Programs and Events

Cliff Notez performing outside of the Rose

Cliff Notez, 2019. Photo by Natasha Moustache.

The Rose Art Museum is committed to maintaining a respectful, safe, and inclusive museum experience for all our visitors. All programs are free to attend. 

We are committed to making our programs accessible to all; please email inquiries and requests to roseartmuseum@brandeis.edu.

A Brandeis student discusses a painting with a group of visitors.

re: collections Tours

February 10, 2024 - June 16, 2024

Co-led by two Brandeis students, these 45-minute participatory tours will highlight the artists on view in "re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum," weaving together visitor observations, inquiries, and interpretations with student docents' research and perspectives.

Photo by Dan Holmes.

Two men and a woman sit on the beach together.

Film Screening: I Dream in Another Language

March 23, 2024, 3 p.m.

Join the Rose Art Museum for a film screening of the 2017 film "I Dream in Another Language." From director Ernesto Contrera, this poetic drama raises philosophical questions about what is lost when a language—and, by extension, our elders’ memory—is allowed to fade unpreserved.

I Dream in Another Language, 2017 [film still]. Dir. Ernesto Contreras. Courtesy of Gussi Cinema.

A ceramic vessel

Create Date: Memory Vessels

March 25, 2024, 4 p.m.

Join the Rose Art Museum for a drop-in artmaking activity at Waltham Library. Inspired by the exhibition "Noé Martínez: The Body Remembers," participants will make clay vessels to hold a special memory about their family or community.

Noé Martínez, Mi cuerpo es el cementerio y mi camino un memorial 7, 2022 [detail]. Sgraffito high-temperature ceramic. Courtesy of the artist and PATRON.

Artist Anida Ali in a red dress laying on stairs.

Palimpsest for Generation 1.5: A performance by Anida Yoeu Ali

April 2, 2024, 7 p.m.

Andia Yoeu Ali's performance piece "Palimpsest for Generation 1.5" examines the cultural and emotional resonance of place and memory in relationship to personal histories of violence and diaspora.

Courtesy of the artist.

A woman circus performer performs with a hula hoop at Light of Reason..

Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts

April 6-14, 2024

The 2024 Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts honors Brandeis University’s 75th anniversary with art, exhibitions, performances, and special events exploring Jewish values, education, social responsibility, and unity.

Photo by Natasha Moustache.

Pictures of two men

kiss & release: A Reading with Anthony DiPietro and Chen Chen

April 6-14, 2024

To celebrate National Poetry Month, the Rose presents a reading with poets Anthony DiPietro and Chen Chen. DiPietro will read selections from his newly published debut collection "kiss & release," and Chen Chen will read work from his 2022 collection "Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency."

Photos courtesy of the Anthony DiPietro and Chen Chen.

Circe Henestrosa

Indigeneity and Fashion, from Frida Kahlo to Dior

April 7, 2024, 12 p.m.

Fashion scholar and curator Circe Henestrosa highlights the global impact of Indigenous Mexican culture on contemporary art and design from Frida Kahlo to Dior.

Circe Henestrosa, 2020. Photo by Natsuko Teruya.

Noé Martínez

In Conversation: Noé Martínez

June 5, 2024, 7 p.m.

2024 Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Noé Martínez discusses his multi-modal artistic practice, incorporating ethnography, performance, poetry, drawing, ceramic sculpture, and installation, in this talk with guest curator Circe Henestrosa.

Noé Martínez, 2021. Photo by Alberto Rubi. Courtesy of the artist.