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Visit an Artist and Demonstration: Delanie Wise

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Join us for a virtual field trip to an artist's studio! We will visit contemporary ceramic artists for a guided tour of their space, a demo of their process, and discussion about their work and how it has progressed throughout their career. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in the discussion.

Time for tea! Teapots are the focus during this very special 2-hour event with Delanie Wise from her home studio just outside of Boston. Delanie will demonstrate her very special technique of combining both hand built and thrown forms to create...

Book Talk: A’Lelia Bundles

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Author and journalist A’Lelia Bundles will read from her book "Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker" (originally titled "On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker" [Scribner, 2001]) and join Radcliffe Institute Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin for a discussion followed by an audience Q&A.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.

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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Spirituality in Secular Art

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Online via Zoom

Adam Sella ’22 will consider different ideas of spirituality and how these are reflected in artwork we might not immediately consider to be spiritual.

The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on select objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections.

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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Silent Dialogue

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Online via Zoom

Twyla Kantor ’22 will discuss storytelling in art and explore how the use of pose and body language can change an object’s narrative.

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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Make It New

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Online via Zoom

Tommy Mahon ’20 will focus on four artworks embodying aesthetic, political, and spiritual transformations.

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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Nostos and Nostalgia

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Online via Zoom

Laura Murphy ’22 will delve into the ideas of home, memory, and longing in this journey through the collection, looking at works that evoke the natural beauty of a pre-industrial era.

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Art Study Center Seminar at Home: Terracotta Figurines from Antiquity to Modernity

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Online via Zoom

In the 1870s, thousands of ancient terracotta figurines were discovered in cemeteries surrounding the small city of Tanagra in Greece. The figurines became a sensation with Victorian audiences. In this seminar, Frances Gallart Marques will discuss how the brightly colored figures of young women, at once lively and quiet, resonated with and inspired many works by 19th-century painters, musicians, and writers.

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Music in the Moment

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Online via Zoom

Music has played a large social function during the coronavirus pandemic: from the daily balcony concerts in Italy to the virtual performances of countless orchestras, it has helped tie communities together where social distancing has atomized us.

During this Radcliffe webinar, we will talk with musicians about their experience during the crisis—from the precarious position of performers without gigs to the healing role music can play.

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Virtual Student Guide Tour: The Golden Globe

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Online via Zoom

May Wang ’20 will consider works from across the collections that include or evoke gold in the context of global exchange.

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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Anti-Gravity

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Online via Zoom

Gavin Moulton ’20 will explore artworks from the collections that question the laws of nature and break orbit with the stylistic rules of their time.

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OWN YOUR VOICE: Contributing to Culture with Musician Madame Gandhi (HBS '15)

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Online via Zoom

The HKS Women in Power Conference team invite you for a discussion and live performance with musician Madame Gandhi (HBS '15).

Madame Gandhi is an artist and activist whose mission is to celebrate gender liberation. She has toured drumming for M.I.A, Thievery Corporation and most recently Oprah Winfrey on her 2020 Vision Stadium Tour with morning dance party Daybreaker. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She has been listed as Forbes Music 30 Under 30 and is a 2020 TED Fellow. Her uplifting music and mathy beats...

Art Study Center Seminar at Home--Mexico: Prints and Revolution, 1910–45

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Online Event

In the early 20th century, Mexican artists embraced printmaking as a means of reaching a broader audience, creating works that expressed the sociopolitical concerns central to the nation’s 1910–20 revolution and its aftermath. In this seminar, curator Mary Schneider Enriquez will explore the topic through a range of works—from José-Guadalupe Posada’s broadsheets and the iconic, post-revolution images by muralists David Alfaro Siqueiros, José Clemente Orozco, and Diego Rivera, to the politically charged works of Leopoldo Méndez and the print collective Taller de Gráfica Popular.

Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski

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Online via Zoom

Nancy Sableski, Arnold Arboretum Manager of Children’s Education, is also an artist who has been painting in the Arboretum since 1988, finding inspiration throughout the landscape. Join us for a virtual viewing of her work followed by a short discussion via the meeting app, Zoom.

Learn more about and connect to a virtual session for Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of...

Digital Marketing for Art Entrepreneurs with Maria Finkelmeier

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Online Event

Join educator, percussionist, and entrepreneur Maria Finkelmeier, co-founder of MASARY Studios, for an arts marketing workshop at the Harvard Ed Portal! In this workshop, participants will learn about the platforms and strategies available to support an art-focused business. Covering identity branding, building a website, activating social media, creating digital content, tracking buyers, sending newsletters, and more, Maria will share tips and best practices based on her own experience as an artist and entrepreneur.

Please note: This workshop will be held online...

Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy Sableski

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Online via Zoom

Learn more about and connect to a virtual session for Virtual Viewing: The Landscape Art of Nancy...

2020 Apr 02

Pause for Art: Creative Moments from Harvard

Repeats every weekday until Thu May 28 2020 .

1:00pm to 1:30pm

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Online event

The Office for the Arts offers a daily dose of artistic inspiration for anyone looking to find a moment of beauty, comfort and connection. Alumni, faculty, staff, and visiting artists are sending in short videos showcasing their music, poetry, dance, and more. New videos are posted every weekday around 1:00pm.

Learn more about Pause for Art: Creative Moments from Harvard.

International Womxn’s Day Lecture: Dr. Vandana Shiva

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Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Dr. Vandana Shiva is trained as a Physicist and did her Ph.D. on the subject “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. In 1982, she founded an independent institute, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in Dehra Dun dedicated to high quality and independent research to address the most...

Lecture: Seed Sovereignty and ‘Our Living Relatives’ in Native American Community Farming and Gardening

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Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Native heirloom seed varieties, many of which have been passed down through generations of Indigenous gardeners or re-acquired from seed banks or ally seed savers, are often discussed by Indigenous farmers as the foundation of the food sovereignty movement, and as helpful tools for education and reclaiming health. This presentation explores how Native American community-based farming and gardening projects are defining heirloom or heritage seeds; why maintaining and growing out these seeds is seen as so important, and how terms like seed sovereignty should be defined and enacted. Many of...

Film Screening: Dovlatov

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CGIS South Building, Room S010 (Tsai Auditorium), 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge

Dovlatov follows a few days in the life of famed Soviet writer, Sergei Dovlatov, on the eve of his friend's, future Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, emigration in 1971. Sergei is determined to stay and lead a normal life with his wife Elena and daughter Katya, however, his manuscripts are regularly rejected by the official media as his point of view is deemed undesirable.

Dovlatov premiered at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival, where it was awarded a Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution for costume and production design. Directed by...

The New Geopolitical Order

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge

The new geopolitical environment taking shape in many parts of the world tends toward increasing authoritarianism and nationalistic competition. In this lecture, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, an international human rights advocate and the former United Nations high commissioner for human rights, will argue that the world’s people deserve better. Despite the demagoguery and isolationism that some leaders are pursuing, he believes it is possible to pursue thoughtful diplomacy and a system of connectivity, coalitions, and partnerships to reform institutions and change polices.

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