Events
& Exhibitions

Radcliffe events and exhibitions are accessible, free, and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

All Events & Exhibitions

18 Sep
2023
16 Dec
2023

Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis

Exhibition

The exhibition Water Stories: River Goddesses, Ancestral Rites, and Climate Crisis presents artworks that treat water not as a commodity to be exploited but as a cyclical, life-giving, life-dissolving, and inert but innately alive spiritual force—a view widely shared among Indigenous communities, especially in the Global South.

Registration open
Date & Time Monday, September 18, 2023
through Saturday, December 16, 2023
Location Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
06 Nov
2023
08 Mar
2024

In Their Own Voices: Black Women's Lives from the Archives

Exhibition

In Their Own Voices celebrates the power of defining oneself while highlighting the lifework and legacies of Black women whose papers are held in the Schlesinger Library. The featured collections give viewers an opportunity to listen to, view, and read about the experiences of Black women in their private and public lives.

Registration open
Date & Time Monday, November 6, 2023
through Friday, March 8, 2024
Location Lia and William Poorvu Gallery, Schlesinger Library
3 James Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
05 Feb
2024
22 Jun
2024

A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture

Exhibition

During the long decade of the 1970s, artists replaced traditional artistic gestures with other operations, creating new abstract languages and vocabularies. This exhibition shows how four artists nailed, glued, unraveled, twisted, folded, pierced, and tied, and most importantly, fastened—all to aesthetic effect—to highlight the labor of art making.

Registration open soon
Date & Time Monday, February 5, 2024
through Saturday, June 22, 2024
Location Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall
8 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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