Decompress: Mindful Museum Musings

When:
Thursday, Nov 06, 2025 1:00p -
3:45p

Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

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Admission:
FREE

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Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, Rainy Day Ideas, University

Event website:
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Fall is a busy, chaotic time. Come to the Harvard Art Museums to enjoy an afternoon of mindful interactions with works of art and relaxing, art-focused activities. Whether it’s by spending a sustained drawing session in a gallery or learning about a sculpture that has ties to meditative practices, we invite you to find time to decompress in our spaces.


Led by Harvard Art Museums staff, these talks and activities encourage us to take a break and learn about strategies to rest our minds, reflect on positivity, and go slow.


Each talk or activity below is about 30 minutes long. Join us for as much or as little as you like!


1pm

Live Drawing

Come draw and be drawn in the galleries of the exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black, with Yi Bin Liang, Conservation Technician, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies


1:45pm

Light, Air, and Shadows

Find tranquility in a 16th-century Indian window screen, with Tayana Fincher, Manager of Public Programs, Division of Academic and Public Programs


2:30pm

Lightbox Meditation

Take in a meditative moment in our sunlit Lightbox Gallery, with Bess Paupeck, Associate Director of Public Programs and Community Partnerships, Division of Academic and Public Programs


3:15pm

Poetry in Pottery

In a brief workshop, write poetry inspired by a David Drake stoneware jar, with Jarvis Subia, Manager of Community Partnerships, Division of Academic and Public Programs


Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to join any of these activities. You may drop in at any time after checking in. Space is limited, and activities are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required. Please note that space is especially limited for the drawing activity.

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