Community Calendar

Welcome to the Harvard Arts Festival! From April 30 to May 3, Harvard’s campus transforms into a four-day celebration of the arts, bursting with creativity from Harvard students, staff, alums and faculty. Wander through iconic indoor and outdoor spaces as you catch more than 100 performances, exhibitions and hands-on arts experiences. New this year: dance outdoors at one of Harvard’s biggest-ever freestyle dance parties; raise your voice in a choral sing-along; help build a life-sized fin whale mural from plastic strips in a community art project. The festival is open to everyone, family-friendly and mostly free (a few ticketed events have admission fees). Join the joy! Share in a celebration of artistic boldness. Can’t get to campus? Watch selected events livestreamed at HarvardArts on YouTube.

The Remnant and The Echo, Ligia Bouton

Opening Reception on Thursday, April 16, 4:30 - 6:30pm at Pegasus Gallery

Sheldon Krevit has had a long and distinguished career. A painter, Mr. Krevit’s work has been included in curated exhibitions with Robert Motherwell, Willem de Kooning, William Bailey, and Barkley L. Hendricks. For Meeting of the Spirits the artist will be showing a dozen, critically acclaimed paintings, and one framed drawing. Some of the work was painted in the artist’s New Haven studio, before his move to Santa Fe, New Mexico, in December of 2004, where he painted most of the others, including Meeting of the Spirits. The artist, currently resides in Hamden, CT.

Evident in Krevit’s work is a love of painting, and an ongoing involvement with the nature of perception, with the organic continuum of the microcosmic and macrocosmic.

Mr. Krevit is a graduate of The Philadelphia College of Art and The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His work is represented in public, private, and corporate collections. See more about Krevit’s work at https://www.sheldonkrevit.com

Pegasus Gallery is located within the library on the first floor of Chapman Hall. Hours: Monday - Thursday: 8:30 am - 7 pm, Friday: 8:30 – 4pm.
The Niche is in Founders Hall, across from the Enrollment Services Office. Hours: Monday - Thursday 7:30 am - 5 pm: Fridays 8 am - 4pm.

This exhibition will explore movement as an integral throughline in Kwame Brathwaite’s work—one that spans his deep engagement with social and political movements and his keen attention to the body in motion. Brathwaite’s images intimate the powerful and transformative ways that action can convey joy, beauty, strength, and hope, even in charged moments.

Brathwaite (1938-2023) is perhaps most recognized for photographs celebrating Black beauty and excellence in fashion, music, and athletics. His studio portraits and concert photography like his documentation of historic marches, the everyday life of residents in Harlem and The Bronx, and of athletes such as Muhammad Ali convey the power of the body as a symbol of cultural strength, resilience, and pan-African solidarity. Through a selection of original and new prints from archival negatives, the exhibition will offer an opportunity to experience the breadth of his work and its resonance today.

Curated in close partnership with Brathwaite’s son and daughter-in-law, Kwame and Robynn Brathwaite (Amherst College Class of 1996 and 1998, respectively), Revolutionary Movements will expand stories about the artist's work and its international circulation.

Kwame Brathwaite: Revolutionary Movements is made possible by Teiger Foundation.

JooYoung Choi is an astro-futurist artist whose expansive practice blends autobiography and invention. For over a decade, Choi's work has centered on developing narratives within a highly structured imaginary realm known as the Cosmic Womb.

Adventures of the Quantum Soup Surfer brings together early and recent paintings, a sculptural installation, and video works that chronicle one character's journey of self-discovery. Long known as Nina Blue, the Quantum Soup Surfer first appeared in the Cosmic Womb as a professional imaginary friend, contributing to the journeys of several legendary heroes of the Cosmic Womb.

The exhibition follows Nina Blue's passage from supporting character to protagonist. She emerges as the Quantum Soup Surfer--a celestial superhero and thoughtful navigator who channels the spiritual energy of water to brave uncharted territories and share her story of resilience.

Inspired by the Cosmic Womb's motto--"Have Faith for You have Always Been Loved"--this exhibition foregrounds imagination, curiosity, and art as tools for resilience that have been significant for Nina Blue's transformation into the Quantum Soup Surfer and the hero of this story.

Adventures of the Quantum Soup Surfer is made possible by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.

William Baczek Fine Arts, in Northampton, Massachusetts will celebrate thirty years of operation this May with a group show of both established gallery artists and introducing new artists who have recently joined the gallery. The exhibition will be on display from Wednesday, April 29 through Saturday, June 6, 2026. The public is invited to an opening reception with the artists on Saturday, May 2 from 4 – 6 pm.

Call for artwork
Science, technology, engineering, art, math, an exhibit inspired by and incorporating the sciences.
Exhibit runs April 3 - May 17, 2026
With special events, demos, and fun activities during the course of the exhibit.
Contact margedvaa@gmail.com by March 20 with your interest.

The First Fridays Artswalk in downtown Pittsfield begins its 5-month season (May through September) on Friday, May 1 from 5 to 8 pm as part of the City of Pittsfield’s First Fridays at Five.

Participating venues on Friday, May 1 include Clock Tower Artists, Framework by Downtown Pittsfield, Inc., Hotel on North, Indie Readery and Records, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield’s City Hall, Sanctum Gallery, Solarium Plant Shop, and the Soda Chef.

Download the Downtown Pittsfield App in the App Store or on Google Play to follow a virtual walking tour of art on your cell phone.

Welcome to the Harvard Arts Festival! From April 30 to May 3, Harvard’s campus transforms into a four-day celebration of the arts, bursting with creativity from Harvard students, staff, alums and faculty. Wander through iconic indoor and outdoor spaces as you catch more than 100 performances, exhibitions and hands-on arts experiences. New this year: dance outdoors at one of Harvard’s biggest-ever freestyle dance parties; raise your voice in a choral sing-along; help build a life-sized fin whale mural from plastic strips in a community art project. The festival is open to everyone, family-friendly and mostly free (a few ticketed events have admission fees). Join the joy! Share in a celebration of artistic boldness. Can’t get to campus? Watch selected events livestreamed at HarvardArts on YouTube.

The Remnant and The Echo, Ligia Bouton