The Museum of Fine Arts Boston is joining in Pride month festivities with the special event, “Pride at the MFA,” on Friday, June 9, from 5 to 10 p.m.
It’s an evening of Spotlight Talks in the exhibitions “The Provincetown Printmakers”, “Jess T. Dugan: Coupled” and “Stone Blossom: A Conversation Piece,” as well as other activities celebrating LGBTQIA+ communities, all included with the price of general admission. Event-goers can also catch a screening of The Watermelon Woman, a landmark of queer cinema (for an additional ticket price).
Here’s the scoop:
Spotlight Talks
Stone Blossom: A Conversation Piece
5:30 and 6:15 pm
Gallery 332
In 1939 Paul Cadmus painted a group portrait of three of his friends enjoying a lazy summer afternoon. The artist and his sitters were all gay men belonging to a tight artistic community in New York. Learn more about these remarkable people who lived their lives as they chose, long before the Stonewall riots launched the gay liberation movement.
With Catherine Johnson-Roehr, senior interpretive planner.
The Provincetown Printmakers
6 and 7:15 pm
Gallery 170
Explore the leading role women played in the creative explosion that occurred in Provincetown in the first half of the 20th century and the catalyzing vital force of such a tight-knit artistic community.
With Edward Saywell, chair, Prints and Drawings.
Jess T. Dugan: Coupled
6:30 and 7:30 pm
Gallery 169
Experience the striking, nearly life-size photographs of LGBTQ couples—depicting friends, acquaintances, and family members—using a rare and massive Polaroid camera, so each print is unique, processed in the camera without a negative.
With Karen Haas, Lane Senior Curator of Photographs.
Film Screening
The Watermelon Woman
7–8:30 pm
Remis Auditorium
Members $12, Nonmembers $15
This landmark of queer cinema is the story of a twenty-something Black lesbian struggling to make a documentary about a beautiful and elusive 1930s Black film actress popularly known as the Watermelon Woman.
For more, visit the event webpage.
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