“Wonderful presentation manner and great pace. Superb content combined with very relevant slides. Excellent in every way.”
That is what one audience member said about their experience in a recent Art Study Center Seminar at Home.
The museums’ online programs are free and open to everyone. In addition to Art Study Center Seminars, you can enjoy a new live Art Talk on Thursday, July 30, focused on Renaissance wooden sculptures.
This week on Harvard Art Museums from Home: MoMA’s Jane Pierce delved into the Harvard Art Museums collections to look at early 20th-century photographs of student life at the Hampton Institute—a school founded in 1868 for recently emancipated African Americans in Virginia. Mark your calendar for the next live Art Talk on Thursday, July 30: The Wood and the Worms. And as a reminder, registration is open for the following Art Study Center Seminars at Home: Shades in Black and White—American Portrait Silhouettes on Friday, July 24, and Sketches in Clay—Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Terracotta Models on Friday, August 7. Members of the curatorial and conservation teams are giving classes with the Harvard Ceramics Program, kicking off July 24. Sign up! These classes require a fee but are open to the general public. If you’re missing the museums’ popular Student Guide Tours, we’ve compiled videos of past tours for you to enjoy at your leisure. Live tours will be back in the fall. | 