Visual Arts and Crafts

Listen to lyrical medieval Welsh poetry, in both old Welsh and English, read by Harvard student Samuel Puopolo.

Join staff member Tayana Fincher for a talk focusing on healing through the creation of art and close looking.

Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall.

Join us for a workshop to make a small quilted potholder or trivet. Using the ‘assembly line” quilting method, you will plan, cut, and sew a quilt using our sewing machines.

Join the Watercolor Painting Workshop

Bring your project and come join other fiber crafters in your community!

Come to the Library to create something special!

Drop by to contribute to a collaborative mural in the south lobby.

Curator Horace D. Ballard closely examines a work of art that speaks to the shifting contexts of American art.

Delve deeper into ancient sculpture, from a time when Celtic and Classical cultures clashed, with art historian Kimberly Cassibry.

Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall.

Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.

We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

Join us at the Valente Branch for a simple craft. This month we will be making beaded earrings.

Supplies are limited. Registration is required.

Join Leigh Raiford and Teju Cole to examine photography’s role in social justice movements and national memory

Bring your project and enjoy the company of other fiber crafters

Join local artist Brooke Lambert for an introduction to the printmaking process of linocut.

Try out 2D animation with Gif-O-grafs!

Adults 18+ are invited to tell a story using 2D animation.

Registration Required.

Join us for a beginner-friendly counted cross stitch class at O'Neill!