Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Admission is free and open to the public. Tickets are available at any MFA ticket desk on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Part of the Professional Practices for Visual Artists lecture series, funded by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.

Marlene McCarty's practice involves drawing, politics, activism and working commercially. She worked with Tibor Kalman at the famed multidisciplinary design firm M&Co. and also at the Museum of Modern Art. In the late 1980s McCarty was a member of Gran Fury, the AIDS activist collective. In 1989, she founded Bureau, a company whose mandate was to produce art, film titles, political work and brand identities. Under the auspices of Bureau, McCarty designed film titles for "Far from Heaven," "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "American Psycho," "Velvet Goldmine," and "The Ice Storm" among many others. Included in her roster of achievements is a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant (2007) and a Guggenheim Foundation Grant (2002-2003).

February 19–August 21, 2011
Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Co-curated by students Chelsea Coon and Stephen St. Francis Decky this exhibition presents work by five Museum School artists whose highly distinct visions suggest the unlimited potential for new life forms and tap into our long history of invented beings. Sofya Belinskaya, Amanda Bonaiuto, Chelsea Coon, Stephen St. Francis Decky and Cara Mayo.

Artist Talk: March 9, 6–7 pm.