9:00AM - 6:00PM

SMFA Atrium + Project Space

Work from current painting students.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Mission Hill Gallery
160 St. Alphonsus Street
Roxbury Crossing, MA 02120  

Work from current students in the Post-Baccalaureate program.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery + Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium

Opening to Boston audiences this winter during the one year anniversary of the first mass protests in Tahrir Square, "Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo" brings together work by some of the most inspiring and influential video and new media artists working in Egypt today, including a multi-channel video installation by the late Ahmed Basiony featured in the Egyptian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale. 

10:00AM - 8:00PM

Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery + Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium

Opening to Boston audiences this winter during the one year anniversary of the first mass protests in Tahrir Square, "Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo" brings together work by some of the most inspiring and influential video and new media artists working in Egypt today, including a multi-channel video installation by the late Ahmed Basiony featured in the Egyptian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets available at main admission desk.

Michael Almereyda (born 1960) is an American film director, screenwriter and film producer. His most well known work is Hamlet (2000), starring Ethan Hawke. Read more...

12:15PM - 1:15PM

SMFA Main Building, B209 (Performance Room)12:15 pm

Jamie McMurry (b. 1971) has been an active artist, organizer and educator in the fields of performance, installation, video and conceptual art for more than 15 years. He has exhibited and taught extensively at various institutions and underground spaces all over the world. He is from Yakima, Washington and currently resides in Los Angeles.

12:00PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(Free with Museum admission)

Screening of Tahani Rached's film These Girls (El-Banate Dol)

This documentary follows a band of teenage girls living on the streets of Cairo. Already at a disadvantage as
impoverished and abused girls in a Muslim society, they encounter rape, drug addiction, prostitution, pregnancy
and motherhood on the streets. While the girls' troubles are not downplayed, neither are their courage, playfulness
and vibrant camaraderie.

10:00AM - 8:00PM

Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery + Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium

Opening to Boston audiences this winter during the one year anniversary of the first mass protests in Tahrir Square, "Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo" brings together work by some of the most inspiring and influential video and new media artists working in Egypt today, including a multi-channel video installation by the late Ahmed Basiony featured in the Egyptian Pavilion of the 54th Venice Biennale.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

SMFA Mission Hill Building, C112, 12:30–2 pm

On making lifestyle choices! This informal discussion featuring SMFA faculty Gerry Bergstein and Steve Lambert will NOT center on their artistic practices per se, but rather, on choices they've made around sustaining a lifestyle that supports their practice.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts
Free; ticket may be procured at main admission desk.

Cheyney Thompson is a New York-based artist whose work in painting and sculpture centers on issues of abstraction and representation. Read more...

12:30PM - 1:30PM

SMFA, Room B-311
Free and open to the public

"Sara VanDerBeek is every historicist's dream: an artist whose biography and practice seem so symmetrical that it's tempting to skip all of the written arguments and simply draw a diagram...read more

10:00AM - 6:00PM

SMFA B.A.G. Gallery

"Slivers" showcases three students, each with a primary focus in fiber-based arts. The opportunity to exhibit this range of works on a large scale allows work in fibers at SMFA to be shown in a way that might not otherwise be represented in such a scope, showcasing only a portion of work being produced at the School in such mediums. Conceptually, the work is linked by a common thread—constructing identity by means of bodily extension, manifested as external objects, handmade and consumer products. These act to inform a concept of the self through memory, adornment and the telling of a story

Produced and curated by Max Colby
Co-curators: Abbey Campbell and Margarita Kruchinskaya

10:00AM - 6:00PM

SMFA Atrium + Project Space

Work from current drawing students.

12:30PM - 2:30PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
(Free with Museum admission)

Lecture with "Histories of Now: Six Artists from Cairo" participating artist, Mohamed Abla.

2:30PM - 3:30PM

SMFA, Room A203
Free and open to the public

Mike Perry is a designer and artist working in a variety of mediums, including—but not limited to—books, magazines, newspapers, clothing, drawing, painting and illustration.  Read more...

8:00PM - 10:00PM

The Library Sounds series kicks off with Jed Speare who is, among other things, a sound artist with an interest in field recordings and musique concrete. Jed acts as artistic director of Mobius Artists Space which has been a home to sound and performance artists in Boston for the past 35 years. He'll be performing and talking about the 30th anniversary of his Smithsonian Folkways album Cable Car Soundscapes. Check out his full bio at www.mobius.org .

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets are available at MFA ticket desks

"The viewer sutures the disparate elements together in observation, completing Wray's strange and stunning union of returned repression and aggregated sublimation. The result is an aesthetic garden of the imagination made palatable, real and synaesthetically sublime." -Keith Mayerson, Bomb Magazine Read more...

6:00PM - 9:00PM

Mission Hill building, SMFA
160 S. Alphonsus Street
Boston, MA 02120

Over 100 artists in SMFA's Master of Fine Arts program will hold their second annual Grad Open Studios event, March 2 + 3, 6–9 pm.

The vast array of work on display by students from across the United States and abroad creates a unique chance to see inside the daily life of an MFA student.