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Art + Science: Canvas

At Harvard Art Museums

Mid-Cambridge, Cambridge

🗓︃Check in at the Visitor Services desk upon arrival, as space is limited for this free event.
📏Explore the first three floors for art collections, while noting the top two floors serve as a study and research area.

Associate paintings conservator Ellen Davis discusses how artists have utilized canvas across the ages during this gallery talk outside the Straus Center in the Lightbox Gallery, featuring hands-on tools and materials.

Straus Center staff
Lightbox Gallery presentation
Hands-on conservation tools
Associate paintings conservator

Tuesday, January 26, 12:00 PM

Free

What are you into?

  • Straus Center staff
  • Lightbox Gallery presentation
  • Hands-on conservation tools
  • Associate paintings conservator
  • Harvard Art Museums
  • Mid-Cambridge
  • Cambridge

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