2021
Mar
04
The OFA building is closed, but our staff is ready to support your artmaking wherever you are! Here are helpful contacts and information about all OFA programs.
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard to celebrate the opening of our online gallery shop. This community sale features mugs made by participants in our Spring 2021 online classes. 
Peter Berry, a longtime Harvard Ceramics Program...
Join Felipe Muñoz ’22 in exploring how an Archaic Greek bowl, a Symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau, and a Bauhaus chess set by Josef Hartwig concern themselves with different kinds of pleasure. Free and open to the public. To join the tour and...
Four hundred years have passed since the Wampanoag Nation encountered English immigrants who settled on the shores of their land at Patuxet—now called Plymouth. Harvard University has had a relationship with the Wampanoag and...
From 1886 to 1936, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka applied their artistic talents and knowledge of natural history to create an exquisite collection of glass models of plants to support the botanical education of Harvard students and the public. This program will explore the history, conservation, and relevance of...
Artist Shawn Panepinto recently retired as Director of Operations at the Ceramics Program after nearly 40 years of teaching and working in ceramics. Shawn’s new work in painting is the evolution of her work in clay, and...
This exhibition presents the images that leading activists wanted the public to see—and some that they wanted to hide. White suffragists portrayed themselves as elite, educated, and moral women. Some aspects of their campaign assured skeptics that the amendment would preserve white supremacy and pose no challenges to the...
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, join curatorial and conservation fellows as they explore “dangerous women” throughout the collections. Free with museum admission. For admission rates and additional information, click...
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8, join three curatorial fellows to explore “dangerous women” throughout the collections. Free with museum admission. For admission rates and additional information, click...
Join the Radcliffe Institute for a special event during which fellows across the creative arts open their studio doors to reveal their creative processes. Learn more about the music, film, artworks, performances, and books that Radcliffe’s community of artists have under way in Byerly Hall. Participating...
A special event for children ages 4–8. Explore the new Resetting the Table exhibition, starting at the dinner table set for a party. Family-friendly activities about what we eat will be set up throughout the gallery: drop in for smell stations, Play-Doh® desserts, games with prizes, and a raffle of dinner for...
The long career of Patricio Guzmán as a documentarian and activist has courageously focused on the turbulent, tragic history of his native Chile since the 1973 overthrow of Leftist President Salvador Allende— the world’s first democratically elected Socialist leader—by the US-backed repressive dictator Augusto Pinochet....
Japanese filmmaker Tetsuya Mariko has directed a series of arresting and subversive films centered on characters locked into cycles of extreme antisocial behavior. Whether loners who have long abandoned any desire to engage except by their absolute but anarchic rules, or lovers set out on stark revenge, Mariko’s self-absorbed...
In PARTLY CLOUDY, Chris Sageman presents a series of paintings that diagram our current moment. By isolating fractions of imagery in each diagram, the paintings serve as disjointed road maps that try to make sense of all the bits and pieces and create an intimate situation in itself. Free and open to the public (...
Inspired in part by the recent restoration of Buñuel’s L’Age d’Or by the Cinémathèque Française, presented now in its full seventy-five minute version, as well as the atavistic celebration of Valentine’s Day, whose own dark origins have been furtively repressed, the Harvard Film Archive offers a selection of classic...
Celebrate the opening of the Harvard Art Museums’ largest ever exhibition, Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection, on view from February 14 through July 26, 2020. Opening lecture at 6pm, followed by the reception. Galleries open 5 to 9pm. Free and open to the public (tickets requied for lecture only...
An exhibition of work from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design course...Ongoing & Upcoming Exhibitions
Copyright © 2021 The President and Fellows of Harvard College | Accessibility | Digital Accessibility | Report Copyright Infringement