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Visual Arts

Photo: A digitial sketch of an orange train with flowers alongside its tracks. The train has "Malden" on its front

Visual Arts

Gallery: Grace Julian-Murthy (CFA’96)

March 25, 2025

Untitled (March 8, 2023), watercolor and pencil on paper, 20” x 16”. From the collection of James A. Garfield of San Francisco

Visual Arts

Gallery: Marc Schepens (CFA’12)

December 3, 2024

Illustrative depiction of the murder of Eric Garner, with police officers piling on top of a black man. The art style is black and white with significant blurred/artistic/stylistic choices

Visual Arts

Gallery: Shea Justice (CFA’93)

August 7, 2024

Photo: A man on a scissor lift creating art on the side of a construction site. The art pieces are large black and white landscape paintings with pops of red

Arts & Culture

My Big Idea: Covering Construction Sites with Art

March 15, 2024

Photo: Photo: Artist Bob Freeman, a Black man with graying hair and a gray mustache, (CFA’71,’83) in his Waltham studio. The walls are used to hang his pieces, which are behind him. He is mixing paint on a slab while wearing a black turtleneck.

Arts & Culture

Robert T. Freeman’s Long Journey Home

February 7, 2024

Image: Photo of an oil on canvas painting with paper collage also used as a medium. Image shows a white woman wearing a long skirt and bandeau cobbled together with fabrics of various patterns. She holds a leash attached to a small kangaroo with a lei around its neck as a young child with black hair and wearing a red plaid shirt, black shirt, and white socks lies at her feet. They all stand in a bushy, green area as various other marsupials look to them from the distance.

Arts & Culture

Gallery: Haley Hasler (CFA’99)

August 8, 2023

A photo of a ball of bees writhing on the ground. Big Buzz Social © Karine Aigner (1), Wildlife Photographer of the Year copy

Photography

Alum Awarded Top Prize In Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Competition

March 27, 2023

A triangular figure in wooden natural color with pegs like golf tees in various bright colors like red, blue and green. The background is blue with shadows of the golf tee figures.

Arts & Culture

Gallery: Lee Maxey

March 27, 2023

At right: Photo of Morel, smiling, while wearing a blue button down shirt and sitting on what looks like a porch, as gray siding can be seen behind him. He is a young person of color, and has short hair, trim at the sides and curly on top. At left: Collage of two people of color, presumably a woman, seated, and a man, standing at right. The woman looks like she's getting ready and has her left leg out towards the man, who holds it by the ankle; perhaps he is helping her put something on. The collage is made from fabric and painted paper. Some lines, such as the legs and faces, are drawn or painted in brown. The back wall is covered with pieces of paper and fabric of various colors and patterns.

Visual Arts

From Art School Star to Art World’s Rising Star

July 13, 2022

Photo of Melanee Harvey, an assistant professor of art history at Howard University. She is a youngish Black woman, with shoulder-length locs, large cat-eye glasses, who wears a blue floral blouse and a blue knit skirt. She smiles, and clasps her hands on her lap. She sits on a bench in the middle of a gallery. Art hangs on the walls around her.

Alumni

Opening Doors: Melanee C. Harvey (GRS ‘17)

May 12, 2022

two works of art by Nate Ethier. The works are patterned and colorful with greens, blues, reds, and purples

Visual Arts

Gallery: Nate Ethier (CFA’05) Exhibits New Works

April 25, 2022

Photo of an 11-week-old Basset Hound. The hound is held by its owner who wears a tan p-coat with a repeated pattern.

Photography

Fetching Success for The Dogist

February 3, 2022

Artistic rendering of The Embrace MLK monument in Boston by Hank Willis Thomas with MASS Design Group

Visual Arts

Realizing MLK’s Vision in Boston

January 13, 2022

a bronze statue of John F Kennedy against a blue sky background

Arts & Culture

Lincoln to Tubman to JFK, Alum Sculpts US History’s Most Famous Figures

December 3, 2021

Composite image: at left, Work entitled: The Pressure of Space Kim Beck: In Conversation, October 28, 2020, acrylic and ink on newsprint, 21.75" x 10.75". The work is a page of New York Times painted over with words and a small portrait of a women with dark hair. At right, Work entitled: You Learned By Doing Self Portrait: In conversation with Natasha Bregel, Audrey Goldstein, Danielle Krcmar, Phyllis McGibbon, Hilary Tolan, February 7, 2021, acrylic and ink on newsprint, 21.75" x 11". A page of the new york times is painted over with yellow strokes and small painting of a person.

Visual Arts

Gallery: New Work by Dana Clancy (CFA’99)

November 18, 2021

Photo of The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet. A group of 7 men in tuxedos play, the NYC skyline is seen through a window behind them.

Arts & Culture

CFA Alums in the Arts Reflect on How the Pandemic Affected Their Work

July 28, 2021

Artwork by Carl Chiarenza entitled Untitled 280, 1990, which is gelatin, silver print. The art resembles a mountain range reflected on the surface of a body of water. The work is black and white.

Photography

Gallery: The Works of Carl Chiarenza (COM’59, GRS’64)

July 24, 2021

A photo of the crime scene at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Alumni

Stephen Kurkjian Featured in This Is a Robbery Netflix Series on Gardner Museum Heist

April 13, 2021

Mordecai’s painting, “The Sign 3, 2020, 52" x 76" oil, graphite, charcoal canvas glued to panel. It is red, violet, and white, white abstract shapes that resemble a wine glass and violin.

Visual Arts

Gallery: The Art of Ruth Mordecai (CFA’70,’80)

March 25, 2021

Composite image of two portraits of artists and researchers Joel Christian Gill (’04) (left) and Charles Suggs (’20). Gill wears a light striped suit jacket and smiles in front of a bright blue background. Suggs wears a black V-neck shirt and glasses and smiles slightly on a light blue background.

Visual Arts

Using Their Work to Tell Stories from Black History

February 10, 2021

Using Their Work to Tell Stories from Black History