Keep an eye on our calendar for tours in the fall.
Join us live on Zoom for virtual Student Guide Tours! These interactive tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each Student Guide and provide a unique, thematic view into our collections. The free, 30-minute tours will be offered live via Zoom.
The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. Participants come from a wide range of backgrounds, including art history, visual and environmental studies, the sciences, history, and literature. Through their training, Student Guides gain knowledge of the collections and develop skills in critical thinking, visual analysis, public speaking, and leadership. This program is supported by the Ho Family Student Guide Fund.
PAST TOURS
Tuesday, June 30
“Spirituality in Secular Art,” with Adam Sella
Adam Sella ’22 considered how different ideas of spirituality are reflected in artwork we might not immediately think of as spiritual.
Saturday, June 27
“Silent Dialogue,” with Twyla Kantor
Twyla Kantor ’22 discussed storytelling in art and explored how the use of pose and body language can change an object’s narrative.
Tuesday, June 23
“Make It New,” with Tommy Mahon
Tommy Mahon ’20 focused on four artworks embodying aesthetic, political, and spiritual transformations.
Saturday, June 20
“Nostos and Nostalgia,” with Laura Murphy
Laura Murphy ’22 delved into the ideas of home, memory, and longing in this journey through the collections, looking at works that evoke the natural beauty of a pre-industrial era.
Tuesday, June 16
“The Golden Globe,” with May Wang
May Wang ’20 considered works from across the collections that include or evoke gold in the context of global exchange.
Saturday, June 13
“Anti-Gravity,” with Gavin Moulton
Gavin Moulton ’20 explored artworks that question the laws of nature and break orbit with the stylistic rules of their time.
Tuesday, June 9
“Model Worlds,” with Paul Tamburro
Paul Tamburro ’21 looked at the ways artworks can either construct or deconstruct visions of an ideal society and examined the literal models that objects are based on.
Saturday, June 6
“Looking Inside, from the Outside,” with Emilė Radytė
Emilė Radytė ’20 led a conversation about how and to what effect interiority is represented in art, and how art can become a medium for expressing both frustrations and hope of the spirit.
Tuesday, June 2
“Visions of the Future,” with Cecilia Zhou
Cecilia Zhou ’22 examined how three works of art, spanning approximately 700 years, position themselves vis-à-vis the future.
Saturday, May 30
“The Art of the Everyday,” with Paul Tamburro
Paul Tamburro ’21 explored distinctions between art and everyday objects and the relationship between art and mass production.
Thursday, May 28
“Decay and Regeneration,” with Mei Tercek
Mei Tercek ’21 considered how decay can be a destructive and revitalizing force in art.
Tuesday, May 26
“Architecture as Art,” with Gavin Moulton
Gavin Moulton ’20 explored the theme of architecture as art in a discussion focused on several works in the collections spanning a thousand years of art history.
Monday, May 25
Celebrating the Class of 2020
Emilė Radytė, May Wang, Gavin Moulton, and Tommy Mahon, our Ho Family Student Guides from the Harvard Class of 2020, shared their favorite artworks from the Harvard Art Museums collections in this special, celebratory tour.
Saturday, May 23
“Spirituality in Secular Art,” with Adam Sella
Adam Sella ’22 considered different ideas of spirituality and how these are reflected in artwork we might not immediately consider to be spiritual.
Thursday, May 21
“The Golden Globe,” with May Wang
May Wang ’20 considered works from across the collections that include or evoke gold in the context of global exchange.
Tuesday, May 19
“Make It New” with Tommy Mahon
Tommy Mahon ’20 focused on four artworks embodying aesthetic, political, and spiritual transformations.
Saturday, May 16
“Decay and Regeneration,” with Mei Tercek
Mei Tercek ’21 considered how decay can be a destructive and revitalizing force in art, focusing on several works from the collections.
Thursday, May 14
“Art in Exile,” with Vlad Batagui
Vlad Batagui ’21 explored the relationship between art and the origins of its creation, looking at different ways in which art objects and artists get removed from their original cultural contexts.
Tuesday, May 12
“Constructing Nature,” with Sinead Danagher
Sinead Danagher ’21 discussed several works of art that use or invoke nature in their media, imagery, and style.
Saturday, May 9
“Visions of the Future,” with Cecilia Zhou
Cecilia Zhou ’22 examined how three works of art, spanning approximately 700 years, position themselves vis-à-vis the future.
Thursday, May 7
“Spirituality in Secular Art,” with Adam Sella
Adam Sella ’22 considered different ideas of spirituality and how these are reflected in artwork we might not immediately consider to be spiritual.
Tuesday, May 5
“Decay and Regeneration,” with Mei Tercek
Mei Tercek ’21 discussed whether decay can be both destructive and revitalizing in art.
Saturday, May 2
“The Golden Globe,” with May Wang
May Wang ’20 considered works from across the collections that include or evoke gold in the context of global exchange.
Thursday, April 30
“Constructing Nature,” with Sinead Danagher
Sinead Danagher ’21 discussed several works of art that use or invoke nature in their media, imagery, and style.
Tuesday, April 28
“The Art of the Everyday,” with Paul Tamburro
Paul Tamburro ’21 explored distinctions between art and everyday objects and the relationship between art and mass production.
Thursday, April 23
“Architecture as Art,” with Gavin Moulton
Gavin Moulton ’20 explored the theme of architecture as art in a discussion focused on several works in the collections spanning a thousand years of art history.
Tuesday, April 21
“Reality and Artifice,” with Emilė Radytė
Emilė Radytė ’20 explored the theme of reality and artifice in an interactive discussion focused on several works in the collections.
Want to learn more from our Student Guides? Browse our past Student Guide Tours on our Vimeo channel and follow @harvardarthappens on Instagram.
