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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.
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 Peabody's Trish Capone and current Harvard student Nam Hyun Kim as they talk about the objects they have found and the larger history of what has been uncovered in this long-standing dig on campus. Free for members of the Harvard Museums...
Peter Berry, a longtime Harvard Ceramics Program...
A new online series from the Harvard Art Museums, Creature Features offers a chance for families with children ages 6 and up to explore magical creatures across the collections through close looking and curious exploration with museum staff. Join...
Felipe Muñoz ’22 explores how an Archaic Greek bowl attributed to the Kleophrades Painter, a Symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau, and a Bauhaus chess set by Josef Hartwig concern themselves...
Alexis Boo ’22 explores works of art that incorporate and manipulate light, rendering it as their medium. This interactive tour features Light Prop for an Electric Stage by...
Maeve Miller ’22 will investigate forms of intimacy across the history of art and the tensions between them by looking closely at Summer Scene [Bathers] by Jean Frédéric Bazille, the sculpture...
Sophia Mautz ’21 examines the tensions between nature and artifice in the construction of feminine beauty. She will lead an interactive discussion of the sculptures Nature Study by Louise Bourgeois and Daphne ...
Adam Sella ’22 explores the color blue in three works of art: Utagawa Hiroshige’s print Yamato Province: Yoshino, a Thousand Cherry Trees at One Glance, Pablo Picasso’s Mother and Child...
In this seminar, Landon and Lavinia Clay Chief Curator 
Kaitlin Hao ’21 will explore and confront the history of museum practice through a critical look at three objects: a mural painting from the Mogao Caves, a Go Ge mask on loan from the Peabody Museum, and...
Inspired by the Long 19th Amendment Project, spearheaded by the Schlesinger Library at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, this program will examine works from the collections at the Harvard Art Museums and Houghton Library that offer a...
Curator Makeda Best will talk with Washington, D.C.–based photographer and artist Larry Cook. They will discuss Cook’s socially critical work, which engages issues of black masculinity, black culture, racial stereotypes, and carceral aesthetics...
In this seminar, Sarah Laursen, Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, investigates the decoration and function of three gold plaques dating to China’s Warring States period (475–221 BCE), as well...
Cecilia Zhou ’22 examines how three works of art, spanning 700 years, position themselves vis-à-vis the future. She will lead an interactive discussion of the sculpture Prince Shotoku at Age Two and the...
This talk is part of a series investigating power dynamics in artworks across the collections. Considering intersections of art and power, our curatorial team will discuss how artists engage with social and political crises, use art to upset systems of...