Harvard Arts Festival: April 29 - May 2, 2027
An annual campus-wide celebration of creativity and one of the largest collegiate arts festivals in the country.
Produced by the Office for the Arts, Harvard Arts Festival—Arts Fest—brings together Harvard students, faculty, staff and alumni with the wider Cambridge community to experience an extraordinary array of music, dance, theater, film, poetry, visual art, artmaking activities and public art installations. Arts Fest features approximately 2,000 students, faculty, and alumni participants in 150+ mostly free performances, exhibitions, and hands-on, public-facing artmaking activities drawing thousands of audience members. For over 30 years, this festival has exemplified the OFA mission to champion artists, elevate the visibility of artmaking on the Harvard campus and develop our students as citizen artists and cultural stewards.
For Artists and Organizers
Students, faculty, staff and alumni are invited to join in the festivities by performing or presenting their artwork and publicizing their own independently produced campus arts events and exhibitions happening during the festival dates.
Harvard Arts Medal
The Harvard Arts Medal, established in 1995 and presented by the OFA and the Harvard Board of Overseers, honors a distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has achieved excellence in the arts and made a significant contribution through their work. The Arts Medal celebration is a signature event of the Harvard Arts Festival.
Volunteer With Us
Be part of the team! Volunteers help the Arts Fest Performance Fair run smoothly by helping set up or put away chairs, music stands, and signs; greeting visitors and giving directions to performance venues; checking in performers, and other tasks.
Volunteers receive an Arts Fest t-shirt, free snacks, and the opportunity to see Arts Fest performances up close!
Community Welcome!
Welcome neighbors! Audiences from the greater Boston area are invited to attend Arts Fest, a mostly free celebration of the arts at Harvard. This is your opportunity to experience a multitude of performances that showcase what students and artists within the Harvard community have been working towards all year. Bring the whole family!
Undergrad T-shirt Design Contest
Call for Designs! Undergraduate students are invited to submit their artwork to be featured on the official Arts Fest t-shirt. Festival t-shirts are worn by participating artists, staff, and volunteers, and seen by over 10,000 audience members. The Arts Fest staff team seeks designs for the festival t-shirt that convey the joyful, expansive, welcoming energy of the festival as we celebrate creativity at Harvard.
Have a Question?
If you have any questions about Arts Fest, please browse our FAQ to learn more about the festival!
Advisory Committee, Producers, and Staff
Each festival is a unique celebration of the university community’s artistic creativity. This annual showcase is produced by the Office for the Arts, with support from the Board of Overseers of Harvard University and with the guidance of artistic advisors from a multitude of Harvard entities.
- Alicia Anstead NF ’08, Arts Fest Producer & Associate Director for Creative Productions, Office for the Arts
- Marin Orlosky ’07-’08, Arts Fest Coordinator, Office for the Arts
- Lara Adams, Harvard Common Spaces
- Eve Alpern, Harvard Ed Portal
- Marvin Baclig, Harvard Foundation
- Liliana Castro, Harvard College Dean of Students Office (Residential Programs)
- Sheryl Chen, Theater Dance & Media
- Julie Crites, Harvard Common Spaces
- Genesis De Los Santos ’19, Harvard College Dean of Students Office (First-Year Arts)
- Sabrina Debrosse, Harvard College Dean of Students Office (Digital Strategy & Communications)
- Varsha Ghosh, Center for Public Service & Engaged Scholarship
- Gabriella Goode, Office of the University Marshal
- Sanja Kugat, Harvard Art Museums
- Alejandra Rincon, Harvard University Native American Program
- Blake Rivera, Harvard Business School
- Meagan von Rohr, Harvard Foundation
- Caitlin Schmid PhD ’19, FAS History & Literature and Center for Public Service & Engaged Scholarship (Mindich Program)
- Miguel Tejada, Harvard College Dean of Students Office (Student Programs)
- Brennis Carrillo ’26
- Kirthi Chigurupati ’26
- Ananya Choudhary ’27
- Joy Ho ’26
- Sheridan Liew ’28
- Ihechikarageme Munonye ’26
- Stina Pecci ’29
- Sophie Salazar ’27
- Lea Van Reenen ’28
- Sean Wang ’26
- Capri Wayne ’28
- Ellie Yin ’26
- 2026 Student Operations Assistant: Alex Draghia ’28
- 2026 Student Publicity Assistant: Sophia Rascoff ’27