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Visual Arts

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

1/20/23 -- Boston, Massachusetts The opening of the Mathemalchemy Project Jan 20 at the 808 Gallery. The Mathemalchemy project became in 2020 an exciting collaborative enterprise, driven by the energy and enthusiasm of twenty-four mathematical artists and artistic mathematicians including BU’s Research Assistant Professor, Dr. Li-Mei Lim. After more than a year of meeting only remotely and fabricating components in their separate locations, they met in the summer of 2021 and built a large multimedia art installation that celebrates the creativity and beauty of mathematics. Photo by Cydney Scott for Boston University Photography

Visual Arts

Mathemalchemy: Art and Math Converge in New Show at 808 Gallery

February 16, 2023

Photo: A large tapestry hangs on a white gallery wall. Tapestry is made up of various shades of yellow threads and materials in various criss-cross patterns.

Arts on Campus

A Narrative about the Filipino Immigrant Experience at the 808 Gallery

November 21, 2022

Photo of Cey Adams (center, left) and show curator Liza Quiñonez (center, right) at the opening reception for the first-ever retrospective exhibition of Adams’ work, Cey Adams, Departure: 40 Years of Art and Design at the Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery, September 30. In the foreground: Makeeba McCreary (left) and Linda Yang. Four people talk and laugh in an art gallery.

VISUAL ARTS

Cey Adams, Creator of Hip-Hop’s Visual Language, Gets First-Ever Retrospective at Stone Gallery

October 18, 2022

Lowell-based artist Jaina Cipriano creates installations that evoke the joy and pain of childhood nostalgia. Here she sits atop one of her creations, a tilted blue house with a yellow roofline and door. She is wear a red dress.

Arts & Culture

Newly Remodeled 808 Gallery Opens with Immersive Show Exploring Fantastical Worlds

September 20, 2022

Photo of Instructor Sam Guy with his VASI drawing class. A masked man wearing a blue VASI labeled shirt and black face mask speaks to students as he stands in front of a metal easel featuring various charcoal sketches of heads. He holds a stick of charcoal in his hand as he gesticulates. A white, triangle play button is overlaid on the image.

Visual Arts

How to Draw by Seeing Differently

August 17, 2022

Photo of Arié Haddad helping to set up turf on wall. He stands on the ground as he helps hold up the turf for two others standing on ladders and attaching it to a cement wall.

Arts on Campus

Mural, Mural on the Wall: Two Student-Led Art Projects Installed on Campus

June 2, 2022

Photo of flags on Boston Common in Boston, which are placed there for Memorial Day, on a sunny day. Small American flags are planted in the ground in neat rows. in the distance tall city buildings can be seen, as well as people waling on a pathway below the flags.

Things-to-do

How to Spend Memorial Day Weekend in Boston

May 26, 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

Composite image. At left, photo of a painting by Jade Nortey, featuring an abstract portrait of a Black woman with wavy flowing hair. She smiles contently in front of a purple and pink swirling background. At right, Shaffer's landscape painting which features snowy pines. The sky color is very dull tan and the branches of the pine in the foreground have some snow on them.

Arts & Culture

Art Days Returns to Medical Campus, in Person Again

February 18, 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 Untangle Magazine’s creators Emily Wu (left) and Alyssa Yeh, 2 Asian American women. They sit on a brownstone stoop and smile to the camera.

Asian American Experience

BU Students Launch New Magazine Celebrating the Various Nuances of the Asian American Experience

January 21, 2022

Photo of Anne Everest Wojtkowski (1935-2014), the first woman to graduate from the Boston University College of Industrial Technology. The photo is black and white and pictures Wojtkowski writing at a desk with a lamp. She has short dark hair.

Arts & STEM

Honoring BU’s Women in STEM through Artwork

November 2, 2021

Boston University Terriers mens ice hockey team lines up at center ice while the national anthem plays at Agganis Arena.

Things-To-Do

The Weekender: October 14 to 17

October 14, 2021

a photo of the entrance of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston on a sunny day

Weekender

Fun Things to Do Indigenous Peoples Day Weekend

October 8, 2021

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

Photo of CFA SVA Director Dana Clancy in a red button down looking towards the camera as she holds a painted page of the NYTimes in a gallery of her work.

Visual Arts

Two Ways of Exploring Visual Narrative

July 21, 2021

Firelei Baez's sculpture depicting the ruins of Sans-Souci Palace on display at the ICA Watershed in Boston

Exhibitions

To Do Today: Visiting Haiti’s Past at This Year’s ICA Watershed

July 19, 2021

To Do Today: Visiting Haiti’s Past at This Year’s ICA Watershed