Our Partners
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is the center for contemporary art and artists at Harvard University. Through exhibitions, new commissions, public events, publications, and residencies, the Carpenter Center is dedicated to artist-centered programming and to building a vibrant community around contemporary art. Read more...
Film Study Center
The Film Study Center supports filmmaking, moving image, and sonic practices at Harvard through granting fellowships and access to equipment, holding work-in-progress critiques, and hosting visiting artists. Read more...
Critical Media Practice
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences offers a secondary field in Critical Media Practice (CMP) for Harvard PhD students who wish to integrate media creation into their academic work. Read more...
Sensory Ethnography Lab
The Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL) is an experimental laboratory that promotes innovative combinations of aesthetics and ethnography. Read more...
Harvard Film Archive
A division of Harvard Library, the Harvard Film Archive is dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of film. Read more...
Division of Arts & Humanities
AFVS is part of the Division of Arts & Humanities at Harvard. See also their site for students. Read more...
Around the University
Harvard Art Museums
Ever since their founding, the Harvard Art Museums—the Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and Arthur M. Sackler Museum—have been dedicated to advancing and supporting learning at Harvard University, in the local community, and around the world. Read more...
Harvard Library
The Harvard Library is the umbrella organization for 28 libraries and archives, with collections numbering over six million digitized items, 20 million volumes, 400 million manuscripts, one million maps, tens of millions of digital images, and rare and special collections . Read more...
- Fine Arts Library: Harvard’s primary collection and resource of global materials for the study of the history of art and architecture and related disciplines. Read more...
- Lamont Multimedia Lab: A resource for media creation and data visualization, including editing and production for audio and video. Read more...
- Cabot Media Studios: A resource for equipment, computers equipped with software, and after a short training, access to studios including a soundproofed greenscreen room. Read more...
Theater, Dance & Media
Theater, Dance & Media (TDM) combines the study of theater, dance, and media practices with the histories and theories of expressive and embodied culture. Read more...
Music Department
Harvard's home for the study of music, and the Sound Lab, which periodically offers workshops on sound recording, foley, media transfer and other topics. Read more...
Office for the Arts
The Office for the Arts at Harvard supports student engagement in the arts and integrates the arts into University life. Read more...
- Ceramics Program: For 50 years, the Ceramics Program has served Harvard University and the greater community with its exciting educational offerings. Courses are offered over three semesters at all levels, as well as courses and events just for Harvard undergraduates, workshops in the Houses, FAS courses and student groups. Read more...
- Dance Center: The Harvard Dance Center’s mission is artistic, academic, and civic leadership. It is a site that leads through equality and dignity for all, aims to foster agency through dance for students, and promotes the arts as agents of social change in the world. Read more...
- Learning From Performers: LFP hosts 15 to 20 artists and artist ensembles annually in music, dance, theater, film, TV, visual arts and inter-disciplinary arts. These artists lead workshops, classes, seminars and informal discussions, and also engage in longer-term residencies that sometimes culminate in performances, exhibitions and new works. Read more...
- Figure Drawing at Currier House: Read more...
ArtLab
Located on Harvard's Allston campus, the ArtLab supports arts-based interdisciplinary research, production, and experimentation. The ArtLab is a laboratory for art, research, and technology and consists of a series of flexible studios. Read more...
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
The Harvard Radcliffe Institute is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. We bring students, scholars, artists, and practitioners together to pursue curiosity-driven research, expand human understanding, and grapple with questions that demand insight from across disciplines. Read more...
Harvard Extension School and Harvard Summer School
Harvard Extension School and Summer School offer courses in art, media, and design, and are occasionally taught by AFVS faculty, or other artists and educators in the Boston area.