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We’re excited to share a student job opportunity – come work with us! Our department of Institutional Advancement seeks a Student Assistant to assist with administrative and clerical responsibilities and work on select research projects related to development at the Harvard Art Museums. More info and application instructions here.
Lots coming up at the museum through Thanksgiving and, for a full listing of everything going on in the next few weeks, be sure to check our online calendar.
Safe travels to everyone headed down to New Haven, and go Harvard! |
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 | November 21
12:15-12:45pm Carson Cooman, the composer-in-residence at Memorial Church at Harvard University, will perform. Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ. Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening. The recital will be held at Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street. Free admission. |
 | November 26
12:30-1pm Just in time for Thanksgiving, curatorial fellow Frances Gallart Marques will examine ancient and modern depictions of luxurious dining experiences.
Free with museums admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before each talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk. More info here. |
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 | December 1
11am-4pm The Harvard Art Museums are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for the 30th annual Day With(out) Art by presenting STILL BEGINNING, a program responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic. The seven newly commissioned videos are by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.
Free admission. The screening will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Films will show on a continuous loop between 11am and 4pm. The entire program runs approximately one hour. More info here. |
 | December 3
1-4pm Hovering somewhere between matter and light, color is key to our perception, navigation, and representation of the physical world. Guided by experts from across the Harvard Art Museums, this workshop will consider theoretical and practical issues related to the materiality of color through a mix of hands-on experimentation and close looking in the galleries.
$15 materials fee. Registration is required and space is limited. Materials fee must be paid to confirm registration. Please email am_register@harvard.edu, stop by the museums’ admissions desk, or call 617-495-1440 to register. |
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| Student Board Spotlight Meet your Harvard Art Museums Student Board Representatives!
Kate Moran '20
Kirkland House
 Kate is a senior at Harvard studying English with a secondary in Spanish. She is interested in teaching and museum education and spends her afternoons volunteering at Mission Hill After School Program or working at the Harvard Ed Portal. She is very excited to represent Kirkland House on the student board. Edwin Leech Sedgwick ‘20
Kirkland House
Weijia (Amy) Zhang ‘21
Leverett House
Amy is a junior living in Leverett House studying Applied Math with an English secondary. Hailing from Birmingham, AL, she is still getting used to the concept of winter and a very noticeable lack of Krispy Kreme donuts. Outside of the Harvard Art Museums, Amy is involved with the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association and Harvard Student Agencies. In her free time, she loves cultivating the ultimate café list, watching sunsets by the Charles, and bopping along to 80s hits.
Be on the lookout for more Student Board Spotlights in future issues of the Harvard Art Museums Student Newsletter.
__________________________________________________ Did you miss our Halloween-themed gallery talks last month? Fear not! The Crimson has the rundown of our "Season of the Witch" tour. Be on the lookout for more holiday-themed gallery talks coming soon.
The Harvard Gazette recently featured a first-year seminar where students study portraits of indigenous American leaders to learn about art, identity, and the history of indigenous peoples. Read more about the course and the Harvard Art Museums' joint conservation effort with the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology here.
Job Opportunity at the Harvard Art Museums! The department of Institutional Advancement seeks a Student Assistant to assist with administrative and clerical responsibilities and work on select research projects related to Institutional Advancement. More info and application instructions here.
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From Our Friends...
From the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study - Consider joining us at our upcoming events in association with artist Dario Robleto’s exhibition, Unknown and Solitary Seas: Dreams and Emotions of the 19th Century which explores the intersection of art and science. Throughout the course of Dario Robleto’s exhibition at Radcliffe, students, faculty, staff, and community groups will respond to his work through associated performances, lectures, and discussions. Gallery events are free and open to all. Registration is required. More info here.
From the Harvard Undergraduate Student Art Collective - All Harvard University students, both graduate and undergraduate, are encouraged to submit their visual artworks to the winter student exhibition, Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out. This exhibition explores the legacy of the 1960s counterculture/psychedelia movement, which has roots on Harvard's campus. Contemplating the future of psychedelics, the show asks: can mind-altering substances escape their complicated past? Can they help societies and individuals become more open-minded? What new forms of expression can be unlocked? Drawings, paintings, sculpture, film, and any other media are all invited! The collective is looking for art that explores (but is not limited to) themes of consciousness, distortion, surrealism, hallucination, and more. Any and all subject matters are welcome! The final submission deadline is Wednesday, November 20, 2019. Submissions can be made here. |
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Header Image: Ken Whitmire Associates, Untitled (eight football players in red jerseys), 1974. Photograph. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, American Professional Photographers Collection, 4.2002.1360. |
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