With deep appreciation, we were honored to present Perceptual Set, the Fall 2025 issue and accompanying exhibition in CFA’s Gallery Space from December 9-13, 2025. This theme invites both artists and writers to explore the specificity of their lived experiences and the memories, contexts, and sensations that shape perception.

In Gallery 5, visitors will encounter a wide range of practices. Twelve artists and twelve writers from across Boston University contribute works that span mediums and techniques. Each participant responded to a simple yet expansive question: How do you see the world around you, and why? The exhibition becomes a map of their intimate, analytical, and at times deeply imaginative answers. We invite you to move through these visual responses in the gallery, and to turn to the pages of the magazine to read the essays, articles, and other written forms that extend this dialogue.

Consider how your own perceptual set—shaped by experience, expectation, and emotion—would shift in response to these works. It will evolve, as will ours.  To close, individuality is a gift and the foundation of perspective; it grants each of us the agency to create.