Special Events

Summer Exhibitions Opening + Launch of the Star Glyph Garden

Jun 21, 2025, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The RMG is pleased to celebrate three new exhibitions and the launch of the Star Glyph Garden in The Backyard on June 21! Join us for an exhibition tour, art activities, and refreshments. Artists and curators will be in attendance.

1:45pm – Exhibition tour of We are ten thousand hands that plant seeds with Abedar Kamgari
2:00-4:00pm – Hands-on arts activity with Nimra Bandukwala
2:45pm – General exhibition remarks

This event is free and open to everyone. If there are ways we can support your participation, please contact Hannah at [email protected].

Sharmistha Kar, Walking together (from the series Soft Shelter), 2021. Bunka on tarpaulin, 8’ x 10’. Image credit: Toni Hafkenscheid.

We are ten thousand hands that plant seeds
June 7, 2025 – October 5, 2025

Megan Feheley, Maureen Gruben, Sharmistha Kar, Gloria Martinez-Granados, Soledad Fátima Muñoz, and Nazzal Studio

Curated by Abedar Kamgari

Co-presented with SAVAC

Pixel Heller: Emerging Artist Residency Exhibition
June 14, 2025 – August 10, 2025

Curated by Hannah Keating

Supported by the RBC Foundation’s Emerging Artist Project

Pixel Heller, Archiving the Evolution of Culture, photograph, 2024. Photo by Tsemaye Tite.

Wish you were here!
June 21, 2025 – January 11, 2026

Curated by Sonya Jones

Star Glyph Garden
Designed for the RMG’s new backyard by Kai Recollet and Jon Johnson, the Star Glyph Garden is a rock garden that welcomes visitors to consider the constellation of people and more-than-human beings that make up this community. The design itself is informed by Indigenous storytelling, as well as the future-oriented cosmology and landing practices of Kai Recollet and Jon Johnson.

Thank you to Acorn Landscaping for their generous support of the Star Glyph Garden.

Sites of Solidarity & Resistance: Art Activity with Nimra Bandukwala

Explore sites of solidarity and resistance with natural materials gathered by the artist in this multi-sensory hands-on activity. Guided by Nimra, participants will be encouraged to reflect on what the land has witnessed and what it remembers, then make a wish, a hope, or a prayer for the land, as well as its human and more-than-human stewards.

Nimra Bandukwala (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary Ecological Artist and community-engaged arts facilitator based in Cambridge, on unceded Attawandaron, Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe territory. She was born and raised in Karachi and comes from a lineage of women who crafted with what they had, appreciated and grew plants, and valued the lives and stories of materials. She creates paints, dyes, and sculptural pieces with plants, rocks, and shells while exploring cultural and interspecies collaboration with these materials. Her paintings are inspired by motifs from her homeland and folktales from the desert.

Find her at nimrabandukwala.com and on Instagram @nimrabandukwala.art.

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Camps

Summer Camp 2025

Jul 7, 2025, 9:00 AM - Aug 29, 2025, 4:00 PM

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Jul 16, 2025, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

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