Harvard Art Museums
Materials Lab Workshop: The Evolution of Charcoal from Sidekick to Soloist, with Timothy David Mayhew
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn this workshop with scholar and artist Timothy David Mayhew, you will explore charcoal drawing materials and techniques and discover how simple tools can be powerful vehicles for artistic expression. Mayhew will describe the 19th-century technical advances and tools that enabled charcoal to evolve from a fragile drawing material to a permanent drawing medium. After […]
Exhibition Tour: Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static (August 30, 2025–January 4, 2026), led by Mitra Abbaspour, co-curator of the exhibition. Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static offers a new look at the practice of acclaimed artist and educator Edna Andrade (1917–2008). Andrade is best known for her geometric compositions, […]
Gallery Talk: Tracing Ownership through Collectors’ Marks
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAHave you ever wondered about the tiny, stamped marks that are often seen on prints and drawings? They are called collectors’ marks: unique stamps or inscriptions that signal ownership. The marks range from initials to coats of arms, animals, plants, and celestial bodies, and they offer important clues in tracing part of the provenance, or […]
Materials Lab Workshop: Inspired by Nature—Imaginative Drawing, with Erica Beade
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MALooking closely at nature inspires a huge range of imaginative artwork, from abstraction and decorative work to illustration and cartooning. In this workshop, we’ll first examine a wide variety of drawings before exploring techniques for unleashing our imagination to create our own. Class size will be limited to 15 to allow time for individual feedback. […]
Gallery Talk: Rebecca Horn: In Memoriam (1944–2024)
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAGerman artist Rebecca Horn worked in a wide range of media from the 1960s until her recent death in 2024. Join curator Lynette Roth to examine the artist’s meditations on the body in the photographs, films, and objects currently on view in the galleries and see how they are in dialogue with her major installation […]