
THE HUNTINGTON ACTIVATES BOTH OF ITS GALLERY SPACES FOR ARTIST TALKS

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THE HUNTINGTON ACTIVATES BOTH OF ITS GALLERY SPACES FOR ARTIST TALKS
Artist Talks featuring Feda Eid and Marla L. McLeod will take place at the Huntington Theatre and the Calderwood Pavilion, with complimentary drinks and conversation

(BOSTON) – The Huntington announces two, free Artist Talks with complimentary drinks and conversation. Artist Feda Eid will be featured in a Threads Exhibit from 5:30-7pm on January 28, 2025 in the Nook in the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA (527 Tremont St). And Artist Marla L. McLeod will be featured in a talk hosted by Jennifer Mancuso of Art New England from 5:30-7pm on January 31, 2025 at the Arcade in the Huntington Theatre (264 Huntington Ave). These speaking events are free and open to the public with advance registration.
Feda Eid’s current series explores the threads embedded into us through our heritage, the layers we shared and adopt, and ultimately how we re-create and share them in our own individual way.
Marla L. McLeod creates figural works using paintings, textiles, and sculpture. Her bodies of work are both 2-D and 3-D representations which highlight how historical events influence individual lives on a personal level. The selected series of works reflect topics such as motherhood, individual freedom/suppression, and cultural connections.
These exhibits follow several other installations in both gallery spaces. The Huntington operates two gallery spaces, one in each of its venues: The Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA hosts “The Nook” in the main floor lobby; and the newly renovated Huntington Theatre hosts “The Arcade” on the second floor. Art often echoes themes and conversations stirring in work being done on stage during the current season, but not always. Visual artists and curators are invited to propose exhibitions for either of its two gallery spaces and selected artists/curators receive a small stipend and a majority percentage of sales.
Past exhibitions in these galleries include: Destiny Palmer’s ORANGE, Domenic Esposito’s INVISIBLE, Soyoung L. Kim’s INVISIBLE FORCES, Alison Judd’s THE MEMORY OF LEAVES, and Ekua Holmes creation of artwork for The Huntington’s 2022 production of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.
MORE ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Feda Eid is a Lebanese diaspora photographer and multidisciplinary artist living in the occupied lands of Wampanoag, Nipmuc, and Massachusett People- greater Boston. Her work explores the expression of identity and tradition in the often tense but beautiful space between, what is said, what is felt, and what is lost in translation. Feda is guided by her family’s journey and her childhood growing up as an Arab and Muslim in the US. She captures these emotions through her bold use of color, textiles, adornment, and pop culture linking the past and present. She uses ritual and the everyday as portals to reimagine, and project interconnected and liberated futures.
Feda studied Sociology at Regis College and photography at New England School of Photography. Her work has been exhibited at the Peabody Essex Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Lesley University, and The Shed NY among others. She was 2019 Luminary and Visiting Studio Artist at The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2022 Artist in Residence at Mass MoCA Studios, 2022 Collective Futures Fund grantee, and 2024 Foundation For Contemporary Arts grantee. She was most recently awarded the 2024-2027 Studio Residency at Boston Center for the Arts and WBUR’s 2024 The Makers, Boston’s 10 artists of color whose work you should know. IG @fedaeid

Marla L. McLeod is a multi-cultural artist, curator, and educator. In 2023 as the Aminah Robinson Resident Artist she opened her first solo museum exhibition at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio. Her work has been exhibited at the Boston Sculptors Gallery, the 2022 deCordova Museum Triennial, the Boston Globe, and Black Portraitures at NYU.
She has received first place for the Concord Art, Francis N. Roddy competition, the Walter Feldman Fellowship from the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, and she is one of the 2024-2027 Boston Center for the Arts Studio Residents. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Southern Connecticut State University in CT.
ART EXHIBITIONS AT THE HUNTINGTON
More information about what art is currently being exhibited, and how to submit artwork for exhibition, can be found at https://www.huntingtontheatre.org/exhibitions/.
To purchase any of the current work exhibited, please inquire via email at artwork@huntingtontheatre.org
ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON
Celebrating over 40 years of outstanding theatre, The Huntington is Boston’s theatrical commons and leading professional theatre company. On our stages and throughout our city, we share enduring and untold stories that spark the imagination of audiences and artists and amplify the wide range of voices in our community.
Under the leadership of Norma Jean Calderwood Artistic Director Loretta Greco and Executive Director Christopher Mannelli, The Huntington is committed to welcoming broad and diverse audiences, provides life- changing opportunities for students through its robust education and community programs, is a national leader in the development of playwrights and new plays, has acted as the host organization for a multi-year residency of The Front Porch Arts Collective, a Black theatre company based in Boston, and serves the local arts community through our operation of The Huntington Calderwood/BCA.
The Huntington reopened the historic Huntington Theatre in fall of 2022 after its transformational renovation, and is currently in phase two of the project; the renovation and building project of this storied venue with a bold vision for the future will allow us to innovatively expand our services to audiences, artists, and the community for generations to come. For more information, visit huntingtontheatre.org.
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