10:00AM - 5:00PM

Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery

Organized in response to Sol LeWitt's 1971 Wall Drawing #118, which was conceived and installed at SMFA that year, "Something Along Those Lines," is a dynamic group exhibition featuring nine modern and contemporary artists who blend conceptual, sculptural and performative engagements with the formal elements of drawing: Adel Abdessemed, Ann Carlson + Mary Ellen Strom, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gego, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Fred Sandback and Lawrence Weiner.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Mission Hill building Gallery, SMFA

First exhibition curated by the Mission Hill Gallery Student Committee, "SUMMER CAMP 2012" includes works by: Annie Blazejack, Caroline Board, Jessica Borusky, Sophie Chou, Case Hathaway-Zepeda, Laura Fischman, Ryan Kish, Lindsay Kocur, Neerja Kothari, Coe Lapossy, Emily Lombardo, Maia Lynch, Katrina Majkut, Monica Lynn Manoski, Vanessa Michalak, Joe Joe Orangias, David Richmond, Constance Sawyer, and Carl Vestweber

Closing reception: October 2, 5–7 pm

Thanks to the support of the Mission Hill Gallery Student Committee: Michael Macmahon, Monica Manoski, Ryan Kish, David Richmond, Connie Sawyer, P.T. Sullivan, Carl Vestweber, Rebecca Williams.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Weems Atrium and BAG Gallery, SMFA

The 2012–13 class of post-baccalauretes presents "Going" on view September 24–October 12. Reception: October 4, 5:30–7:30 pm.

5:30PM - 7:30PM

Weems Atrium, SMFA

Reception for the fall Post-Bac exhibition, "Going."

12:00PM - 1:45PM

SMFA, A207 (Mezzanine)

Katie Peterson is Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts University. She is the author of a book of poems, This One Tree (New Issues, 2006) and the forthcoming collections The Accounts (University of Chicago, 2013) and Permission (New Issues, 2014), and the recipient of several fellowships including an individual artist grant, from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts and a Radcliffe Fellowship. Presented by the SMFA English Department/Visual and Critical Studies Department.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained at MFA ticket desks and kiosks

Lecture by photographer and found of the Chiapas Photography Project Carlota Duarte.

10:00AM - 8:00PM

Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery

Organized in response to Sol LeWitt's 1971 Wall Drawing #118, which was conceived and installed at SMFA that year, "Something Along Those Lines," is a dynamic group exhibition featuring nine modern and contemporary artists who blend conceptual, sculptural and performative engagements with the formal elements of drawing: Adel Abdessemed, Ann Carlson + Mary Ellen Strom, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Gego, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Fred Sandback and Lawrence Weiner.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained at MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

Jered Sprecher's studio practice explores the "handwriting" of humankind. The vocabulary that he draws from is focused on the vast array of marks and images in one's surroundings. From this vocabulary he samples visual motifs and imports them into his paintings and drawings. These works continually focus on remnants and fragments that are captured in the midst of change, then edited and fused together in the space of painting.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Mission Hill building Gallery, SMFA

The second in a series of exhibitions developed by the Mission Hill Gallery Student Committee (Ryan Kish, Michael MacMahon, Monica Manoski, David Richmond, Constance Sawyer, Paul Sullivan, Carl Vestweber, Rebecca Williams) "Fear, Pessimism and Anxiety" is on view October 15–30, with a closing reception on October 30, 5–7 pm.

Participating artists:
Andrea Barone, Annie Blazejack, Monica Filippenko, Laura Harrison, Case Hathaway-Zepade, Sunyong Hwang, Hilary Irvine, Muge Karamanci, Charlotte Lewis, Greg Lookerse, Maia Lynch, Monica Manoski, Vanessa Michalak, Samara Pearlstein,Heather Rankin, David Richmond, Molly Segal, Tyler Smith, Paul Sullivan, Keena Tarrant, Garima Tripathy, Ashley Wood, Esther Zabronsky.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

SMFA, B311

"Photography, for me, is about doing something with and about what's immediately around us, even in the most mundane of places and times. It's about discovering words and ways of seeing that are new—this is the heart of making worlds visible, using photography to do rather than to merely say." -Tom Rankin

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

"This project was designed to be a narrative, experienced in four components, which can be understood in relation to each other. The components are "Ground Cover" a fabric sculpture that refers to a lava field, "Shade Cloth", a fabric cloud, "Water Feature" a torrent of 20,000 white rayon tassels pouring down from the ceiling above, and "Dynamo" a stainless steel sphere lit from within and casting its red/ orange glow on the surrounding walls." –Lee Boroson

7:00PM - 8:30PM

Paris-based Art Historian Julie Sissia discusses "The Two Germanies at the Paris Biennale, 1967-1982"
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Room B-311

Free and open to the public
Lecture will be in English.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

"Mnemonic" performance by Katrina Chamberlin
Thursday October 25 + Friday October 26
In conjunction with the SMFA exhibition "Something Along Those Lines" on view September 13-November 3
Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery

Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to receive a permanent tattoo of a small blue dot on the location of their choosing. First performed at MCA Chicago in 2011, the Boston performance will function as a performative response to Wall Drawing #118: Fifty random points all connected by straight lines by Sol LeWitt, on view in the Grossman Gallery.

To be a participant and sign up for a permanent tattoo, click here: http://mnemonic.genbook.com
More information at www.smfa.edu/lines

10:00AM - 5:00PM

"Mnemonic" performance by Katrina Chamberlin
Thursday October 25 + Friday October 26
In conjunction with the SMFA exhibition "Something Along Those Lines" on view September 13-November 3
Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery

Visitors to the exhibition will have the opportunity to receive a permanent tattoo of a small blue dot on the location of their choosing. First performed at MCA Chicago in 2011, the Boston performance will function as a performative response to Wall Drawing #118: Fifty random points all connected by straight lines by Sol LeWitt, on view in the Grossman Gallery.

To be a participant and sign up for a permanent tattoo, click here: http://mnemonic.genbook.com
More information at www.smfa.edu/lines

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

"As members of the community, we have been affected by various problems that our society is facing: loneliness, homelessness, forced migration, famine, water scarcity, climate and change. And as artists, we develop poetic strategies in an attempt to address these issues. Like Joseph Beuys, we support the idea that art can act as a catalyst for social change. Together we believe that the creative potential of every individual no longer needs to be proven, it needs to be fully recognized and converted into initiatives that will engage a wider range of community members, whether they are street sellers, passers-by, scientists, museum curators or visitors." –Lucy and Jorge Orta, from an interview with Valerie Knochel Abecassis

5:00PM - 7:00PM

Mission Hill building Gallery, SMFA

Reception for "Fear, Pessimism and Anxiety" plus artist talks from:  Annie Blazejack, Case Hathaway-Zepeda, Greg Lookerse, Maia Lynch, Doug Richmond and Ashley Wood.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts
Free tickets may be obtained at any MFA ticket desk or kiosk.

John Brown was born in Dumfries in the south west of Scotland and grew up on a large garden estate called Threave where his father worked. In 1985, he moved to Edinburgh to study for a degree in drawing and painting at Edinburgh College of Art and became one of the first to go on and graduate with a master's degree in painting in 1991. During this time, he was awarded a number of travelling scholarships that enabled him, after graduating, to make extensive tours of Europe and the United States. On returning to Scotland in 1994, he began teaching part time at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) and Grays School of Art in Aberdeen. This has since led on to a more permanent position at ECA where John works with a wide range of students in the School of Drawing and Painting. Read more...