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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Climate Change, with Sophia Mautz

In this photomontage, a smiling young woman dressed in a blue sweater and black pants stands in front of a gray wall. She is holding up a large black and white photograph of a grassy landscape with visible burn marks.
One of the works Sophia Mautz will discuss is Ana Mendieta’s 1978 photograph Untitled [filueta grass mound burnt with a cast iron hand, Iowa]. Photomontage courtesy of Alexis Boo ’22.

Tour

Sophia Mautz ’21 illuminates our unfolding climate crisis in her tour focused on three works of art: a 14th-century handscroll painting from Japan, Earthquake from the Legendary History of the Jin’o-ji; a photograph from 1978 by American artist Ana Mendieta, Untitled [filueta grass mound burnt with a cast iron hand, Iowa]; and Highland, Franklin, Yucca, a 1999 acrylic painting by Ed Ruscha. Author of a poetry thesis about climate change, Mautz will touch on topics such as the depiction of disaster and the association of women with the earth.

This interactive tour will take place online via Zoom. To join, click the following link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94960883623 (free admission; no pre-registration required).

Virtual Student Guide Tours take place every Thursday at 8pm and every Saturday at 11am on Zoom. Each tour is unique and offers a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Drop in and join the conversation!

For instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom, click here. For general questions about Student Guide Tours, email am_register@harvard.edu.

This program is supported by the Ho Family Student Guide Fund.

The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each Student Guide and offer a unique, thematic view into the collections.

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