# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Arnold J. Kemp: Artist Lecture-Performance
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 25 Sep, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Fri, 25 Sep, 2026 at 01:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Join Tufts University Art Galleries and the SMFA at Tufts MFA Program for an artist lecture with 2026 exhibiting artist Arnold J. Kemp.About this EventJoin Tufts University Art Galleries and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at Tufts MFA Program for an artist lecture with Fall 2026 exhibiting artist Arnold J. Kemp. Arnold J. Kemp will reprise a 2023 performance lecture he developed after his first encounter with N. H. Pritchard’s poems in the Johnson Publishing Library, Chicago. Kemp will bring together recent scholarship and dynamic performance in honor of Pritchard’s innovative approach to poetry, sound, and visual art.Norman Henry Pritchard (b. 1939, Manhattan, New York; d. 1996, Pennsylvania) was one of the most formally innovative poets of the 1960s and early 1970s. Affiliated with downtown literary and art circles, he was a member of Umbra, a collective of Black writers and musicians on the Lower East Side, and a regular at Greenwich Village’s Cedar Tavern. Pritchard published two collections of poetry in his lifetime (The Matrix, Poems: 1960–1970 (Doubleday, 1970), and Eecchhooeess (New York University Press, 1971), which were both reissued in 2021 by Primary Information & Ugly Duckling Presse and DABA, respectively, and one posthumous novel, The Mundus, released in 2024 by Primary Information.Arnold J. Kemp (American, b. 1968, Boston) lives and works in Chicago. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include To Whom Keeps A Record (2024) at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockland, ME; Arnold J. Kemp: Three Plays (2024), Human Resources, Los Angeles; Stage (2023), Martos Gallery, New York; Less Like an Object and More Like the Weather (2022), The Neubauer Collegium, University of Chicago; False Hydras (2021), JOAN, Los Angeles; and I Could Survive, I Would Survive, I Should Survive (2021), Manetti Shrem Art Museum, the University of California, Davis. Kemp’s works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Portland Art Museum, the Schneider Museum of Art, the Tacoma Art Museum, The Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, and the Hammer Art Museum. He has received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in 2021. In addition, Kemp’s writing has appeared in Artforum, October, Art Journal, Texte zur Kunst, Callaloo, Agni Review, MIRAGE #4 Period(ical), River Styx, Nocturnes, Tripwire, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, and in From Our Hearts to Yours: New Narrative as Contemporary Practice.Professor Kemp teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2024, he was the Holt Visiting Artist in the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He also holds an MFA (2025) from Stanford University.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/boston/arnold-j-kemp-artist-lecture-performance/100001988566252191
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, music, fine-arts, entertainment, exhibitions
- **Interested Audience**: 
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- **Event Highlights**: 
  - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
  - Location: SMFA at Tufts
  - Languages: English

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Boston
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: SMFA at Tufts
- **lat**: 42.33856369999999
- **long**: -71.0966091
- **full address**: SMFA at Tufts, 230 The Fenway, Boston, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Arnold J. Kemp: Artist Lecture-Performance being held?
  - **A:** Arnold J. Kemp: Artist Lecture-Performance takes place on Fri, 25 Sep, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Fri, 25 Sep, 2026 at 01:30 pm at SMFA at Tufts, 230 The Fenway, Boston, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Arnold J. Kemp: Artist Lecture-Performance?
  - **A:** Arnold J. Kemp: Artist Lecture-Performance is organized by Collective Futures Fund.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Arnold J. Kemp: Artist Lecture-Performance is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Boston, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Arnold J. Kemp: Artist Lecture-Performance sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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