Check out
Yu-Wen Wu in Conversation with Sarah Laursen on Wednesday,
February 21 at 6:30-8PM in Menschel Hall. The artist and the curator will talk about various issues related to migration and Wu's
Walking to Taipei (2010-2021), a recently acquired handscroll now on view at the museums for the first time. Advance
registration required.
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Student Guide Spotlight 
Hanna Carney (Class of 2025, History of Art & Architecture and the Comparative Study of Religion) and
Milen Negasi (Class of 2025, Neuroscience)
Tell us about the new tour you’re working on! Our tour is called “This is a noble churn.” We've developed the tour with Black History Month in mind, but we are looking forward to offering it far beyond this February. We’re interested in exploring the theme of glory and how/what artists choose to glorify both in their work and through their work.
The tour will debut as three one-stop tours at the Harvard Art Museums at Night on 2/29!
What inspired your choice of works? We plan to look at works by David Drake (also known as Dave the Potter), Bessie Harvey, and Kerry James Marshall. We wanted to choose artworks by Black American artists, and we were inspired by the amazing mission and work of the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College, who have been “Celebrating Black Creativity and Spirituality since 1970.”
What is your favorite fun fact about the tour? The name of our tour is the beginning of a poem by David Drake, one of the artists featured on the tour. The full verse is: “This is a noble churn/ fill it up it will never turn.” Drake, who was both a potter and a poet, inscribed these words on a butter churn that he created in 1858.
Besides working as a student guide, what do you like to do in your free time? Hanna: I love dancing with Harvard AADT and singing with the Kuumba Singers. I also enjoy ‘revisiting’ the first spotlight tour I created: "
Sensing the Divine.” Check it out on 2/24 at 2pm!
Milen: I love working at my lab at Harvard Medical School and making crafts with nursing home residents through PBHA’s HARTZ! But, my favorite part of everyday is facetiming my twin sister.
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From Our Friends... The Museum of Fine Arts Boston is hosting an
MFA Pathways Internship Information Session on Wednesday,
February 21 at 6-7PM online. Hear from MFA staff, including past and current interns, about semester-long undergraduate-level paid internship opportunities.
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts will host an artist talk with
Anicka Yi: 2023-2024 Josep Luis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, on Thursday,
February 22 at 5:30-7:30PM. The CCVA describes Yi as a Korean-American conceptual artist known for her focus on olfaction and her use of unorthodox, living, and perishable materials.
Professor Britt Rusert of the University of Massachusetts Amherst will discuss '
The African-American Picture Gallery: Imagining Black Art, circa 1859,' (a project about a text that imagines the first museum of Black art in the United States) at the Hutchins Center as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute Colloquium Series, on Wednesday,
February 28 at 12PM. The presentation will livestream at
youtube.com/hutchinscenter.
