 |  | Spring has sprung at Harvard! After a long winter spent indoors, it's a wonderful time to spend outside enjoying nature. To celebrate the season, we’re partnering with the Arnold Arboretum for an art and nature-inspired month of haiku! Learn more about our #HaikuandYou social media campaign here.
For when you can't get outside, we hope this week's offerings will help you relax, learn, and engage with the museums virtually. |
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 | art talk live Up Close and Personal—Looking at Ancient Textiles Tuesday, April 20
12:30-1PM ET Unfurl the materials and methods Egyptian makers used to create beautiful and functional art objects. |
 | special event History, Memory, and Legacy Friday, April 23
11AM-12PM ET Join writer Jamaica Kincaid, visual artist Rosana Paulino, and art historian Cheryl Finley to discuss their explorations of the legacies of slavery in their work. |
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 | special event The Work of Objects: Interpretation within and beyond Museum Walls Friday, April 23
1-2:30PM ET Discover the interpretive challenges and possibilities presented by specific museum objects. |
 | lecture Dorothea Rockburne in Conversation Tuesday, April 27
12-1PM ET Hear the artist make the case for drawing as a form of intellectual inquiry, in conversation with a mathematician and a drawings conservator. |
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 | Wednesday, April 28
7-8PM ET Explore the collaboration between the museums' collections and a GenEd course about artists’ apocalyptic inspirations over time. |
 | Haiku and You: "Painting Edo" and the Arnold Arboretum Find community through haiku, connect with art and nature, and become a published poet through a partnership between HAM and the Arnold Arboretum. |
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| Harvard Art Museums Staff Spotlight  Meet John Sheeran, Senior Visitor Services Assistant, and the guest of this week’s Harvard Art Museums Staff Spotlight! During a typical year, John says his wide-ranging Visitor Services role “consists of being the first point of contact for visitors entering the museum, helping them gain admission and giving them the information they need to have the best experience possible.” One of his priorities while working in the gift shop is “helping visitors walk away with truly unique gifts.” This year, however, John's role has “really shifted” and he has mainly been “helping the Department of Academic and Public Programs by facilitating some of the virtual Student Guide Tours, Art Study Center Seminars at Home, and Art Talk Live events.” Talking about his favorite part about his job, John says “I really enjoy interactions with visitors because you meet all kinds of people.” Discussing his fellow employees in the Visitor Services department, John wants people to know “that we are professionals like any other department, well trained to handle any situation, knowledgeable, and friendly.” He emphasizes that “a lot of us are artists in our own right” and are “all passionate about art and our collections.” If you’re interested in working in a role like John’s, he recommends being someone who is “passionate about art and museums in general” and “has good customer service and communication skills.” John highlights that “Visitor Services also seems to be a good jumping off point for those that may want a foot in the door in the museum field, whether it’s curatorial, collections management, etc.” - John was interviewed by Zavier Chavez '23 __________________________________________________
From our Friends....
The annual ARTS FIRST Festival is here! Join us April 19-30 for an amazing line-up of virtual programs and student showcases. Check out the calendar for a full list of events.
Join the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective for
a conversation with Storme Webber, a Two Spirit
Black/Sugpiaq/Choctaw artist and community leader and Miranda Belarde-Lewis, a Zuni/Tlingit curator and professor. Register for the April 21 online event here.
The Studio Museum is currently accepting applications for its brand new digital program designed to provide professional development amid the shifting employment landscape. Learn more about the Museum Professionals Seminar and apply here.
Who runs the world? Girls! Well, maybe not yet the world, but the Museum of Comparative Zoology recently launched a virtual exhibition highlighting the previously underappreciated work women contributed to the museum's success. Check out Women of the Museum here.
On Tuesday, April 20, join HAM Director of Academic and Public Programs and visual anthropologist David Odo as he explores the hand-tinted photographic prints which were among the earliest Japanese exports. Register for the free virtual program here.
The National Gallery of Art is presenting a series of lectures by Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities. Focusing on American and European printmaking since 1960, the lectures will premiere on a series of dates and remain online for public viewing.
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Image (Header): Yamamoto Baiitsu 山本梅逸, Broken Branches Drawn from Life, 1835. Handscroll; ink and color on silk. Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, TL42096.11.
Image (History, Memory, and Legacy): David Drake, Storage Jar, 1840. Stoneware. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Fund in memory of Henry Berg; bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, by exchange; gift of C. R. Simpkins, "A Tribute to the Class of 1892.", by exchange; gift of Mrs. Henry James, by exchange; and gift of Mrs. George R. Agassiz, by exchange, 2016.194.
Image (Haiku and You): Pinus thunbergii 11371*G at the Arnold Arboretum. Photo: William (Ned) Friedman; © 2020 President and Fellows of Harvard College. |
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