March has arrived, and with it, longer days, milder weather (we hope!), and a month of programming highlighting the work and practice of TUAG / Medford exhibiting artist Michelle Lopez.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our panel, Surfacing Site, and performance collaboration with Magical Thinking, of Systems and Beliefs exhibiting artist Jonathan González and the Museum of African American History (MAAH), Boston / Nantucket, suite for a minor meeting. It was a profound honor and joy to share that historic space with such talented performers and such an engaged audience, and discuss the work deeply together.

If you missed these events, or just can’t get enough of exploring embodied practice, site-specific performance, and artist-led discussion, we invite you to join us for a tour, artist talk, and thought-provoking sound performance activating the bell tower of Tufts’ Goddard Chapel in conjunction with Michelle Lopez: Shadow of a Doubt at TUAG / Medford.

Learn more about this month’s exciting offerings and secure your spot by registering at the links below. Explore and RSVP for all upcoming events here.

Join the Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) Student Programming Committee for a public, polyvocal tour of Michelle Lopez: Shadow of a Doubt at TUAG / Medford. In short gallery talks, students will guide visitors through the exhibition and reveal the surprising stories behind their favorite pieces.

Join Tufts University Art Galleries and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts MFA Program for an artist lecture with Spring 2026 exhibiting artist Michelle Lopez.

Lopez will discuss the process and practice behind creating strikingly precarious and vulnerable forms that speak to the instability of supposedly fixed or rigid societal structures. By reinvesting in the political power of sculpture, Lopez similarly wrestles with the medium’s legacy, recasting minimalist and post-minimalist forms into critiques of capitalism, chauvinism, and other narratives of hegemony.

Through live and recorded sound, Keep Their Heads Ringin’  takes on the complicated symbolism of the bell as an emblem of freedom and equality, which is also marked with failure: the Liberty Bell’s famed crack that rendered the iconic hunk of cast-iron broken and silent at its arrival, or in the case of a campus belltower, echoes of Kent State and other acts of real or virtual violence set upon on campus freedoms.  

Developed in 2020, Keep Their Heads Ringin’  questions notions of freedom, by lying bare the violence of institutional racism and its degradation—specifically addressing the rise in anti-Asian hate during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reconsidered for Tufts University and its belltower in Goddard Chapel in 2025, the sound installation and participatory procession invites visitors to move though campus together under this soundtrack and newly composed score by sound artist Austin Fisher, asking us truly what freedom means.