Harvard Art Museums
Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAExplore the complex and multinational economy of secondhand T-shirts through the vibrant mixed-media photographs of award-winning Ivorian artist Joana Choumali. Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces showcases 12 life-size hand-quilted and embroidered portraits created from combinations of photographs taken in the marketplaces of Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) and Ghana, where secondhand clothing discarded by […]
Gallery Talk: Susan Meiselas’s 44 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAPhotographer Susan Meiselas’ 1971 photo series provides an intimate look into individual rooms in the Cambridge, MA boarding house where she lived and the diverse lives of the other tenants who lived there. Join Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow Madison Brown for a close look at these portraits and a conversation exploring who we are behind […]
Materials Lab Workshop: Stitching Pictures—Embroidery, Photography, and Practices of Adornment and Care
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn this hands-on workshop inspired by the work of Joana Choumali, you’ll learn how to enhance, alter, and transform photographs through needlework. This workshop is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces (January 25–May 11, 2025). The session will begin with an exhibition tour by co-curators Ilisa Barbash, curator at Harvard’s […]
Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces (in French)
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin Atim Mackin, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard, to learn more about the photographic tapestries of Ivorian artist Joana Choumali. This talk will be conducted in French. This talk is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces (January 25–May 11, 2025). Please check […]
Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MADiscover the experimental methods of Edvard Munch, who creatively explored materials and techniques across media. A dynamic collaboration between curatorial and conservation experts at the Harvard Art Museums, Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking offers rare insight into the Norwegian artist’s innovative techniques and the recurring themes across his paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, etchings, and combination prints. The Harvard Art […]