2024 Programs and Events
In Conversation: Catherine Opie
December 5, 2024, 7 p.m.
Join Catherine Opie, in conversation with Thomas King, Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University, for a discussion of her Trojan Whore series, her interest in probing Americans’ culturally constructed identities, her artistic practice, and explorations of queer communities.
Catherine Opie. Photo by Heather Rasmussen.
Artist on Artist: Helina Metaferia and Sheida Soleimani
November 19, 2024, 7 p.m.
Artists Helina Metaferia and Sheida Soleimani discuss their creative practices, which meld photography, collage, and other mediums to mine complex sociopolitical histories while developing deep collaborative relationships with their activist subjects.
Helina Metaferia, 2022. Photo by Tommy Battle III. Courtesy of Helina Metaferia, and Sheida Soleimani, 2022. Photo by Mel Taing.
Voting, Democracy, Rights and Representation
November 1, 2024, 12:30 p.m.
Led by the Rose's Yasmine Vera and Madeleine Delpha, this tour will discuss artworks on view in the exhibitions "Lichtenstein100," "Face to Face: Portraits of Self and Others," and "Hugh Hayden: Home Work" that touch on American value systems, radical and revolutionary action, and civil rights.
Sante Graziani, America the Beautiful, 1967 [DETAIL]. Acrylic on canvas. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Bequest of Louis Schapiro, Boston, by exchange, 1968.12.
Virtual Screening: Roy Lichtenstein — A Documentary by Michael Blackwood
October 27, 2024, 12 a.m.
Get a front-row seat to the creative process of Roy Lichtenstein in this virtual screening of Michael Blackwood's illuminating 1975 documentary "Roy Lichtenstein."
Michael Blackwood, Roy Lichtenstein — A Documentary , 53.30 min. 1975 [Film Still].
Becoming Roy Lichtenstein
October 26, 2024, 5:30 p.m.
Art historian and scholar Avis Berman, author of "Roy Lichtenstein: The Impossible Collection" (Assouline Ultimate Collection, 2019), traces Lichtenstein's artistic development and the creation of his signature style, which redefined American art in the 1960s.
Roy Lichtenstein, Nurse, 1964 [DETAIL]. Oil and magna on canvas. © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation; D.F./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Voting, Democracy, Rights and Representation
October 23, 2024, 12:30 p.m.
Led by the Rose's Yasmine Vera and Madeleine Delpha, this tour will discuss artworks on view in the exhibitions "Lichtenstein100," "Face to Face: Portraits of Self and Others," and "Hugh Hayden: Home Work" that touch on American value systems, radical and revolutionary action, and civil rights.
Sante Graziani, America the Beautiful, 1967 [DETAIL]. Acrylic on canvas. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Bequest of Louis Schapiro, Boston, by exchange, 1968.12.
Home Werk: A Drag Tour
October 16, 2024, 6 p.m.
In this unique tour, drag artists Forrest Fleur, Paxx Headroom, and Psyclops create original drag looks inspired by works currently on view at the Rose Art Museum.
Photos courtesy of Forrest Fleur, Paxx Headroom, and Psyclops.
Art, Architecture and the Jews: A Story of Modernism and the Diaspora
September 28, 2024, 4 p.m.
Art and architecture conservator and author Rosa Lowinger, in conversation with architect and scholar David Fixler, will explore their responsibilities to the material world as they intersect with the dynamic forces of time and memory.
Photo courtesy of the author.
Fall Opening Celebration
September 25, 2024, 6 p.m.
Gather with friends, artists, and colleagues at the Rose Art Museum for a celebratory reception in honor of the opening of the museum's fall exhibitions: "Hugh Hayden: Home Work," "Lichtenstein100," and "Face to Face: Portraits of Self and Others."
Photo by Maddie Schroeder.
In Conversation: Hugh Hayden
September 24, 2024, 6 p.m.
Artist Hugh Hayden will discuss his work and practice, which, joined by WBUR's Arielle Gray, critically examines the "American Dream" and challenges and interrogates stereotypes and beliefs about class, race, and gender.
Hugh Hayden, 2020. Photo by Jess Laird. Courtesy of the artist.
Yoga at Light of Reason
September 10, 2024, 6 p.m.
Recharge at the Rose with yoga at Chris Burden’s permanent installation led by Brandeis Fitness Coordinator Kat Page. This yoga workshop is free and open to people of all fitness levels.
Photo by Maddie Schroeder.
Family Narratives in Face to Face: Portraits of Self and Others
August 21, 2024, 7 p.m.
Enjoy a virtual sneak peek of the fall exhibition "Face to Face: Portraits of Self and Others" with exhibition curators Dr. Gannit Ankori and Chad Sirois as they discuss family narratives embedded within the exhibition.
Laura Gilpin, Frances Nakai and Family [detail], 1950. Gelatin silver print. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Riverside Museum Collection, Rose Art Museum, 1971.570R.
The Birth of Pop and the Rose
August 14, 2024, 7 p.m.
In this virtual talk, Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator, along with Ella Amouyal, Fisher Summer Intern in American Art, will provide a sneak peek of the upcoming exhibition, "Lichtenstein100," and trace the links between the development of Pop art and the Rose Art Museum’s pioneering acquisitions of the early 1960s.
Roy Lichtenstein, Sweet Dreams, Baby! [detail], 1965. Screen print. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Charna Stone Cowan Student Loan Collection, 1971.818.1.
Yoga at Light of Reason
August 8, 2024, 6 p.m.
Recharge at the Rose with yoga at Chris Burden’s permanent installation led by Brandeis Fitness Coordinator Kat Page. This yoga workshop is free and open to people of all fitness levels.
Photo by Maddie Schroeder.
Create Date: Botanical Prints
August 6, 2024, 12 p.m.
Join the Rose Art Museum and Waltham Public Library for Storytime in the Park at Drake Playground. Participants will explore art and science as they read stories about nature and make vivid blue cyanotype prints using plant cuttings and sunlight.
Lot Lab Curatorial Tour with Boston Public Art Triennial
July 11, 2024, 3 p.m.
Take a tour of the Boston Public Art Triennial’s Lot Lab, an outdoor experimentation zone for site-specific contemporary public art in Charlestown. Led by curator Jasper A. Sanchez, you’ll learn about this year’s artists, Ifé Franklin, Matthew Okazaki, and Hugh Hayden.
Installation view, Gulf Stream, 2022. Photo by Chad Sirois.
Yoga at Light of Reason
June 26, 2024, 6 p.m.
Recharge at the Rose with yoga at Chris Burden’s permanent installation led by Brandeis Fitness Coordinator Kat Page. This yoga workshop is free and open to people of all fitness levels.
Photo by Maddie Schroeder.
Create Date: re: collections and Community
June 9, 2024, 11 a.m.
Join us for a day of family-friendly fun at the Rose Art Museum with drop-in artmaking activities, lawn games, a close-looking tour, and a pop-up Family Storytime with our friends from the Waltham Library.
Installation view, re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, June 25, 2021–June 16, 2024. Photo by Mel Taing.
Queer Imaginaries in the Permanent Collection
June 6, 2024, 12 p.m.
Celebrate Pride Month with a virtual talk featuring museum staff who identify as LGBTQ+, who will explore contemporary artists whose works build new worlds from queer perspectives.
Lari Pittman, Mix Vigorously and Ingest (#6), [detail], 1998. Acrylic, alkyd, aerosol enamel, gesso on paper. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Gift of Peter Norton, 2014.48.
[CANCELED] 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.
Virtual Tour of Noé Martínez: The Body Remembers
May 22, 2024, 7 p.m.
Curators Gannit Ankori and Circe Henestrosa explore Noé Martínez’s multimedia installation "The Body Remembers" and discuss the artist's references to his Indigenous Huastecan heritage and reflect upon the capacity for his art to act as an embodied expression of multigenerational trauma as well as a healing ritual.
Installation view, Noé Martínez: The Body Remembers, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, March 13–June 16, 2024. Julia Featheringill Photography.
[CANCELED] Imperiled but not Invisible: Memory, Resistance and Art
May 8, 2024, 6 p.m.
Photographer and activist Renee Cox will discuss her provocative self-portraits and her practice of employing alter-egos that empower imperiled bodies and reimagine Black constitutions and futures in the final session in the Imperiled Bodies: Slavery, Colonialism, Citizenship and the Logics of Gender-Based Violence seminar series.
Renee Cox, Yo Mama, 1993 [detail]. Gelatin silver print. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Gift of Gerald S. and Sandra Fineberg, 2020.9.3. © Renee Cox.
Sunset Yoga at Light of Reason
May 2, 2024, 7 p.m.
Led by Brandeis Fitness Coordinator Kat Page, recharge at the Rose with sunset yoga at Chris Burden’s permanent installation. This yoga workshop is free and open to people of all fitness levels.
Photo by Maddielane Schroeder.
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.
kiss & release: A Reading with Anthony DiPietro and Chen Chen
April 6, 2024, 3:30 p.m.
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.
Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts
April 6, 2024, 9 a.m.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Opening Reception — Noé Martínez: The Body Remembers
March 13, 2024, 6 p.m.
Gather with friends, artists, and colleagues, and enjoy light refreshments as the Rose Art Museum marks the opening of "Noé Martínez: The Body Remembers" with a celebratory reception.
Photo by Madeline Schroeder.
Reverberations: Music in re: collections
February 28, 2024, 12 p.m.
Rose Art Museum staff Yasmine Vera and Madeleine Delpha discuss works from "re: collections, Six Decades at the Rose Art Museum" that incorporate jazz, R&B, soul, and other Black musical traditions in this virtual talk.
Jamal Cyrus, Djeli Brown, 2019 [detail]. Found garment with leather pouches, marker. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University. Mortimer and Sara Hays Acquisition Fund, In memory of Jack Oliver Aronzon, 2020.6. © Jamal Cyrus; Courtesy of the artist and Inman Gallery, Houston, TX.
re: collections Tour
February 25, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Co-led by two Brandeis students, this 45-minute tour will highlight the artists on view whose practices challenge and dismantle long-held conventions of art and its histories to boldly reconstruct their own narratives, visual vocabularies, and artmaking practices.
Photo by Dan Holmes.
re: collections Tour
February 24, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Co-led by two Brandeis students, this 45-minute tour will highlight the artists on view whose practices challenge and dismantle long-held conventions of art and its histories to boldly reconstruct their own narratives, visual vocabularies, and artmaking practices.
Photo by Dan Holmes.
re: collections Tour
February 17, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Co-led by two Brandeis students, this 45-minute tour will highlight the artists on view whose practices challenge and dismantle long-held conventions of art and its histories to boldly reconstruct their own narratives, visual vocabularies, and artmaking practices.
Photo by Dan Holmes.
re: collections Tour
February 11, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Co-led by two Brandeis students, this 45-minute tour will highlight the artists on view whose practices challenge and dismantle long-held conventions of art and its histories to boldly reconstruct their own narratives, visual vocabularies, and artmaking practices.
Photo by Dan Holmes.
re: collections Tour
February 10, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
Co-led by two Brandeis students, this 45-minute tour will highlight the artists on view whose practices challenge and dismantle long-held conventions of art and its histories to boldly reconstruct their own narratives, visual vocabularies, and artmaking practices.
Photo by Dan Holmes.
re: collections Tours
February 10, 2024, 11:30 a.m.
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.
Gallery Talk: Susan Lichtman
February 8, 2024, 5 p.m.
Susan Lichtman discusses the exhibition "Susan Lichtman: At Home at the Rose" and her practice over her forty-year career as an artist and educator with Dr. Gannit Ankori, Director and Chief Curator of the Rose.
Susan Lichtman, Large Table with Corn, 2023 [detail]. Oil on hemp. Courtesy of the artist.
In Conversation: Salman Toor
February 1, 2024, 7 p.m.
Artist Salman Toor discusses his work, influences, and artistic practice in a virtual conversation with Dr. Gannit Ankori, Director and Chief Curator of the Rose.
Salman Toor, 2022. Photo by Bryan Derballa.
Asma Naeem: Salman Toor’s Brown Boys
January 24, 2024, 7 p.m.
Join curator and Baltimore Museum of Art director Asma Naeem for a virtual conversation exploring the exhibition "Salman Toor: No Ordinary Love" and Toor’s “brown boys that mine the complexities of being an immigrant, queer and human.”
Salman Toor, School Boys, 2021 [detail]. Oil on canvas.. © Salman Toor. Courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York.
Film Screening: JOYLAND
January 18, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
Join the Rose Art Museum and the Wicked Queer Film Festival for a screening of the 2022 film JOYLAND, the groundbreaking debut feature film from writer-director Saim Sadiq. The movie explores the many sides of love and desire in a patriarchal society.
JOYLAND, Oscilloscope Laboratories. 2022. 127 minutes.