Frank Waln or Oyate Teca Obmani (“Walks with Young People”) is an award-winning Sicangu Lakota Hip Hop artist and music producer from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Frank uses his music to speak about social issues and injustices affecting the Native community and as a method for healing. To conclude his residency at the ArtLab,…
The Healing Project creates artistic works, collective healing spaces, and advocacy initiatives in partnership with individuals impacted by structural violence to build a world based on healing rather than punishment. Pianist-composer Samora Pinderhughes is a Harvard graduate student pursuing a PhD in Creative Practice and Critical Inquiry (CPCI) at the Harvard Department of Music. Samora’s ArtLab-supported…
SUPA_System is a collaboration between Joseph Zeal-Henry (2024, Loeb/ArtLab Fellow) and Deborah Garcia. As spatial practitioners and designers, they were particularly interested in exploring music and sound as materials with which space can be constructed and what this tells us about how we occupy spaces of power. SUPA_System is adorned in indigo, a color that…
Dr. Louisa Penfold, Co-Chair of Arts and Learning, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), returns to the ArtLab this Fall to lead a series of studio workshops for the HGSE course, “Contemporary Art in Early Childhood Education.” Participants explore the potential of modern and contemporary art in young children’s learning through hands-on experimentation with art…
with Ilya Vidrin and Lins Derry of metaLAB…
In a movement-based course that seeks to explore the innovations that women have contributed to the field of dance, theater, and intermedia over the years, ArtLab will collaborate with LROD, Interim Head of Dance, to host a week-long residency in which students will work with professionals from the Boston Dance Theater on the development of…
In Fall semester 2023, ArtLab will support the midterm critique of video installations, multimedia performances and other time-based works created in the Art, Film, & Visual Studies department (AFVS) course Advanced Projects in Time-Based Media, taught by Associate Professor Karthik Pandian. Karthik Pandian, ArtLab Faculty Artist in Residence in 2019, is an artist who works…
In September 2023, Syrian-Armenian-American actor and writer Sona Tatoyan and her team developed the third act of her autobiographical, multimedia theatrical performance, Azad, at the ArtLab. A “kaleidoscopic story within a story” (from a description on the Hakawati website), Azad is a work-in-progress theatrical experience that brings together ancient Karagöz shadow puppets, indigenous Middle Eastern folk music,…
Nina Bhattacharya is a designer, educator, and social worker. As an educator and facilitator, Nina designs learning experiences that nurture and amplify young people’s agency, well-being, and creative power. With her project at ArtLab entitled Mending as Care Work, Nina explored mending as an expression of care work and a metaphor for how queer, BIPOC,…
2023-2024 Project Dr. Shriya Srinivasan is an assistant professor of bioengineering at Harvard University School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), where she directs the Harvard Biohybrid Organs and Neuroprosthetics (BIONICS) lab. Dr. Srinivasan will appear in a new PBS NOVA program, “Built World,” a 3-hour anthology series exploring innovation in engineering, expected to air…
