About the Office for the Arts

Welcome to the Office for the Arts

The Office for the Arts at Harvard cultivates a vibrant ecosystem for artmaking, empowering students to live creative and meaningful lives, regardless of experience or career path.

Students performing outdoors at the Harvard Arts Festival, watched by a crowd on the lawn.

Through the work of the OFA, students engage in transformative thinking, model innovative ways of being, and center our shared humanity through artistic practice.

Fiona Coffey

Director

Mission & History

Nurturing students as artists and cultural leaders since 1973. Read about the OFA's mission and the fifty-year history behind it.

Learn more about the OFA

A student artist at work in an OFA studio space.

Impact Report

The OFA's Impact Report details our programs and the impact that students make as they connect academic knowledge with artistic practice and creativity.

View our latest Impact Report

Donate

Your support enables a broad range of activity across the performing and visual arts through project grants, artist fellowships, instructional and guest artist programs.

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