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EVENT: “A YEAR IN REVIEW”

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Join Nearby Gallery (owned by Sam Belisle ’18 and Cal Rice ’18) on Saturday, June 5th from 6-9pm to celebrate the opening of Greater Boston’s newest contemporary art gallery and community arts space. Our inaugural exhibition, “A Year in Review,” will showcase works from fourteen emerging artists working in a variety of different mediums and subject matter.

We are located at 101 Union St. Newton Centre, MA 02459

*Accessible by the Green Line (D)

https://www.nearbygallery.com/


EVENT: New Social Environment #284: Patty Chang

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Artist and educator Patty Chang joins writer Malvika Jolly for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading.

About this Event

Artist and educator Patty Chang joins writer Malvika Jolly for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading.

Please note that this event will take place at 7pm EST/4pm PST.

Find out more on our website: https://brooklynrail.org/events/2021/04/26/patty-chang-with-malvika-jolly/

VISITING ARTIST: Darren Lee Miller – Exercises in Empathy

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The MFA and Photography programs of SMFA are pleased to co-host Exercises In Empathy, a talk by Darren Lee Miller about his work and practice on Friday, April 2 from 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, after which he will have several Virtual MFA Student visits for individual critiques.

Darren Lee Miller is an artist, educator, curator, and writer. He is Chair of Photography and Associate Professor at the Columbus College of Art & Design. He was recently awarded a Fulbright Research Fellowship to conduct a community art project, Palavras na Minha Boca (Words in My Mouth), at the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in Bauru, Brazil. His teaching, curatorial work, and artwork have been recognized through residencies at Blue Mountain Center, the Vermont Studio Center, the Crawford County Historical Society, the University of Puerto Rico, and in regional and national exhibitions.  His writing and artworks have been published in print and online, and acquired by museums, academic galleries, and private collectors, including Adirondack Experience, the Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, Union College, Allegheny College, and the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission.

He received an M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and holds a B.F.A. in Photography and Printmaking from The School of Art & Design at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, obtained also through study at Manchester Metropolitan University in the U.K. He lives and works in Columbus, OH and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Event: Helina Metaferia – SMFA x MFA Traveling Fellows Exhibition – Workshops

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Artist Workshop #1 with Helina Metaferia 

“By Way of Revolution”

Tues March 16

6:30-8pm EST

Workshop description:

This virtual performance art workshop, led by artist Helina Metaferia, is especially designed for women-identifying BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) who are students, staff, and faculty at Tufts University and Northeastern University. The workshop investigates how histories of protest inform our present day moment, and the powerful yet often overlooked role that BIPOC women (both cis and trans) play in them. The workshop will rely on performative gestures of resilience to explore how institutionalized and systemic trauma gets stored in the body, and provide creative and tangible tools for self-care and communal care to help sustain ourselves. The artist will lead participants through a series of writing, mindfulness, and somatic and performance exercises based on histories of social change movements. 

This workshop is held in conjunction with Helina Metaferia’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Fall 2021. Participants of this workshop have the option to volunteer to be photographed on a separate date in person at the Museum of Fine Arts for a series of collages that Metaferia will create, combining archives of historical liberation movements with the images of workshop participants. All workshop participants will be asked to sign an image release waiver before being granted access to the workshop. Participants are asked to be on desktops or laptops as opposed to their phones, keep their video cameras on during the entire session, and only the parts of the collective performance will be recorded. 

Artist’s Bio:

Helina Metaferia is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, installation, collage, and social practice. Metaferia received her MFA from Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI; Northeastern University’s Gallery 360, Boston, MA; New York University’s The Gallatin Galleries, New York, NY; Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY; Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, among many others. Metaferia’s work has been supported by residencies including MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis, and Triangle Arts Association. She is currently an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow / Assistant Professor at Brown University, and lives and works in New York City.

www.helinametaferia.com

Artist Workshop #2 with Helina Metaferia 

“Virtual Gardens”

Friday March 19

2:30-4pm EST

Workshop description:

This virtual performance workshop, led by artist Helina Metaferia, is especially designed for Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) of all genders who are students, staff, and faculty at Tufts University and Northeastern University. The workshop rethinks the images and narratives that we consume daily during our screen-dependant era. It interrogates our unique time of both social justice and social distance. How can we pivot the dynamic of online meeting spaces to create vulnerability without proximity, and vitality as opposed to fatigue? The culmination of this workshop will be an experimental artwork featuring participants. All participants will be asked to sign an image release waiver before being granted access to the workshop. Participants are asked to be on their desktop or laptops as opposed to their phones, keep their video cameras on during the entire session, and only parts of the collective performance will be recorded.