: The New England Media Art Biennial, a multimedia juried group exhibition featuring New England visual artists Clint Baclawski,...
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Hidden Histories: Elisa Hamilton, Clareese Hill, Sue Murad, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed part of Un-Monument
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Un-Monument is a two-year initiative that reimagines and fosters discourse around Boston’s monuments and memorials in a way that centers and amplifies a multiplicity of voices and creates authentic learning moments across the city. It invigorates public spaces through artist interventions that bring to the fore the rich histories that are often hidden. Emerson Contemporary...
Kameelah J. Rasheed: I have Asked Myself: “Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?”
In her public poetry project I have Asked Myself:“Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?” Kameelah J. Rasheed 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....
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Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion
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Elisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of Louis Glapion. Glapion was a French, biracial hairdresser and barber who, together with his friend George Middleton, built and owned what is now considered the oldest extant house in Beacon Hill, located at 5 Pinckney Street....
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Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle
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Clareese Hill’s The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel, a 19th-century Black woman from Massachusetts. By blending historical wisdom with future-focused fabulations, the Black Boston Dream Oracle will provide a unique space for reflection, healing, and imagining new possibilities for liberation... |
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Sue Murad: ASSEMBLE, Performance Action, Boston Common, 2025
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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,... |
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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... |
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Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial
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Hidden Histories: Elisa Hamilton, Clareese Hill, Sue Murad, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed part of Un-Monument
Kameelah J. Rasheed: I have Asked Myself: “Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?”
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Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion
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Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle
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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,... |
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Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial
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Hidden Histories: Elisa Hamilton, Clareese Hill, Sue Murad, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed part of Un-Monument
Kameelah J. Rasheed: I have Asked Myself: “Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?”
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Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion
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Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle
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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...
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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... |
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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... |
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6 events,
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Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial
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Hidden Histories: Elisa Hamilton, Clareese Hill, Sue Murad, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed part of Un-Monument
Kameelah J. Rasheed: I have Asked Myself: “Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?”
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Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion
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Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle
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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... |
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Tuesday October 21, Talk from 6:30- 7:30pm, 6pm doors In 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. Location: Media Art Gallery, 25... |
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Echoes of the Heart: New England Media Art Biennial
Featured
Hidden Histories: Elisa Hamilton, Clareese Hill, Sue Murad, and Kameelah Janan Rasheed part of Un-Monument
Kameelah J. Rasheed: I have Asked Myself: “Can a Sentence be Haunted? And if so by what?”
Featured
Elisa Hamilton: Glimpses of Glapion
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Clareese Hill: The Black Boston Dream Oracle
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**Rescheduled** In Conversation: Dr. Cher Krause Knight and Dr. Harriet F. Senie will discuss 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... |
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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... |
Huret and Spector Gallery Hours: Wed – Sat, 12-5pm
Media Art Gallery Hours: Tue – Sat, 12-6pm