| | | Welcome back to the 2020-21 academic year! At the Harvard Art Museums, we are eager to reconnect with our friends, and look forward to meeting the newest members of our Harvard family. As classes begin and you settle into the routine of a new fall semester, we hope you'll think of us as a place to learn, engage, explore, and recharge.
Wherever you are in the world, we hope you'll stay connected with us through our website and through this newsletter, where we will continue to share the latest in museum programs, student opportunities, and general news coming from the museum world. |
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| Art TALK live A Persian Calligraphy Album Thursday, September 10
2-2:30PM EDT Join Shiva Mihan, Schroeder Curatorial Fellow of Islamic Art, as she explores the artistic and aesthetic features of Persian calligraphy. |
| Materials Lab at Home Try your hand at some art-making activities inspired by works in our collections. This series of prompts will walk you through several artistic processes using materials and implements found at home. |
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January Internship Opportunities at HAM - With the semester just getting underway, we're already planning for 2021! The Harvard Art Museums are offering several remote January term internships in the fields of Public Programs, Curatorial, Exhibition Design, Collection Access, Copyright Research, and Technology. You can learn more about each opportunity and apply on Crimson Careers.
As part of the annual Filter Photo Festival, Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, will give an online talk with photographer Sebastiàn Hidalgo. More information can be found on Filter Photo's website.
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From Our Friends...
The Harvard Ceramics Program, in collaboration with the Harvard Museums, is offering a virtual course exploring historic ceramic objects from across the globe. Free to all Harvard undergraduates, the course will feature conservators, curators, conservation scientists and scholars from the museums of Harvard. Learn more here.
There are less than 100 days until the election, and we're excited to announce the Harvard Votes Challenge’s effort to increase voter participation across campus. Whether you're voting from Cambridge or California, be sure to check out voter resources and learn how you can take action!
For those of you residing in the Cambridge area this fall, check out the Harvard Ed Portal's Western Ave Art Walk. This self-guided public tour of Allston celebrates public art along the Western Ave corridor. |
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Unsubscribe Image (Header): Zhan Wang, Sculpture in the Form of a Nine-Hole Scholar's Rock, 2001. Hammered, assembled, welded, and highly polished stainless steel; edition 3/8; with incised signature of the artist (in Chinese) on the back reading "Zhan Wang 2001 3/8." Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase in honor of James Cuno through the generosity of Michael E. and Winnie Feng, H. George and Roberta Mann, David J. Menke, John R. Menke, Richard and Diane Milhender, Diane H. Schafer, Erna M. Szekeres and Arthur E. Vershbow, 2002.270.A-B. © 2001 Zhan Wang.
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