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    2021 Jun 26

    Basics of Glazing Workshop with Paul Wisotzky

    Repeats every week every Monday until Mon Jun 28 2021 . Also includes Sat Jul 10 2021.
    1:00pm to 4:00pm

    1:00pm to 4:00pm
    1:00pm to 4:00pm

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    Harvard Ceramics Program—Online

    This three-hour workshop (with 3 different dates to choose from) will provide an overview of basic glazing and decorating techniques. Consider it part introduction, part refresher, part crash course in glazing, decorating and surface. The session covers how to prepare your work for glazing and explores different ways to apply glaze. Considerations related to atmosphere, use and functionality will be discussed. Basic decorating methods using slips, underglazes and wax resist will be demonstrated. This includes the use of different tools and techniques including brush work, slip trailing,...

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    2021 Jun 26

    Virtual Student Guide Tour: LOL, with Cecilia Zhou

    11:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Cecilia Zhou ’22 looks at the historically specific ways humor is deployed in a few serious works of art from across time that may make you laugh out loud (LOL). She’ll focus on the 1640s painting The Drunken Silenus, by Francesco Fracanzano; the 18th-century scroll painting Puppies with Hotei and Jittoku, by Nagasawa Rosetsu; and a...

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    2021 Jun 24

    Virtual Student Guide Tour: World in a Vessel

    8:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Kaitlin Hao ’21 explores how three historical vessels bring us into the worlds that created them, along with their legacies and their sense of the world yet to come.

    First, she will discuss a ritual food vessel made in China in the 11th or 10 century BCE. She will then turn to a stoneware storage jar by David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, an enslaved Black man in antebellum South Carolina. And finally, she will take a...

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    2021 Jun 19

    Virtual Student Guide Tour: White/Hammons/Marshall

    8:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Both David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall consider their time as students of Charles White at the Otis Art Institute in the 1960s and ’70s as an important experience for them as young Black men and artists.

    On this tour coinciding with Juneteenth, Maeve Miller ’22 and Cecilia Zhou ’22 will talk about a work by each of these artists: White’s linocut print of blues icon Bessie Smith (1950); Hammons’s Untitled [Body Print] (1974), which he made partly by...

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    2021 Jun 19

    In the Groves

    5:30pm to 7:30pm

    Location: 

    Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

    Immerse yourself in the deep beauty of trees in this story and music journey through the Arboretum. Led by Oracle award-winning storyteller Diane Edgecomb and Celtic harper Margot Chamberlain, this unfolding performance of ancient tales and songs from cultures around the world takes place in a variety of groves—birch, cherry, and evergreen—at some of the Arboretum’s loveliest spots.

    This event is free, but registration is required and limited. Not designed for children under 12, and dogs are not allowed. COVID guidelines will be followed.

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    2021 Jun 16

    Concerts in the Common at Brighton Farmer's Market

    Repeats every 2 weeks every Wednesday until Wed Oct 27 2021 except Wed Sep 22 2021, Wed Oct 06 2021, Wed Oct 20 2021. Also includes Wed Sep 29 2021, Wed Oct 13 2021, Wed Oct 27 2021.
    4:30pm

    4:30pm
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    4:30pm
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    4:30pm
    4:30pm
    4:30pm
    4:30pm
    4:30pm

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    Brighton Common, 30 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brighton

    Sing and dance outdoors at a wide range of family-friendly performances held during the Brighton Farmer's Market! Performers include local and regional entertainers performing children's music, klezmer, hip hop, acapella, funk, Afro-Brazilian drumming, taiko, and more. All events are free, weather permitting, and open to the public.

    Concerts take place two Wednesdays a month:
    2nd Wednesdays are part of the Harvard Ed Portal Family Concert Series; last Wednesdays are part of the Brighton Main Streets' Brighton Sounds Concert Series.

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    2021 Jun 15

    Art Talk Live: Up Close and Personal—Looking at Ancient Textiles

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Egyptian makers were skilled at using only a few materials to create a rich variety of textiles, but we rarely have detailed information about the people who made them or their artistic processes.

    Join conservation fellow Julie Wertz to explore what close looking, microscopy, and micro-analytical techniques can teach us about the materials and methods these unknown makers used to create beautiful and functional art objects.

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    2021 Jun 10

    Virtual Student Guide Tour: Staged, with Maeve Miller

    8:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    In her tour, Maeve Miller ’22 will explore how performance and entertainment figure into three works of art. She will examine the woodcut Magician (1956), which Erich Heckel made in Germany more than 40 years after the heyday of his involvement with the Expressionist art movement; the painting Ventriloquist (1952), which Jacob Lawrence made in Harlem, New York, as part of his Performance Series; and a woodblock print...

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    2021 Jun 09

    Virtual Glass Flowers Tour

    6:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

    Join us for a virtual tour of the famous Glass Flowers! This docent-led tour will delve into the history, artistry, and significance of the collection and give participants the opportunity to explore the gallery online. These interactive tours are approximately one hour long, and offer time for questions and discussion with your tour guide.

    Cost: $8 members, $10 nonmembers

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    2021 Jun 08

    Reframing Japonisme: Painting Edo and Beyond

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    We’re bringing Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection to you! Join us for this final talk in our series of virtual conversations exploring themes highlighted in the exhibition.

    How has Japonisme shaped the reception of Japanese art? In this online program, professors Elizabeth Emery and Chelsea Foxwell will consider the persistent influence of the western construct of Japonisme and the new aesthetic forms it inspired.

    In 1872, French art critic Philippe Burty coined the term “Japonisme” to refer to the growing western admiration for “all things...

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    2021 Jun 05

    Creature Feature: Birds of a Feather

    10:00am to 10:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Explore a vibrant collection of watercolors featuring a flock of fantastic birds inspired by a king’s royal menagerie in Jean-Baptiste Oudry’s Avian Album.

    Creature Feature, an online series from the Harvard Art Museums, offers a chance for families to explore magical creatures across the collections through close looking and curious exploration with museum staff. Creature Feature talks are free, open to explorers ages 6 and up, and offered once a...

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    2021 Jun 02

    Virtual Student Guide Tour: Making Faces, with Cecilia Zhou

    11:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Student Guide Cecilia Zhou’s art-inspired makeup tutorials have appeared on the social media channels of the Harvard Art Museums and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this tour, she will spend time with three paintings that inspired her: the 20th-century Head of a Woman by Russian Expressionist Alexei von Jawlensky, the 3rd-century Egyptian ...

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    2021 Jun 01

    Art Talk Live: Käthe Kollwitz and the South African Left

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    German artist Käthe Kollwitz’s reception in the Global South has only recently begun to be considered. Known for its socialist and anti-war sentiments, her work was largely introduced to South Africa by exiles fleeing Nazism, and her prints became an important touchstone for many of the country’s politically minded artists in the years leading up to and during apartheid.

    Looking to Kollwitz’s 1905 cycle, Peasant’s War, Jessica Williams will explore how these images circulated among South Africa’s Left and how her work came to influence an entirely new generation of lesser-...

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    2021 May 27

    Pottery Chill Out

    Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Jun 24 2021 .
    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    4:30pm to 6:30pm
    4:30pm to 6:30pm
    4:30pm to 6:30pm
    4:30pm to 6:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Ed Portal—Online

    Remember Play Doh when you were a kid? What if we told you you're never too old to play with clay? Sign up for our 5-session Zoom clay class, where we will make and decorate mugs, phone holders, sculptures—whatever you want, really!—using our hands and objects you can find at home. No experience necessary!

    We'll teach you everything you need to know, PLUS we'll mail you all the stuff you'll need! You'll get to keep your final product and, as an added bonus, we'll chat about how working with clay can help you relax and knead-out some of the stress you may be feeling.

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    2021 May 26

    Mapping Your Heart: A Zine Making Workshop

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Ed Portal—Online

    *For high school students living or attending school in Allston, Brighton, or Cambridge!*

    Reflect on where you are right now to where you want to be. What comes easily to you? What do you love the most about yourself? Where do you want to put your energy?

    Explore these questions and learn more about your inner world in this hands-on workshop led by Brighton artist Deborah Johnson. Start with a short meditation, look at examples of self-published...

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    2021 May 25

    Vibrant Decay: Drifting Among Moonlit Lotuses with Okuhara Seiko

    4:00pm to 5:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    In this program, professor Yurika Wakamatsu will examine Lotus in Autumn (1872), an exceptionally large and immersive ink painting by Okuhara Seiko (1837–1913). The work takes the viewer on a journey from an intricate web of tangled lines and inky blotches to a lotus pond bathed in moonlight.

    Rising from the depths of muddy pools, lotuses have long been cherished for their unsullied pink blossoms crowning slender green stems at the height of summer. But in Seiko’s painting, leaves unfurl into broad, broken parasols, and seed pods hang from dry, bent stalks. Why did Seiko...

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    2021 May 18

    Art Talk Live: Reframing the Tianlongshan Cave Temple Fragments

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    In 1943, the museum was gifted 25 stone fragments from the Tianlongshan cave temples in China’s northern Shanxi province. Beginning in the late 1920s, the reliefs and sculptures were removed from the site and published by art dealer Sadajirō Yamanaka, sparking interest among collectors worldwide. This talk will highlight a collaboration with Harvard students that investigates the creation of the works, their meaning in Buddhist medieval China, their sale and journey to their current home, and the ravaged site they left behind. 

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    2021 May 14

    Art Study Center Seminar at Home: Slavery’s Landscape

    11:00am to 12:00pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    This seminar will explore how photographers from the Civil War era constructed landscapes of slavery. What symbols and facts did they draw upon, and what narratives and interpretations were they in dialogue with and which did they promote?

    Join Makeda Best, photography curator and author of Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America (2020), as she explores how Alexander Gardner and others presented the infamous Franklin and Armfield slave pen...

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    2021 May 11

    Glass Flowers Tours – The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants

    6:00pm to 7:10pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online

    Join us for a virtual tour of the famous Glass Flowers! This docent-led tour will delve into the history, artistry, and significance of the collection and give participants the opportunity to explore the gallery online. These interactive tours are approximately one-hour in length, and offer time for Q&A with your tour guide.

    Cost: $8 for members, $10 for nonmembers.

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