In vivid works across photography, watercolor, installation, and performance, María Magdalena Campos-Pons tackles themes of migration, memory...
September 17–October 8, 2025
Making and Memory: María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Martin Puryear
María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nesting IV (detail), 2000. Polaroids prints (dye-diffusion). The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nesting IV (detail), 2000. Polaroids prints (dye-diffusion). The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nesting IV (detail), 2000. Polaroids prints (dye-diffusion). The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Nesting IV (detail), 2000. Polaroids prints (dye-diffusion). The Living New England Artist Purchase Fund, created by The Stephen and Sybil Stone Foundation. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco.
Join curators from the Department of Contemporary Art as they illuminate “Rituals for Remembering: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Ana Mendieta” and “Martin Puryear: Nexus.” Explore how these two new special exhibitions speak to the ways in which the art of our time examines profound questions of identity, displacement, memory, and making.
Take the full four-session course or choose the lectures that interest you most.
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Purchase the discounted four-session course package. Please note that this course package is not available after the date of the first session.
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Upcoming Events
Lecture
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
1:00 pm–2:30 pm
Look closely at the work of Ana Mendieta and María Magdalena Campos-Pons and discover where the two artists intersect. Though they never met, their...
Lecture
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
1:00 pm–2:30 pm
For more than half a century, preeminent American sculptor Martin Puryear has captivated the public with works of beauty, elaborate craftsmanship, and...
Lecture
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
1:00 pm–2:30 pm
The line between craft and art is often a sticky one, and artist Martin Puryear has both navigated and transcended this truth across the arc of his...
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