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BOSTON and MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (April 28, 2020)—The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (SMFA at Tufts) has announced its 2020 class of SMFA at Tufts Traveling Fellows, which includes 10 artists whose distinctive work was judged to be worthy of the prestigious program’s support.

The SMFA Traveling Fellowships provide critical early-career support for SMFA at Tufts alumni, allowing them to further develop and inform their practice. Selected by a jury, SMFA Traveling Fellowship recipients receive up to $10,000 to pursue travel and research related to their art. The application process is open to alumni working in any contemporary visual art discipline.

In existence since 1899 and one of the largest endowed art school grant programs in the United States, this year’s fellows will travel to at least 22 sites in 13 countries.

Dinora Justice (MFA ’14), of Newton, Mass. Justice will travel to Paris and Florence, Italy to research Orientalist paintings of women to explore the role of fantasy in the process of “othering,” and its connection to gender power dynamics and environmental issues.

The jury selecting the 2020 SMFA Traveling Fellowship recipients was composed of Lisa Crossman, curator of Mead Art Museum at Amherst College; Kate McNamara, independent curator and creative director at My HomeCourt; and Andrew Witkin, co-owner and director at Krakow Witkin Gallery.

Notable past winners of the fellowships include Nan Goldin (Dip ’77), Ellen Gallagher (Dip ’92), Omer Fast (BFA/BA ’95), and Mike and Doug Starn (Dip ’84), as well as more recent graduates such as Evelyn Rydz (MFA ’05), Gonzalo Fuenmayor (MFA ’04) and Daniela Rivera (MFA ’06).

The Traveling Fellowships is one of many programs at SMFA at Tufts that supports artists in every stage of their careers. For more information, visit https://smfa.tufts.edu/.

The SMFA Fellows’ travel will begin when travel restrictions and limitations caused by COVID-19 ease.

https://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/smfa-tufts-announces-2020-traveling-fellows

Awaken: Conjuring Our Tomorrow is a group exhibition curated by Allison Maria Rodriguez featuring Latina artists exploring climate justice issues in their practice. The works in this exhibition navigate a space in between the mathematical and the fantastical. In the wake of the atrocities that continue to be inflicted upon our earth, this exhibition suggests that we must harness the power of both science and magic in order to generate the prospect of a collective future.

From computer programming to oil painting, these artists use the mechanics of storytelling and human curiosity to investigate our spiritual (dis)connection to the planet, to highlight the political implications of our cumulative paralysis, and to envision the possibility of another tomorrow.

Artists in the exhibition: Tatiana Arocha, Krista Caballero, Nayda Cuevas, Raquel Fornasaro, Lina Maria Giraldo, Dinora Justice, Evelyn Rydz, and Ana Maria Velasco

Allison Maria Rodriguez is a first-generation Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist working predominantly in video installation. She creates immersive experiential spaces that challenge conventional ways of knowing and understanding the world. Her work focuses extensively on climate change, species extinction and the interconnectivity of existence. Through video, performance, digital animation, photography, drawing, collage and installation, Rodriguez merges and blends mediums to create new pictorial spaces for aesthetic, emotional and conceptual exploration.

Ellison Campus Center, North Campus 1 Meier Drive, Salem, MA 01970 Winfisky Gallery

February 19

• Curator Talk, 12:30 -1:30 pm
• Opening Reception, 2-4 pm

February 29

• Community Reception, 5-7 pm

March 11

• Exhibition Artists Panel, 2-3:30 pm, Berry Library

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 10:00am – Friday, March 13, 2020 4:00pm

https://www.salemstate.edu/calendar/awaken-conjuring-our-tomorrow-feb-05-2020

I’m very excited to have been granted an opportunity to spend six weeks researching rare botanical books in the library of Oak Springs. The residency starts in October and ends in mid-November. I’ll be sharing images and stories via Instagram, at @dinorajustice. Be sure to tune in and say hello!

Curated by Joanna Fink, Director, Alpha Gallery, Boston

Oct 10-Dec 8, 2019. Closed November 27-31.

Opening Reception: Thursday, Oct 10, 5-7 pm with gallery talk by Visiting Curator Joanna Fink at 6 pm.

https://usm.maine.edu/gallery/dinora-justice-portrait-22-after-matisses-reclining-odalisque-2018-acrylic-oil-canvas-36-x

The modernist movements of the first half of the 20^th century radicalized Western art and continue to provide reference points for artists working today.  Whether embracing the concepts of such movements as Cubism or Expressionism (for example), paying homage to specific masters, or challenging notions of who owns the canon, the artists in this exhibition engage with the past in their own contemporary language.  While Modernism’s influence is widespread, the focus here is on artists based in New England, with several having ties to Maine.

Gallery:  Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective

House-trained

Contemporary Depictions of Dogs

From June 7 through July 12

Reception on Friday, June 7, from 6 to 8PM

Gallery NAGA

67 Newbury Street

Boston MA 02116

Ph 617 267 9060

Solo Exhibition of paintings by Dinora Justice

Gallery NAGA

67 Newbury Street Boston

Reception

Friday, March 1

6 – 8 pm

http://www.gallerynaga.com

Two installations, one of paintings and sculptures at the Dana Art Gallery, and a colorful “textile collage” of Brazilian floral fabrics in the building’s greenhouse, are sure to delight visitors.

Dana Hall School

Dana Art Gallery

“She Speaks in Gusts and Cyclones”

February 18 – March 14, 2019

Hours: Mon-Tues-Thurs 9AM – 3:30PM

Wed-Fri 9AM – 2PM

Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 26th 5 – 7:30PM

danahall.org/art/gallery

45 Dana Road

Wellesley, MA 02482

The artist will be exhibiting and working at the gallery space during the month of February. A public reception will take place mid-exhibition, date to be announced.

https://www.danahall.org/page/arts/the-dana-hall-art-gallery/artist-in-residence-program

A banner featuring a close-up of one of Dinora Justice’s paintings now hangs in the Garment District in New York, on the corner of Broadway and 36th Street, near Macy’s. The banner is one of 90 selected from entries from around the world for the event “Art Elevated”, promoted by Orangenius and the Garment District Alliance. The banners will be in exhibition through January 2019.

garmentdistrict.nyc/arts/art-installations/art-elevated/

The Garment District Alliance Unveils ‘Art Elevated: Look Up’!

Dinora Justice will be talking about her paintings in the exhibition “Fantastical, Political” at the Fitchburg Art Museum on Sunday, April 15th at 1:00PM. A must-see show in one of New England’s most treasured cultural institutions, curated by Lisa Crossman.

Edit 04/19/18: here is a link to the video of the talk on Vimeo:  https://vimeo.com/dinorajustice/artisttalkfitchburgartmuseum2018

When: Sunday April 15th at 1:00PM

Where: Fitchburg Art Museum

http://www.fitchburgartmuseum.org

185 Elm St, Fitchburg, MA 01420

Phone: (978) 345-4207