Visual Arts

Get involved with visual artmaking at Harvard.

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The OFA provides opportunities for students to engage with visual artmaking on campus each year through the Ceramics Program, Visual Arts Workshops, the OFA Student Art Gallery, and participation in Harvard Arts Festival, a campus-wide celebration of the arts.

OFA Student Art Gallery

The Office for the Arts presents the Student Art Gallery at the Harvard Club of Boston in collaboration with the Graduate School of Design. The 2026 theme is “Kinship.” Accepted work will be on display from early November 2026 through March 21, 2027.

Submit your work by October 16, 2026

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More ways to make and share art

Visual Arts Workshops

Explore your creative side in these non-credit Ceramics and Visual Arts workshops created for Harvard College Undergrads.

Harvard Arts Festival

Harvard Arts Festival is an extraordinary array of music, dance, theater, film, poetry, visual art exhibitions, and more. Visual artists are invited to join in the festivities by exhibiting their artwork and publicizing their events.

OFA Ceramics Program

Connecting students, faculty, and community artists in an internationally recognized hub for learning and creating in ceramics. The Ceramics Program offers non-credit courses, workshops, exhibitions and more.

Academic Course Offerings

Visit the Academic Arts Departments page to learn about for-credit course offerings from Harvard's academic departments, including studio courses.

Academic Arts Departments

OFA Presents Newsletter

OFA Presents keeps you up to date on events produced by the Ceramics, Dance, Music and Theater programs, as well as Arts Fest, the campus-wide celebration of the arts each May. Distributed every other Thursday during the academic year.

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