Programs and Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.