Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free and open to all. RSVP here. 
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Talk + Workshop

Luz Donoso, born in Santiago, Chile in 1921 and died 2008, was a graphic artist, muralist, political activist, and teacher. Beginning in the mid-1960s, she was one of the most prominent participants in the widespread muralist movement in support of Salvador Allende’s presidential campaign. Read more about Luz Donoso: Urban Art Interventions

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Admission: Free
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Part autobiography and part cultural history, Before Pictures is a courageous account of an exceptional period in both art historian Douglas Crimp’s life and the life of New York City. Crimp will read from his book, followed by a conversation with Harvard professor Carrie Lambert-Beatty. Read more about Talk: Douglas Crimp: Before Pictures

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
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Museum Hours: Open daily 10am–5pm
Exhibition: 

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: see website
Museum Hours: Open daily 10am–5pm
Exhibition: November 4, 2016–April 9, 2017
Opening Celebration: November 2, 2016 at 6 PM features panel discussion with artist Doris Salcedo, author and Harvard professor Elaine Scarry, and curator Mary Schneider Enriquez. Open galleries 5–9 PM, and reception. more info>

A new exhibition featuring recent works by Salcedo, an internationally acclaimed artist whose sculpture and installations transform familiar, everyday objects into moving and powerful testimonies of loss and remembrance. Curated by Mary Schneider Enriquez, the Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Read more about Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning

Presented by: Office of Career Services
Admission: For Harvard Undergraduates only. Please register through Crimson Careers.   

Freelancing is now the norm in many creative fields. Hear

Presented by: Harvard Ed Portal
Admission: Free; RSVP here.
Exhibition runs: TBA 
Reception: Oct. 5, 7 PM, followed by 7:30-9 PM discussion with Nieman Fellows

The Harvard Ed Portal, together with the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, is proud to present the work of Maciek Nabrdalik. Nabrdalik, a current Nieman Fellow, is a Warsaw-based documentary photographer and member of the VII Photo Agency, whose primary focus is on sociological changes in Eastern Europe. Read more about Exhibition: Refugee Crisis

Presented by: The Cooper Gallery
Admission: Free and open to the public
Exhibition dates: Tuesday, September 20, 2016-Sunday, January 7, 2017
Gallery Hours: Tu-Sa 10am-5pm
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OPENING RECEPTION: Monday, September 19, 6 PM
Artist Tour + Reception: Wednesday, September 28, 6 PM
Sundays at the Gallery: Sunday, November 6, 12 NOON

Presented by: The Cooper Gallery
Admission: Free and open to the public
Exhibition dates: Tuesday, September 20, 2016-Sunday, January 7, 2017
Gallery Hours: Tu-Sa 10 AM-5 PM
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OPENING RECEPTION: Monday, September 19, 6 PM
Artist Tour + Reception: Wednesday, September 28, 6 PM
Sundays at the Gallery: Sunday, November 6, 12 NOON
Artist Roundtable: Monday, December 5, 4 PM
Winter Open House: Saturday, January 7, 2017, all day Read more about Carrie Mae Weems: I once knew a girl...

Presented by: Mather House and Drs. Arthur Barsky, Christie McDonald and Michael Rosengarten; Elaine Dong
Admission: Free. Harvard ID required to access the gallery; members of the public should ask the security guard in the building manager’s office to gain entrance.
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Presented by: Mather House and Drs. Arthur Barsky, Christie McDonald and Michael Rosengarten; Elaine Dong
Admission: Free. Harvard ID required to access the gallery; members of the public should ask the security guard in the building manager’s office to gain entrance.

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

With only 14 days, and nights, to work among porcelain artists, Harvard Ceramics Program Resident Artist Stephanie Osser completed a new body of work at The International Ceramic Center Residency in Kecskemét, Hungary this summer. Join Stephanie as she shares her experience of learning the art of creating lithophanes. Stephanie states, "I took a giant leap in my understanding of the ten (plus) commandments of working with porcelain and improving my craftsmanship. Working with internationally recognized, porcelain artist, Ilona Romule, and translucent high fire porcelain slip, I learned to make lithophanes.  Using one of my children’s book Read more about Our Community Lecture with Stephanie Osser

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

Join us in welcoming Kirsten Bassion to our program as the instructor of Wheel Throwing this Fall semester. Bassion will share her portfolio of wheel-thrown and hand-built functional work that features self-produced stamps and finished with a colorful palette of slips and glazes at cone 5. Read more about Visiting Artist Lecture with Kirsten Bassion

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

Join us in welcoming Mark Burns to the Boston area as our 2016-2017 Artist in Residence at the Ceramics Program. Mark will take us on a visual journey of over four decades of "making strange marriages between disparate sources. Mythologies, manifest spiritual tropes, historical truth and historical lies, sexuality, television, movies, music, literature, and the ravenous beast we call pop culture." We urge you to attend this lively talk by a true legend of contemporary ceramics.

Read more about Visiting Artist Lecture with Mark Burns