Print Media & Photography MFA

✨ Student Show 2026 Feature: Boston University ✨ We’re excited to highlight three artists from Boston University featured in this year’s PRC Student Show: Rory McNamara, August Puplava, and Vic Ferreira Sardinha. Now in its 20th year, the PRC Student Show celebrates artists at formative stages in their creative development, bringing together work from 42 students across eight colleges and universities, as well as three local high schools across Boston. The 2026 PRC Student Show is fully sponsored by Stanhope Framers (@stanhopeframers ), whose generous support has made this exhibition and its related programming possible. @rorykmcnamara @makesm_art @vicfersard

Mark your calendars for the BU School of Visual Arts 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibitions! These exhibitions—for the Graphic Design, Print Media and Photography, Sculpture, Painting, and Visual Narrative programs—mark a transition point between graduate study and sustained professional artistic practice. We hope you can join us for the upcoming events and celebrations🎉 💻MFA Graphic Design •On view April 3 – Saturday, April 18, 2026 •Opening reception: Friday, April 3, 2026 from 5-7pm •Location: 808 Gallery (808 Commonwealth Avenue) 📸/🧑‍🎨MFA Print Media and Photography / MFA Sculpture •On view: Friday, April 3 – Saturday, April 18, 2026 •Opening reception: Friday, April 3, 2026 from 5-7pm •Location: Stone Gallery (855 Commonwealth Avenue) 🖌️MFA Painting •On view: Tuesday, April 28 – Sunday, May 17, 2026 •Opening reception: Friday, May 1, 5-7pm •Location: Stone Gallery (855 Commonwealth Avenue) 📖MFA Visual Narrative: Book Talk •Friday May 1, 2026 at 3pm •Location: Howard Thurman Center, Room 104 (808 Commonwealth Avenue) @bu_graphicdesign @bostonpainting @pmp.bu @bostonsculpture @buvisualnarrative Visual identity by Kira Chen, Madison Hoppler, Alara Kalfazade, Yue Zhou. Faculty Advisor: Christopher Sleboda, Associate Professor of Art, Graphic Design

Join Kate Palmer Albers at next week’s Tuesday Night Lecture Series on THURSDAY February 26th at 7PM organized by BU’s MFA Print Media & Photography program (@pmp.bu ). Kate Palmer Albers is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Whittier College. She earned her PhD in Art History from Boston University in 2008. Her most recent book, ‘The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph’ (UC Press, 2021) focuses on the role of ephemerality throughout the history of photography. Emerging from her first book, ‘Uncertain Histories: Accumulation, Inaccessibility, and Doubt in Photography’ (UC Press, 2015), Albers has ongoing interests in the roles of narrative, biography, and archive in relation to visual art and personal photographs, and the impacts of emerging technologies on art, individuals, and culture. 📍 808 Commonwealth Ave, Room 410/411, 4th Floor 🎟 Free & open to the public Images: 1) Designed by Christin Kim @cheekiminji (CFA’26), MFA Graphic Design. 2) Portrait of Kate Palmer Albers, courtesy of Albers. 3) Book cover of ‘The Night Albums: Visibility and the Ephemeral Photograph’ by Kate Palmer Albers. Upcoming TNLS: 3/3: Barbara Sullivan 3/24: Rachel Eulena Williams 3/31: Ellie Krakow

Come and check out the some of the second year cohort's work along side @bostonsculpture ! We would love to see you there 🩵💘🤩 We are filled with love for you all 💓

Artist Reception next Saturday! @pmp.bu The Griffin Museum is pleased to celebrate the work of Boston University’s Print Media & Photography masters students in their exhibition, Fluid Foundations, featuring Chuan Liu, Jamison Cloud, Jay Puplava, Rory McNamara, and Vic Sardinha. Join us in person at our satellite location, Lafayette City Center Passageway, on Saturday January 3rd from 2 to 4pm for a special artist reception. @vicfersard @chuanliu @makesm_art @chuanliu_art @jamisonxcloud

Rory McNamara’s (@rorykmcnamara ) current body of work explores her internal landscapes as a means of self-understanding, using the natural world as a mirror for their emotional and psychological states. Using photography, she reflects how her emotions and thoughts connect with nature, creating images that blur the line between her surroundings and her sense of self. Rory’s work is currently on display in the Fluid Foundations exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography at the Lafayette City Center Passageway through January 5th, 2026. 🔗 Tap the link in bio and read our latest conversation with Rory McNamara about self-exploration and landscape photography. 🗓️ UPCOMING EVENT: The Griffin Museum is pleased to celebrate the work of Boston University’s Print Media & Photography masters students in their exhibition, Fluid Foundations (@pmp.bu ) 📍 Join us in person at our satellite location, Lafayette City Center Passageway, on Saturday January 3rd from 2 to 4pm for a special artist reception.

For Emily Taylor Rice, MA Art Education, MFA Print Media & Photography, (CFA ‘21 ‘24), making art is a way of both processing and representing. Building upon her own experiences and the stories of others, Emily illustrates the complex, emotional, and tumultuous realities of mental illness and substance use disorders through her multimedia pieces. Emily (@emily.taylor.rice.studio ) emphasized that artistic practice is continuous, whether or not she’s physically producing pieces or not. Feeding your practice can take many forms. For Emily, it’s everything from impromptu photographing a lone liquor bottle abandoned in a parking lot to taking courses on neurobiology. Her work, like her artistic practice, reflects the cyclical nature of living as a maker. There are times when life gets busy, or responsibilities change, or things simply are too much, and Emily emphasized the importance of staying kind to yourself through the ebb and flow. “I have to be gracious with myself and remember that there are seasons for making and that there are seasons for doing the research,” Emily said. “So right now, it’s a season for teaching and a season for behind-the-making stuff.”

Come party with us at open studios!!! Be sure to check out MassArt (11am-2pm and SMFA Tufts (10-1pm) before joining us 3-6! Also be sure to check out @bostonpainting @bostonsculpture @bu_graphicdesign !!!! We are excited to see familiar and new faces and talk ART ✨🫧🩵💕🙂‍↕️

Fall 2025 Open Studios is almost here — A citywide celebration of emerging artists and a collaboration between Boston University School of Visual Arts, MassArt, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. On Saturday, November 8, from 3–6 PM, visit BU School of Visual Arts to meet graduate artists and designers from MFA Painting (@bostonpainting ), MFA Sculpture (@bostonsculpture ), MFA Print Media & Photography (@pmp.bu ), and MFA Graphic Design (@bu_graphicdesign ). Take a behind-the-scenes look at these rising talents and experience the creative energy of Boston’s arts community. Nov 8th Schedule: 📍 SMFA: 10 AM – 1 PM | 160 St. Alphonsus St. 📍 MassArt: 11 AM – 2 PM | The Kennedy Building, 625 Huntington Ave. 📍 BU: 3 – 6 PM | 808 Comm Ave, 3rd & 4th Floors 🎟 Free & open to the public Sponsored by Wagner Foundation (@wagnerfoundation )

Thank you to everyone who came out to check out our show and a special thanks to those who made it to the closing reception! We ❤️ ya'll. If you missed it no worries updates soon on some more to look out for!

“Touch & Tether” an exhibition created and curated by BU’s Print Media and Photography class of 2026 is currently on view at the 808 corridor gallery and will be until September 26th! Alongside the 808 Galleries Annual Alumni Exhibition. We will be having a closing reception Thursday, September 25th from 5 to 7pm! Hope to see ya'll there!!!

HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! We PMP second years are excited to see similar and new faces!! Come check out our show at 808 Commonwealth!!