Our educators and curators are dedicated to offering programs and resources that will encourage visitors of all ages to interact and be more engaged with Harn exhibitions.
What You’ll Do Watch the video to learn about Dancing Ganesha then choreograph a dance for the beloved deity. Tips for choreographing your dance: In India, elephants symbolize wealth and strength. How can you convey ideas of wealth and strength through movement? Observe the positions of Ganesha’s arms and legs. Notice how...
The Harn docents have always delighted and challenged me with their insightful responses to art works on view in our exhibitions. They see what I can’t see, and in many cases their probing questions flummox me, and call for further investigation and re-evaluation of our interpretive materials. A case in...
On a positive note regarding the year 2020, and on the occasion of the Harn Museum of Art’s 30th Anniversary, we are celebrating women artists throughout all of the collecting areas and throughout the galleries. (Please see the exhibition Breaking the Frame: Women Artists in the Harn Collections.) While researching...
Watch the video to discover the art of mending and to examine differing views on breakage and perfection. In the Banyankole and Banyarwanda Vessel with Lid (inkongoro with umutemeri) and the Japanese Incense container (Kogo), cracks are mended with metal. On both objects, light reflects off the metal, creating strong contrasts between the...
Some of you may recall Rania Matar’s photographs in my 2016 exhibition, Aftermath: The Fallout of War. Rania’s annual return-visits to Beirut (her hometown) yielded moving, memorable images of war’s aftermath. Among them, her towering portrait of a war-torn street in Beirut, followed by shattered apartment interiors, and hopeful refugee children...
Discover the art of the polka dot! Watch the video to learn about artist Yayoi Kusama and her dreams of covering the world and everything in it in with dots. Then draw inspiration from Kusama to create your very own polka dot pumpkin paper sculpture. Materials: Paper Glue Scissors...
Gold is pride. —Zeynab Ly Commenting on her mother’s gold jewelry in Good as Gold exhibition, in conversation with Amanda Maples. Lush bouquets of gold flowers in baskets woven of gold threads adorn a suite of jewelry from Senegal now on display in the Harn’s exhibition Peace, Power and Prestige: Metal Arts of Africa (ill....
International Day of Peace: Shaping Peace Together Celebrate International Day of Peace: Shaping Peace Together on September 21, 2020! Create a pinwheel to imagine whirled peace, then advocate for peace by sharing compassion, kindness, hope and creativity with your community. Established in 1981 by a unanimous United Nations resolution, Peace Day provides a globally shared...
Watch the Harn at Home video to discover how Cuban-American artist Emilio Sánchez uses color, pattern, shadow and form to create architectural studies of places in the United States and Latin America. Then drawing inspiration from Sánchez, experiment with capturing a sense of place in your own unique style. Post...
This year marks the 85th Anniversary of the founding of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which employed roughly 8.5 million Americans during the Great Depression when as many as 25% of the workforce was unemployed. Established in 1935, the WPA created a series of relief programs, from public works projects—such...
