2018 Programs

Installation view, Passage

Closing Celebration: Musical and Lyrical Contemporaries in the Galleries

December 8, 2018, 2 p.m.

Mezzo-soprano Katherine Growdon will provide an atmospheric selection of songs and arias featuring composers including John Cage, John Harbison, Meredith Monk, Maurice Ravel, and Arnold Schönberg.

Installation view, Passage, Rose Art Museum, 2018. Photo by Heratch Ekmekjian.

An installation view of Rose exhibition Passage with two paintings and one sculpture. A woman looks at one of the paintings

Through Lines: With Assistant Professor of Fine Arts and Artist Sheida Soleimani

November 17, 2018, 2:30 p.m.

Experience the works on view accompanied by the expert, multidisciplinary lens and commentary of guest speakers from Brandeis faculty.

Installation view, “Passage," the Rose Art Museum, 2018. Photo by Heratch Ekmekjian.

Installation shot of Tuesday Smillie exhibition at the Rose art museums featuring two protest banners and watercolor interpretations of book covers

Tuesday Smillie: Building another world through creative critical self-reflection

November 16, 2018, 6:30 p.m.

Join us as artist Tuesday Smillie’s artist-in-residency at the Rose Art Museum culminates with an award ceremony and an artist talk. Smillie will speak about her work and practice, as well as discuss her exhibition.

Installation view, Tuesday Smillie: To build another world, 2018. Rose Art Museum. Photo by Heratch Ekmekjian.

People in galleries looking at Tuesday Smillie's series of Le Guin book covers

Book Club with Tuesday Smillie

November 15, 2018, 2 p.m.

On Nov 15 the Rose will host a book club led by artist Tuesday Smillie, placing Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness" within the context of her work and the author's later responses to criticism.

Installation view, Tuesday Smillie: To build another world, 2018. Photo by Heratch Ekmekjian.

A person on stage in a red press smiling at an audience.

Digging in the Dirt: Historical Erasure and Trans Archival Recovery

October 27, 2018, 2 p.m.

Wasserman Cinematheque at Brandeis Join us for a screening of "Happy Birthday Marsha," followed by a conversation by Perlmutter Artist-in-Residence Tuesday Smillie and art historian David Getsy.

Still from Happy Birthday, Marsha! by Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel.

Hyman Bloom, Corpse of a Man

Close Looking: Hyman Bloom's 'Corpse of Man'

October 24, 2018, 3:30 p.m.

This interdisciplinary series features engaged looking and active discussion about art and other objects housed in Brandeis collections.

Hyman Bloom, Corpse of Man, 1944. Gift of Henry Crapo, Hull, Massachusetts.

Installation view of Rose Art Museum exhibition Passage from above. People in galleries looking at works on view.

Through Lines: with Professor of Fine Arts Nancy Scott

October 20, 2018, 11:30 a.m.

Experience the works on view accompanied by the expert, multidisciplinary lens and commentary of guest speakers from Brandeis faculty.

Installation view, “Passage," the Rose Art Museum, 2018. Photo by Heratch Ekmekjian.

Installation view of Rose Art Museum exhibition Passage from above. People in galleries looking at works on view.

Through Lines: with Professor of Fine Arts Nancy Scott

October 19, 2018, 12 p.m.

Experience the works on view accompanied by the expert, multidisciplinary lens and commentary of guest speakers from Brandeis faculty.

Installation view, “Passage," the Rose Art Museum, 2018. Photo by Heratch Ekmekjian.

An installation view of Rose Art Museum exhibition Passage with four works of art hung on white walls of the gallery.

Through Lines: with Associate Professor of Philosophy Andreas Teuber

October 13, 2018, 11:30 a.m.

Experience the works on view accompanied by the expert, multidisciplinary lens and commentary of guest speakers from Brandeis faculty.

Installation view, “Passage," the Rose Art Museum, 2018. Photo by Heratch Ekmekjian.

Tuesday Smillie banner

Protest Banner Making Workshop and Presentation

September 8, 2018, 1 p.m.

Join us for a talk by Perlmutter Award winner Tuesday Smillie with images that are central to her practice. Protest banner making workshop to follow.

Tuesday Smillie, Together, 2017. Image courtesy the artist.

Jennifer Packer installation

Artist Talk: Jennifer Packer

April 26, 2018, 6:30 p.m.

Jennifer Packer discusses her work and practice, in the context of her first institutional solo exhibition, Tenderheaded.

Charles Mayer Photography.

Tony Lewis installation and portrait

Artist Talk: Tony Lewis

April 19, 2018, 6:30 p.m.

Tony Lewis discusses his art and practice, in relation to his Foster stairwell installation, 'Plunder'

Blueprint for Counter Education

"Three-Dimensional Chess" with Maurice Stein and Larry Miller

April 15, 2018, 1 p.m.

A conversation with the creators of Blueprint for Counter Education

Blueprint for Counter Education. Image courtesy of Inventory Press.

Installation image of Praying for Time

Close Looking: The Artist Is Here Now

March 28, 2018, 3:30 p.m.

Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator Luis Croquer focuses on a selection of works dominated by performance and performative actions in the exhibition Praying for Time.

Charles Mayer Photography.

Image of opening reception

Opening Reception

March 1, 2018, 7 p.m.

Join us to celebrate the opening of three new exhibitions.

Joe Bradley (installation view)

Artist Talk: Joe Bradley

January 25, 2018, 6:30 p.m.

Joe Bradley will discuss his art and practice in relation to his mid-career retrospective, on view until January 28.