New Standards related events

In celebration of the one-of-a-kind installation, the New Standards Boston Takeover will include public programs, such as panel discussions, curated artist talks, and afternoon and evening concerts that will take place at multiple venues across the City of Boston, curated by Carrington and the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice. Opening Reception: Wednesday July...

Truth Be Told: (Re)Considering Innovation, Transformation, and Genius through the Lens of Jazz, Gender, and Justice

Grammy Award winning artist Terri Lyne Carrington recently conceived and curated the New Standards Exhibit, celebrating the work of women composers and performers who have been either under-acknowledged or rendered invisible regarding the overall representation of the art form. This multidisciplinary exhibit imagines the sound of jazz through the lens of gender justice and is...

Artist Reception, GBFA, Friday August 12, 5-7pm.

Huret and Spector Gallery

Image Caption: Joie Cousin, Our Home: Book One, multi-media video installation, 2023 Emerson College's BFA thesis exhibition featuring graduates from the Global Paris BFA in Film Program. Featured Artists are: Joie Cousin, Miriam Yoboué, and Mars Tomasetti, Gallery Hours 12-5pm, August 16 - 19, 2023 Artist Reception, Friday August 12, 5-7pm. Join us for refreshments...

“Artists Defusing Barriers to Discovery” feat. Nicole L’Huillier and Nathan Miner

  Organized in partnership with the Long Now Boston Conversation Series, this artist talk will explore artistic research as a place of possibilities; an open-ended strategy of experimentation and failure that can lead to new modes of thinking and reframes knowledge conventions. This program presents two artists whose transdisciplinary practices dynamically intersect with technology, science,...

BECAUSE I COME FROM YOU

This 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.”

Vietnam and Diasporic Aesthetics: Two Meditations. Dr. Howie Tam & Dr. Catherine H. Nguyen

Media Art Gallery 25 Avery Street, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

The first event in the Writing, Literature & Publishing Scholar Series, this program is presented in conjunction with One Day We’ll Go Home and supported in part by the Harvard University Asia Center. Taking as a point of departure some works of Vietnamese American artistic production both in the gallery space and beyond, this two-part talk with...

If, Then: Technology and Poetics,

On line, ZOOM

Learn from visual artist Kameelah J. Rasheed in this satellite workshop Join us for Kameelah Janan Rasheed's satellite workshop (conducted over zoom), in partnership with John Hopkins University. In If, Then: Technology and Poetics, Kameelah explores the relationship between writing constraints and algorithmic scores (dubbed wayward sentences). This workshop will be conducted over zoom. You...

Artist Reception Kameelah Janan Rasheed

Join us to celebrate the brand new exhibition of “Kameelah Janan Rasheed: all velvet sentences as manifesto, Like a lesson against smooth language or an invitation to be feral hypertext,” a multimedia solo exhibition featuring visual artist Kameelah Janan Rasheed (American, born 1985) on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street from...