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AFVS Faculty Exhibition: Matt Saunders, On an Overgrown Path

July 02, 2026

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies congratulates faculty member Matt Saunders on the opening of his solo exhibition, On an Overgrown Path , at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, on view June 25–August 7, 2026. The exhibition features a new...

AFVS TA Yulia Spiridonova's exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” now on view at The Davis Center

May 27, 2026

The exhibition “The Space of Appearances: A Shared Tongue” is an excerpt from Yulia Spiridonova’s ongoing project “Wayward Son,” which examines contemporary displacement of people from Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Central Asia. The...

Kathryn Abarbanel’s First Aid on View at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College

May 18, 2026

Kathryn Abarbanel, Lecturer in Art, Film, and Visual Studies, has work currently on view at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College through May 24 as part of the exhibition In Focus. First Aid, a sculptural installation, explores themes of fragility, force...

Professor Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Assistant Professor Joana Pimenta interviewed for The Crimson

May 12, 2026

A mechanical arm scrapes at the walls of a pink tunnel. The surface gives way easily — soft, almost airy. The camera moves forward, through the flaky matter, pulling the viewer with it. For a moment, it feels more like traveling than viewing. “It’s like...

Harvard student celebrates Pandian's class

April 30, 2026

Karthik Pandian, associate professor in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, taught the class that made Solis fall in love with art. He said Soltis stood out from the beginning for her “openness” to the “process-driven ways of making art” and...

AFVS congratulates Assistant Professor Kianja Strobert on being named a recipient of the 2026-2027 Rome Prize Fellowship

April 27, 2026

AFVS congratulates Assistant Professor Kianja Strobert on being named a recipient of the 2026-2027 Rome Prize Fellowship for her dynamic work in The Visual Arts. Strobert will use her time at the fellowship to study the network of Madonnelle shrines that...

Spring 2026 AFVS Open Studios

April 15, 2026

AFVS Spring 2026 Open Studios will take place on Friday, May 1st from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on levels B, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, at 24 Quincy Street. Artwork made this semester in all AFVS studio classes will be on view. The...

AFVS Alumna Trisha Pasricha ’11 Debuts New Book; Featured in The Harvard Gazette

April 07, 2026

When you’re an expert on the gut, you’re used to conversations others might shy away from. So a book on pooping and what can go wrong in the process is on brand for Trisha Pasricha, a second-generation gastroenterologist whose childhood was marked by...

Fifteen Questions: John Quackenbush on the Art of Film Projection

April 03, 2026

John R. Quackenbush is the projectionist for the Art, Film, and Visual Studies Department and the former head projectionist at the Harvard Film Archive. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. FM: How did you initially decide you wanted to...

Elvira Notari. Beyond Silence (2025) — New York Premiere and Special Events

March 30, 2026

A series of special New York events will mark the launch of Elvira Notari. Beyond Silence (2025), a new documentary inspired by the groundbreaking book Streetwalking on a Ruined Map (1993), authored by Giuliana Bruno, Emmet Blakeney Gleason Research...

AFVS Faculty Film Series: ENTANGLED MINDS, Sneak Preview Wednesday April 8, 6pm

March 25, 2026

ENTANGLED MINDS Sneak Preview — Wednesday, April 8, 6:00 PM Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi in conversation with Tala Hadid Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Theater 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge Free admission | No tickets required Faced with the limitations...

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VES-AFVS Alumni Enzo Camacho ’07 and Ami Lien’09 are part of of the 2026 Whitney Biennial

March 02, 2026

Whitney Museum of American Art New York, New York March 8–August 23, 2026 Members Preview March 4–7, 2026 Enzo Camacho & Ami Lien will be participating in the upcoming edition of the Whitney Biennial. Their presentation will include a newly completed...