Gallery Profile
Located in the Shirley and Alex Aidekman Arts Center, the Tufts
University Art Gallery offers 7,000 square feet of exhibition space
and five venues: the Tisch Family Gallery, the Koppelman Gallery,
the Remis Sculpture Court, the New Media Wall, and the Slater
Concourse Gallery. The Gallery is also the steward of the
University's Permanent Art Collection, comprised of some 2,000
objects spanning the 3rd century BCE to the present.
The Tufts University Art Gallery organizes four major exhibitions
annually of timely, idea-driven, and socially-engaged art, two in
the 4,000 square foot Tisch Family Gallery and two in the 1,100
square foot Koppelman Gallery. The exhibitions program reflects the
Gallery's mission of exploring "new, global perspectives on art and
art discourse" and the University's distinctive emphasis on active
citizenship and globalization. Each May, an exhibition is organized
for the Koppelman Gallery by graduate students in the Exhibition
Planning course of the Museum Studies Certificate Program. This
course provides hands-on experience in all aspects of exhibition
organization and installation. During the summer, the Gallery
unveils invited or commissioned public art projects and outdoor
sculpture on the Medford campus. The Remis Sculpture Court is a
multi-purpose event and exhibition space. The New Media Wall, in the
Gallery lobby, features screenings of short single-channel videos
and film on or about contemporary art. The Slater Concourse Gallery
presents projects proposed by Tufts students, clubs, faculty, or
staff that resonate with the university curriculum and reflect the
rich texture of the Tufts community; the Concourse is open by
proposal submission twice annually and exhibitions rotates monthly
during the academic year. The Gallery's other exhibitions are open
to artists by invitation only.
Educational and interpretive programs expand on the themes of the
exhibitions and include: self-guided audio commentary tours via your
cell phone; a free, discussion-based tour program of directed
looking at art on view called Voice Your Vision!; curatorial
walkthroughs; artist's talks; lectures; film screenings; and panel
discussions. Major exhibitions are accompanied by a catalogue or
brochure. The Contemporary Art Circle is a friends group of
supporters of the visual arts and includes alums, parents, arts
professionals, and art aficionados.
All exhibitions and events at the Tufts University Art Gallery are
free and open to the public. The Gallery is closed to the public on
University holidays, during winter and spring breaks, and during the
summer months, when programming takes place out-of-doors on the
Medford campus.
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