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Carpenter Center
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is the home to the Art, Film, and Visual Studies department at Harvard University.
Harvard’s ArtLab Hosts Opening Celebration in Allston
The ArtLab, a center for artistic research and development located on Harvard’s Allston campus, hosted a kickoff celebration Saturday morning to mark the official opening of the facility.
Faculty to Discuss Concurrent Degree Program, VES Name Change
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences will consider a proposal to allow students to concurrently pursue a bachelor’s and master’s degree at its first meeting of the semester on Tuesday.
VES Senior Thesis Exhibit
The Department of Visual and Environmental Studies is holding a senior thesis exhibition in Carpenter Center from April 27th to May 24th.
Band Saw in the Carpenter Center
A band saw in the Carpenter Center’s wood shop. On the other side of the machine is a paper with safety rules.
Black Portraiture
Dr. Barkley L. Hendricks, a pioneering artist in the genre of black portraiture and photography, talks about the intersection of class, race and art Tuesday afternoon at the Harvard Art Museum.
In Focus: Harvard's Film Students
Earlier this month, the department of visual and environmental studies organized its semesterly student film screenings to showcase a series of short fictional, documentary, and animated films that are produced in Harvard’s film making/video making classes. The Crimson talked to several participants about their works and their experiences.
Making Space: Diversity, Inclusion, and the Arts at Harvard
As Harvard’s undergraduate student body has grown ever more diverse, many challenges remain in making the University a fully inclusive institution for all those admitted. According to The Crimson’s annual survey of graduating seniors, students of color at Harvard are less likely to concentrate in the arts and humanities than their white peers. But both faculty and students say that making the arts more open has rarely been so important.
Douglas Crimp at the Carpenter Center
Douglas Crimp reads a selection from his book “Before Pictures” at the Carpenter Center for Visual Arts Wednesday evening.
VES Visiting Faculty Exhibition Prompts Conversation
The gallery, which hosts a variety of student and faculty showings throughout the year, currently houses selected works by six visiting faculty members in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies: Lucas Blalock, Jennifer Bornstein, Paul Bush, Dru Donovan, Alexander Galloway, and Kianja Strobert.
Thesis Spotlight: Renee E. Zhan '16
Perhaps that’s a takeaway of the film—not, as in most anthropomorphizing accounts, that animals can be just like us, but rather that we can be just like animals.
