Join Curatorial Assistant Max Gruber for a conversation about An Indigenous Present. Learn about the 15 artists featured in the exhibition whose works span 100 years of contemporary Indigenous art. 

About Max Gruber

An Indigenous Present is organized by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter, guest curators, with Erika Umali, Curator of Collections, and Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making this exhibition possible.  

This exhibition is supported in part by Peggy J. Koenig, Barbara H. Lloyd, and Kim Sinatra.

Join  ICA Curator of Collections Erika Umali for a conversation about An Indigenous Present.  Learn about the 15 artists featured in the exhibition whose works span 100 years of contemporary Indigenous art. 

About Erika Umali

An Indigenous Present is organized by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter, guest curators, with Erika Umali, Curator of Collections, and Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making this exhibition possible.  

This exhibition is supported in part by Peggy J. Koenig, Barbara H. Lloyd, and Kim Sinatra.

Tickets will be available September 10 for ICA Members and September 17 for the general public.

Artists Caroline Monnet and Sky Hopinka defy boundaries and blur genres by adopting film, fashion, poetry, sculpture, and more in their cross-disciplinary artistic practices. These prolific, visionary creators will be joined by An Indigenous Present exhibition co-curator Jennelle Porter, for an engaging conversation exploring land, language, and the advantages of using abstraction as a tool within their work. This program accompanies the ICA exhibition An Indigenous Present, co-organized by Porter and artist Jeffrey Gibson.

Make the most of your ICA visit! Explore the galleries and visit the ICA’s featured exhibition: An Indigenous Present. Enjoy a drink and light bite in the waterfront Wine + Coffee Bar. Shop the ICA store for your new art-related swag.

About the artists

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An Indigenous Present is organized by Jeffrey Gibson and Jenelle Porter, guest curators, with Erika Umali, Curator of Collections, and Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making this exhibition possible.  

This exhibition is supported in part by Peggy J. Koenig, Barbara H. Lloyd, and Kim Sinatra.

“Wednesday’s child is full of woe”
–Monday’s Child, 1830s

Spanning over 17 years, AIGA Boston (The Professional Association for Design) and ICA/Boston have collaborated to highlight the work of today’s leading designers and thinkers through this annual lecture series. This year’s featured guest speakers are Kevin Grady and Adam Larson, founders and creators of Wednesday, a new publication heralded as “The Bible of Dark Culture.” Grady and Larson, in a bewitching presentation aptly titled “Darkness Is a Catalyst for Creativity,” will share a behind-the-scenes look at the development of their unusual publication and provide a sneak peek at their upcoming second issue, slated for release this summer. Wednesday has been called “an experiment in publishing” by Steven Heller, and it received a Silver Medal at the Society of Publication Designers annual competition last year. Don your blackest attire and crank up The Cure, because Halloween is coming early this year to the ICA!

Get in the Wednesday mood with a drink and light bite from the Wine + Coffee Bar and tunes from DJ André Obin known for his atmospheric and emotive soundscapes, which blend electronic, synth-pop, and post-punk influences from 6 to 7 PM.

About the Speakers

Accessibility

Tickets will go on sale August 13 for ICA Members and August 20 for the general public.  

Meet the artists selected for the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize!  Alison Croney Moses, Yorgos Efthymiadis, Damien Hoar de Galvan, and Sneha Shrestha (aka Imagine) gather to discuss their lives as artists working and living in the greater Boston area. This conversation is moderated by ICA Assistant Curator and 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize organizer Tessa Bachi Haas. A community reception immediately follows the speaking portion of this program.    

Make the most of your visit!  Explore the galleries and visit the ICA’s featured exhibition: 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize, and then get creative and stop by this month’s Art-Making After Dark event. 

About the artists

Accessibility

The 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize is organized by Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator. 

The exhibition and prize are generously endowed by James and Audrey Foster. 

Join Ruth Erickson, ICA Barbara Lee Chief Curator, for a deep dive into Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, the first retrospective to trace the evolution of Stanley Whitney’s unique and powerful abstractions. In this conversation, discover how Whitney developed his iconic gridded format and explore 50 years of powerful, color-saturated painting.

About Ruth Erickson

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon is organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

The exhibition is curated by Cathleen Chaffee, Charles Balbach Chief Curator, Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The ICA/Boston’s presentation is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator.

With warmest thanks, we gratefully acknowledge the generosity of Gagosian and the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making the ICA’s presentation of this exhibition possible.

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Cambridge-based artist Lucy Kim’s work explores the sometimes uncomfortable spaces between the natural and artificial. In this conversation, learn about Kim’s piece Dr. Melissa Doft, Plastic Surgeon 1, featured in the exhibition Portraits from the ICA Collection. 

Kim will be joined by Erika Umali, ICA Curator of Collections and the curator of Portraits from the ICA Collection, for a discussion about Kim’s sculptural portraits and how they offer an unsettling meditation on our fragile, mutable physical states. 

Portraits from the ICA Collection is organized by Erika Umali, Curator of Collections.

This exhibition is funded, in part, with support from Leadership in Arts Museums, an initiative to create more racial equity in art museum leadership, supported by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Pilot House Philanthropy, and Alice L. Walton Foundation.

Additional support is generously provided by The Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Exhibition Fund.

This program takes place at the ICA Watershed.

Explore the ICA Archives from the 1980s with Curatorial Assistant Meghan Clare Considine. During the ’80s, the ICA featured new explorations in film and video that reflected the rich period of making and studying art in Boston. Through programs like the Contemporary Art Television Fund (1983-86) the ICA partnered with WGBH to support experimental video artists and broadcast their artworks on television. 

This summer, the ICA Watershed is temporarily housing the ICA’s expansive archives which span the 90-year history of the museum. Join members of the ICA’s curatorial staff as they highlight some of their favorite things about the ICA and its history.


This project is supported by the Barr Foundation and Judi Kaufman and Arthur Rubin. 

Logo of Barr Foundation featuring stylized navy blue letters B and F with a teal triangular shape above. The words Barr Foundation are written in navy blue to the right.

This program takes place at the ICA Watershed

Explore the ICA Archives from the 1940s with Curatorial Assistant Max Gruber. During the ’40s, the ICA sparked controversy in the city by changing its name from the Boston Museum of Modern Art. The museum also exhibited iconic artworks from across the globe including Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, as well as paintings by Diego Rivera and the Mexican muralists. 

This summer, the ICA Watershed is temporarily housing the ICA’s expansive archives which span the 90-year history of the museum. Join members of the ICA’s curatorial staff as they highlight some of their favorite things about the ICA and its history.

Live Spanish translation will be offered. 

This project is supported by the Barr Foundation and Judi Kaufman and Arthur Rubin. 

Logo of Barr Foundation featuring stylized navy blue letters B and F with a teal triangular shape above. The words Barr Foundation are written in navy blue to the right.

Join Ruth Erickson, ICA Barbara Lee Chief Curator, for an overview of Chiharu Shiota: Home Less Home at the ICA Watershed. In this drop-in program, Erickson will unpack how the artist uses thread to tell stories of travel, consciousness, and home.

About Ruth Erickson

Chiharu Shiota: Home Less Home is organized by Ruth Erickson, Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, with Brianne Chapelle, Curatorial Department Coordinator.

The exhibition is supported by the Japan Foundation, the Richard K. Lubin Family Foundation, and an anonymous donor and featured as part of the Boston Public Art Triennial 2025.

Logos of the Japan Foundation with Japanese text and a butterfly, Lubin Family Foundation, and Boston Public Art Triennial