Coming up next week, we’re delighted to present two events in conjunction with Magical Thinking, of Systems and Beliefs and exhibiting artist Jonathan González that go deep into archival research and site-specific performance: Surfacing Site, a panel discussion at TUAG / Boston, and suite for a minor meeting, a new performance commission presented in partnership with the Museum of African American History (MAAH) that will be realized at MAAH’s historic African Meeting House in Beacon Hill. 

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Join Tufts University Art Galleries and Magical Thinking, of Systems and Beliefs exhibiting artist Jonathan González, alongside MAAH Chief Curator and Director of Collections Angela Tate, and playwright Phillip Howze, with moderation from TUAG curator Laurel V. McLaughlin, for a panel conversation engaging a new commission by artist, choreographer, and writer Jonathan González, entitled suite for a minor meeting, composed of a print series, choral composition, and performance at the African Meeting House at the Museum of African American History, Boston/Nantucket on February 28, 2025.

The panel conversation will center the layered embodied research González conducted for the commission, ranging from Asher Benjamin’s architectural renderings, William Grant Still Jr.’s Harlem Renaissance compositions, site-based abolitionist legacies from Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sarah Grimké, and conceptions of long emancipation and a Black commons from Rinaldo Walcott, Fred Moten & Stefano Harney, and J.T. Roane.

Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) and the Museum of African American History (MAAH) present suite for a minor meeting, a new, site-specific performance by artist Jonathan González, who works at the intersections of choreography, sculpture, text, and media.

González’s performance, inspired by their print series on view in the exhibition Magical Thinking, of Systems and Beliefs at TUAG / Boston (230 Fenway) through April 19, 2026, is staged within the historic African Meeting House—the oldest surviving Black church building in the United States. The program, part of MAAH’s Black History Month calendar of events, is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and reservations are encouraged.

This collaboration juxtaposes González’s expansive research and interdisciplinary artistry with one of Boston’s most significant landmarks of Black community life, political organization, and abolitionist history.

Featuring vocalists Ifeanyi Epum, Ogechi Okoye, and Valentine Umeh, suite for a minor meeting unfolds as a guided experience through the architecture of the African Meeting House.