Harvard Art Museums

Performance 10:00 am - 10:30 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Enjoy a performance of Irish sean-nós (old style) dancing, with dancers Rebecca McGowan and Kara Howgate-Mello, and fiddle player Clare Fraser. Photo: Niles Singer/Harvard University

Gallery Talk 9:30 am - 10:00 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Curator Horace D. Ballard closely examines a work of art that speaks to the shifting contexts of American art. Photo: Bess Paupeck

Special Event 8:00 am - 8:30 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries! Pony cap, 3rd century BCE. Bronze. From Torrs, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, X.FA 72. © National Museums Scotland.

Supporter Event 9:00 am - 11:00 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Friends, Fellows, and Partners are invited to enjoy the exhibition Celtic Art Across the Ages in a quiet setting while the museums are closed. Photo: Danni Hoshino

Gallery Talk 9:00 am - 10:00 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA In this session, Penley Knipe, the Philip and Lynn Straus Senior Conservator of Works on Paper and head of the Paper Lab, will talk about mending paper. Jacob Lawrence, American, The 1920s . . . The Migrants Cast Their Ballots, 1974. Screenprint. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lorillard, Division of Loews Theatres, Inc., Transfer from Student Print Rental Program, M26664. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawre

Special Event 7:00 am - 2:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA The Harvard Art Museums will be closed on Thursday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth. Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography

Performance 9:30 am - 10:15 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Listen to traditional Irish music played by Clare Fraser and Simon Lace! Photo: Niles Singer/Harvard University

Gallery Talk 9:30 am - 10:00 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Curator Horace D. Ballard closely examines a work of art that speaks to the shifting contexts of American art. Elaine Mayes, American, 4th of July N.Y.C., 1978. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, P2002.1.6. © Elaine Mayes.

Special Event 7:00 am - 2:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA The Harvard Art Museums will be closed for Independence Day. Photo: Bess Paupeck

Special Event 8:00 am - 8:30 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries! John Martin, The Bard, c. 1817. Oil on canvas, 127 × 101.6 cm. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

Performance 9:30 am - 10:00 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Listen to lyrical medieval Welsh poetry, in both old Welsh and English, read by Harvard student Samuel Puopolo. Photo: Danni Hoshino

Gallery Talk 9:00 am - 10:00 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA In this session, associate paintings conservator Ellen Davis will talk about the use of cotton duck canvas. Photo: Robert Checchi

Tour 10:00 am - 11:00 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Learn about the design, production, and installation of Celtic Art Across the Ages with exhibition designer Robert Checchi. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Saint Roch as a Pilgrim, c. 1730. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.123.

Gallery Talk 9:30 am - 10:00 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Dig deeper into the timeless tale of Saint Roch and his faithful dog. Photo: Danni Hoshino

Gallery Talk 9:00 am - 10:00 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA In this session, associate frames conservator Allison Jackson will talk about materials and techniques in frame conservation. Photo: Bess Paupeck

Special Event 8:00 am - 8:30 am Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries! Photo: Bess Paupeck