Department News

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University is thrilled to welcome cultural theorist and poet Fred Moten as the 2023 Solomon Fellow. Moten is an alumnus of Harvard College, a recent MacArthur Fellow, and a Professor in the...

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies is thrilled to welcome interdisciplinary artist Martine Syms as the 2022 Josep Luís Sert Practitioner in the Arts. Martine Syms is an artist who has earned wide recognition for a practice that combines...

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies is thrilled to invite you to a screening of AFVS faculty member Alfred Guzzetti’s recent film, The Gifts of Time. Please join us at 7:00pm on September 27, in the Carpenter Center Theater. The screening will...

PETE GRANA (1951 – 2021) For close to a quarter century, Pete Grana worked in the film-video Equipment Room in Sever Hall. His kind and patient demeanor masked his wry sense of humor. Students, faculty, and fellow staff members alike remember his interest...

This Fall 2021, the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies will offer courses in  Studio Art and Filmmaking, including  photography, animation, video art, painting, drawing, printmaking, sound, and sculpture, as well as film and visual studies...

It is deeply gratifying to welcome students, staff and faculty back to campus, where the exciting work of making and thinking and writing about art and film will resume in person. When we come together again, I look forward to continuing the important...

The Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies congratulates the AFVS seniors recognized for their outstanding work with the following awards. See more of these students’ work in the 2021 Senior Thesis Exhibition: What is Created Through Struggle and on...

The Solomon Fellowship Committee is thrilled to announce acclaimed artist Sondra Perry (b. 1986, Perth Amboy, NJ) as the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies’ 2021 Solomon Fellow . Perry makes videos, performances, and installations that foreground...

This semester the AFVS Woodshop will host virtual office hours via Zoom. Students are welcome to drop in with any and all building-related questions. Whether you're wondering about tools, techniques, materials, safety, construction or just want to...

This Spring 2021, the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies will offer courses in Studio Art and Film Making, including photography, animation, video art, painting, drawing, printmaking, sound, and sculpture, as well as film and visual studies...