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Happy long weekend! We hope you're enjoying the extra day today!

Despite the short week, we're extra busy with lots of programs so we'll keep this brief. In addition to Harvard Family Day and a screening of the award-winning film, Descendant, please join us for the inaugural Student Board lecture, featuring artist Pao Houa Her. You can see two of Her's work (one is pictured above) in person in our Contemporary Gallery on Level 1

Have a great week!

Special event

Harvard Art Museums At Night

Thursday, February 23
5-9PM

Bring your friends for a fun night of art, music, food, and more.

Special event

Harvard Family Day

Friday, February 24
1-4PM

Harvard families are invited to an afternoon of tours, art projects, scavenger hunts, and more.

lecture

Pao Houa Her in Conversation with Makeda Best

Saturday, February 25
7-8:30PM

Join the Student Board for a public lecture featuring artist Pao Houa Her.

film screening

Descendant

Sunday, February 26
2-5PM

Watch a film about the search and recovery of the last known ship carrying enslaved peoples to arrive in the United States.

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From Our Friends...

On Tuesday, February 21, the Smith Campus Center is screening Kaepernick & America, a documentary featuring activist and NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts invites you to a tour of the exhibition Please Stay Home: Darrel Ellis in Dialogue with Leslie Hewitt and Wardell Milan, guest curated by our own Curator of Photography Makeda Best.

On Thursday, February 23, multimedia artist Wendy Red Star will speak at the Princeton Museum of Art. The event will be livestreamed and is open to the public. (You can see some of Wendy Red Star's works in Gallery 2240!)

Join the Harvard Film Archive on Monday, February 27 for a screening of Losing Ground, one of the first narrative feature films directed by a Black woman.

Join the Fine Arts Library on Friday, March 3 for a discussion on art, artificial intelligence, and copyright.

The National Museum of the American Latino seeks applicants for their Latino Museum Studies Program Graduate Summer Fellowship.

The Mystic Seaport Museum is seeking applicants for their Summer Fellowship Reimagining Race and Colonialism in New England

Image (Header): Pao Houa Her, Hmong, Prince Charming, 2016. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2022.227.

Image (Harvard Family Day): Delmar Watson, American, Untitled (car with extended family, Hollywood, California), 1947, printed later. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, American Professional Photographers Collection, 4.2002.18.