Dear Friends,

After a year marked by challenges, the team at the Harvard Art Museums is deeply grateful for your continued participation and partnership. With our doors temporarily closed, we have found new purpose in building an online community, of friends from around the corner and across the globe. To all our supporters, collaborators, students, and community partners, we send heartfelt thanks for your involvement and invite you to join us in looking forward with hope to the coming of the new year.

Whether in good times or bad, art can galvanize the spirit—the spirit to act, to speak up, to participate, to question, to heal, to seek common ground, and to celebrate the human capacity for creativity. While we take a short break from live programming over the winter recess, we hope that your holiday season will be enriched by one of these interactive initiatives from the past year.

Wishing you and your loved ones happy and healthy holidays,

The Staff of the Harvard Art Museums

P.S. This week we invite you to browse this compilation of great ideas from the Make and Create section of our Harvard Art Museums from Home page:

• Make art at home, taking inspiration from select works in the Harvard Art Museums collections.
• Learn how to create cyanotypes and discover the science behind them.
• Download and enjoy the Coloring Ancient Egypt activity book, available in Spanish, English, Chinese, and Arabic.
• Watch this demonstration of the relief aquatint technique that artist Dan Flavin used to create three incredible prints now in the collections.