Join for an Artist Talk and Opening Reception to celebrate Signal and Strata. 

Artists Elena Damiani and Ishmael Randall-Weeks will be joined by moderator Dr. Madeline Murphy Turner for a conversation in our Lower Level Theater, followed by an opening reception on Level 3.

6:00–7:00 pm, Artist Talk, Theater, Lower Level 
7:00–9:00 pm, Opening Reception, Level 3 

Free and open to the public.

The Artist Talk and Opening Reception for Signal and Strata is part of ArtsThursdays, a university-wide initiative supported by Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA).

Seating in the Carpenter Center is limited, and will be accommodated on a first come, first serve basis. Please email: ccva@fas.harvard.edu with any questions about accessing the theater.

Dr. Madeline Murphy Turner is a curator, educator, and art historian specializing in modern and contemporary art of the Americas, with a focus on gender, ecology, and their intersections with transhistorical politics. She has held positions at the Harvard Art Museums, the Museum of Modern Art, the Boston Center for the Arts, and the Grey Art Museum.

Her writing appears in exhibition catalogues, scholarly volumes, and leading journals. She is co-editor of the award-winning anthology Momentum: Art and Ecology in Contemporary Latin America (The Museum of Modern Art, 2025). Recent exhibitions include Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static and Drawn to Earth: Contemporary Art and Environment in the Americas at the Harvard Art Museums, and LA ESCUELA___: Education as Resistance at MoMA PS1.

A committed advocate for arts education, Turner serves on the board of LA ESCUELA___, an artist-run platform for radical learning and collaborative making in public spaces across the Americas. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.