Jana Matusz, an accomplished Massachusetts-based painter and founding sketching facilitator volunteer with the museum, has explored this with expressive prints, based on original paintings, that animate animals found in the Harvard Museum of Natural History. ...

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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... Read more about Gallery Talk: Dangerous Women, Part II

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... Read more about Gallery Talk: Dangerous Women, Part I

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... Read more about Opening Celebration - Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection

Wander the museum after hours, enjoy seasonal treats, and go behind the scenes to see objects not currently on exhibit. Members will also receive a special 25% discount at the gift shop during the month of December. Museum membership and reservation required. For membership, reservations, and additional information,... Read more about HMSC Member Night at the Museums

These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on select objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections. Free with museum admisson. For admission and additional information, click... Read more about Student Guide Tour

Featuring work by the 2019–2020 Radcliffe fellows, this exhibition introduces viewers to projects, perspectives, and stories that animate the Institute’s vibrant community of scholars, scientists, and artists. Free and open to the public. For... Read more about The Show & Tell

Passages of Absence
Natalia Arbelaez, 2018-19 Artist in Residence
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Exhibition dates: October 5 - November 1, 2019
Artist Lecture & Opening Reception: October 5, 4-7pm (RSVP for lecture here)

A collection of historical and cultural significant Colombian passages. Events, myths, rituals, and people have been researched and collected to influence a body of work that comes from the absence of it being bestowed. Recreating and reliving through work allows for the reclaiming of the passages and continuing to guide as a contributor. 

Read more about this exhibition here: https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/ceramics/gallery224/nataliaarbelaez

Reception & Lecture: Saturday, September 7, 2019 (RSVP for Artist Lecture)

This show is built from a fascination with glazes and ceramic materials. During my residency at Harvard Ceramics, I’ve been researching and testing materials and procedures to take a fresh look at how we approach contemporary clay.

The process that I developed for this work has me hand-printing vessels and balloons the time to produce a single vase out to 40-plus hours. In that time-frame, I make thousands of decisions about where the profile is heading. Each drop is a waypoint in the design of the object. There is no inside surface vs. outside surface, there is only the object and the space it contains. It’s a really beautiful process. It’s layered with the irony of an American studio artist hand-replicating a 3-d printing process; making work representative of blue and white ware.... Read more about Gallery 224 Exhibition: Devitrified - Colby Charpentier, 2018-19 Artist In Residence

Caspian: The Elements is a new exhibit featuring the evocative imagery of Chloe Dewe Mathews, the 2014 recipient of the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography. The exhibit documents her extraordinary five-year journey through... Read more about Caspian: The Elements

Charlas en las galerias: Pigmentos y colores en la España Medieval—Lluís Borrassà. Cristina Morilla, conservadora-restauradora asociada en el Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies dará esta charla. Las charlas ponen en relieve...

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Artist Willie Cole’s Beauties are haunting, full-scale prints made to confront contradictory energies running through them: resistance and oppression, beauty and violence, labor and forebearance... Read more about Exhibition Opening and Discussion with Artist Willie Cole: Beauties

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Tickets: Free with museums admission

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Charlotte Leib, curatorial intern at the Harvard Art Museums and graduate student at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, will give this gallery talk.... Read more about Gallery Talk: Building, Dwelling, Landscape—The Bauhaus in Dessau

Presented by: Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Ceramics Program Holiday Show and Sale 

December 6 - 9, 2018

Showcasing the work of dozens of artists from the Ceramics Program studio community, this annual event...

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