2018 Programs
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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'
"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.
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.
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.