Visiting Artists & Residencies

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Each year, hundreds of professional artists come to Harvard for workshops, symposia, residencies, exhibits, commissions, and events including Learning from Performers and Arts Bites. 

Professional, practicing artists frequently visit the Harvard campus to share their artistic knowledge, creative projects, new work, career experiences, and more. The OFA creates regular opportunities for students to interact with and learn from artists representing a multitude of disciplines.  

In addition to regular Learning from Performers and Arts Bites events, you can explore a partial OFA history of visiting artists and exhibits below.  

Learning from Performers

Learning from Performers brings distinguished artists from across disciplines into dialogue with students, the Harvard community, and the public. For LFP’s 50th anniversary, the OFA is presenting a series of vibrant discussions pairing distinguished alumni artists alongside artistic collaborators, with the next event featuring Yo-Yo Ma ’79 in conversation with Stephen Colbert on November 5. Learn more 

Arts Bites

Time for food and conversation! ArtsBites is the OFA round-table discussion series for undergraduate students and visiting artists. Discover and explore how you can create an expressive career. Learn more 

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ON DISPLAY HARVARD
ON DISPLAY HARVARD is presented by the OFA Dance Program each year as part of ON DISPLAY GLOBAL, a worldwide movement installation and social justice initiative created by physically-integrated dance company Heidi Latsky Dance. ON DISPLAY GLOBAL annually...
Performer dressed in a white costume is sliding off her chair. Another performer in white poses in a wheelchair.

Infinite Possibilities
Infinite Possibilities is an initiative of the OFA Dance Program in collaboration with Boston-based freestyle dancer, educator, and community organizer Ashton Lites, aka, Stiggity Stackz and his historically-rooted freestyle dance organization Stiggity...
four dancers sliding to the side

The Era Footwork Collective Residency 2025-26
The Era Footwork Collective Residency SPRING: February 11-15, 2026 The following workshops and events are open to all Harvard students. No experience necessary. Please RSVP! Sign up for an Era Footwork workshop , co-produced by AADT, 11am-1pm Saturday...
Five members of The Era Footwork Collective stand in a line wearing shirts that read "Footwork Saves Lives," with the Chicago skyline visible in the background.

Roberto Lugo | Learning From Performers Fall 2024
The Office for the Arts at Harvard welcomes artist, ceramicist, social activist, poet, and educator Roberto Lugo to campus November 17-18, 2024 as part of its Learning From Performers program. The schedule includes two hands-on-making events for Harvard...
a person stands with their elbow propped on a human-size unglazed clay urn. They are wearing a baseball cap and an apron with the words, "Everything is Urned"

2024-25 Artists-In-Residence
The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard welcomes artists Ashton Keen and Yonatan Hopp to its Artist In Residence Program for the 2024-25 year. The 2024-25 Artist In Residence program runs from September 2024 through August 2025. Ashton Keen...
A pouring vessel in soft tan tones; a group of three-legged stools with triangular ceramic seats glazed in multiple colors

2023-24 Artists-In-Residence
The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard welcomes artists Cathy Lu and Forrest Sincoff Gard to its Artist In Residence Program for the 2023-24 year. Audrey An, an Artist In Residence in 2022-23, will stay on for an additional year. The 2023-24...
collage of three photos of artwork by Cathy Lu, Forrest Sincoff Gard, and Audrey An

Deepak Ramola Visiting Artist Lecture
Wednesday, November 2, 2022 5:30-6:30pm Deepak Ramola is a wisdom historian and an award-winning author from India. He is currently pursuing a master's degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Deepak will be conducting an ethnographic study on...

Deighton Abrams Artist Workshop
Sunday, November 6, 2022 10am – 5pm Join Ceramics Program 2021-22 Artist in Residence Deighton Abrams for a day of showcasing both functional pottery and expressive sculptural techniques. Through play and focused research, Deighton will also lead...

Tom Hubbard Artist Lecture
Wednesday, October 26 5:30-6:30pm Ceramics Program Instructor Tom Hubbard is an interdisciplinary artist. His practice includes ceramics, photography, mixed media works and public art installations. Tempered by a minimalist approach, loss, history, memory...

Audrey An Artist-In-Residence Lecture
Tuesday, October 18, 2022 5:30-6:30pm Ceramics Program Artist In Residence and Instructor Audrey An’s creative research revolves around the notion of applying digital technologies to ceramics from the perspective of ‘convergence’, be it cultural...