Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

As Disability Pride Month begins today, we're highlighting our Feeling For Form program, which provides multisensory tours for people who are blind or have low vision. Launched over 30 years ago, these tours give participants the opportunity to explore select sculpture and furniture through touch, and experience art that may not be touched through verbal description, tactile graphics and other materials. Our Manager of Accessibility Jessica Doonan recently welcomed JoAnn Becker for a Feeling for Form tour in our Art of the Americas Wing, where the pair explored works by John Wilson, Arthur Dove and William Wetmore Story. ➡️ The MFA strives to create paths to access for all members of our community with disabilities or health challenges. Learn more about Accessibility at the MFA: http://ms.spr.ly/6044lBaOG

"We hope that visitors come away with a feeling like they belonged here." —Jessica Doonan, the MFA's Manager of Accessibility 📰 Read more in WBUR about our partnership with Women's Lunch Place, a daytime women's shelter and advocacy center in Boston: http://ms.spr.ly/6047Yf2xD

Congrats to our MVP Jaylen Brown 🏆 We’ll see you and the rest of the Boston Celtics on the parade route! ☘️ 🖼️: Albert Bierstadt (American (born in Germany), 1830–1902), "Valley of the Yosemite" (1864), oil on paperboard

The MFA announced today that Matthew Teitelbaum, Ann and Graham Gund Director and CEO since 2015, intends to retire from the Museum in August 2025, marking 10 years as director. Under his leadership, the MFA, which was founded in 1870, has introduced new initiatives, programs, and partnerships to invite, welcome, and engage diverse audiences and build a more inclusive community of visitors, staff, volunteers and supporters. For more, please read our press release: http://ms.spr.ly/6049Y2k41

Join us today as we honor Juneteenth! In partnership with Citizens, admission to the MFA is free for all Massachusetts residents today from 10 am–5 pm. Explore more than a dozen exhibitions on view, including "Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party," which brings together 27 photographs by photojournalist Stephen Shames that feature the women, or “comrade sisters,” as they were known, of the Black Panther Party. 📷: "Oakland, California: Black Panther member Ericka Huggins laughs with comrades after the Black Community Survival Conference. She served in the Los Angeles, New Haven, and Oakland offices of the party." (1972) 📷: "San Francisco, California: Men and women at a May Day “Free Huey” rally in front of the Federal Building." (1969) 📷: "Oakland, California: Black Panther Party members register people to vote at the Black Community Survival Conference at the Oakland Coliseum." (1972) All photographs (archival pigment prints, printed in 2021) by Stephen Shames (American, born in 1947). © 2023, Stephen Shames.

Ahead of our Juneteenth Open House in partnership with Citizens, MFA educators distributed art-making kits at their branches in Jamaica Plain, Dorchester and Mattapan 🎨 Admission to the MFA is free for all Massachusetts residents on Juneteenth—escape the heat with a day of fun for the whole family! http://ms.spr.ly/6042Y0nbo

Hate against people of Asian American and Pacific Islander identities rose during the COVID-19 pandemic, taking form in a multitude of ways. Interested in this topic, Korean American artist Julia Kwon depicts AAPI statistics through bojagi (Korean wrapping cloths). In this textile graph, she takes yellow strips of fabric to represent graph bars and places them over intricate traditional patchwork to comment on AAPI hate from March 2020 through December 2021—raising awareness through her cultural roots. Kwon's work is on view in "Hallyu! The Korean Wave," as part of a section exploring the Korean American experience. 🧵: Julia Kwon, "Different Types of AAPI Discrimination in the United States (The Stop AAPI Hate’s National Report from March 2020 through December 2021 resulted in: Harassment 66.9%, Physical assault 16.2%, Avoidance or shunning 16.1%, Online 8.6%, Coughed at or spat upon 8.2%, Job discrimination/hostile work environment 5.9%, Graffiti, vandalism, robbery, or theft 4.4%, Denial of service 4.2%, and Barred from transportation 1.1%)," 2023. Korean silk, sewn in the format of Korean object-wrapping cloth called bojagi. "Hallyu! The Korean Wave" is created by Victoria and Albert Museum—touring the world. Sponsored by Hyundai Motor Company (현대자동차).

Timothy Hyunsoo Lee’s lushly textured, golden-hued works speak to his lived experience as an immigrant, his queerness and complex family history, and his reverence for traditional materials and craft from his native South Korea. Here, he explores his interest in the ways time and experience can alter or obscure memories of childhood, especially for people who immigrated while young. Using one of the last photographs taken of his family posing together, he doubled it with a self-portrait and then translated it into a rich mosaic of gold leaf and treated Korean silk. A close-up look at the various mosaic-like pieces reveals image transfers of census figures about U.S. populations alongside small pictures of the artist’s current, chosen community. You can see more works by Lee in our exhibitions "Community Arts Initiative: Our Family Portrait" and "Hallyu! The Korean Wave." 🖼️: Timothy Hyunsoo Lee (American (born in Seoul, South Korea), 1990). "Gajok Sajin (Cometboy as a Sitter for a Family Portrait)" (2024). Inkjet, gold leaf, watercolor, and acrylic on paper and silk on canvas.

Happy Pride, Boston! ❤️ MFA staff, volunteers, friends and family are walking in today's parade, led by our LGBTQIA+ Employee Resource Group 🏳️🌈

Join us for Juneteenth! In partnership with Citizens, admission to the MFA—including access to “Hallyu! The Korean Wave”—is free for all Massachusetts residents on June 19! Doors open at 10 am. Explore the full schedule: http://ms.spr.ly/6046YoYBG