# ON DISPLAY HARVARD ## expand\_more ![Winner of 2023 Harvard Culture Lab gold emblem](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_1_1__100x100_scale/public/makeart/files/hclif_badge_400x400.png?itok=-yWrHUek) Winner, Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund ![At Harvard Art Museums's Calderwood Courtyard, an ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2024 performer dressed in all white and zip-tie wearable is half-way slid off her chair. Another ON DISPLAY performer is posing in her wheelchiar in the background.](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-09/2024-Fall-ON%20DISPLAY%20HARVARD-Grace_DeVal-83A5249.jpg?itok=WUnbal67) Image description: At Harvard Art Museums's Calderwood Courtyard, an ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2024 performer dressed in all white and zip-tie wearable is half-way slid off her chair. Another ON DISPLAY performer is posing in her wheelchair in the background. Photo credit: Grace DuVal/Harvard University*ON DISPLAY HARVARD* is presented by the Office for the Arts Dance Program each year as part of [ON DISPLAY GLOBAL](https://heidilatskydance.org/ondisplayglobal), a worldwide movement installation and social justice initiative created by physically-integrated dance company [Heidi Latsky Dance](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__heidilatskydance.org&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=62XGqrIb6-4lYvuaxiIkxNmICz-_JvUXR6wt63ONf0w&m=29KbPZdVTyE_RVfbHSS0rRrV9l-BS6VmwvjP6TYgyCwpJxJzd4i3dwxpsP8Hz9bS&s=7yg4k-A20HAtHhLTso7m5AO3CkPxfySB7wrlFlXeFjk&e=). *ON DISPLAY GLOBAL* annually commemorates the United Nations' International Day of Persons with Disabilities on December 3rd. The [Office for the Arts (OFA) ](https://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/dance)[Dance Program](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/dance%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1700256240127713%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw2zCie_hM2Vg6jTS-LzkKqA&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1700256240137475&usg=AOvVaw33VBv7gU8lUdZ94LAJ65-W) has been an ambassador of the work since 2018, presenting *ON DISPLAY HARVARD* at accessible locations across campus as well as virtually each year, building a community of partners and diverse performers to bring awareness of disability justice, art, and culture to Harvard's campus and beyond. The work invites performers and audience members alike to consider societal "norms" about disability and celebrates difference as an affirmation of our humanity. Originally created to disrupt public space, audience members are invited to wander through the installation, viewing each performer in close proximity and inhabiting the performance space. Participants in the work create sculptural compositions of their own making and on their own terms, in real time. The tenuous and complex relationship between viewer and viewed that exists in performative work also permeates everyday life with people who are perceived as different in some way and hence draw attention to themselves whether they want to or not. In this installation, the performers have the power to choose what they do or do not reveal, giving them control over a personal journey that cannot help but be affected by an audience. The slowness of the installation invites reflection and introspection for all involved. **“The gaze is an integral part of the installation as an instrument of agency, and ODG plays with the tension between the viewer and the viewed, often blurring the roles of audience member and performer to challenge conventional notions of beauty."** –[*Living Sculptures: Honouring International Day of Persons with Disabilities*](https://fjordreview.com/on-display-global-heidi-latsky-dance/), by Josephine Minhinnett, Fjord Review, 2020 ![Diverse performers posed in white in Calderwood Courtyard](/sites/g/files/omnuum4081/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/makeart/files/img_6029.jpg?itok=aocoPIPa) Image description: Aerial view of ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2023 in Harvard Art Museums' Calderwood Courtyard. Performers in all white clothing and paper wearables are posed. A white sculpture is in the center. Members of the public, comprising adults and children, are looking up close.## ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2025 [*ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2025* ](https://calendar.college.harvard.edu/event/on-display-harvard-2025?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=Harvard+College+Calendar)will return to the [Harvard Art Museums](https://harvardartmuseums.org/)' Calderwood Courtyard on **Wednesday, December 3, 12pm-1pm**, on International Day of Persons with Disabilities. This year marks the 35th anniversary of the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the 10th anniversary of [*ON DISPLAY GLOBAL*](https://heidilatskydance.org/ondisplayglobal). Performers– a mix of Harvard students and community members– will create sculptural compositions of their own making, on their own terms, and which evolve in real time. The installation allows performers and the public alike to explore what it means to see and be seen, in slowness and silence. For the first time ever, Harvard undergraduate students, led by Sarah Yee '28 and Helen Hou '28, will be creating wearable art pieces for the performers and as an extension of the work. **Organizational Partners**: [Harvard Art Museums](https://harvardartmuseums.org/), [Heidi Latsky Dance](https://heidilatskydance.org/), [The Harvard Foundation](https://dso.college.harvard.edu/office-culture-community/about-harvard-foundation), and [Boston Architectural College](https://the-bac.edu/) **Student Group Partners:** [Conflux](https://confluxcollective.org/) and [Harvard Undergraduate Disability Justice Club](https://hudjclub.weebly.com/) **Wearable Art Advisors**: [Rosa Weinberg](https://rosaweinberg.com/) and [Hannah Wong ](https://the-bac.edu/events-index/2025-fall-lecture-series-hannah-wong-aug-12)GSD'24 **Artistic Coordinator:** Ava Louise Majumder HGSE'19 ### Accessibility Sighted guides and live in-person audio description will be offered for blind and visually impaired audiences; a pre-show offering for tactile access with description of wearable art will be offered at 11:30am. Harvard Art Museums is wheelchair and other mobility devices accessible from all entrances. If you have questions about accessibility, please contact or 617-496-0314. ## More about ON DISPLAY HARVARD [Read the Harvard Gazette feature about ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2024 by Grace DuVal](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2024/12/community-accessibility-and-vulnerability-take-center-stage/). **View a** [**time-lapse video of ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2023**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj1GhDRk1gY)**. The video has no sound and includes open audio description.** Campus partners from 2018-2024 include [Harvard Art Museums](https://harvardartmuseums.org/);[ Harvard Common Spaces](https://commonspaces.harvard.edu/); [Harvard Libraries](https://library.harvard.edu/libraries/widener); [Cambridge Common Voices](https://www.singatharvard.com/ccv.html); Harvard Undergraduate Disability Justice Club, [design,able](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.instagram.com_design.able_&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=62XGqrIb6-4lYvuaxiIkxNmICz-_JvUXR6wt63ONf0w&m=TZ_4KEgUYaQ6OcqEuKYEiLDqYTp_PY4welfaI5Kn72oSFF8iPnaPXk1JXwFYi1J2&s=Q9S_sWkeYgEX3dgw0w1xLli3H05LYNfVQOEjek0Kabo&e=), [Domain Mediums of the Master in Design Studies](https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/design-studies/mediums/) (MDes) at GSD, The MiND Project, and [(snobs.\_)](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.instagram.com_snobs.-5F_&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=62XGqrIb6-4lYvuaxiIkxNmICz-_JvUXR6wt63ONf0w&m=TZ_4KEgUYaQ6OcqEuKYEiLDqYTp_PY4welfaI5Kn72oSFF8iPnaPXk1JXwFYi1J2&s=Fr5cbPy_GToD2in8TaG_wrYaAkXI-jn8947q2UtrpzU&e=). *ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2023 & 2024* was part of *Beyond Access: A Celebration of International Day of Persons with Disabilities at Harvard*, a project in partnership with [(snobs.\_)](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://www.instagram.com/snobs._/%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1700256240130290%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw2zdtd0zT7Uv9D7KPf0x5-3&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1700256240138792&usg=AOvVaw0dPV71s7-mYOqER-YHBIPd) and other students in the Graduate School of Design, and winner of a [Culture Lab Innovation Fund (CLIF)](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://edib.harvard.edu/clif%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1700256240130660%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw1Yi4gW7p8cu7d32RxUhXKR&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1700256240138960&usg=AOvVaw1NIp1m6z2aArA6IqMo8Ccc) grant through the [Harvard Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging](https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.google.com/url?q%3Dhttps://edib.harvard.edu/%26amp;sa%3DD%26amp;source%3Deditors%26amp;ust%3D1700256240130838%26amp;usg%3DAOvVaw2-11FJzJeFb-8VEVts2Y_4&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1700256240139075&usg=AOvVaw0Ft_-Usp4TftyueiFTyFL8).