2022 May 05
Ceramics Program Spring Show and Sale 2022
Repeats every day until Sun May 08 2022 .
10:00am to 7:00pm
10:00am to 7:00pm
10:00am to 7:00pm
10:00am to 7:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Twice a year in May and December, the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard hosts an exhibition and sale featuring thousands of pieces of original ceramic artwork by participants in Ceramics Program classes. From pottery to sculpture, ceramic jewelry, planters, and more, this popular exhibition has something for everyone!
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2022 Apr 29
Harvard Public Art Tours: Allston
Fri Apr 29 (All day) to Sun Apr 30 (All day)
Location: 
Multiple locations along Western Avenue, Allston
Named after Washington Allston—a visionary painter and 1800 Harvard graduate—the town of Allston features vibrant, eclectic art that reflects the neighborhood's creativity and diversity. On this self-guided tour, you'll discover "can't-miss" public art installations along Western Avenue and learn the stories behind them and their artists. Follow along to explore hand-painted murals, sky-high sculptures, 25-cent art prints, and more!
Tour Stops: 27
Tour Length: 1 hour (shorter routes included)
Tour Distance: Up to 2 miles...
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2020 Mar 17
Exhibition: Everyday Encounters
Tue Mar 17 (All day) to Thu May 7 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Harvard’s Mittal Institute 2020 Visiting Artist Fellows Shah Numair Ahmed Abbasi and Suhasini Kejriwal present their exhibition, Everyday Encounters. Reflecting on their personal accounts of documenting and engaging with rapidly changing South Asian cities and their people, the artists’ work explores the deeply personal issues of identity and culture in this region.
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2020 Mar 03
Women, Contemporary Art, and Business Panel Discussion
6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location: 
Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Batten Way, Boston
Organized in conjunction with the 2019–2020 exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection at Harvard Business School, the panel discussion "Women, Contemporary Art, and Business" will feature:
• Bharti Kher, Artist
• Ina Johannesen Dibley, CEO Ekebergparken/C. Ludens Ringnes Foundation, Oslo, Norway
• Nora Lawrence, Senior Curator Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
The panel discussion will explore a range of topics including public art and sculpture; the role of women artists, curators, and directors...
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2020 Feb 26
Parker Quartet: Spectrum
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet returns to the Harvard Ed Portal February 26 as part of their 2019-2020 season. Join us for an evening of classical music that explores 300 years of the string quartet genre, and its history of inspiring great composers to create their most personal and dynamic works. Covering a wide spectrum of artistic thought and expression, from humor and mysticism to a holy song of thanksgiving, the program will highlight select works from this exciting and unique medium. All are welcome!
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2020 Feb 20
Exhibition Reception: PARTLY CLOUDY
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Harvard Ed Portal for an exhibition reception for PARTLY CLOUDY.
Chris Sageman’s artwork revolves around the overwhelming and the confusing. In assembling segments of text, images, and abstract graphics, Sageman creates large-scale paintings that reflect the volume of visual information we consume on a daily basis. In PARTLY CLOUDY, Sageman presents a series of paintings that diagram our current moment. By isolating fractions of imagery in each diagram, the paintings serve as disjointed road maps that try to make sense of all the bits and pieces and...
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2019 Dec 14
Allston-Brighton Winter Market
Repeats every day until Sun Dec 15 2019 .
10:00am to 7:00pm
10:00am to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The third annual Allston-Brighton Winter Market returns to the Harvard Ed Portal from December 12–15, 2019! As a hyper-local neighborhood holiday market, the Winter Market celebrates Allston-Brighton with a four-day event featuring vendors of crafts, artisanal goods, gifts, and fine art, as well as live music, food and drinks for purchase, a beer garden, and special interactive art programs.
Offered annually, the market is a festive...
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2019 Dec 13
Allston-Brighton Winter Market
4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The third annual Allston-Brighton Winter Market returns to the Harvard Ed Portal from December 12–15, 2019! As a hyper-local neighborhood holiday market, the Winter Market celebrates Allston-Brighton with a four-day event featuring vendors of crafts, artisanal goods, gifts, and fine art, as well as live music, food and drinks for purchase, a beer garden, and special interactive art programs.
Offered annually, the market is a festive...
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2019 Dec 12
Allston-Brighton Winter Market
4:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
The third annual Allston-Brighton Winter Market returns to the Harvard Ed Portal from December 12–15, 2019! As a hyper-local neighborhood holiday market, the Winter Market celebrates Allston-Brighton with a four-day event featuring vendors of crafts, artisanal goods, gifts, and fine art, as well as live music, food and drinks for purchase, a beer garden, and special interactive art programs.
Offered annually, the market is a festive...
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2019 Nov 07
Faculty Recital: Claire Chase
7:30pm
Location: 
ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Allston
The ArtLab presents Claire Chase's Density 2036, part vi. A recital of new music commissioned for flute featuring Constellation Chor, the New York City based vocal performance ensemble.
2019 marks the is sixth year of Claire Chase's Density 2036, a 23-year project to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year until the 100th anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5.
Claire Chase will perform new works by Olga Neuwirth, Phyllis Chen, Pamela Z, Nathan David, Marcos Balter and Sarah Hennies...
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2019 Nov 04
The Intersection of Music, Medicine, and Innovation with Longwood Symphony
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston
Enjoy a performance by the Longwood Symphony conducted by Ronald Feldman followed by a panel discussion by some of the Musical Medical Stars! The panel discussion will be around the intersection between Music and Medicine and Innovation.
Panelists:
Lisa Wong, MD (violin); Milton Pediatric Associates, HMS, CHB, MGH, BWH; Assistant Co-Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School
Leonard Zon, MD (trumpet); Director, Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Grousbeck...
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2019 Oct 30
A Far Cry Presents: The Golden Age of Film Noir
7:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Three-time Grammy nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry returns to the Harvard Ed Portal for a cross-disciplinary exploration of Film Noir. Experience a whole evening of music written at the heydey of the Hollywood era: sumptuous, deeply felt, and acquainted with darkness, even psychosis.
Join A Far Cry for an open rehearsal and discussion that will preview the ensemble’s upcoming concert, American Noir, explore popular films of the era, and shed light on the composers behind the music: Jewish immigrants whose style set the tone for a generation of film music that...
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2019 Oct 28
Visiting Artist Lecture: Amy Mackle
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, for a visiting artist lecture by Amy Mackle. Amy Mackle is an Irish ceramic maker who creates predominantly large scale installations using coloured porcelains, earthenware clays and found materials. Her work is inspired by her sense of place, the landscape and the relationship between the natural and the manufactured in our environment.
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2019 Oct 22
Visiting Artist Lecture: Deighton Abrams
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, for a visiting artist lecture by Deighton Abrams. Deighton is a ceramic sculptor, and educator. He has taught at numerous institutions including Clemson University and Winthrop University. He has shown work both nationally and internationally including the ISCAEE member Exhibition in Yixing, China and ArtFields 2017 in Lake City, South Carolina where he won a Merit Award for sculpture.
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2019 Oct 17
Exhibition Reception: Breakaway
6:00pm to 8:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Curated by Elisa H. Hamilton for the Crossings Gallery, Breakaway features the work of four artists who push beyond the confines of a gallery wall. Experimenting with shape, line, texture and color, each artist blurs the boundaries that inform our perception. Pieces by Adria Arch, Destiny Palmer, Rebecca Rose Greene, and Vanessa Irzyk invite the viewer to experience that compelling moment when the two-dimensional breaks away from the wall to become something new.
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2019 Oct 17
Visiting Artist Lecture: Kelcy Chase Folsom
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard for a visiting artist lecture delivered by Kelcy Chase Folsom. Kelcy Chase Folsom received his MFA in Ceramics from University of Colorado Boulder and his BFA from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has been a resident artist at numerous residencies including the Center for Ceramics in Berlin, Germany, The Hambidge Center in Rabun Gap, Georgia, and The Clay Studio in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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2019 Oct 10
Visiting Artist Lecture: Kyle Johns
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Please join us in welcoming Kyle Johns to the Ceramics Program—Office for the Arts at Harvard, one of our incoming 2019-2020 Kyle Johns Artists-in-Residence. Johns will share his work, which is often made from multiple molds and cast in a myriad of colored slips. Johns will be an instructor in the Ceramics Program "Molds and Multiples" class this Fall as well as "Interdisciplinary Projects" and the Harvard Graduate School of Design course SCI-6317.
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2019 Oct 05
Lecture & Exhibition Reception: Passages of Absence
4:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join us for a lecture with Natalia Arbelaez, 2018-19 Artist In Residence at the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard as she discusses the work developed during her residency over the past year. Immediately following the lecture, join us in Gallery 224 from 5:00pm–7:00pm for the opening reception of Passages of Absence, Arbelaez's solo exhibition.
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2019 Sep 21
Kick-Off the ArtLab: Opening Celebration
10:00am to 12:30pm
Location: 
Harvard ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Allston
Join the Harvard ArtLab, Harvard’s new laboratory for art and research, for an opening celebration on September 21! Allston-based tap dance company Subject: Matter will kick off the celebration with a performance beginning promptly at 10:00am accompanied by a live jazz band. Visitors can have their portrait taken by Boston-based photographer OJ Slaughter and experience the ArtLab’s sound studio and A*, the multi-channel art installation by Harvard Film Study Center Fellow Andy Graydon.
This event is free and open to the public!
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2019 Sep 18
Visiting Artist Lecture: Crystal Morey
5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location: 
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston
Join us in welcoming Crystal Morey to the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard to talk about her work in porcelain. Morey’s porcelain sculptures narrate the interdependence between humans, plants, and animals while cultivating empathy for our changing world.
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