SMFA Exhibitions & Public Programs
Grossman Gallery Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10–5; Thursday 10–8; Closed Sundays & Holidays
The Office of Exhibitions & Public Programs is located next to the Grossman Gallery on the ground floor of the Museum School's main building at 230 The Fenway. We organize exhibitions which take place in the Grossman Gallery and Anderson Auditorium, including the Fall and Spring Invitationals, Graduating Students Exhibition, an annual exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's Courtyard Gallery, and The Museum School Art Sale, the largest sale of contemporary art in New England. We coordinate the SMFA's Visiting Artist lecture series and work with students and faculty on an annual rotation of Area Exhibitions in the SMFA Atrium, Project Space, BAG Gallery and Mission Hill Building Gallery. Our office also administers several annual competitions: the Boit Award, the Dana Pond Competition in Painting, the Will & Elena Barnet Award, the Stella and Sumner Z. Cooper Award, and the annual Fifth Year and Alumni Traveling Fellows Awards.
More information about these and many other opportunities, as well as lectures and other events taking place at the Museum School, can be found on the pages in the left-hand menu! Please stop by our office anytime with questions.
Joanna Soltan, Curator
Evan J. Garza, Exhibitions & Public Programs Coordinator
David Powers, Exhibitions Manager
David Thacker, Preparator
DANA POND AWARD IN PAINTING
DROP-OFFS & PICK-UPS: ONE DAY ONLY! JANUARY 27, 2012
THREE ARTISTS WILL BE SELECTED FOR A SUBSTANTIAL AWARD & THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXHIBIT THEIR WORK AT SMFA
Eligibility: All full-time SMFA students are eligible to apply
- Artists must submit three (3) works
- Jurors will make their first cut on the basis of the three pieces you submit (consistent strength of the artist)
- Final selection will be of one piece per artist
- Three (3) Dana Pond Award winners will be selected
- While the award is in painting, jurors are encouraged to interpret this category as fluidly as they wish (so you may choose to do the same)
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Award recipients will receive a substantial cash prize and their work will be included in the "Graduating Students and Award Recipients" exhibition, opening May 2012
- JURY DATE: January 27, 2012
- LOCATION: Photo Shoot Room (C-203), Mission Hill Building
- DROP-OFFS: 8 - 11 am, January 27
- PICK-UPS: 4 - 7 pm, January 27
**NOTE: You MUST ABSOLUTELY respect the drop-off and pick-up times. There is a very narrow window for the jury to make its selections, and unfortunately we cannot accept work outside of this time frame under any circumstances without damaging the integrity of the process.
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HISTORIES OF NOW: SIX ARTISTS FROM CAIRO
"Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo"
January 18–March 17, 2012
Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery + Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium
Opening during the one year anniversary of the first mass protests in Tahrir Square, "Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo" brings together work by some of the most inspiring and influential video and new media artists working in Egypt today, including a multi-channel video installation by the late Ahmed Basiony featured in the Egyptian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale.
This exhibition is an intimate investigation of the complex social framework and collective formal engagements currently being explored by Egyptian artists. With many of these artists exhibiting in the northeast region of the United States for the first time, "Histories of Now" introduces viewers to the diversity of voices, concerns and approaches—both material and conceptual—found in today's Cairo; six artists presenting six contrasting visions, united only by context, creative discipline and geographic proximity.
Featuring work by: Mohamed Abla, Ahmed Basiony, Hala Elkoussy, Shady El Noshokaty, Sabah Naim, Moataz Nasr
RELATED EVENTS
January 23, 6–8 pm
Grossman Gallery + Anderson Auditorium, SMFA
Opening reception (Free)
January 25, 6:30 pm
Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Shady El Noshokaty: Contemporary Art and the New Egyptian Identity, a multimedia lecture and performance.
$15, MFA members, students, seniors; $18, non-members
January 31, 12:30
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Screening of Nadia Kamel's film Salata Baladi (An Egyptian Salad)
Award-winning Egyptian filmmaker Nadia Kamel's heritage is a complex blend of religions and cultures. Her
mother is a half-Jewish, half-Italian Christian who converted to Islam when she married Nadia's half-Turkish,
half-Ukrainian father. Prompted by the realization that her 10-year-old nephew Nabeel is growing up in an
Egyptian society where talk of culture clashes is all too common, she urges her feminist, pacifist, activist mother,
Mary Rosenthal, to share their diverse family history. (Free with Museum admission)
February 9, 12–2 pm
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Screening of Tahani Rached's film These Girls (El-Banate Dol)
This documentary follows a band of teenage girls living on the streets of Cairo. Already at a disadvantage as
impoverished and abused girls in a Muslim society, they encounter rape, drug addiction, prostitution, pregnancy
and motherhood on the streets. While the girls' troubles are not downplayed, neither are their courage, playfulness
and vibrant camaraderie. (Free with Museum admission)
February 21, 12:30 pm
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Lecture with participating artist, Mohamed Abla (Free with Museum admission)
Effective immediately, all students must get a ticket for lectures at the MFA, including 4 Painters, 4 Sculptors and 4 Photographers lectures.
When entering the MFA, please ask at the ticketing desk for a ticket for the lecture instead of a general admission ticket.
Thank you!
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