Department of Fine Arts

Visiting Artists and Other Events

Department of Fine Arts exhibitions and artist talks are open to the public. All times are Eastern Standard. Visit the Rose Art Museum website for more exhibitions and programs.

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Post Baccalaureate Lecture Series: Fall 2025

"Bamboo Mother" exhibition, Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Philippines, 2025

 "Bamboo Mother" Exhibition

Photo Credit: Project Space Pilipinas, Lucban, Philippines, 2025

Ben Sloat

September 16, 2025

2:30PM | Goldman-Schwartz 115

Ben Sloat often uses elements of the vernacular in his works; generating hybrid social meanings and reflecting the artist's multiracial Taiwanese-American background. Working across mediums, the projects frequently find themselves considering the capacity of iconography, image, or light based material, in a wide and inclusive definition of the "photographic". Cultural vocabulary is commonly used as a medium in the work, oscillating between an intimately personal voice and a larger societal one.

Born and raised in New York City, Ben Sloat earned degrees from UC Berkeley and SMFA/Tufts.  His work has been shown in venues such as the Havana Biennial (Matanzas), Radium Art Center (Busan), Kunsthal Charlottenborg (Copenhagen), Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), Dublin City Gallery/The Hugh Lane (Dublin), Peabody Essex Museum (Salem), Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond), and the Queens Museum. Solo exhibitions include those at Project Space Pilipinas (Lucban),  Das Klohauschen (Munich), Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston), Coop Gallery (Nashville), Galerie Laroche/Joncas (Montreal), Gallery 126 (Galway), Front Gallery (Oakland), and the American Cultural Center (Taipei). 

He is the founding director of the MFA in Visual Arts program at Clark University in Worcester, MA.

Arthur Pena

November 7, 2025

2:30PM | Goldman-Schwartz 115

 

Evelyn Rydz

November 14, 2025

2:30PM | Goldman-Schwartz 115

 

Past Visiting Artists

David Snyder

November 8, 2024

2:30 pm
Lieberman-Miller Lecture Hall, Women's Studies Research Center, Epstein
David Snyder’s sculpture, video, installation, and image-based work engages the unstable and mutable potential of objects, language, imagery, physical space, and social relationships. Through the distortion and reconfiguration of familiar material and rhetorical constructs, the work addresses persistent, under-contended assumptions that contribute to the formation of economic and social value, cultural hierarchies, and divisive polemics.

His work has been featured in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including the inaugural Made in LA: Los Angeles Biennial at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA, Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, Clifton Benevento Gallery, NY, The Bergen Biennial, London, 798 Arts District, Beijing, and MOMAT, Tokyo.

David is assistant professor of art, and chair of graduate studies in sculpture at Boston University. 
Leah Triplett Harrington

October 25, 2024

2:30 pm
Goldman-Schwartz Fine Arts Studios, Room 115
Leah Triplett Harrington is a curator and writer, currently serving as the director of exhibitions and contemporary curatorial initiatives at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), where she recently co-curated the exhibition Artists as Cultivators. Previously, she was a curator at Boston's Now + There, facilitating the Public Art Accelerator and organizing large-scale public art commissions in Boston.
Jenna Weiss '07, PB'08

September 16, 2024

2:30-3:30 pm
Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall, Women's Studies Research Center, Epstein

Jenna Weiss is a visual artist and museum professional based in Brooklyn, NY. She currently serves as associate director of public programs at the Jewish Museum, where she is responsible for the conception and implementation of diverse and rigorous temporary exhibition and collection related programming for adult audiences. She has organized numerous artist driven performances with figures including Chella Man, Marta Minujín, Aki Sasamoto, Tamy Ben-Tor, and Dynasty Handbag (Jibz Cameron), and co-organizes “IN RESPONSE:” a decade-long partnership with Columbia University’s School of Visuals Arts. In 2019 she and Chris Gartrell co-founded the artist-run space Plum Benefits, which has mounted over a dozen miniature exhibitions (@plumbenefits).

Weiss holds a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Brandeis University (Class of 2007, Post-Baccalaureate 2008) and earned her MFA in Painting at Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2010). Prior to joining the Jewish Museum in 2012 she held positions in museum education as the Spiegel Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, and visitor services coordinator of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis. She has taught courses in painting and drawing as an adjunct lecturer at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA and Caldwell College, Caldwell, NJ.

She is an alum of Asylum Arts, a global network of Jewish Artists, Schusterman Foundation ROI Summit, and Getty Leadership Institute, NextGen 2019. In addition to her work in Museums, Weiss maintains an active studio practice and has been a resident of the Chashama Space to Create program at the Brooklyn Army Terminal since 2011. Her work has been shown in Brooklyn at Ortega y Gasset Projects, Momenta Art, Loft 594 and in Philadelphia at Fjord Gallery, Space 1026, and Grizzly Grizzly among other locations.

The Richard Saivetz ‘69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series

The Richard Saivetz ‘69 Annual Memorial Architectural Lecture Series takes place in the spring semester.