Arts and Society Dialogues: The Salons
Please join us for a series of interdisciplinary conversations, Arts and Society Dialogues: The Salons!
Arts and Society: Dialogues celebrates the power of creativity in research and dialogue, and the Salons are a set of themed interdisciplinary conversations on three Wednesday afternoons that will culminate in the second annual Arts and Society Dialogues gathering in March 2026. Sponsored by the SMFA, the Office of the Vice Provost of Research (OVPR), and Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR), Salons will be held September 17, November TBD, and January TBD.
The first salon focuses on the idea of Collective Inquiry and will be held September 17, 2025 at the SMFA Anderson Gallery as we engage the exhibition “How do you throw a brick through the window…”. The exhibition explores how individuals with disabilities, chronic illnesses, and neurodivergence navigate protest in the face of ableism despite the normalization of ableism in public spaces. Works in the exhibit reimagine embodied dissent informed by disabled, sick, mad, and healing frameworks. The exhibition will be introduced by Laurel V. McLaughlin, Curator and Director of the Collective Futures Fund for the Tufts University Art Galleries.
Our Salon conversations provoked by these themes will reach across many fields of research and practice at Tufts. We invite the entire Tufts community to participate in this opportunity for thoughtful and creative inquiry. Come cross-pollinate ideas, develop new relationships, and have fun in an open environment.
Faculty Co-chairs of the Salon series: Professors Mimi Kao, Jeannie Simms, and Mary Ellen Strom.
Questions? Anna.dalby@tufts.edu or zeman.cynthia@tufts.edu.
