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Save the Date for the BCA Gala!

Exhibitions, Visual Arts, Public Art

BCA 50th Anniversary Gala

05/30/2020
6:30pm-11pm
The Cyclorama

Events, Dance

Traka: Story and Movement Workshop

Jean Appolon
04/05/2020
2pm-3:30pm
Calderwood Pavilion

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Admission:
Free

Public Programs

2020 Talks: Fertility

03/20/2020 - 02/20/2020
6pm-8pm
Mills Gallery

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Member Events

Member Event: Art Collecting in Boston

03/19/2020

Tickets

Admission:
$40 with code

Events, Fashion

FeministFuturist Fashion Forum

03/11/2020
6:30pm-8pm
Mills Gallery

RSVP

Admission:
Free

Performances

Merchant of Venice

03/11/2020 - 04/05/2020
Plaza Theatres

Tickets

Member Events

Member Event: FeministFuturist Fashion Forum

03/11/2020
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free for members

Events, Visual Arts, Kid Friendly

Young Futurist Spaceship Workshop

02/22/2020
11am-1pm
Mills Gallery

RSVP

Admission:
Free

Malia The Model, photo by Dan Minicucci

Performances, Events

#HellaBlack

02/11/2020
7pm-10pm
Plaza Theatres

Buy Tickets

Admission:
$25 online
$30 at door

Photo by Scott Sneddon

Exhibitions, Visual Arts, Events

FeministFuturist

02/08/2020 - 04/05/2020
Mills Gallery

RSVP

Admission:
Free

Performances, Events

Run of the Mills

02/01/2020
4pm-8pm
Mills Gallery

Buy Tickets

Admission:
$15 online
$10 for EBT cardholders

Performances, Theatre, Events

Last Catastrophist

01/24/2020 - 02/08/2020
Plaza Theatres

Buy tickets

Admission:
$5—$25
$10 for EBT cardholders

Theatre, Events

Bright Half Life

01/23/2020 - 02/16/2020
Plaza Theatres

Tickets

Admission:
$25-60

Visual Arts, Public Programs, Events

Gertrude’s Salon: MS Paint Night with Tim McCool

11/22/2019
6pm-8pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Visual Arts, Public Programs

Gaggle Walk

11/09/2019
1:30pm-3:30pm

Admission:
Free

Events

Artists Panel Discussion & Performance

10/01/2019
6:30pm-8pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Performances, Theatre, Music, Dance, Visual Arts, Events

#HellaBlack BCA Mixtape Vol. 2

09/21/2019
8pm-10pm
Plaza Theatres

Tickets

Admission:
$20 General
$15 Students

Public Art, Visual Arts, Events

Gestures of Incompleteness

Shaka Dendy
08/08/2019 - 11/10/2019

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Visual Arts, Events

Contours of Meaning

Leika Akiyama, Georgina Lewis, Allison Maria Rodriguez, Miriam Shenitzer
08/08/2019 - 10/06/2019
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Lukács Public Projection

07/18/2019
8:30pm-9:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Gallery Talk: Anna Kolesova

07/17/2019
3pm-4pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Conversation with Zsuzsanna Varga-Szegedi

07/12/2019
5:30pm-6:15pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Dance, Events

Jenny Oliver: Hot Water Over Raised Fists

06/14/2019 - 06/23/2019
Calderwood Pavilion

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

In the Words, In the Bones

05/23/2019 - 07/21/2019
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Dance, Events

Heather Stewart: against hard air

05/02/2019 - 05/10/2019
Calderwood Pavilion

Tickets

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

The Skin Has Eyes: Animated Visions

02/23/2019 - 04/28/2019
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Music, Dance, Theatre, Events, Visual Arts

#HellaBlack BCA Mixtape Vol. 1

Jean Appolon
02/05/2019
6pm-9pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
$20 General
$15 Students

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Coded.

11/17/2018 - 01/27/2019
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Dance, Performances, Events

Open Showing for Heather Stewart

11/17/2018
8pm-10pm
Calderwood Pavilion

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Resistant Currents

07/28/2018 - 10/14/2018
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events, Visual Arts

Culture Hustlers Pink Slip Party

04/07/2018
5pm-7pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Culture Hustlers: Artists Minding Their Business

02/03/2018 - 04/08/2018
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Connected through Drawing: An Interactive Workshop

07/27/2017
Mills Gallery

RSVP

Admission:
Free

Events

Fiber Autopsy

02/25/2016
6:30pm-8:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Roundtable: Emerging Artists?

02/20/2016
3pm-5pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Performance Objects

02/12/2016
4pm-8pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

BRINK v2: Space and Intimacy

01/15/2016 - 03/26/2016
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Feelers: Artist Talks

11/12/2015
6:30pm-8:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Feelers: Curator’s Choice

10/10/2015
6:30pm-8:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

24th Drawing Show: Feelers

10/09/2015 - 12/20/2015
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

A Walk Through Arcadia

09/18/2015
6:30pm-7:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Arcadia Artists Panel Discussion

09/18/2015
6:30pm-7:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Arcadia: Thoughts on the Contemporary Pastoral

07/10/2015 - 09/20/2015
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Gertrude’s Artists Salon: You and Identity in Art

06/11/2015
6:30pm-8pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Persuasions Dialogue

05/21/2015
6pm-7:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

James Montford: Persuasions 1990-2015

05/01/2015 - 06/21/2015
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Yeah, You Missed It!

04/17/2015 - 04/18/2015
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Action Kits: Curator and Artists Talk

03/25/2015
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Action Kits: Reverberations

03/20/2015
7pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Thomas Willis performs exercises by John C. Gonzalez

02/06/2015
7pm-8:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Action Kits

01/23/2015 - 04/05/2015
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Paper Cuts/The Urban Environment

01/20/2015
1pm-3pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Totems, Images and Constructions: Chart your New Year’s Resolutions

12/13/2014
1pm-3pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

The Triggering Town: Details of Subtle Significance

Leika Akiyama, Edie Bowers, Aileen Erickson, Ruth Ginsberg-Place, Rebecca Rose Green, Georgina Lewis, Marilyn Mase, Selina Narovlansky, Robert Rovenolt, Miriam Shenitzer, Beverly Sky
12/12/2014 - 01/11/2015
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Art of the Cocktail: The Labor of Liquor

10/01/2014
6pm-8pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
$25-40

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Labor in a Single Shot

09/19/2014 - 11/30/2014
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Jamie McMurry, Julie Andree T. and Vela Phelan Performances

08/07/2014
7pm-8:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Alastair MacLennan and Sandra Johnston Performance

08/04/2014
7pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Jeff Huckleberry and Marilyn Arsem Collaborative Performance

07/31/2014
7pm-8:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Performances by Sandy Huckleberry and James Luna

07/17/2014
7pm-9pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Jeff Huckleberry: Things About Rainbows

07/10/2014 - 08/24/2014
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Jordan Eagles: Blood Dust

04/25/2014 - 06/29/2014
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Hands-on Bookmaking with Houseboat Press

04/05/2014
1pm-3pm
Mills Gallery

RSVP

Admission:
Free

Events

Panel Discussion: Itinerant Photography

03/20/2014
7pm-8:30pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Solar Exposures with Scott Patrick Wiener

03/15/2014
1pm-3pm
Mills Gallery

RSVP

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

BRINK v1

02/13/2014 - 04/12/2014
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

White-Line Block Printing Workshop

01/25/2014
1pm-4pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Curator’s Talk: The Infinite Space of the Possible

01/09/2014
7pm-8pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Black and White Still Life Watercolor Workshop

Aileen Erickson
12/14/2013
1pm-3pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

The Infinite Space of the Possible

Leika Akiyama, Aileen Erickson, Rebecca Rose Green
12/13/2013 - 02/02/2014
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

BRIGHT NIGHTS: Book Signing and Presentation

11/22/2013
7pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

1860’s Paper Canoe Building with Mare Liberum

11/16/2013
10am-1pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

The National Bitter Melon Council and our (Inter)national Bitternesses

11/07/2013
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Fixing Sessions with the Fixers Collective

11/05/2013 - 11/02/2013
3pm-6pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Singing Pictures with Clare Dolan

10/26/2013
7pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

About, With & For

10/04/2013 - 12/01/2013
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Events

Invisible Cities: Drawing with Light and Shadow

09/07/2013
2pm-5pm
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

23rd Drawing Show: Drawing Connections

07/12/2013 - 09/22/2013
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Anna Von Mertens: Gold! And Other Fallen Empires

04/19/2013 - 06/16/2013
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Me Love You Long Time (MLYLT)

02/15/2013 - 04/07/2013
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Process Goes Public: BCA ASB Exhibition

Ruth Ginsberg-Place, Georgina Lewis, Marilyn Mase, Selina Narovlansky, Robert Rovenolt, Miriam Shenitzer, Beverly Sky
12/14/2012 - 02/02/2013
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

The Future of the Past: Encaustic Art in the 21st Century

10/05/2012 - 12/02/2012
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

The World According to Derrick

07/13/2012 - 09/23/2012
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Pretty Ugly

05/18/2012 - 06/24/2012
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

William Cordova: This One’s 4U

02/10/2012 - 04/15/2012
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Notes on the Species

11/09/2011 - 01/22/2012
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

22nd Drawing Show: Residue

10/14/2011 - 11/27/2011
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Close Distance

07/15/2011 - 08/28/2011
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

This Must Be The Place & Swap Meet

Aileen Erickson, Suzanne Merritt, Selina Narovlansky, David Addison Small, Leika Akiyama, Robert Rovenolt, Miriam Shenitzer
01/21/2011 - 02/27/2011

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Southern Exposure: Artadia Awardees 2009 Atlanta

11/29/2010 - 01/02/2011

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Richard Bertman: Three Point Perspective

07/23/2010 - 08/29/2010
Mills Gallery

Admission:
Free

Exhibitions, Events, Visual Arts

Social Affects

05/14/2010 - 06/12/2010

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