The 2024 Harvard Staff Art Show celebrates the creative work of the Harvard University staff through an online exhibition, local shows, and artist events across the University. The online show will open in February 2024. Local shows and artist events will follow throughout Spring 2024.
The Harvard Staff Art Show is organized by a team of University-wide staff volunteers in partnership with Harvard Human Resources.
For questions, please contact: StaffArtShow@harvard.edu
MISSION STATEMENT
In the spirit of inclusion and belonging at Harvard, we want to establish a space where staff can share their creative endeavors with each other and with the University-wide community. We want to provide the opportunity to show our “whole selves” – the artistic, creative sides that may not otherwise be a part of our work at Harvard. In doing so, we also strive to impart a sense of beauty, inspiration, and hope for a better tomorrow on our colleagues, family, and friends.
HISTORY
In 2020, the Smith Campus Center Staff Art Show showcased over 60 artworks by 32 staff artists.
When COVID hit, we moved online. Without the need for a physical space, the 2021 Staff Art Show was opened to the whole University, and over 160 artists presented their work in our Virtual Gallery, which launched in February 2021 with an online event attended by over 400 people.
In 2022, like everyone else, we went hybrid. We held a virtual gallery and online launch event, as well as four in-person shows around campus: Memorial Church, Smith Campus Center, the Ed Portal, and Countway Library.
With the support of the President’s Administrative Innovation Fund, the 2023 Staff Art Show built a set of traveling gallery materials, hosted three staff artist events, and continued our virtual gallery and in-person shows.
Now in partnership with Harvard Human Resources, the Staff Art Show will continue our Virtual Gallery and in-person shows, as well as hosting events to celebrate the creativity of Harvard staff.
Virtual galleries for our earlier shows can be found here:
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
If you wish to participate in one of the future cycles of the Staff Art Show, read our most recent call for submissions for preparation details. Submissions open every fall ahead of each new annual iteration.