Slater Concourse Gallery

A Tufts community Gallery open to campus groups, faculty, staff, students and alumni

June and July 2009
Alain Eschenlauer's Rorschach's Insects

Alain Eschenlauer is a young artist who lives and works in Strasbourg, France. His work is mostly inspired by Nature and its variations. In this exhibit, he presents artworks juxtaposing entomologically precise drawings of insects and symmetrical inkblots reminiscent of the Rorschach’s tests. Oscillating between figuration and abstraction, between zoological truth and psychiatric suggestion, the artist invites us to have a new vision of the insects and our surrounding world. The multiple facets of our complex relationships to these creatures are also illustrated by texts presenting the point of view of various people (geneticist, entomologist, psychiatrist, pest controller, Zoological Museum curator, children, etc).
This exhibit is made possible thanks to the support of the Boston-Strasbourg Sister City Association, the Consulat de France in Boston and the Strasbourg’s city hall.

May 2009
"Keep the Fire Burning; Explorations of a Modern Chickasaw Identity"

is presented by Kristen Dorsey for the Slater Concourse Gallery.
Through jewelry, sculpture, and video, the exhibit traces Dorsey's
development as an artist and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. Dorsey will exhibit ten small metal pieces in addition to a steel wall sculpture,two video shorts, and a video projection. Dorsey is completing her fifth year in a five year combined degree program with Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

April 2009
Journey From Lascaux: From Nature to Man
Paintings by David Burtner; presented by Jennifer Burtner (Lecturer, Tufts Anthropology Department)

During the 1980s my father would take me on long hikes through the natural rock formations west of our El Paso home. Sitting in the shade of the rock overhangs, the only cool place in miles of desert all around, he would explain how for hundreds of years this natural spring surrounded by rocks had been used as watering places and the basis of trade routes for the indigenous peoples who lived there and the European and Latin American settlers who followed them. Our house in El Paso was filled with my father’s paintings, reflecting the colors of the water, stone, animals and humans of these landscapes, both in their historic and contemporary iterations. The earliest of these works were burnt brown, orange and mustard toned abstractions, inspired by the indigenous pictographs of the American West and of the extensive Paleolithic paintings found in France during the Second World War in Lascaux. The more recent pieces were lighter, brighter large-scale figures of men and women in flight, dancing, running, soaring, and ultimately falling back to earth. These paintings and the images, forms, histories and myths that they are informed by and illustrate became the backdrop of my intellectual life. They join two life-times - my father’s and mine - spent in museums, studios, natural heritage sites and in environmental and human rights activism. They are the illustrations which today are the core of my ethnographic work and which I use to teach my Tufts and SMFA students about discursive analysis (narrative and textual construction and deconstruction), aesthetics, and the use of visual images and symbols – which are so key in linking the fine arts to the social sciences. As such they are teaching tools for another generation of academics, artists, and activists - who we hope will take a moment to sit, pause and be inspired. - Jennifer Burtner

March 2009
Men anpil, chay pa lou:
With many hands, the burden is light
RESPE: Ayiti

Men anpil, chay pa lou: With many hands, the burden is light is a representation of RESPE: Ayiti’s collaborative research and participation within the rural Haitian community of Balan for the past year and a half. The exhibition includes photographs, written research, local artists’ paintings, and a social map, amongst many other works.

February 2009
HOW TO LIVE [EXPOSURE]
Photojournalism Workshop June 2008 | Siem Reap, Cambodia

Last summer, Exposure and the Institute for Global Leadership brought a group of eleven students together to research and document contemporary issues in Siem Reap, Cambodia, under the mentorship of VII Photoagency’s Gary Knight and renowned journalist Mort Rosenblum.

In the 12th century, Cambodia’s borders held the Khmer empire, the center of Southeast Asian civilization. 700 years of power struggles between regional, religious and imperial factions followed. In 1972, Cambodia was ravaged by the communist Khmer Rouge regime. Millions of Cambodians died in the Killing Fields and the harsh conditions that followed as the regime tried to recreate a utopian, traditional way of life in Cambodia.

Today, Siem Reap is a modern city. Following the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime and the death of its leader Pol Pot, Siem Reap has experienced a 2500% increase in tourism, and along with it, dramatic economic and cultural change. The legacy of Cambodia’s violent past still remains, but today’s Siem Reap is a city of people working fiercely to thrive in the present.

January 2009
EXPOSURE
An Aftermath Project Workshop: August 21-28, 2008 in Gulu, Northern Uganda
In August 2008, the [Exposure]/Aftermath Project workshop in Northern Uganda brought together six Tufts University students and one University of Delhi student to focus on the aftermath of the conflict in northern Uganda.

Since the mid-1980s, the Lord’s Resistance Army has terrorized the people of northern Uganda, and their tactics of brutality and intimidation have killed and maimed many. The group’s trademark tactic is the kidnap and impressment of children into the Army. Today, a ceasefire holds off further violence in the north, but the LRA continues to wreak havoc in neighboring countries in its search for food, supplies, and survival.

Working in tandem with rehabilitated former members of the Lord’s Resistance Army, the students each pursued a unique documentary project that illustrates an aspect of life in northern Uganda today.

November/December 2008
Immigrant City: Then and Now
As the discourse surrounding immigration in the United States today focuses heavily on policy, legislation, and politics, we far too often overlook the humanity at its essence. Thirty percent of Somerville residents were born outside the U.S. Nearly 2/3 speak a language other than English in their homes. But our neighbors in this Immigrant City are not statistics-each has a face and a story.

Immigrant City: Then and Now resonates strongly with Tufts' emphasis on creating active change in the community and this exhibition, sponsored by the Tufts Anthropology Department in conjuncition with the Welcome Project of Somerville, exposes students to a critical cross-cultural experience happening just down the hill.

October 2008
One Day: Photographic Representations of Childhood in China and Ukraine
The overarching goal of this exhibit is to have an impact on the lives of orphans by raising awareness and informing the Tufts community about ways to help. Orphan children are the world’s most vulnerable citizens. Although the problem of orphans exists in all countries, children in third-world countries fare the worst. To care for them, their governments rely on institutions such as orphanages, which are deemed one of the most deleterious settings for a growing child. With this in mind, we decided to form a student group that would act to create public awareness and activism at Tufts to improve the lives of orphans. Click here to read more.

September 2008
Rich Turk’s Vacation Pictures – Scenic and Wildlife Photography
To celebrate his 20th anniversary as a member of the Tufts Human Resources Department, Rich Turk will be exhibiting photographs of birds, wild animals, and landscapes he’s seen while on vacation from his day job.
The photographer was born and raised in New York City and never saw a bird (other than a pigeon) or explored a rural area until he reached his late thirties. Most of the digital inkjet prints on exhibit were taken in the Florida Everglades, New England, Canada’s Maritime provinces and the 20 or so zoos he’s visited.
Turk’s “vacation pictures” are his appreciation of the “humanity” he sees in in all living creatures,  and of places where man-made objects blend in seamlessly with their natural surroundings.
Public Reception will be held on Friday, September 12th from 5pm to 8pm

May 2008
Academics & Artists: Tufts Womens' Written and Visual Work
a project by Roxanne Samer (J'08). This show is meant to illustrate the diversity of Tufts' women's experiences and is inspired by the influx of writing and art on women's subjectivity that first occurred in the 1970s.

April 2008
Part & Parcel
a project of the Tufts/SMFA Combined Degree Program

March 2008
Images of Asian America at Tufts University
sponsored by Asian American Alliance at Tufts, in conjunction with the 25th Anniversary of the Asian American Center

February 2008
[EXPOSURE] Images from the Field IV: Global Poverty and Inequality

VII Photo Agency, Images from the Field IV: Global Poverty and Inequality

January 2008
Argentina: from the ruins of the dirty war
EXPOSURE-VII Photo Agency Workshop in Argentina / Winter 2006
Led by Gary Knight and Mort Rosenblum, the EXPOSURE-VII Photo Agency Workshop in Argentina consisted of eight Tufts students and one Tufts staff member. In January 2006, the participants of this weeklong workshop traveled to Buenos Aires to work on photo essays with topics ranging from the city police force to the Las Madras - the mothers whose loved ones were disappeared during the Dirty War - to the impact of tourism.

October 20 - December 30, 2007
Miguel Luciano: Cuando las Gallinas Mean (When Hens Pee)
The Tufts Americann Studies Program presents Art at the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, an artist-in-residence program funded by the Nat R. and Martha Knaster Charitable Trust. Additional funding provided by the Tufts University Arts, Sciences, & Engineering Diversity Fund, the Latino Studies Program, the Art History Department, and the Latino Center.

Miguel Luciano was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and currently lives in New York. His work engages in the playful and sometimes painful exchanges between Puerto Rico and the U.S., questioning a colonial relationship that persists to the present day and problematizing the racialized spaces between the two culture. Through his interactive pieces and teh public workshops in which he creates them, Luciano explores how colonial subordination is extended through globalization as communities have shifted gears from a production based society to one that is ground in consumption.

SLATER CONCOURSE GALLERY ARCHIVES:

September 1 - October 15, 2007
Rising Tide, Sinking Nation: The Effects of Global Warming on Kiribati
The Republic of Kiribati, population 100,000, is spread across 33 coral atolls and is sinking. Two 2007 Tufts graduates have traveled to Kiribati this summer as winners of the United Davis World College Fund's "Project for Peace," and they have taken video and photographic documentation of this visit. The Slater exhibition will be a collaborative showcase of this footage with educational information on global warming. The goal is to encourage a human connection and facilitate a cultural exchange between Tufts and Kiribati.

June/July 2007
Bridging Connections, Building Community: Children's Art from Tufts-Medford Arts Outreach
This exhibit documents and displays the process by which children make art, and the resulting art produced by children 7-9 in an eight-week community arts program. This exhibit motivaltes and affirms local children's art experiences outside of school, and encourages them to develop meaningful, ongoing relationships with materials, tools, and ideas.

May 2007
The Architecture of Art:
François De Costerd, Daniel Goldman, Kathy Kissik, Lisa Reindorf, Juni Van Dyke, Michelle Widmer-Schultz
The artists construct their art with architectural elements and imagery, utilizing architecture as a vehicle for expression on the environment and our place within it. The media represented in this exhibition include painting, photography, and assemblage.

April 2007
Africa Goal is a photographic exhibition chronicling nine students with diverse backgrounds and lines of work driving two cars from Kenya across Southern Africa to the West Coast of Namibia and back again. Every evening throughout the duration of the World Cup 2006, with the help of Digital Satellite Television and a projector, they screened games live at different points along their route down the southern half of the continent. Before every live game they screened AIDS & HIV awareness videos supplied by UN-AIDS and when possible, by local NGO’s dealing with the matter. Culturally sensitive, the videos shown varied depending on the countries and viewers.

March 2007
The Tufts Anthropology Department is pleased to announce two concurrent exhibitions on display from March 5-March 30, 2007
From Yucuaiquin to Somerville: El Baile de los Negritos, about the cultural heritage of the hundreds of people from the city of Yucuaiquin, El Salvador who are currently living in the Somerville area.
Catch the Land: Memory and Longing in Sudanese Refugee Art, organized by the Brandeis University Department of Anthropology. The artists featured come from Dinka and Nuer communities in Sudan that have been violently displaced by the war.

January and February 2007
The Institute for Global Leadership is pleased to announce the [EXPOSURE] Alumni Exhibition: Global Crises. On display from January 22-February 26, 2007, the exhibition showcases photographs of humanitarian and environmental crises from around the world. The photographs are by Tufts alumni Matthew Edmundson (Tufts'05, EPIIC'04, EXPOSURE'04-05) and Jacob Silberberg (Tufts'02, EPIIC'01, TILIP'02). Their work—from the current war in Iraq to the struggle in Kashmir to the recent civil war in Ivory Coast—depicts conflict situations, the failure of local and global governance, and the struggle for power in unstable regions of the world.

This exhibition is in collaboration with the 2007 EPIIC Symposium Global Crises: Governance and Intervention, March 1-4, 2007.

EPIIC and [EXPOSURE] are programs of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University.

For more information please visit www.tuftsgloballeadership.org or call the IGL at 617.627.3314.

This exhibition is comprised of juried works of artists from Tufts University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and communities beyond. The Tufts University Health Services strives to provide the Tufts community with relevant and meaningful venues to address many different healt issues. Body Image: Animus & Ardor is here to recognize National Eating Disorders Awareness Week. At Tufts University, like colleges around the country, countless students contend with difficult and often dangerous eating disorders behind closed doors.

February 2006
KIM BERMAN // RESISTANCE AND RENEWAL:
Selected works from 1986 to 2006

Reception: Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Kim Berman was born in Johannesburg in 1960 and is an EPIIC ('86) and Tufts MFA ('89) alumna. One of the most respected artists in South Africa, Ms. Berman's work reflects political and social issues from pre and post Apartheid to the current AIDS pandemic.  Formerly an ANC activist, Ms. Berman founded three seminal projects for art and social transformation: Artist Proof Studio (1992), Paper Prayers Campaign (1996), and Phumani Paper (2000). Her work has been exhibited throughout Europe and North America and her specific work concerned with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission was selected to hang in the Constitutional Court in South Africa.  She is the recipient of a 2006 EPIIC Distinguished Alumni Award.

In collaboration with the 2005-06 EPIIC Symposium: "The Politics of Fear" and the Institute for Global Leadership.

January 2006
The EXPOSURE/VII WORKSHOPS EXHIBITION

A selection of photographs from workshops conducted by acclaimed VII Photo Agency photographers in Bali and Kosovo. During the summer of 2005, eight Tufts EXPOSURE students traveled to Kosovo with Gary Knight and three EXPOSURE students traveled to Bali to work with John Stanmyer. The Bali photographic collection focused on spirituality and modernization while the Kosovo collection explores many facets of post -war Kosovar society.

EXPOSURE is a center for photojournalism, documentary studies, and human rights at Tufts University and is a program of the Institute for Global Leadership.

October–December 2005
Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln's Journey to Emancipation

Civil War Photographs from the Medford Historical Society, in association with the Tisch Library exhibition that examines President Lincoln's efforts toward the abolition of slavery during the Civil War.

September 2005
Fusion Prints: Gotham

Gotham by Jan Lourie and Joan Firestone is the result of a unique application of computer-manipulated photography to the architecture and architectural detail of New York City.

Summer 2005
Samantha Simpson

Samantha Simpson's mural explores the way that certain kinds of visual pleasure have been historically associated with lack of power. Characters often negotiate the balance between ornamentation and marginalization.

May 2005
Jumbomania

With P.T. Barnum's purchase of Jumbo the Elephant from the London Zoo in 1882, Jumbomania came to describe the craze for all things "Jumbo." This exhibition draws on the Tufts digital collections and archives, and the Ringling Museum.

March 2005
The Women's Caucus for Art - Boston Chapter

The Women's Caucus for Art responds to Girl Culture

November–December 2004
A Lens Toward Peace: An Expression of Religious Serenity & Harmony

A Lens Toward Peace is an exhibition compiled using work by students from across all religious backgrounds. Each piece was created as a symbol representing the artist's thoughts on religious peace and harmony through art.