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“Passages” 2026 MFA Thesis Reception
Friday, May 15th from 5 - 8 PM
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SAVE THE DATE! Our 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition opens Tuesday May 5th and runs through Sunday May 16th! 🌠🎇🎆

Join us for the closing reception on Friday, May 15th from 5 - 8 PM ✨💫🌟

📍40 Talbot Ave, Medford MA @tuftsartgalleries

Participating artists 🌀
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Kyuin Baik @kyuinbaik
Jemma Byun @jemmabyun
Catherine Chen @cathart10
Christine Chiang @yicistudio
Dany Fuentes @coandlee
Lindsey Filowitz @lindseyfil
Laura Hinojosa Silva @laurasofiahinojosa
Emmaline Kenny @emmaline.v.k
Gracie Korstjens @cluster.of.bugs
SangBin Lee @coandlee
Ji Eun Lim @limjieun.studio
Penglong Ma @pl.malone
Armando Olivera
Daniel Rumsey
Ghazaleh (G) Seidabadi @ghazaleh.seidabadi
Aaron Seriff-Cullick @freshprinceofbelaaron
Simi Stone @simistoneofficial
Liangsi Wang

Curated by ✨Max Gruber

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@smfa.mfa @tuftsartgalleries @smfaattufts @tuftsuniversity taken in Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University by @smfa.mfa

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5 months ago

Get to know our incoming graduate students! This past week, Grad Admissions shared artwork from our incoming MFA, MA and Post-Baccalaureate students. Welcome to SMFA at Tufts! 🔥

1. "Yogini, Battle for Peace" by Riya Ashby (MFA '28) @deviashbystudios
2. "My Own Sun" by Javid Hasanli (PB '27) @cavid.hasanli
3. "Crown Shyness" by Beverly Sky (MA '28) @beverlyskyartworks
4. Untitled Objects by Christine Vogensen (MA '28) @vogensenstudio
5. "Meeting at the Crowstone" by Ian Clifford (PB '27) @domovzy by @smfa.mfa

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Get to know our incoming graduate students! Throughout the week, Grad Admissions is sharing artwork from our incoming MFA, MA and Post-Baccalaureate students. Welcome to SMFA at Tufts! 🔥⠀
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1. "Construct 2" by Molly Lynch (MFA '28) @mlynch.painting ⠀
2. "Mom and Dad" by Sophie Devaney (MFA '28) @sophingtondraws ⠀
3. "Tina" by Leo McNamee (MFA '28) @Leos.creations ⠀
4. "Brush Yer Teef" by Mar Grogan (MFA '28) @mmgrogan ⠀
5. "Khanjar" by Rana Moeinzad (MA '27) @therealranamoeinzad ⠀ by @smfa.mfa

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Get to know our incoming graduate students! Throughout the week, Grad Admissions is sharing artwork from our incoming MFA, MA and Post-Baccalaureate students. Welcome to SMFA at Tufts! 🔥

1. "A Collection of Homes" by Sophia Kosel (MFA '28) @sophiakosel
2. "Second Baptism " by Elizabeth Guirguis (MFA '28) @art_elizabethg
3. " The Body is a House" by Dalton Gillespie (MFA '28) @dalton.tattoos
4. "Anger in July" by Allen Wang (MFA '28) @artsyallen
5. " The Score of Vanity" by Yuyan Xin (MFA ’28)
6. "Magazine" by Morgan Dent ( MA '28) @thetravelingrollei by @smfa.mfa

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SMFA MFA SUMMER SIDEWALK ART SALE 🌟
Come support SMFA MFA artists at our Summer Sidewalk Art Sale! We’ll be selling artwork, prints, food, and more treasures 🌞
📍Outside the SMFA Front Courtyard
230 Fenway, Boston, MA 02115

🗓️ Saturday, July 25 | 12–4 PM
🗓️ Saturday, August 1 | 12–4 PM

Come browse, shop, and support the work of SMFA MFA artists! ✨ taken in School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University by @smfa.mfa

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In the 1930s, the visual arts were suddenly viewed as academic disciplines and required related degrees from accredited institutions. In 1945, SMFA and Tufts University began their partnership, offering a BS in Art Education - which later became the MAT degree - and formalized the BFA program in 1956. The MFA degree came along in 1959, likely to accommodate SMFA's first class of official Bachelor’s of Fine Arts graduates who wanted to continue their education.

Read more about the legacy of SMFA's MFA program on our website.

Images: Scans from a 1978-1979 course catalog, including MFA offerings. by @smfa.mfa

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3 months ago

Congratulations to all graduating MFA students on the success of their show "Passages" and receiving their hoods

Photography by Peter Gumaskas for Tufts University Two students in graduation robes standing in front of a large scale art installation taken in School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University by @smfa.mfa

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On view May 5–17 at Tufts University Art Galleries in Medford, the 2026 MFA Thesis Exhibition “Passages” presents thesis work by nineteen MFA candidates, showcasing their richly varied practices and development in the MFA program. The exhibition’s title speaks to the journey each student has undergone, in art and in life, forming a conceptual throughline for the works on view 🌀

“Passages” is guest curated by @icaboston Assistant Curator Max Gruber (@_maxgruber) and organized by Alexi Antoniadis, Dina Deitsch, Madeline Ditzler, Laurel Nakadate, Sarah Prickett, and Kenson Truong.

Join us in celebrating the graduates during a public reception on Friday, May 15 from 5-8PM at TUAG / Medford (Aidekman Arts Center).

The 2026 BFA Senior Thesis exhibition “Until we run out of space”, on view from May 6–17 at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA), features the work of graduating BFA and Combined Degree seniors in the Atrium, Anderson Auditorium, Grossman Gallery, B305 and B307 galleries, SMFA Library, and across the SMFA campus. Join the SMFA Dean’s Suite for a drop-in reception celebrating the student artists May 16, 5–8PM.

Both TUAG locations are currently closed for installation. We’ll see you in May ✨

Images: 1) Jemma Byun, “Self Portrait,” 2026. 2) Tanvi Amrit, “Musical©ity,” 2024. Digital Animation. Courtesy of the artist. by @smfa.mfa

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5 months ago

Stainedglass workshop outing @essexartcenter sponsored by @smfa_sga taught by the incredible @art.nicole by @smfa.mfa

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6 months ago

Extrañando las tierras de mis raises - las telas de mi vida - con una fuerza dolorosx. No puedo imaginar el sentimento de estar atrapado en un país que no es tuyo, embarazadx con deseos de familia, pero tienes un cuerpo regulado por el estado. Estoy aprendiendo, siempre. Gracias @smfa.mfa por otra beca más, que apoyó mi crecimiento cultural, espiritual, creativo, y el tamaño de mi corazón. 🫀 by @smfa.mfa

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Join Tufts University Art Galleries and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) (@smfaattufts) at Tufts MFA Program (@smfa.mfa) for an artist lecture with Spring 2026 exhibiting artist Michelle Lopez (@michellelopezstudio), whose sublime, spellbinding exhibition “Michelle Lopez: Shadow of a Doubt” is on view at TUAG / Medford ✨RSVP at the link in our bio and learn more below 🔗

Lopez is known for her rigorous conceptual practice and boldly experimental approach to processes and material, creating strikingly precarious and vulnerable forms that speak to the instability of supposedly fixed or rigid societal structures. Reinvesting in the political power of sculpture, Lopez similarly wrestles with the medium’s legacy, recasting minimalist and post-minimalist forms into critiques of capitalism, chauvinism, and other narratives of hegemony.

Recent solo exhibitions include: ‘Lasso Reprieve’ (Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, 2023); ‘Ballast & Barricades’ (ICA Philadelphia, 2019); ‘House of Cards’ (Simon Preston, Gallery, 2018); ‘Halyard’(Alt/Protocinema, Istanbul, 2016); ‘Angels, Flags, Bangs’ (The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut, 2014); shows at Simon Preston, New York in 2009, 2011, and 2015; and ‘The Year We Made Contact’ (LA><art, Los Angeles, 2008). Lopez’s work “Pandemonium” (2025) is currently featured in the @whitneymuseum Biennial. by @smfa.mfa

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7 months ago

Join us for the SMFA Post-Baccalaureate ’26 exhibition, Progressions in Color! The reception will be held on Friday, March 27 from 1–3 PM at the Mission Hill Gallery, located at 160 Saint Alphonsus Street, Boston, MA 02115. The exhibition will be on view from March 23 – April 3. Food and beverages will be provided.

@smfaattufts @smfalibrary @smfa_postbacc @tuftsuniversity @tuftsartgalleries taken in School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University by @smfa.mfa

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