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Virtual Student Guide Tour: White/Hammons/Marshall, with Maeve Miller and Cecilia Zhou

In this photomontage, Cecilia Zhou and Maeve Miller are smiling and standing superimposed over a gray-tinted image of the Calderwood Courtyard in the Harvard Art Museums. They are both pointing at three artworks that are suspended between them.
Cecilia Zhou and Maeve Miller with the three works they will discuss on the tour. Photomontage courtesy of Alexis Boo ’22.

Tour

Both David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall consider their time as students of Charles White at the Otis Art Institute in the 1960s and ’70s as an important experience for them as young Black men and artists.

On this tour coinciding with Juneteenth, Maeve Miller ’22 and Cecilia Zhou ’22 will talk about a work by each of these artists: White’s linocut print of blues icon Bessie Smith (1950); Hammons’s Untitled [Body Print] (1974), which he made partly by pressing his own body against the paper; and Marshall’s untitled painting of a Black painter (2008). In conversation, the Student Guides will reflect on the teacher-student relationship and how the artists’ processes speak to larger social and political issues.

This interactive tour will take place online via Zoom. To join, click the following link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/96854781338 (free admission; no pre-registration required).

Virtual Student Guide Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Each tour is unique, so drop in and join the conversation!

Read these instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom. 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.

The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register@harvard.edu at least 48 hours in advance.