Tuesday Smillie: To build another world
Building on a history of protest signage, Brooklyn-based artist Tuesday Smillie (b. 1981, Boston) delves into transgender activism and identity politics, questioning the address of language and the imprint of the past on the present in a multimedia practice that includes watercolor, collage, and textile-based work. To build another world, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, spans two decades, drawing together various threads of her practice and marking the debut of new works made specifically for her Rose exhibition.
Tuesday Smillie, “Together,” 2017. Textile, beads, notions, and acrylic paint, 76 x 98.25 inches. Courtesy of the artist. Charles Mayer Photography. © Tuesday Smillie
On view through December 2, 2018 Location: The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA
1968: “Sensitive Humanity” and Black Radicalism
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1968 resistance movements, this exhibition will present photography of the Black Panther movement taken by Ruth Marion-Baruch and Pirkle Jones. This exhibition is co-curated by Chandra Bhimull, Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-American Studies at Colby College.
Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones, Untitled, c. 1968. Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in. (28 x 36 cm). Colby College Museum of Art. Gift of Arlette and Gus Kayafas in honor of Peter and Paula Lunder, 2017.636
On view through December 16, 2018 Location: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
H2O Today
Water is the most vital resource for life on Earth; no living thing exists without it. H2O Today examines the diversity and challenges of global water sources and promotes conversation, creativity and innovation through art, science and technology.
On view through November 11, 2019 Location: Seacoast Science Center, Rye, NH
Free & Safe: The Underground Railroad in Vermont
This stunning exhibit chronicles the stories of Simon and Jesse, two fugitives from slavery who found shelter at Rokeby in the 1830s. Free & Safe traces their stories from slavery to freedom, introduces the abolitionist Robinsons who called Rokeby home, and explores the turbulent decades leading up to the Civil War. Its innovative use of audio recordings and museum theater combines with historic texts, documents, and images to bring Simon and Jesse vividly to life.
On view permanently Location: Rokeby Museum, Ferrisburgh, VT
Coming to Rhode Island
Take a time-traveling adventure and meet real people who came to Rhode Island from many different countries. Hear their stories and find out why they came, what they brought and how they changed the Ocean State. The galleries are set in their historical context from an English colonist's farm to a Latino bodega in the 1960s. Hands-on activities bring the stories to life. Children work as masons in a partial reproduction of the construction and living sites at Fort Adams in Newport, set in 1835, and climb aboard a replica packet ship to learn about the voyage from the Cape Verde Islands.
On view permanently Location: Providence Children’s Museum, RI
The Business of Bodies: Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) and the Persuasion of Portraiture
Ellen Emmet Rand was one of the most important and prolific portrait painters in the United States in the first decades of the twentieth century. Yet, despite completing over 700 portraits and being one of the highest-paid female artists of her time, her reputation and acclaim all but disappeared after her death. This exhibition looks to assert Rand’s crucial place in the history of American art and critically consider the ways this artist negotiated her own career, family, and finances in modern, commercially-savvy ways.
Ellen Emmet Rand (American, 1875-1941), In The Studio (1910) Oil on canvas, Gift of John A., William B., and Christopher T.E. Rand, William Benton Museum of Art
On view through March 10, 2019 Location: The William Benton Museum of Art, UConn