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Photo: A picture of people looking at a painting of a house surrounded by greenery during an art installation

Fine Arts

New Stone Gallery Exhibition Proves You Can Go Home Again

July 17, 2024

Photo: A young man with long hair wearing a black tshirt and jeans, lifts his brush up to paint on a canvas.

Fine Arts

School of Visual Arts Annual BFA Thesis Exhibitions Celebrate Works by 33 BFA Seniors

May 2, 2024

Photo: A large building with tan-colored stone and black doors. There is a black metal arch with the numbers "855" outside of it

University News

College of Fine Arts Names New Directors for Schools of Theatre, Music, and Visual Arts

March 20, 2024

Photo: Photo: Artist Bob Freeman, a Black man with graying hair and a gray mustache, (CFA’71,’83) in his Waltham studio. The walls are used to hang his pieces, which are behind him. He is mixing paint on a slab while wearing a black turtleneck.

Arts & Culture

Robert T. Freeman’s Long Journey Home

February 7, 2024

Photo: (from left) Gregory Melchor-Barz, Dana Clancy, and Susan Mickey sit in chairs on a stage and look towards an unseen audience. Mickey waves a hand high in the air and smiles towards the audience.

Fine Arts

How to Make an Artistic Life: CFA Class Offers an Inside View

October 23, 2023

Photo: Portrait of Brice Marden, a white man with grey-brown hair and wearing black long sleeved shirt and pants, sits on a chair and looks over his shoulder at the camera. He sits in front of a wall full of large canvases featuring his paintings.

Tributes

Celebrated Abstract Artist and Alum Brice Marden Dies

August 18, 2023

Image: Photo of an oil on canvas painting with paper collage also used as a medium. Image shows a white woman wearing a long skirt and bandeau cobbled together with fabrics of various patterns. She holds a leash attached to a small kangaroo with a lei around its neck as a young child with black hair and wearing a red plaid shirt, black shirt, and white socks lies at her feet. They all stand in a bushy, green area as various other marsupials look to them from the distance.

Arts & Culture

Gallery: Haley Hasler (CFA’99)

August 8, 2023

Photo: A person with glasses in a red shirt with a beard smiles at the camera in front of multiple pieces of art on canvas behind them

Arts & Culture

First-of-Its-Kind Group Show Brings Together Artists from MFA Programs around Boston

June 21, 2023

Photo: A young man wearing a black shirt and shorts works on a large sculpture being displayed in an art gallery.

Exhibitions

Works by BFA Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking Graduates Now on View at Stone Gallery

May 8, 2023

Photo: A Black man adjusts a small painting on the wall for his MFA thesis exhibition. The painting on his left is a curvy canvas (looks like an outline of the number 8) with a pink background and a nude woman on the front. The top painting is of a landscape with houses in the same form as the one on the left.

Exhibitions

BU Art Galleries Play Host to 2023 MFA Painting and Sculpture, Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition Shows

April 6, 2023

A triangular figure in wooden natural color with pegs like golf tees in various bright colors like red, blue and green. The background is blue with shadows of the golf tee figures.

Arts & Culture

Gallery: Lee Maxey

March 27, 2023

Sam Weinberger (CFA’21) paints the BU rock with holiday flair as the student a cappella group the Allegrettos watches and sings on. A group of students wearing holiday hats and scarves sing as a young man bends down to spray paint a giant rock with a snowman holiday scene.

Watch Now

A Special Holiday Video Message from All of Us at BU Today

December 16, 2022

Photo: CFA professor, Josephine Halvorson poses for a photo. A white woman with shoulder length brown hair and wearing an olive green collared shirt smiles and poses next to a window.

University Lecture

Artist Josephine Halvorson Is Getting Up Close and Personal for Annual University Lecture

November 8, 2022

At right: Photo of Morel, smiling, while wearing a blue button down shirt and sitting on what looks like a porch, as gray siding can be seen behind him. He is a young person of color, and has short hair, trim at the sides and curly on top. At left: Collage of two people of color, presumably a woman, seated, and a man, standing at right. The woman looks like she's getting ready and has her left leg out towards the man, who holds it by the ankle; perhaps he is helping her put something on. The collage is made from fabric and painted paper. Some lines, such as the legs and faces, are drawn or painted in brown. The back wall is covered with pieces of paper and fabric of various colors and patterns.

Visual Arts

From Art School Star to Art World’s Rising Star

July 13, 2022

Photo of a family smiling and posing at an outdoor table during a the evening. A black man waves tot he camera as he hugs a young black girl next to him. Other black children sit around a table with a tan tablecloth and smile.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Museum of Fine Arts Juneteenth Free Open House

June 16, 2022

Photo of this year’s Kahn winners (from left): Savannah Panah (CFA’22), music and vocal performance (from left), Devon Russo (CFA’22), music and vocal performance, grand prize winner Gavin Fahey (CFA’22), painting, Chen Peng (CFA’22), painting, Mya Ison (CFA’22), theater arts and performance, and Noah Putterman (CFA’22), directing. A group of students dressed in business casual wear stand in a line and pose for the camera.

Fine Arts

Gavin Fahey (CFA’22) Named Grand Prize Winner at 2022 Kahn Awards Competition

May 17, 2022

Photo of Brianna Howard (CFA’22) standing in front of her work at the BFA Thesis Art Exhibit at Stone Gallery May 5. Brianna is white woman with blonde hair; she smiles with her hands in her pockets, wears a green jacket and black plants. From left, they are named Reposition, Overlapped, Proximity, Talking with the Shadows, and Remnant. The prints are mostly gray and tan colors and are abstract in nature, featuring long curving lines.

Fine Arts

2022 BFA Thesis Show a Dazzling Display of Graduating Seniors’ Work

May 9, 2022

Photo of CFA graduate student, Eva Lewis, leaning against a white table covered with paint and paint mixing tools. She is a young white woman with long red hair and bangs, and wears round glasses and a green sweater. Behind her, other student's paintings hang on the wall. White video play button is overlaid.

Fine Arts

Artist Eva Lewis (CFA’22) on Her Approach to Painting

April 9, 2022

Photo taken from behind Theo Tyson, the Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts at the MFA, regarding the work on display at Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection, particularly Ebony G. Patterson’s II piece Trees in a Forest. Tyson is a tall, young man of color with his hair pulled up, dressed in black and wearing a black backpack.

Visual Arts

Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection Celebrates Diverse Artists

February 7, 2022

Photo of artwork entitled “Matter of Time,” depicting a boy and his father sitting on a bench on the sidewalk. It is made from both paint and collage. The figures are gestalts and are faceless.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Visit the MFA’s New Exhibition, Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes

August 3, 2021

To Do Today: Visit the MFA’s New Exhibition, Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes