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Award-winning Boston-based bridge designer and architect Miguel Rosales has transformed the city with his iconic designs for the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, the Frances Appleton Pedestrian Bridge, the newly dedicated Bill Russell Bridge, and the redesign of the Longfellow Bridge, as well as bridges in Revere and Quincy. Join Rosales to celebrate his design contributions and recently released book, Bridges as Structural Art. A book signing will follow a short talk by Rosales that dives into his trajectory of becoming one of Boston’s most innovative bridge designers.

Rosales is renowned for his ability to create iconic bridges balancing aesthetic and technical principles. Bridges as Structural Art showcases 25 bridges designed by Rosales throughout the United States and abroad. These transformational structures have become sources of pride in their communities and stand as tangible expressions of the art of bridge design. 

Pair a good book with a glass of wine from the ICA Wine + Coffee Bar recommended by sommelier Lauren Friel of Rebel Rebel and Dear Annie. Complete your evening with an exploration of our building designed by award-winning Diller Scofidio + Renfro—their first building in the U.S (2006). Hear from Liz Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, and Charles Renfro via the Bloomberg Connects app.  

About Miguel Rosales

Miguel Rosales is the president and principal designer of Rosales + Partners, with more than 35 years of expertise as a leading architect and designer for major bridges both in the U.S. and abroad. Renowned for his focus on bridge aesthetics and design, he earned a licentiate degree in architecture from Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala in 1985 and completed a master’s degree in architecture studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1987. 

He has received grants from the NEA, AIA/AAF, and MIT to research bridge and infrastructure design and is the recipient of numerous national and international bridge design and engineering awards. He is known for his ability to balance technical and aesthetic principles, conceiving cost-effective architectural bridge enhancements and delivering iconic bridges.  

Through his contributions, he has established himself as a leading figure in his field, influencing both design and engineering practices globally. 

Accessibility

  • Accessible seating is available first-come first-served and may be selected upon theater entry. Please contact our Visitor Services team at visitorservices@icaboston.org or 617-478-3100 for more information.
  • Assistive listening devices are available for all theater programs at the theater entrance.
  • A link to live captioning will be shared by the day of the event and will be available in the theater.
  • ASL interpretation is available by advance request; please contact our Visitors Services team at 617-478-3100 or visitorservices@icaboston.org to make a request.

Are there other access accommodations that would be useful to help you fully participate in this program? Let us know at accessibility@icaboston.org or learn more about Accessibility at the ICA at icaboston.org/accessibility.

Tune in from home for a three-part online series of presentations and discussions on art, history, and community exploring the 250-year history of the Shakers — a Christian sect of pacifists recognized for communal living and gender and racial equality — and their remarkable influence on contemporary art and artists. Hear live presentations from different speakers throughout New England each week for three weeks, including from the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Harvard University and Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community in Maine. This program accompanies the ICA exhibition Believers: Artists and the Shakers.  

Pre-registration for this online series is required in order to receive web links. This series of presentations will be offered using Zoom.  

Week 1: March 11 | Contemporary Art and the Shakers  

Learn about the beginnings of the ICA’s work with the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community in Maine with Jill Medvedow, the ICA’s Ellen Matilda Poss Director and an Arts, Religion, and Culture Fellow at Harvard Divinity School, and Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator at the ICA and organizer of Believers: Artists and the Shakers.

Week 2: March 18 | Shakerism and Sabbathday Lake, Maine  

Brother Arnold Hadd, one of two living Shakers in the U.S., will discuss Shakerism and its misconceptions and introduce the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community in Maine.

Week 3: March 25 | Spirit-Driven Women Making Art

Ann Braude, Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Program and Senior Lecturer on American Religious History at Harvard Divinity School, will provide greater historical context, particularly the role that women played as spiritual leaders in early America.

Expand your knowledge of the Shakers after the series concludes and meet featured speakers Brother Arnold Hadd and Jeffrey De Blois in person during The Artist’s Voice program and community reception on April 10.  

Join Assistant Curator Tessa Bachi Haas 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 Tessa Bachi Haas

Tessa Bachi Haas is an assistant curator at the ICA, where she has organized and supported nearly ten exhibitions since 2022. She is invested in uplifting local arts ecologies and fostering a global exhibition program. Her forthcoming projects include Christian Marclay: Doors, the 2025 James and Audrey Foster Prize, and the first museum survey of Derrick Adams. Haas has previously held curatorial positions in Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., and has contributed to over thirty exhibitions in these cities. Tessa is a Ph.D Candidate in History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, where she earned her MA in 2019.

Have you ever wondered how costumes are made? Join Boston Ballet Director of Costumes Howard Merlin and Costume Shop and Children’s Wardrobe Manager Kelly Kerrigan Jacobus to hear about the people and processes behind the exquisite costumes worn by Boston Ballet dancers. This conversation is moderated by Eliza Mecklenburg, ICA Education Coordinator and organizer of the installation Costuming for the Stage and Screen.

Costuming for the Stage and Screen is an interactive installation created in collaboration with the Boston Ballet Costume Shop to provide a behind-the-scenes look into how costumes are constructed for Boston Ballet. This installation is open to visitors during Charles Atlas: About Time and connects to Atlas’s early experiences as a costume designer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

About the Panelists

Kelly Anona Kerrigan Jacobus

With a love for art, dance, and fashion, Kelly Kerrigan Jacobus received a BFA in painting from Boston University, before embarking on a career in the arts that began at Boston Ballet, where she first worked in the Costume Shop as a stitcher. She supplemented her fine arts education with classes at Boston’s School of Fashion design, gaining skills in fashion construction, illustration and pattern making.

After earning her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Kelly spent time working in arts administration before making her way back to Boston Ballet’s Costume shop, where she is currently the Costume Shop and Children’s Theater Manager.

Kelly’s painting practice is influenced by her work in costuming. Her painting focuses on portraits with an emphasis on pattern and texture, exploring what garments can tell us about the wearer. Her work has been shown in various venues throughout New England, and was featured in the 2006 New American Paintings MFA edition.

She has taught painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She currently lives and works in Boston’s Fort Point Arts Community.

Howard Merlin

Howard Merlin has been in the Dance world since he started dancing at age 6. After graduating High School, he got his first professional ballet contract with the Hartford Ballet in 1982. In 1987, Howard joined Boston Ballet and has been a part of the Boston Ballet family for the past 37 seasons. In 1995, Howard decided it was time to “look to the future” and start his transition from the professional dancer world to the professional wardrobe and costume industry. In 1997, Howard became Wardrobe Supervisor, promoted to Costume Shop & Footwear Coordinator in 2000 and then in the summer of 2019 became the Director of Costumes. He has a variety of job functions, each helping to maintain the Company’s world-class reputation. He has worked with various costume designers from all over the world. Robert Perdziola, Yuima Nakazato, and Stephen Galloway to name a few.

Being the Director of a Professional Ballet Companies’ Costume Department and having an extensive career as a professional ballet dancer is uncommon in the world of dance.

Having this attribute, Howard collaborates with designers, with their designs to make sure it relates to what the dancer needs to achieve one’s given choreography.

Tickets will be available March 12 for ICA members and March 19 for the general public. 

Nationally recognized artists Janine Antoni and Jonathan Berger reflect on how encountefring the Shakers —a 250-year-old Christian sect of pacifists who value the importance of “attempting to live an extraordinary life” as ordinary individuals—has influenced them in the studio and beyond. The artists will be joined in conversation by  Brother Arnold Hadd of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine— one of two practicing Shakers in the United States. Jeffrey De Blois, the ICA’s Mannion Family Curator and organizer of Believers: Artists and the Shakers, will moderate this timely conversation on art, life, and community. A reception immediately follows the speaking portion of this program.  

Make the most of your ICA visit!  Explore the galleries and visit the ICA’s featured exhibition: Believers: Artists and the Shakers.  

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About the Artists

Janine Antoni is a visual artist born in Freeport, Bahamas. She received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Antoni is known for her unusual processes. Her body is both her tool for making and the source from which her meaning arises. Antoni’s early work transformed materials like chocolate and soap, and she has used everyday activities like bathing, eating, and sleeping as sculptural processes. She carefully articulates her relationship to the world, giving rise to emotional states that are felt in and through the senses.  

Antoni’s work has been shown nationally and internationally and is included in the collections of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Modern Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Art Institute of Chicago; among others.  

Antoni is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998, the New Media Award from the ICA/Boston, and The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2011.

Jonathan Berger is an artist whose practice investigates three primary concerns: the archive as a constantly changing and living entity; the repurposing of the exhibition site, and how ideas and content are cross-pollinated therein; and collaboration as a shared experience of trust and belief. Berger’s intensive investment in creative communities has enabled him to create a web of relationships which, due to the collaborative nature of all of his work, threads together a diverse and wide-ranging group of participants. 
 
Berger has been featured in solo installations around the world, including the Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Busan Biennial, South Korea; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Participant Inc., New York; Frieze Projects, London; and most recently, the Aspen Art Museum. His collaborative and curatorial projects have been presented at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and The Queens Museum of Art, New York. Part of Berger’s An Introduction to Nameless Love was on view in The Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet As It’s Kept, in New York. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art Professions at New York University, and he lives and works in New York City and Glover, Vermont. T.
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Believers: Artists and the Shakers is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Tessa Bachi Haas, Assistant Curator.

Tickets will be available Feb 12 for ICA members and Feb 19 for the general public. 

“We have to watch ourselves become ourselves in order to be ourselves, over and over again.” 
— Sara Cwynar, from Glass Life (2021)

A rose gold iPhone, photos of Pamela Anderson, dentures, melamine dishware—what do we value and desire? Created from her extensive personal archive of photographs, found objects, and computer-generated materials, Sara Cwynar’s image-saturated works evoke the flood of images each of us navigates in today’s digital era. In this conversation, moderated by Mannion Family Curator Jeffrey De Blois, Cwynar will discuss her new project examining understanding oneself in a culture of images, advertisements, and algorithms. 

Make the most of your ICA visit! Explore the galleries and visit the featured exhibition, Sara Cwynar: Alphabet. Relax and refresh with a drink and light bite in our waterfront Wine + Coffee Bar, featuring sommelier-selected natural wines and more. 


The Artist’s Voice: Sara Cwynar is made possible, in part, by The Ronni Casty Lecture Fund.

Sara Cwynar: Alphabet and Sara Cwynar is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

Support for these exhibitions is provided by The Kristen and Kent Lucken Fund for Photography.  

Join Mannion Family Curator Jeffrey De Blois for a deep dive into Tau Lewis: Spirit Level. In this conversation, get a closer look at the found and upcycled materials Lewis transformed into a new body of work for the ICA. Learn about the five monumental figures that preside over the gallery and the past lives of the materials of which they are made. 

About Jeffrey De Blois

Devoted to working closely with artists and an expert in all things books, Jeffrey De Blois has been part of the ICA curatorial team for more than 30 exhibitions and 10 books, successfully realizing some of the museum’s most ambitious projects. He curated the first U.S. solo museum exhibitions of artists Caitlin Keogh, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Tammy Nguyen. He has also organized solo shows with artists Rose B. Simpson, Carolina Caycedo, William Kentridge, and Raúl de Nieves, among others. Most recently, De Blois organized the first retrospective dedicated to pioneering artist Charles Atlas and the first monograph and U.S. solo exhibition of the work of Tau Lewis.

Tau Lewis: Spirit Level is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant.

This exhibition is supported by The Coby Foundation, Ltd., Mathieu O. Gaulin, Girlfriend Fund, Robert Nagle and Katherine Hein, Kim Sinatra, the Jennifer Epstein Fund for Women Artists, an anonymous donor, and Miko McGinty.  

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Tickets will be available March 12 for ICA Members and March 19 for the general public. 

“I have to let the color take me wherever it takes me.” 

—Stanley Whitney 

Stanley Whitney’s captivating abstractions demonstrate his lifelong dedication to exploring the possibilities of color, structure, and form. Like improvisational jazz, Whitney’s signature freeform grids employ structure and rhythm, each hue part of a call-and-response.  

Narayan Khandekar brings a different perspective on painting, its surfaces, and the study of color pigments in his field as curator of the one-of-a-kind Forbes Pigment Collection at Harvard Art Museum, which includes more than 3,000 pigments from around the world, and director of the Strauss Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.  

In this conversation moderated by Ruth Erickson, the ICA’s Barbara Lee Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, Whitney and Khandekar will come together to reflect on their lifetime work, including Whitney’s five decades of painting represented in his retrospective, Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon.

Make the most of your ICA visit! Explore the galleries and visit the ICA’s featured exhibition: Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Enjoy a drink and light bite in our waterfront Wine + Coffee Bar, featuring sommelier-selected natural wines and more. 


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 MuseumThe 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 the ICA’s Avant Guardian Society in making the ICA’s presentation of this exhibition possible.

Join Mannion Family Curator Jeffrey De Blois for a deep dive into MC⁹, a monumental multi-channel video installation featured in Charles Atlas: About Time. In this curator’s choice conversation, get a closer look into Atlas’s work at the intersections of moving image, dance, and performance. 

Bring your dancing shoes and join us for Let’s Dance: Through the Ages, in the theater following this program. Discover dance from 1970’s to today inspired by the exhibition, Charles Atlas: About Time

About Jeffrey De Blois

Devoted to working closely with artists and an expert in all things books, De Blois has been part of the curatorial team on more than 30 exhibitions and 10 books at the ICA, successfully realizing some of the museum’s most ambitious projects. He curated the first U.S. solo museum exhibitions of artists Caitlin Keogh, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, and Tammy Nguyen. He has also organized solo shows with artists Rose B. Simpson, Carolina Caycedo, William Kentridge, and Raúl de Nieves, among others. Most recently, De Blois organized the first retrospective dedicated to pioneering artist Charles Atlas, opening, and the first monograph and U.S. solo exhibition of the work of Tau Lewis. 


Charles Atlas: About Time is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant. 

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

Additional thanks to Charles Atlas: About Time media sponsor, Orange Barrel Media. 

Join Curatorial Assistant Max Gruber for a deep dive into Personalities, a vibrant, monumental multi-channel video installation featured in Charles Atlas: About Time. In this curator’s choice conversation, get a closer look into Atlas’s work at the intersections of moving image, dance, and performance. 

About Max Gruber

Max Gruber is Curatorial Assistant at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston. He is contributing to several ICA exhibitions, including Tau LewisGun Violence Memorial Project, Charles Atlas: About Time, and An Indigenous Present. Before joining the ICA, Gruber contributed to the exhibition and accompanying publication for Humane Ecology: Eight Positions at the Clark Art Institute. He holds an M.A. in the History of Art from Williams College.


Charles Atlas: About Time is organized by Jeffrey De Blois, Mannion Family Curator, with Max Gruber, Curatorial Assistant. 

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

Additional thanks to Charles Atlas: About Time media sponsor, Orange Barrel Media.