Ho Family Student Guide Program

Ho Family Student Guide Program The official page of the Ho Family Student Guides at the Harvard Art Museums

Hey, Class of 2026! 🎉 Drop by our table in the Harvard Art Museums’ Calderwood Courtyard on Friday, May 8th from 10:30am...
05/06/2026

Hey, Class of 2026! 🎉 Drop by our table in the Harvard Art Museums’ Calderwood Courtyard on Friday, May 8th from 10:30am-4:00pm to pick up some tasty treats and museum goodies (publications, pigment stickers, and more, while supplies last). Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program will also lead 10-minute one-stop tours at hourly intervals, from 10:30am-3:30pm. Come see some of our most exciting works with your friends and fellow grads!

Check out this shoutout to the Ho Family Student Guide Program in the exhibition catalogue of “Edmonia Lewis: Said in St...
05/06/2026

Check out this shoutout to the Ho Family Student Guide Program in the exhibition catalogue of “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone”. David Odo, Director of the Georgia Museum of Art, writes in his foreword, “I first learned about Lewis’s incredible work and compelling life story during my tenure at the Harvard Art Museums, where undergraduate students Alexis Boo and Kaitlin Hao, then members of the Ho Family Student Guide Program under the direction of Camran Mani, created a virtual tour of works by Black artists for the museum’s Black History Month programs in February 2021. The students’ interest in Lewis’s work was infectious. Mani created a self-guided walking tour of Boston sites related to Lewis’s time in the city to accompany the students’ virtual tour
Walking the tour was deeply inspiring.” So happy that our work contributed to the conditions that made this important exhibition possible! Check it out at the Peabody Essex Museum ( ) through June 7 and at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens ( ) from August 8-January 3, 2027. (Photos: a few works in the show, including a portrait photo of Lewis on loan from )

Modern and contemporary art is all over St. Louis, Missouri. A small group of Student Guides and Graduate Student Teache...
05/02/2026

Modern and contemporary art is all over St. Louis, Missouri. A small group of Student Guides and Graduate Student Teachers went with Camran Mani and Jen Thum to check it out earlier this month, making stops at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation ( ), the Contemporary Art Museum ( ), the St. Louis Art Museum ( ), and, of course, the Arch! A major highlight was the Pulitzer, where “Dialogues and Conversations,” the foundation’s 25th-anniversary exhibition, has taken over the entire Tadao Ando building. Curated by founder Emily Rauh Pulitzer with Molly Moog, it features works by artists whom Pulitzer and the foundation have championed over the years, including Faye HeavyShield, Doris Salcedo, Richard Serra, Ellsworth Kelly, and Medardo Rosso. Plus, Pulitzer and Moog generously talked with us about the show, making it an even more amazing experience.

On our recent trip to D.C., we explored the exhibition “Miró and the United States” at the Phillips Collection ( ) with ...
05/01/2026

On our recent trip to D.C., we explored the exhibition “Miró and the United States” at the Phillips Collection ( ) with Program Director Camran Mani. This show has two loans from including the large “Mural, March 20, 1961” that once graced the living room of architect and Harvard professor Josep Lluís Sert. Wonderful to see Miró and some of the Fogg Museum’s paintings in a new light.

At the Dumbarton Oaks museum and gardens in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, we toured their special exhibition of r...
04/30/2026

At the Dumbarton Oaks museum and gardens in Washington, D.C. earlier this month, we toured their special exhibition of roman medallions with curator Jonathan Shea. Great show with fantastic exhibition design — a forest of pedestals you can experience in any order, with labels on different sides, encouraging you to move around the objects.

Hey! We’re hiring!Ho Family Student Guide is a paid position at the Harvard Art Museums open to Harvard College sophomor...
04/24/2026

Hey! We’re hiring!

Ho Family Student Guide is a paid position at the Harvard Art Museums open to Harvard College sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to stay on through senior year. The Ho Family Student Guide Program prepares Student Guides to create and lead original, research-based tours of the museums for the public, and other audiences by request. The tours typically approach the museums via a theme of each Guide’s own choosing, sample the variety and diversity of the collections, and engage visitors in conversation.

Student Guides may also teach 1-2 sessions of our Free U.S. Citizenship Course, which prepares aspiring U.S. citizens for the naturalization test with American art tours and classroom instruction on Saturday mornings in the fall. Additionally, Student Guides may develop educational and interpretive materials for social media and support other museum programs.

Student Guides sign up to lead tours that work with their schedules. (Public tours are at 11am and 2pm on the weekends when classes are in session.) Weekly training meetings with the Student Guide community create opportunities to workshop ideas, learn about object-based research, and explore how museums work. Guides usually debut their first tour at the end of their first semester in the program at the earliest.

No art history, studio art, or museum experience necessary! Students from all concentrations are encouraged to apply. (Previous Student Guides have come from a wide range of concentrations, including Astrophysics, Integrative Biology, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Comparative Study of Religion, History of Science, History and Literature, and History of Art and Architecture.)

To apply, submit a résumé/C.V. and short responses to two prompts. No cover letter required. For more info and full application instructions, visit the Harvard SEO job board: ID 23413. Applications will be accepted through June 14, 2026.

We’ve reached the last installment of our series on The Art and Science of Art Conservation! Associate Frames Conservato...
04/02/2026

We’ve reached the last installment of our series on The Art and Science of Art Conservation! Associate Frames Conservator Allison Jackson will “Focus on the Frame” this Friday, 4/3, from 11am-12pm in the Art Study Center (Harvard Art Museums, Level 4). Free and open to all Harvard students - drop by!

Image of Allison Jackson gilding a frame for Albert Moore’s “Study for Blossoms” (1943.199) copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Photo credit: Jennifer Aubin.

“Celtic Art Across the Ages” is now open at ! Ho Family Student Guides Jide Anekwe and Jane Lilly wrote wall labels abou...
03/09/2026

“Celtic Art Across the Ages” is now open at ! Ho Family Student Guides Jide Anekwe and Jane Lilly wrote wall labels about some of the works in this major loan exhibition, which we hope you will check out. Today they talked with us about those works as we toured the show with the curators Susanne Ebbinghaus, Penny Coombe, and Laure Marest.

Come explore the materials and techniques of works on paper with Paper Conservation Fellow Valeria Pesce and original wo...
03/04/2026

Come explore the materials and techniques of works on paper with Paper Conservation Fellow Valeria Pesce and original works of art. Valeria will talk about the Italian prints and drawings she has been working on (by Piranesi, Canaletto, Boccioni, and more) in the presence of the works themselves at a drop-in program exclusively for Harvard students, this Friday, March 6th, from 11:00am-12:00pm in the museums’ Art Study Center (Level 4). Part of the First/Hand Fridays series on the Art and Science of Art Conservation.

Looking to catch some new tours this weekend? Join Ho Family Student Guides Varya ’26 and Jade ’27 for their debut Spotl...
02/28/2026

Looking to catch some new tours this weekend? Join Ho Family Student Guides Varya ’26 and Jade ’27 for their debut Spotlight Tours this Saturday, 2/28, and Sunday, 3/1!

Jade’s tour, beginning on Saturday at 2PM, will explore how art captures the fleeting nature of time.

Varya’s ASL-interpreted tour, beginning on Sunday at 2PM, will explore space, mapping, and dislocation in three works of art that visualize fantasy worlds.

Welcome back to campus, Harvard students! Don’t let the snowy start of the semester stop you from going to class – or fr...
01/27/2026

Welcome back to campus, Harvard students! Don’t let the snowy start of the semester stop you from going to class – or from going to the Harvard Art Museums. We’ve experienced winter weather before, but then, and now, the museum remains open. Student Guide Spotlight Tours begin again this weekend, so please join us throughout the semester to warm up by learning more about cool art ☃❄

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The Fogg Art Museum through the Harvard College Class of 1885 gate in snow. Photograph by William H. Tobey, January 17, 1956. HUV 69 (BP 4). Courtesy of Harvard University Archives.

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