 |  | We hope you all had a restful Thanksgiving break because we have a week of exciting programs ahead! We're delighted to bring you a film screening premiere, a virtual trip to the Arnold Arboretum, and closer looks into our collections.
Today marks the last day of National Native American Heritage Month, and we're also pleased to highlight collaborations with two local museums and the Wampanoag people. |
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 | Visual AIDS DAY With(out) Art TRANSMISSIONS Monday, November 30
6-8PM EDT Screen the premiere of TRANSMISSIONS, a program of six new videos considering the impact of HIV and AIDS beyond the United States. |
 | Painting edo at the arnold arboretum Japanese Black Pine Tuesday, December 1
2-3PM EDT Join a botantist and an art historian as they explore Japanese black pines - both alive and painted. |
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 | ART TALK LIVE Doris Salcedo—Sculpture as Witness Thursday, December 3
2-2:30PM EDT Consider how art allows us to reflect on and confront sociopolitical uncertainties through close looking at objects. |
 | art study center seminar at home Chinese Gold from the Winthrop Collection Friday, December 4
11AM-12PM EDT Investigate the decoration and function of three mysterious gold plaques dating to China’s Warring States period. |
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Have you experienced a Student Guide tour yet? Read more about the creative ways our Guides are sharing the museums around the world. Then, join us for our last two tours of the semester: The Bind of Beauty—Nature, Art, and Femininity, with Sophia Mautz '21, and Transcendence—A Guide on How to Escape Your Current Reality, with Franklin Hang '21.
While our current Student Guides are on winter break, join alumni of the program for a special talk about how they have carried forward their museum experience in their postgraduate pursuits. The Student Guide Alumni Tour: Why Museums Matter will be presented live on Thursday, December 10 at 8pm ET.
Did you know HAM's pigment collection includes a sample of the world's blackest black? Art Study Center receptionist Charlene Briggs recently wrote an article spotlighting the famous Vantablack - and its rival in the ongoing Battle of the Pigments.
Join us for ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2020, a partnership with the Harvard Dance Center in honor of International Day of Persons with Disabilities. Sign up to participate (no formal dance experience required) or RSVP to attend the virtual performance on December 3.
The Harvard Women's History Tour recently launched to rave reviews. Co-created by former HAM SHARP fellow Madi Fabber, the virtual tour shares stories about Harvard's pioneering women.
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From Our Friends...
For their online exhibition Listening to Wampanoag Voices: Beyond 1620, PMAE asked Wampanoag tribal members to share memories, thoughts, and reflections about collection items made by their ancestors and relatives. They also discuss how Wampanoag life and culture continues to flourish today. You can listen to their stories here.
A podcast series from Plimoth Patuxet Museums expands beyond the relationships between the Wampanoag people and the Pilgrims to discuss larger cross-cultural interactions of the very people who lived along these shores of change. Listen in here. |
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Image (Header): Velino Shije Herrera, Buffalo Hunt, 1917-1927. Watercolor and white gouache on off-white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Mary C. Wheelwright, 1927.16.3 © President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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