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.

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Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Admission: Free and open to the public
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Lecture by Tania Bruguera RI '17... Read more about Aesth-ethics: The Role of Ethics in Political Art

Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Admission: Free and open to the public
Exhibition Runs: 9/14-10/29 
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 12-5 PM

The Art of Discovery introduces viewers to the bold work of members of the Radcliffe Institute fellowship class.... Read more about The Art of Discovery: A Multidisciplinary Group Exhibition of 2016–2017 Radcliffe Institute Fellows

Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Admission: Free and open to the public
Exhibition Runs: 9/14-10/29 
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 12-5 PM

The Art of Discovery introduces viewers to the bold work of members of the Radcliffe Institute fellowship class. The opening provides a chance to meet the fellows exhibiting and the program features remarks by Radcliffe Institute Dean Cohen and Harvard Art Museums Director Martha Tedeschi.... Read more about Exhibition Opening: The Art of Discovery

Presented by: Harvard Ed Portal Crossings Gallery
RSVP for Curator & Artist Talk on September 20 ...

Exhibition Dates: Monday, August 29–Saturday, September 24
Opening Reception: Friday, September 9, 2016, 5–7 PMRelated Event: Workshop with Salvador Jiménez-Flores with Israel Davis, Saturday, September 10 (registration required)

Exhibition Description:

The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard is pleased to present an exhibition by our 2015-2017 Artist-In-Residence, Salvador Jiménez-Flores.... Read more about Salvador Jiménez-Flores: Nadie descubrió las Américas | No One Discovered the Americas

Presented by: Harvard University Archives
Admission: Free
Gallery hours: 9 AM-5 PM, Monday through Friday
Runs: through October 2, 2016
Panel Discussion: "Hooey for Hollywood," Oct. 1, 2 PM

In honor of the magazine’s 140th anniversary, Harvard University Archives is hosting an exhibition of memorabilia that tells the story of The Lampoon through the years. ... Read more about Remorseless Irony and Sarcastic Pens: The Story of the Harvard Lampoon

Presented by: Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University
Admission: Free
Gallery hours: 9 AM-5 PM, Monday through Friday
Runs: July 30-August 28, 2016
Artist Talk Tuesday, August 9, 4-6 PM

An exhibit by Randy H. Goodman

Cambridge photojournalist Randy H. Goodman captured...

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free with museum admission

This seminar brings together works of art that take the future as their subject, as well as works that are the result of experiments with new materials and technologies. While this concept brings to mind modernist manifestos and art making...

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free with museum admission

Explore the many ways artists use carbon in art, in conjunction with our exhibition featuring works by Wolfgang Tillmans.... Read more about Materials Lab Workshop: Carbon

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free with museum admission

Katie Taronas, graduate curatorial intern in the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art and Ph.D. candidate in history of art and architecture, will give today’s gallery talk and will consider whether this elaborate, resist-dyed textile was imported to Egypt from India.... Read more about Gallery Talk: A Textile from Early Byzantine Egypt

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free with museum admission

Join us for an architectural tour that will stop on all of the Harvard Art Museums’ public floors, led by Peter Atkinson, director of facilities planning and management. You will hear about the history of the building, which is registered on the National Trust for Historic Preservation, as well as learn more about the concepts behind and execution of our eight-year renovation and expansion project.... Read more about Gallery Talk: The Renovation and Expansion Project