Emerson Curatorial Practices Seminar

05/19/2026

📢 Open Call 📢 We’re so excited to open submissions for our core Exhibition Proposal Series! This is the only opportunity for artists or curators of all experience levels to be considered for an exhibition in our 700 sq ft gallery. Artists working in any medium based in New England are invited to apply. For group shows, 75% of artists must be based in the region.

❣️Application Office Hours: May 28 and June 1, 6-7 pm ET
❣️Submission deadline: June 10, 11:59 pm ET
❣️Exhibition dates: July 10 - August 8, 2026

See the link in bio to learn more & submit! We can’t wait to see your work!

05/05/2026

04/14/2026

Did you miss "Hidden Histories?" Because we did!

Join artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on Saturday, April 18th, for a special artist-lead walking tour of their two new public art projects "Glimpses of Glapion" and "The Black Boston Dream Oracle" in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. An artist Q&A session will take place afterwards at the African Meeting House.

We're so excited to spend the day with and ! We're also thrilled to be collaborating with the Museum of African American History for this program. Thank you all for the special opportunity to learn and converse! 💚

We will meet at the Boston Common Visitors Center, 139 Tremont Street, Boston, MA. The tour will begin at 1pm. We hope to see you there! 🥳

*This project is funded by the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture’s Un-monument initiative, supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation.

04/07/2026

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04/04/2026

On behalf of the curators of VM415, THANK YOU to everyone who came out yesterday to celebrate the opening of GATHER 🧶 💐

Our deepest gratitude also goes out to 💜 including AND all of the artists for helping with and participating in this curatorial endeavor, educational journey, and aesthetic achievement:
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And, THANK YOU, of course, to all of the students who knocked it out of the park!

The exhibition is open this coming week, Monday through Wednesday, from 12-5pm We'll be posting pics 📸 of the reception, lightning talks, installation, and more in the coming days...

03/25/2026

ICYMI: 🎉 We are excited and honored to announce the artists of GATHER! Congrats to those accepted 👏 and thanks again to everyone who entered & shared their work with us. We look forward to "gathering" the works, the artists, the curators, and others together! 🧶

Please mark your calendars 📆

02/07/2026

GUESS WHAT⁉️ We're getting ready to launch our NEW thematic call for the 2026 Student-Curated exhibition of photography & releated media... Stay tuned 📸⏰🎥

04/11/2025

It's finally here! See you tonight 🙌 More info if you need it here: https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/emerson-contemporary-presents-movement-s/

03/13/2025

We were delighted to see this timely call -- on a similar topic to our exhibition -- for an international interdisciplinary research colloquium, "Photography and Movement"! 📸🏃‍♀️

This Study Day, to be held in Marburg, Germany, will consider "the moving world in photographs, the traveling camera, the circulation of photographs as well as photography and political movement(s) in the present and past in order to work out continuities and ruptures."

More info can be found here: https://www-uni--marburg-de.translate.goog/de/fotomarburg/aktuelles/nachrichten/studientage2025?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp