Programs

Get to know your museum. Join us for artist talks, tours, conversation, workshops, artmaking and, more.

All public programs are free, open to the public, and take place at the Rose unless otherwise noted.

Academic and Public programs at the Rose Art Museum are supported in part by a generous gift from Ann Tanenbaum and in part by the Foundation for MetroWest.

Train car covered in colorful graffiti

Campus Celebration for the Rose's Fall Exhibitions

September 20, 2019, 4 p.m. - 7 p.m.

Brandeis students, faculty and staff, please join us to celebrate the opening of "Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect" and "INDEX: The Meeting" before they open to the public.

Gordon Matta-Clark, Graffiti Photoglyph, 1973. © The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and David Zwirner .

A large conical intersect cut into a building.

Anarchitect: A Conversation on Gordon Matta-Clark

September 21, 2019, 2 p.m. - 3 p.m.

Join us during opening weekend for a conversation with exhibition co-curators Antonio Sergio Bessa, Bronx Museum Director of Curatorial Programs; and Jessamyn Fiore, independent curator and co-director of the Matta-Clark Estate.

Gordon Matta-Clark, Conical Intersect, 1975. © The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark and David Zwirner .

Zilia Sánchez's sculpture L

Close Looking: Zilia Sánchez, Las troyanas, 1987-1997

November 20, 2019, 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.

Brandeis faculty Faith Smith (English) and Raysa Mederos (Hispanic Studies) will discuss "Las troyanas [The Trojans]" by Zilia Sánchez on view at the Rose in Into Form. 

Zilia Sánchez, Las troyanas [The Trojans], 1987-1997. Acrylic on canvas. Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Mortimer and Sara Hayes Acquisition Fund, Rose Purchase Fund, and Rose Special Fund, 2018.12. Zilia Sánchez. Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., New York..

Two visitors at the Rose looking towards something intensely

Close Looking: William Villalongo, Vanitas, 2017

March 18, 2020, 3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.

In this session, James Mandrell (Romance Studies) and María Durán (Romance Studies) will discuss "Vanitas" by William Villalongo on view at the Rose. 

Photo by Carlie Febo.

Person in galleries looking closely at an unseen work of art

Close Looking: Annette Lemieux, Left Right Left Right, 1995

April 1, 2020, 12 a.m.

In this session, Muna Guvenc (Fine Arts) and Sheida Soleimani (Fine Arts) will discuss "Left Right Left Right" by Annette Lemieux on view at the Rose. 

Photo by Carlie Febo.