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SAVE THE DATE! Our 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition opens Tuesday May 5th and runs through Sunday May 16th! 🌠🎇🎆 Join us for the closing reception on Friday, May 15th from 5 - 8 PM ✨💫🌟 📍40 Talbot Ave, Medford MA @tuftsartgalleries Participating artists 🌀 ••• Kyuin Baik @kyuinbaik Jemma Byun @jemmabyun Catherine Chen @cathart10 Christine Chiang @yicistudio Dany Fuentes @coandlee Lindsey Filowitz @lindseyfil Laura Hinojosa Silva @laurasofiahinojosa Emmaline Kenny @emmaline.v.k Gracie Korstjens @cluster.of.bugs SangBin Lee @coandlee Ji Eun Lim @limjieun.studio Penglong Ma @pl.malone Armando Olivera Daniel Rumsey Ghazaleh (G) Seidabadi @ghazaleh.seidabadi Aaron Seriff-Cullick @freshprinceofbelaaron Simi Stone @simistoneofficial Liangsi Wang Curated by ✨Max Gruber . @smfa.mfa @tuftsartgalleries @smfaattufts @tuftsuniversity

On view May 5–17 at Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford, the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition “Passages” presents thesis work by nineteen MFA candidates, showcasing their richly varied practices and development in the MFA program. The exhibition’s title speaks to the journey each student has undergone, in art and in life, forming a conceptual throughline for the works on view 🌀 “Passages” is guest curated by @icaboston Assistant Curator Max Gruber (@_maxgruber ) and organized by Alexi Antoniadis, Dina Deitsch, Madeline Ditzler, Laurel Nakadate, Sarah Prickett, and Kenson Truong. Join us in celebrating the graduates during a public reception on Friday, May 15 from 5-8PM at TUAG / Medford (Aidekman Arts Center). The 2026 BFA Senior Thesis exhibition “Until we run out of space”, on view from May 6–17 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), features the work of graduating BFA and Combined Degree seniors in the Atrium, Anderson Auditorium, Grossman Gallery, B305 and B307 galleries, SMFA Library, and across the SMFA campus. Join the SMFA Dean’s Suite for a drop-in reception celebrating the student artists May 16, 5–8PM. Both TUAG locations are currently closed for installation. We’ll see you in May ✨ Images: 1) Jemma Byun, “Self Portrait,” 2026. 2) Tanvi Amrit, “Musical©ity,” 2024. Digital Animation. Courtesy of the artist.

Stainedglass workshop outing @essexartcenter sponsored by @smfa_sga taught by the incredible @art.nicole

Extrañando las tierras de mis raises - las telas de mi vida - con una fuerza dolorosx. No puedo imaginar el sentimento de estar atrapado en un país que no es tuyo, embarazadx con deseos de familia, pero tienes un cuerpo regulado por el estado. Estoy aprendiendo, siempre. Gracias @smfa.mfa por otra beca más, que apoyó mi crecimiento cultural, espiritual, creativo, y el tamaño de mi corazón. 🫀

Join Tufts University Art Galleries and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) (@smfaattufts ) at Tufts MFA Program (@smfa.mfa ) for an artist lecture with Spring 2026 exhibiting artist Michelle Lopez (@michellelopezstudio ), whose sublime, spellbinding exhibition “Michelle Lopez: Shadow of a Doubt” is on view at TUAG / Medford ✨RSVP at the link in our bio and learn more below 🔗 Lopez is known for her rigorous conceptual practice and boldly experimental approach to processes and material, creating strikingly precarious and vulnerable forms that speak to the instability of supposedly fixed or rigid societal structures. Reinvesting in the political power of sculpture, Lopez similarly wrestles with the medium’s legacy, recasting minimalist and post-minimalist forms into critiques of capitalism, chauvinism, and other narratives of hegemony. Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Lasso Reprieve’ (Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, 2023); ‘Ballast & Barricades’ (ICA Philadelphia, 2019); ‘House of Cards’ (Simon Preston, Gallery, 2018); ‘Halyard’(Alt/Protocinema, Istanbul, 2016); ‘Angels, Flags, Bangs’ (The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, 2014); shows at Simon Preston, New York in 2009, 2011, and 2015; and ‘The Year We Made Contact’ (LA><art, Los Angeles, 2008). Lopez’s work “Pandemonium” (2025) is currently featured in the @whitneymuseum Biennial.

Join us for the SMFA Post-Baccalaureate ’26 exhibition, Progressions in Color! The reception will be held on Friday, March 27 from 1–3 PM at the Mission Hill Gallery, located at 160 Saint Alphonsus Street, Boston, MA 02115. The exhibition will be on view from March 23 – April 3. Food and beverages will be provided. @smfaattufts @smfalibrary @smfa_postbacc @tuftsuniversity @tuftsartgalleries

Mission Hill Studio Building is hosting a Mindful Tea Tasting on Tuesday, March 3rd from the Tufts University Chaplaincy @tuftschaplaincy ! Come join us for some peaceful meditation, mindful dialogue, and tea and treats! @smfa.mfa @smfaattufts @smfalibrary @smfa_postbacc @smfathesis @tuftsuniversity

Please join Professor of the Practice Qais Assali for their workshop Behance for Artists and Designers: Developing an Industry-Based Portfolio on Friday, February 20th from 2:30-4:00PM! This workshop will be held on Zoom so sign up on Handshake!

THIS FRIDAY February 13th at 12pm, we are hosting photographer Gregory Halpern for an artist talk as part of our Visiting Artist Series for the 2025-26 school year! Please join us at our Mission Hill Studio Building as the talk is open to the public! Gregory Halpern is an American photographer and the author of eight monographs. His photographs are held in the collections of several major museums, including The Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, and the Fotomuseum Antwerpen. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at the International Center of Photography, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the George Eastman Museum, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Fotomuseum Antwerpen, and Pace/MacGill in New York. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a member of Magnum Photos and is represented by Loock Gallery in Berlin and Huxley-Parlour in London. He holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. He lives in Rochester, New York with his wife, Ahndraya Parlato, and their two daughters. He is a professor of photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. @smfaattufts @smfalibrary @tuftsartgalleries @tuftsuniversity @tuftsarthistory

Meet SMFA's new van, putting Art On The Move across Boston!

Please join Professor of the Practice Qais Assali for their workshop From Screen to Surface: Illustrator Pattern Design & Vinyl Printing on Friday, February 6th from 2:30-4:00PM! This workshop will be in person in room B211A.

Please join Professor of the Practice Qais Assali for their workshop Vectorizing Images for Print and Logo Design on Friday, January 30 from 2:30-4:00PM! This workshop will be hybrid in person in room B211A and on zoom.