While classes may be in session, it is the policy of SMFA:
- that students be encouraged to observe their appropriate religious holy days;
- that instructors strive to facilitate this by allowing absence from classes for such purposes, and by trying to ensure that no examinations, reviews or other mandatory class assignments are scheduled for or due on such holy days and;
- that instructors provide ample opportunities for such students to make up work missed on such occasions without penalty.
Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor is an anthropologist and artist who works in film, video and photography. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at Harvard University, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL). SEL supports innovative and immersive media practices to explore the affective fabric of human and animal existence and the aesthetics and ontology of the natural world. His works include In and Out of Africa (1992), Sweetgrass (2009), an unsentimental exploration of sheep-farming in Montana, and, most recently, Leviathan (2012), an experimental documentary on New Bedford fisherman made with Véréna Paravel. His co-filmmaker Véréna Paravel is a French anthropologist whose non-fiction feature Foreign Parts was shown widely. Her work explores evanescent forms of intimacy, mediation and space. Since 2009, she has been a Fellow at the Film Study Center and a postdoctoral associate of the SEL. She is currently a Radcliffe Fellow.
BAG Gallery, Project Space + Weems Atrium, SMFA
Alfond Auditorium MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.
Bill Arning is the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. After arriving in Texas in 2009, Arning organized solo exhibitions of Marc Swanson, Matthew Day Jackson and the late Stan VanDerBeek. Jackson and VanDerBeek were jointly organized with the MIT List Visual Arts Center where Arning was exhibitions curator from 2000-2009. At MIT he organized shows of AA Bronson, Cerith Wyn Evans and a retrospective of the Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler. From 1985 to 1996 Arning was director of White Columns in New York City where he organized groundbreaking first solo shows for many of the best known artists of his generation, including John Currin, Marilyn Minter, Andres Serrano, Richard Phillips, Cady Noland and Jim Hodges, among many others. Arning has written on art for journals such as Artforum, Art in America, and Parkett and multitudes of international museum publications.
The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library
Horticultural Hall, 2nd Floor
300 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-369-3385
Hours: Monday–Friday, 1–5 pm, except major holiday
The MFA's William Morris Hunt Memorial Library has collaborated with SMFA for 14 exhibitions of student work. On view February 11–April 19, 2013, the current exhibition features artists' book produced with print-on-demand technology.
Curated by SMFA faculty members Hillary Binda and Chantal Zakari, it features work by: Avery Bazemore, Rachel Bernardini, Haley A. Bishop, Paul Butler, Heisue Chung, Crystal Fenner, Geoffrey Hewer-Candee, Kristen Hoops, Ximena Izquierdo, Kate Kincaid, Sarah Kroll, Phyllis Labanowski, Elçin Marasli, Kelly McDermott, Elizabeth Noftle, Jessica Thistlewaite, Rebecca Volynsky and Ben Wu.
