Events

    2024 May 08

    Sketching Animals

    9:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

    Capture the diversity of animal forms using pencil and paper. Learn techniques for quickly sketching animals, closely observe the details of fur and feather textures and draw eyes in a way that brings animals to life.

    Cost: $30 members / $35 nonmembers

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    2024 Apr 27

    Capturing Butterflies and Moths in Colored Pencil

    9:30am to 12:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Explore the beauty of butterflies and moths using preserved museum specimens. This three-hour workshop will introduce observational drawing techniques with pencil, and then dive into colored pencil techniques to create a rich, vibrant image.

    Cost: $50 members / $60 nonmembers

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    2024 Mar 28

    John Hejduk Soundings Lecture: Mario Carpo, “Generative AI, Imitation, Style, and the Eternal Return of Precedent”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

    Generative AI does not create new images out of thin air; it generates images that have a “certain something” in common with a selection of images we have fed into it. This selection, often called a “dataset,” can be generic or custom-made; either way, Generative AI automates the imitation and replication of some of its common visual features, often known in the past as styles. Imitation was for centuries the backbone of the classical tradition in European art, and it was de facto banned by 20th-century modernism for many good reasons. As the rise of Generative AI is bringing the...

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    2024 Mar 28

    Black Bell: A Quartet for the End of Time

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

     presentation from 2023–2024 Mary I. Bunting Institute Fellow Alison C. Rollins

    Rollins will discuss her work toward the completion of her second poetry collection, titled "Black Bell," and a creative nonfiction project, titled "Outside: Fieldnotes for Living Beyond Survival." Imploring investigations of time and space through the lenses of love and liberation, Rollins will showcase performance art practices, including metalwork, which are in conversation with Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time and historical...

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    2024 Mar 23

    Film Screening: The Last Human--Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology

    2:00pm to 4:00pm

    Location: 

    Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA

    WINNER OF THE NORDIC:DOX AWARD 2022 Denmark, Greenland / 2022 Our most basic understanding of the origins of life was recently turned upside down when Greenlandic scientist Minik Rosing discovered the first traces of life on Earth in a small fjord near Isua, Greenland. His discovery predated all previous evidence by over 300 million years. Life began in Greenland. At the same time, its melting ice masses are disintegrating day-by-day, and scientists around the world agree that it could drown our entire civilization if it continues. Director Ivalo Frank’s new film is a tribute to a vast,...

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    2024 Mar 20

    The Art of Resistance: Sacred Visual Creations of New Orleans’ African American Mardi Gras Maskers

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    Kim Vaz-Deville is a professor of education at Xavier University of Louisiana. Her work in New Orleans studies focuses on the lives of African Americans from the early 20th century to the present, explicitly on their material and intangible culture. In this lecture, Vaz-Deville will draw on a decade of research to explore how African American masks produce awareness among Mardi Gras revelers of their community’s African and Afro-Caribbean heritage and shared global struggles.

    Free, virtual 

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    2024 Mar 13

    Landscape Sketching

    9:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

    Landscapes are an appealing subject for drawings, but it can be difficult to know where to start. In this program we will learn how to select a landscape, create a sense of depth and volume, and use a variety of marks to capture a dynamic variety of textures.

    Cost: $30 members / $35 nonmembers

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    2024 Mar 09

    Nature Journaling: A Creative Exploration of the Arboretum Landscape

    12:00pm to 3:00pm

    Location: 

    Hunnewell Lecture Hall, 125 Arbor Way, Boston (Arnold Arboretum)

    Nature journaling is all about expressing your curiosity and wonder through sketching, calligraphy, writing, or other forms of art-making. Tap into your creativity and let yourself be surprised by the diversity of forms on display in the winter landscape.

    Free, Registration Required

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    2024 Mar 08

    Malkit Shoshan and Womxn in Design: “Designing Within Conflict: Building for Peace”

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby


    Malkit Shoshan is a designer, author, and educator. She is the founding director of the Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory (FAST), which initiates and develops projects at the intersection of architecture, urban planning and human rights. In her work, she uses spatial design tools to make visible systemic violence, engage with various publics to co-design alternatives that center social and environmental justice, and advocate for systemic change.

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    2024 Mar 07

    An Evening with Ursula von Rydingsvard & Film Screening

    6:00pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston, MA

    We hope you will join us for this very special event as we celebrate Women's History Month. Organized in conjunction with the 2023-2025 exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection at Harvard Business School, this event will feature a film screening of the 2019 documentary Into Her Own. Movie snacks will be served.

    This live, in-person event is free and open to the Harvard community and the public. Registration is required.

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    2024 Mar 07

    Maren Hassinger in Conversation with Chassidy A. Winestock: On the Occasion of A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture

    5:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Knafel Center, 10 Garden St, Cambridge OR Online via Zoom

    In conjunction with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s exhibition A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, join us for a special conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock. The works in this exhibition demonstrate the ways in which their creators—Maren Hassinger, Howardena Pindell, Liliana Porter, and Thompson—navigated art-making during times of social rupture and sought their way with novel, reparative gestures.

    Free, Registration required for online or in-person

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    2024 Mar 07

    Debra Spark, “Falling Out: Narrating the Neutra-Schindler Story”

    12:30pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    GSD, Gund Hall Loeb Library Lobby Lecture

    A fiction writer whose “day job” includes freelance writing for shelter magazines, Debra Spark will talk about how an article for Dwell led to her desire to tell the story of the Richard Neutra/Rudolph Schindler friendship, collaboration, and falling out. A Writer-at-Work type discussion, she’ll describe the writing and research of this particular piece, touching on earlier architectural historians, present-day filmmakers, and both men’s heirs.

    Free, open to the public

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    2024 Mar 05

    Wheelwright Prize Lecture: Daniel Fernández Pascual, “Being Shellfish: Architectures of Intertidal Cohabitation”

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Graduate School of Design, Gund Hall Piper Auditorium

    Tidal zones are liminal spaces that challenge the ecological, legal and financial thresholds of coastal areas. They appear, disappear, reappear, and constantly change in size and chemistry, while shaped by new human-made seasons of wetland draining and ocean pollution. Following CLIMAVORE, a framework that investigates ways of metabolizing climate breakdown, these littoral spaces are at the core of entanglements between risk and social security, profit margins and contamination struggles, geological processes and weather events; between what is used and what is refused. Thinking with...

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    2024 Mar 04

    Film Screening of 'Bucha' and Conversation with Oleksandr Shchur

    6:30pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge St.

    Join the Davis Center for Russian Studies to screen the movie "Bucha."  The film is based on the true story of an unlikely hero and refugee from Kazakhstan who, in the spring of 2022, risked his life to save hundreds of Ukrainians in Bucha and other cities and towns occupied by Russian troops. This event will feature a brief introduction by Serhii Plokhy and Natasha Dukach, followed by a conversation with the film's writer, Oleksandr Shchur.

    Free; Registration Required. 

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    2024 Mar 04

    Visiting Artist Fellows Art Exhibition Spring 2024

    5:00pm to 7:00pm

    Location: 

    CGIS South, Room S354, 1730 Cambridge St.

    Join the Mittal Institute for the launch of the Spring 2024 Visiting Artist Fellows Art Exhibition with Amra Khan, an interdisciplinary visual artist, and Waleed Zafar, a visual artist and curator – both from Lahore, Pakistan. The evening will start with a panel discussion with Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art in the Department of History of Art & Architecture and Faculty Director of the Arts Advisory Council, Mittal Institute, Harvard University. The talk will be followed by a reception with regional snacks and beverages.

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    2024 Feb 29

    Mark Shapiro on the Life and Legacy of Free Black Potter, Thomas W. Commeraw

    5:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

    Potter and writer Mark Shapiro will talk about his research and co-curation of the exhibition Crafting Freedom: The Life and Legacy of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw, at the New-York Historical Society (January–May 2023). Commeraw was a master craftsman who made some of the most iconic stoneware in early America. Born enslaved, he rose to prominence as a free Black entrepreneur, owning and operating a successful pottery, though for more than a century his racial identity would be...

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    2024 Feb 27

    Book Talk with Drew Gilpin Faust

    4:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Harvard Alumni Association welcome Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard University president emerita; Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor; and founding dean of the Radcliffe Institute, to discuss her book, Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury. Faust’s reading will be followed by a conversation with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School; and professor of history, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences....

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    2024 Feb 23

    Jenny Peace on Studying Onggi in Korea

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual -- registration required for zoom link

    This lunchtime lecture is free. There is currently a waitlist for in-person attendance, register to attend via Zoom

    Join Ceramics Program Instructor Jenny Peace and her coil building class for a lunchtime slideshow describing the two-week onggi workshop she attended in Icheon, South Korea. She will offer an overview of the large-scale coiling method she learned from onggi master Kwak Kyungtae, and share contact information with anyone who might be interested in traveling to Korea to learn about onggi first hand.

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    2024 Feb 21

    Yu-Wen Wu in Conversation with Sarah Laursen

    6:30pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
    Join the Harvard Art Museums for a discussion between artist Yu-Wen Wu and curator of Chinese art Sarah Laursen. Wu’s subjectivity as an immigrant is central to her artwork. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Wu immigrated to the United States at an early age. Her experiences have shaped her work in areas of migration, examining issues of displacement, assimilation, and the shape of identity in a new country.

    At the intersection of art, science, social and culture issues, and the natural world, Wu’s projects include large-scale drawings, site-specific video installations, community-engaged...

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