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08/30/2026

Today, we’re honoring the life and spotlighting the work of Karen Canner Moss, a stalwart of the Boston-area art scene and School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) graduate, who passed away this July 🖤

During the long professional career in art that followed her time at SMFA, Karen’s painting focused on issues as diverse as the interaction between human and animal worlds, Victorian explorers and naturalists, the changing nature of childhood, incarceration in the United States.

A keen social and environmental consciousness informed all of her work, including those currently in the Tufts University Permanent Collection. Her fanciful satire Control (2018, pictured above) illustrates the artist’s unique ability to confound and enchant simultaneously. The work is featured in “Then to Now: SMFA Alumni Across Five Decades”, organized by TUAG Graduate Exhibitions Intern Aiden Levy (MA, ’27) in conjunction with the 150th anniversary of the SMFA, on view at TUAG / Medford in the Slater Concourse at the Aidekman Arts Center.

08/26/2026

You’re Invited! ✨

📅 Thursday, September 24
🕚 6–8PM
📍Aidekman Arts Center / 40 Talbot Avenue

Please join us at TUAG / Medford for a Community Reception celebrating Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing, the first institutional survey of work by the Chicago-based artist and Kemp’s first Boston exhibition since his time as a combined-degree student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University (BA/BFA ’91).

RSVP at the link in our bio 🔗

08/24/2026

We woke up with something to cheer about on Friday, with “SMFA at 150: Looking Back” headlining the Boston Globe’s (The Boston Globe) Weekend Edition 📣

In his rave review, Arts Writer Mark Feeney reports that this “rumbustious” exhibition is full of “satisfaction and fizz” 💫 With September on the horizon, we’re open Tues–Sunday 11am to 5pm (with new late hours until 8pm on Thursdays!) in Boston and Medford to get you into the school spirit.

If you missed grabbing a copy in print, check out the full review and register for the SMFA 150th Anniversary Party and Community Reception at the link in our bio 🔗

08/21/2026

Thank you so much to Gee Wesley and Frieze (Frieze) for this wonderful, deeply thoughtful review of our solo show with Spring 2026 exhibiting artist Arnold J. Kemp (Arnold Joseph), “Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing” ✨

In “Masks and Misdirection: The Trickster Tendencies of Arnold J. Kemp,” Wesley brilliantly dissects the multifarious masks of Kemp’s transdisciplinary practice, that work not to conceal, but as an “instrument of revelation” 🎭

Read the full piece at the link in our bio and plan your visit to see “Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing”—now on view at TUAG / Medford 🔗

📸 by Tim Correira Photography

08/20/2026

Join us on September 17 from 6-8PM for the SMFA at 150 Community Celebration, featuring “SMFA at 150: Looking Back.” This milestone anniversary honors 150 years of groundbreaking arts education at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts and brings together alumni, students, artists, cultural leaders, neighbors, and friends for an evening of connection, reflection, and celebration.

RSVP at the link in our bio 🔗

08/14/2026

“Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing” is open at TUAG / Medford ✨ Come by this weekend to experience the monumental scale and minute materiality of the Tufts/SMFA alum’s sculpture, painting, printmaking, and photography.

Visit us this summer, then join us on September 24 from 6–8PM for a community-wide reception celebrating this landmark survey exhibition. Register at the link in our bio 🔗

08/11/2026

two chic locations, one chic program 💅 explore all we do at TUAG and plan your visit at the link in our bio 🔗

08/07/2026

Across many of Fall 2026 exhibiting artist Arnold J. Kemp’s (Arnold Joseph) oeuvre, a shared materiality emerges among the subtle sheen of mask-like figures in works like “For the Poets,” pictured above.

To make these pieces, Kemp runs aluminum foil through a printing press, inking, and reprinting. The artist prints directly from the pressed aluminum foil, which becomes what Kemp calls a “skin-like object” after printing, which is then collaged into the surface of the work. This combination of techniques embraces what Kemp refers to as the “indexical”: “an indication of the body, like lipstick on the side of a coffee cup, that someone was there.” 💋

Explore decades of work from Kemp’s deeply transdisciplinary practice in “Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing,” now on view at TUAG / Medford, Tues–Sunday, 11am-5pm with special late hours on Thursday until 8pm. Learn more and plan your visit at the link in our bio 🔗

Image: Arnold J. Kemp, For the Poets, 2021. Graphite, ink, acrylic, and aluminum foil on canvas, 69 x 69 in. Image courtesy of the artist and Martos Gallery, New York.

08/04/2026

⚠️ ATTN ALUMNI ARTISTS: You have until Monday, August 10 to submit your application to be considered for the 2026 Traveling Fellowship!

Each year, the Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) (SMFA at Tufts) at Tufts University administer up to 10 awards of $10,000 for eligible SMFA at Tufts alumni to pursue travel and research related to their art practice. There is no submission fee for applicants.

Jurors for the 2026 Traveling Fellowships include Queens-based interdisciplinary artist Serena Chang (Serena Chang), cultural historian and curator Angela T. Tate (), and curator, editor, and researcher Madeline Weisburg (Madeline Weisburg).

Explore the work of past fellowship recipients above and learn more about the program and submit your application at the link in our bio 🔗

Images: Kelly Taylor Mitchell (Kelly Taylor Mitchell) “Pano da Costa #1” (detail), 2024. Courtesy the artist. Samantha Nye (Samantha Nye), “My Heart’s In A Whirl”, video installation at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 2021. Helina Metaferia (Helina Metaferia), “Headdress 30”, 2021. Installation view of “Dinora Justice: The Lay of the Land” (Dinora Justice), Edward H. Linde Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. November 18, 2023–April 14, 2024. © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Photo: Ian Justice Photography.

07/28/2026

We were thrilled to open our doors for our Fall 2026 season today, with “Arnold J. Kemp: Not One Thing” at TUAG / Medford and “SMFA at 150: Looking Back” at TUAG / Boston, two sweeping exhibitions that spotlight the legacies of experimental artistic practices at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts in its 150th year.

Both TUAG locations are open Tuesday through Sunday 11AM-5PM with new late night hours until 8PM on Thursdays, and we can’t wait for you to join us for our community-wide celebrations on September 17 in Boston and September 24 in Medford – RSVP and plan your visit at the link in our bio 🔗

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