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    • 1 Oct 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    • 0
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    Join MA-NMWA for a tour of “Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer” led by Dr. Antien Knaap, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Curator of Paintings, Art of EuropeMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston.

    “Rachel Ruysch: Artist, Naturalist, and Pioneer” is the first comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to the artist. It brings together 35 of her finest paintings from museums and private lenders across the United States and Europe alongside plant and insect specimens as well as work by other female artists, including Anna Ruysch, Maria Sibylla Merian, and Alida Withoos. Seeing these provocative juxtapositions, visitors can gain insight into the central role women played in the production of scientific knowledge in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.

    As global trade routes expanded in the 17th century, thousands of new plant specimens arrived in the Netherlands for cultivation in greenhouses and botanical gardens. Ruysch was among the first artists to introduce new species, from passionflowers to cacti, into her flower still lifes. Merging art and science, these paintings are far from just decorative; they’re riddles, hints of a deeper understanding of the natural world. They speak of survival and loss, the delicate balance between beauty and violence, and the deeper narratives of colonial expansion unfolding beneath the surface. 

    More details on registration for this event, for both MA-NMWA Members and Guests, to follow.

    • 9 Oct 2025
    • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Tufts University Art Galleries, Aidekman Arts Center / Medford
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    Join MA-NMWA for a tour of Beverly Semmes: Boulders / Flag / Flip / Kick led by Dina Deitsch, Director and Chief Curator of the Tufts University Art Galleries.

    Beverly Semmes (BA/BFA ‘82) has built an extensive art practice in sculpture, painting, film, performance, and fashion that probes the paradoxes and complexities of the body and its representation. Best known for her oversized dress sculptures, begun in the early 1990s–followed by her FRP (Feminist Responsibility Project) series of over-painted pornographic images and clay sculptures–Semmes has played with the scale, exposure or covering, and abstraction of the female form for over three decades.

    TUAG is pleased to present the most comprehensive survey of Semmes’ work to date: beginning in her student days at Tufts, where she tested ideas of ephemerality, scale, and representation in the itinerate installation Boulders, to her most recent fabric installations, ceramics, and paintings which continue to explore issues of female visibility and presence.

    More information to follow.

    • 23 Oct 2025
    • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • 14
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    We are delighted to offer this very special opportunity for MA-NMWA's Supporting Members to view an extensive private collection of photography by women artists, exhibited in a home located in the Jamaica Pond area of Boston. The evening will feature a welcome and remarks from the collectors themselves, with time to enjoy the collection, all followed by a reception. There is no charge for this event.

    Additional details for this special event will be shared with registered MA-NMWA Supporting Members.

Past events

16 Sep 2025 Nature Sanctuary
4 Jun 2025 Artist Talk: Tara Sellios and Ask Now the Beasts
21 May 2025 June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart
15 May 2025 MA-NMWA + Boston Public Art Triennial: Artist Tour with Evelyn Rydz and Alison Croney Moses
2 May 2025 SOLD OUT: Art In Bloom 2025
20 Mar 2025 SOLD OUT: Gallery Talk: Spring in the Gardens
20 Mar 2025 SOLD OUT: Harvard Faculty Club Lunch
27 Feb 2025 SOLD OUT: Fabiola Jean-Louis: Waters of the Abyss
12 Feb 2025 SOLD OUT: Leonora Carrington: Dream Weaver
16 Jan 2025 SOLD OUT: Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore
4 Dec 2024 Tau Lewis: Spirit Level
19 Nov 2024 SOLD OUT! Harvard Business School Art Collection Tour
31 Oct 2024 Ileana Doble Hernandez: My Dear Americans, It's Not Enough
10 Oct 2024 Studio Visit: Daniela Rivera
18 Sep 2024 SOLD OUT! For Members: Private Collection Visit
5 Sep 2024 Sold Out! Toshiko Takaezu: Shaping Abstraction
27 Jun 2024 Coral Woodbury: One Eye Closed
8 May 2024 Firelei Báez
1 May 2024 Toni Pepe - Mothercraft - SOLD OUT
26 Apr 2024 SOLD OUT! Art In Bloom
23 Mar 2024 Member Event: Coffee with the Curators: LaToya M. Hobbs, It's Time
14 Mar 2024 Pop-up Event: The Lost Generation: Women Ceramicists and the Cuban Avant-Garde
8 Mar 2024 Faith Ringgold: Freedom to Say What I Please
15 Feb 2024 Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And - SOLD OUT!
30 Nov 2023 2023 Foster Prize Tour with Artist Venetia Dale
16 Nov 2023 Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
27 Oct 2023 Inventing Isabella & Rewriting History - Two Tours at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
26 Jul 2023 Candice Smith Corby: Now and Soon and Somehow Forever
29 Jun 2023 Simone Leigh
3 May 2023 Paris Spies-Gans and Martina Droth In Conversation: link attached
28 Apr 2023 Art in Bloom
7 Feb 2023 New Worlds: Women to Watch Artists in Conversation: link to recording attached
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