MassArt’s Doran Graduate Gallery is pleased to present A FERVENT CHORUS: 2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition, the on-campus, student-curated component of the Spring 2025 MFA Thesis, on view April 22 – May 30, 2025. This exhibition includes a special Media Installation in D309 and showcases work from 2025’s graduating MFA candidates in Photography, 2D/3D Studio Arts, and Film/Video.  The Doran show is a companion to the MassArt xSoWa exhibition on view through May 25.

In rare moments, paths cross and something remarkable emerges out of people making a space their own, together. Over the past two years, thirteen artists have worked alongside each other to realize thirteen provocative bodies of work. This exhibition marks the culmination of these students’ Master of Fine Arts thesis. Working across a dynamic range of disciplines, from printmaking to hand-scratched 16 mm film, these graduates explore identity, memory, power, and mythology in dynamically different ways. The diverse forms of making represented here weave into a larger narrative that speaks to resilience and tenacity, transcending any one medium. The 2025 MFA class invites viewers to contemplate what meaning or force arises from the sum of many voices.

A FERVENT CHORUS: 2025 MFA Thesis features work from the following artists:

• AGHIGH AFKHAMI | Photography
• STELLA BASTART | Film/Video
• RASHID BILIMORIA | Photography
• JACOB CHURCH | Photography
• LAUREN MARIE DAKE | Film/Video
• EMILY GLEASON | Studio Arts 3D
• ELIZABETH HOPKINS | Photography
• JOSH LIND | Studio Arts 2D
• DIANE MACHADO | Studio Arts 2D
• BRIDEY MCGLYNN | Studio Arts 2D
• BEHNAZ MONZAVI | Studio Arts 2D
• MUSTAFA YILDIZ | Film/Video
• ANDREW ZOU | Photography

Join us in celebrating the class of 2025 and their community, at an opening reception and special, one-night only, Media Installation in D309, on Friday, May 9 | 5-8pm.

Doran Gallery Hours: M-F | 11AM – 5PM | And By Appointment

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu