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Spring 2024 AFVS Open Studios

April 8, 2024

AFVS Spring 2024 Open Studios will take place on Friday, April 26th 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 Spring 2024 Student Film Screenings will take place in the Theater in the lower level of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts on Thursday, April 25th at 1PM, Friday, April 26th at 1 and 7PM,...

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AFVS welcomes Walid Raad as the 2024 Solomon Fellow

December 19, 2023

Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) is delighted to announce that artist Walid Raad has been chosen as the 2024 Solomon Fellow. Raad works across installation, performance, video, and photography to explore how historical events of physical and psychological violence affect bodies, minds, culture, and narrative. He will be in residence at AFVS from April 7 to 13, 2024.

Raad is a Professor of Art at The Cooper Union, a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Photography at Bard College (2023-2024), and an...

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2024 Josep Luís Sert Practitioner: Anicka Yi

December 19, 2023

Harvard University's Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) is thrilled to welcome artist Anicka Yi as the 2024 Josep Luis Sert Practitioner in the Arts. Yi will be in residence from February 21 to 23, 2024.

Yi (b. 1971 in Seoul, South Korea) is a Korean-American conceptual artist known for her focus on olfaction and her use of unorthodox, living, and perishable materials. Informed by scientific research, biology, and perfumers, Anicka Yi has produced a unique body of work over the past decade at the intersection of...

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Announcing the AFVS Alumni & Faculty Film Series

September 13, 2023
The AFVS Alumni & Faculty Film Series is a free, monthly screening series during the academic year of films made by (or with) former students, fellows, affiliates, and faculty.  The screenings are followed by a discussion with the filmmaker (as well as other key collaborators, whenever possible), and accompanied by class visits and other opportunities for discussion. Please join us for the second season of the AFVS Film Series with very different films: Félicité (2017), by Alain Gomis; Dream of a Shadow (2019) On September 20th at 6PM, ... Read more about Announcing the AFVS Alumni & Faculty Film Series

Eduard Franz Sekler, 96

May 4, 2023
In 1953, after receiving his architectural degree in his native city of Vienna and his Ph.D. in art history from the University of London’s Warburg Institute, Eduard Sekler came to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar. Based at the Fogg Museum, he studied schools of design that brought him into contact with such architects and designers as Frank Lloyd Wright, Charles and Ray Eames, and Mies van der Rohe. Two years later, in 1955, the architect and dean Josep Lluís Sert invited him to join the faculty at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From his first book on Christopher Wren,... Read more about Eduard Franz Sekler, 96