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Photo: Exterior of a Canadian museum

Visual Arts

Alum Is Revitalizing Canada’s Largest Museum

August 8, 2025

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

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

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

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

Juengling's lighting work on the Empire State Building. The skyscraper is lit up in red and white.

Arts & Culture

Lighting the World

November 20, 2020

A painting of the legs of a woman underwater as she kicks along, her legs reflected on the sand. The water around her is in shades of dark and light blue. She wears white bottoms.

Visual Arts

Gallery: Adrienne Elise Tarver (CFA’07)

November 20, 2020

A portrait photo of Barbara Marder

Arts & Culture

The Art of Glass Enamel

August 25, 2020

A painting by Amber Vittoria

Visual Arts

Gallery: Amber Vittoria

July 7, 2020

A portrait of painter Sedrick Huckaby sitting on a bench and sketching.

Alumni

Extraordinary Paintings, Ordinary People: Alum Sedrick Huckaby Paints his Family on a Grand Scale

February 18, 2020

Visual Arts

Gallery: Julie Gratz (CFA’11)

July 9, 2019

Haas conducts a tour of the exhibition

Local

Reimagining Ansel Adams

January 30, 2019

Jason Chase, painter and artist-in-residence at NanoLabs, poses with a black dress painted with Singularity Black paint that will be on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Arts & Culture

The New Black: the Least Reflective Paint Ever

October 10, 2018

Janet Lewin (CGS’90, COM’92), with droid BB-8 in a screening theater at Lucasfilm in San Francisco, takes Star Wars’ groundbreaking visual effects from ambitious ideas to fully executed realities. Photo by Mitch Tobias

Arts & Culture

Overseeing Behind-the-Scenes Magic for a Galaxy Far, Far Away

December 15, 2017

Alumni

COM Alum Brings Edgar Allan Poe to Light

October 30, 2017

COM Alum Brings Edgar Allan Poe to Light