Slater Concourse Gallery

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

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.