| | | | Happy Presidents' Day! If you're looking for a break from the dreary weather and those pesky midterms, come on by the art museums! There will be exciting stuff happening here over the next couple of weeks, and this newsletter is here to point you in the right direction. Peruse the galleries, check out our programs, don't miss two new special exhibitions (LaToya M. Hobbs: It's Time and Future Minded: New Works in the Collection), and celebrate Black History Month with us! |
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| spotlight Tour Sightseeing, with Soleil Saint-Cyr '25 Sunday, February 25
11-11:50AM Delve into a few works, including Nina Chanel Abney’s 2007 painting Four Stops (temporarily on loan to us), and explore the topic of how public and private spaces interact in urban landscapes, on this conversational tour with a Ho Family Student Guide. |
| special Event Harvard Art Museums at Night Thursday, February 29
5-9PM Enjoy an evening of art, music, and food as we celebrate the opening of the exhibition LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time! There will be an in-gallery Q&A session with the artist and Spotlight Tours in honor of Black History Month. (More on the tours below!) |
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| Lecture LaToya M. Hobbs: It's Time: A Conversation with the Artist Friday, March 1
4-5:30PM Join us for a moderated discussion with artist LaToya M. Hobbs and two scholars about her series of prints Carving Out Time. These huge woodcuts represent a day in the life of the artist with her family, unfolding over five life-size scenes. (The required registration form can be filled out after 10AM on 2/20.) |
| Special Event Resilience: Art and People of Afghanistan Sunday, March 3
2:00-4:00PM Celebrate Afghan culture with this program about the lived experiences of Afghan people who have taken refuge in the United States, featuring presentations from curators, scholars, and activists. There will also be a performance by the Refugee Orchestra Project, led by Milad Yousufi. (The required registration form can be filled out after 10AM on 2/22.) |
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| 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. |
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Unsubscribe Image (Header): Betye Saar, American, Mystic Sky with Self-Portrait, 1992. Offset lithograph with printed collage elements. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, 2018.33.50. © Courtesy of the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles, California. © 1992 Betye Saar |
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