
Materials Lab
Public Workshops
While the Harvard Art Museums remain closed, enjoy the Materials Lab at Home.
The Materials Lab offers public workshops that provide opportunities for people to explore art making as a means of learning and knowing. The workshops are developed around themes that are generally inspired by an exhibition or a particular material or process. They generally consist of two-hour sessions with experts that combine close looking at art and hands-on experimentation. Workshop information is available through the online calendar. (You can filter for “workshops” in the menu above the calendar.)
Past Workshops
Spring 2020
Investigating Color in Art
Double Trouble—Screenprinting and Relief Printing with Carlos Hernandez and Bill Fick
Fall 2019
Shadow/Substance—Paper Cutting and Kara Walker
Investigating Color in Art
Investigating Color in Art
Investigating Color in Art
Spring 2019
The Matière — Material Experiments from the Bauhaus to Black Mountain College
Josef Albers’s Color Experiments
Anni Albers and the Event of the Thread
Shadow/Substance: Paper Cutting and Kara Walker
Drawn to Art Reproduction
Egyptian Blue
Drypoint Printing with Noriko Saitō
Fall 2018
Alternative Lithographic Processes
Alternative Lithographic Processes
Hands-On Silverworking Demonstration
Animal-Shaped Vessels
Animal-Shaped Vessels
Spring 2018
Direct Animation & Cameraless Filmmaking
Direct Animation & Cameraless Filmmaking
Direct Animation & Cameraless Filmmaking
Byzantine Tapestry Weaving
Fall 2017
Exploring Natural Dyes with Zapotec Master Dyer and Weaver Porfirio Gutiérrez
Optical Devices in Science and Art in Early Modern Times
Dutch Old Master Drawing Materials and Techniques
Shell Bead Carving with Elizabeth James-Perry
Shell Bead Carving with Elizabeth James-Perry
Spring 2017
Shaping Chinese Jun Ware
“Drawing with Scissors”—Matisse’s Painted Paper Technology
Islamic Papermaking
Metal
Data Visualization
Metal
Metal
Metal
Metal
Fall 2016
Carbon
Carbon
Carbon
Carbon
Spring 2016
Earth
Earth
Earth
Earth
Earth
Fall 2015
Silkscreening
Silkscreening
Light
Light
Fresco
Spring 2015
Red
Red
Red
Plaster in Fresco Painting
Plaster in Fresco Painting
Plaster in Sculpture
Plaster in Sculpture
Plaster in Sculpture
Plaster in Sculpture