Celebrating twenty years of the museum’s curatorial program, this exhibition looks back to two decades of student-curated exhibitions, all drawn from the museum's permanent collection. Déjà Vu: The Cycles That Haunt Us traces recurring cycles of thought that echo through earlier iterations of the exhibition program. Like specters, enduring sociopolitical concerns persist from the program's earliest exhibitions to its most recent.
Featuring works from the museum’s collection, the exhibition engages visitors through participatory activities that prompt reflection on the past and invite them to
Camille Turner is an artist and scholar whose work bridges historical research and Afrofuturism. The culmination of a joint residency with the museum and Slavery North, Land of the Free is an exhibition featuring cinematic works that memorialize enslaved Africans and confront the overlooked histories of transatlantic slavery in Canada and the northern United States. Highlights include the new film 80 Died of Flux and Flu (2025), alongside Nave (2022) and Fly(2024), as well as a New England–focused installation of her Afronautic Research Lab project.
Tammy Nguyen's artistic practice is reliably fixated on historical context and narrative. Her work combines the investigation of geopolitics, ecology, and lesser-known histories with myth and fantasy producing enchanting visual narratives that blur the lines of fiction and nonfiction.