From Our Friends... The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts will present an
artist talk with Catherine Quan Damman (Linda Nochlin Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), on
Monday, March 4 at 6:30-8PM in Farkas Hall. Entitled “The Ramos Amendment,” the talk is drawn from Damman's book project,
Performance: A Deceptive History (focused on the 1970s), and is co-presented with Theater, Dance and Media. RSVP required. The event will not be livestreamed.
In conjunction with the exhibition
A Female Landscape and the Abstract Gesture, Harvard Radcliffe Institute will present
a conversation between the artist Maren Hassinger and the curator Chassidy A. Winestock, moderated by the art historian and curator Mary Schneider Enriquez. Check it out on
Thursday, March 7 at 5PM in person at the Knafel Center or on Zoom.Â
​Celebrating Women’s History Month in conjunction with the 2023-2025 exhibition supported by the
C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection at Harvard Business School, the HBS Art Program and HBS Connects will present
“An Evening with Ursula von Rydingsvard & Film Screening” on
Thursday, March 7 at 6-7:30PM in Klarman Hall. The film,
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own, is described as “an artistic biography of one of the few women in the world working in monumental sculpture.” Snacks will be served. Registration is required.Â
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Spotlight on Women in the Museums' History
Associate Conservator Evelyn Ehrlich working on a drawing. Photograph by George S. Woodruff, 1944. Fogg History Photographs, International News Photos, folder 2. Harvard Art Museums Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, MAEvelyn S. Ehrlich, Associate Conservator of Prints, Drawings, and Manuscripts, began working in the Conservation Department at the Fogg Museum around 1929. Although she had a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, she started as a volunteer at the museum, as many women did. While at the Fogg she researched and wrote about prints and became an expert in document forgeries. During World War II, because of her expertise in paper conservation, she and a colleague (conservator and future museum director George Stout) were called on to restore the Declaration of Independence in Washington, D.C.Â
To learn more about the contributions of women throughout the museums' history, including Ehrlich, check out a pop-up exhibit with Senior Archivist
Megan Schwenke at the
Museums at Night on
Thursday, March 28!
