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...says co-director Alissa E. Schapiro ’10, “is to really show the visibility and importance of visual arts on campus. It’s not just in VES, and it’s not just at the Graduate School of Design. Harvard students are incredibly talented. There are ceramicists at the graduate school who would have no other venue to show their work. [The show] is a way of bringing together divergent communities that have a central focus on visual...
Shelby E. Doyle GSD ’11 agrees that the Art Show plays a key role in increasing awareness of the arts at Harvard. “It’s really great that they’re doing it, especially since Harvard isn’t always known for its presence within the arts. When I came here, I was listening to Drew Faust and she said that she was making the arts at Harvard a priority. It’s exciting to have this opportunity...
Students involved with the show appreciate it as a unique opportunity to interact with other visual artists. David J. Tischfield ’09, an instructor for the Harvard Ceramics Program, participated last year and has two pieces in the show this year. “There are remarkable artists, painters and sculptors at Harvard,” he says. “I came into college as a rather established potter and sculptor, but I obviously couldn’t do that here. It wasn’t a very social club. This is one of the few ways...
Schapiro and co-director Julia V. Guren ’10, who is a former Crimson illustrator, focused this year on catering to a variety of audiences. The show attracts Harvard faculty and staff, as well as residents of Boston and Cambridge. However, Schapiro notes that in the previous show, “most of the art that was affordable to students was gone the second we opened our doors. [This year] we wanted to have more works that were in the student price range, at 20 to 75 dollars.” To accomplish this, Schapiro and Guren asked...
Unlike many of the other shows put on during Arts First week, this performance will not be catered directly to Harvard undergraduates. Rather, the performance is designed to bring the performing arts to younger audiences and the Cambridge community as a whole. Anthony J. Sterle ’11, the show’s producer, says, “This is one of the few shows on campus which targets members of the Cambridge community...