| | | We're cruising into the last full month of the semester, and we have many programs to share with you! We hope you'll join us TODAY for a virtual reading and conversation with Joy Harjo, U.S. poet laureate and author. More details on this program and others are below.
As always, check our website for even more ways to engage with our staff and collections. |
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| lecture Native Americans and the National Consciousness Monday, April 5
6-7:30PM ET Celebrate an evening with Joy Harjo, U.S. poet laureate and author of the acclaimed recent work An American Sunrise. |
| art talk live Liberty, Equality, Sorority? A Woman Printmaker in the French Revolution Tuesday, April 6
12-12:30PM ET Explore the untold story of female revolutionary and printmaker Émira Sergent-Marceau. |
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| lecture Excavations and Research at Sardis Wednesday, April 7
6-7:30PM ET Unearth the discoveries from the 2019 and 2020 seasons and learn about future prospects. |
| workshop Thursday, April 8
2-3PM ET Collaborate with other writers to consider and compose contemporary haiku. |
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| special event Friday, April 9
1-3PM ET Learn about the efforts to illuminate the experiences of enslaved and free Black individuals in the early modern and 19th-century Dutch world. |
| lecture Wednesday, April 14
7-8PM ET Retrace the paths of two legendary 'meetings' depicted on a pair of folding screens. |
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| art study center at home Friday, April 16
11AM-12PM ET Discover artist Otto Piene’s remarkable sketchbooks and the development of a digital project that will allow audiences worldwide to explore them. |
| special event Friday, April 16
1-3PM ET Explore new ways museums are using to narrate and understand slavery’s legacies in the Netherlands and the Americas. |
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Harvard Art Museums Staff Spotlight
Meet Tara Metal, Digital Content Manager, and the guest of this week’s Harvard Art Museums Staff Spotlight!
Managing the museums’ social media platforms and special projects hosted online, Tara works closely with departments across the museums to create all sorts of online content that highlight the collections, programs, exhibitions, and people of the Harvard Art Museums. Joining the team almost five years ago, Tara has gradually transitioned from focusing solely on running the Museums’ social media presence to now managing many projects focused on “exploring the online exhibition model” and connecting the Museums with its visitors remotely. One such project is the Audio Tour of the Forbes Pigment Collection, which takes visitors through a guided tour of the pigment collection “actively used by the Museums’ conservators and conservation scientists.” Tara emphasizes that she seeks to use features like the website, social media posts, and event promotion to present “everything [the Museums] have to offer” in a way that respects the works but also presents them in a “very publicly accessible” way, making it a goal of hers to “gain the trust of curators, conservators,” and all of those she works with. One of her favorite memories working at the Museums is when she photographed “paintings conservator [Ellen Davis] touching up [Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel],” commenting on the “gorgeous glow of the painting.”
For those interested in pursuing a career as a Digital Content Manager, Tara stresses how “it’s very different from running personal social media accounts” and requires you to “speak for the institution and its exhibitions” as its “outward facing voice.” Beyond that, she suggests “getting as much marketing oriented writing experience as possible” and reaching out to anyone you know who currently works in the role you want.
- Tara was interviewed by Zavier Chavez '23
Want to learn more about a career in museums? Attend our virtual museum career panel on Wednesday, April 7 to explore the types of careers you can pursue! __________________________________________________
From our Friends....
Confused about NFTs? So are we. Thankfully, curator Mary Schneider Enriquez recently sat down with the Harvard Gazette to shed some light on this emerging art market. For a comedic approach to cryptocurrency, check out this Saturday Night Live skit.
For those of us who miss wandering the galleries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, be sure to check out their new virtual tour!
On April 13, the Davis Museum at Wellesley College will present a virtual panel exploring the unique challenges and opportunities college and university art museums face as they pursue decolonial strategies. Register for free here.
The Glenstone Museum is currently accepting applications for a Summer Graduate Conservation Intern. The internship, open to those enrolled in a recognized conservation training program or have equivalent training, will provide a unique opportunity to work with Glenstone’s superlative collection of post-World War II artworks. More info here.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is currently accepting applications for the remote Summer College Workshop 2021. Learn more here.
In partnership with the National Women’s History Museum and Chief, artist Simon Berger created a dramatic portrait honoring Vice President Kamala Harris. Made of broken glass by hammer, the work commemorates Vice President Harris as a historical glass ceiling breaker. |
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Unsubscribe Image (Header): Ketaki Sheth, No Parking, Bhuleshwar, Bombay, 2004. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Jose M. Soriano, 2006.180, Photograph by Ketaki Sheth © Ketaki Sheth 2020. |
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