Minding Making Project

04/17/2018

student Sarah Anderson recreated the subject of her final project, "The Secret Map of Singapore," an object in and her hometown, as a way to explore how it was made but also scrutinize the connections implied. This act of making not only allowed her to confront a lot of Western misconceptions of Singapore, but study the object more closely to shape her ideas about how colonialism lives on through mapmaking.

04/14/2018

We had a great week with ! Thank you for sharing your perspective as an artist on some of the objects in our silver collection. Ndidi discussed the relationship between her own practice and historical designs with Curator Ethan Lasser, some of the curatorial and conservation staff, graduate students, and members of the H/AMs community. It's been wonderful to have you with us this week!

04/11/2018

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Making is often dangerous. Alonso Ramos Gavilán's "Miracle at the Stamp Mill" from Historia del celebre santuario de Nuestra Señora (1621) shows an indigenous worker who was thrown under the stamp press (where silver ore was crushed) by his supervisor. In the top right corner, the Virgin Mary intercedes on his behalf. Clearly commenting on colonial structures of power, the print also tells us about . The scene takes place at a stamp mill: a complex machines used for grinding silver ore in the 16th-18th centuries that was powered by a complex water system feeding water to this location high in the Andes. Thanks for this amazing find!

04/04/2018

Simon Verity, Master Stone Carver, is teaching students in about carving techniques for limestone on the sunken terrace!

04/02/2018

In a session led by , students explored the power of by creating their own linocut reductions in the materials lab. @ Harvard Art Museums

03/30/2018

can operate both in the tangible and digital space. operates as a perfect location to meditate on how the maneuver of cutting changes our perspective, sometimes in the most literal ways.

03/28/2018

Printmaker Chris Wallace led a lithography demonstration in Jennfier Robert's and Matt Saunders's course yesterday. Check out some of the shots from the class! @ Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University

03/26/2018

is often a technology that we look through instead of at. Yet it constantly mediates how we see the world around us.

student explored the visual technology of glass in architecture for his final project. Focusing on the Class of 1959 Chapel at HBS, Shaan captured the visual experience of the glass pyramid at different times of day, seasons, and angles.

03/19/2018

For her final video project, student explored the theme of in 's chair design, "Spun," located in Cabot Library. By paralleling the chair with a top, Samantha explored the formal qualities of Spun through video, a chair made by rotational molding.

03/17/2018

In Titus Kaphar's work, "Jaavon and the Unknown Gentleman" (2011), the operation of cutting becomes a historical intervention. By citing Ralph Earl's 18thc painting "Gentleman with a Negro Attendant" (slide 2), Kaphar shifts our attention to the historically marginal figure, not only returning agency through a name, but also providing a true portrait instead of a type. Commissioned as an intervention for their collection, you can see this work at the New Britain Museum of American Art (2011.56). This work will definitely be on my mind this coming week for the conference at ! @ New Britain Museum of American Art

03/14/2018

Check out the new Harvard Gazette article about the Minding Making Seminar now posted on our website! A huge thanks to Professor and Artist Matt Saunders for leading this workshop!

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Scenes from the project at Harvard, an initiative to engage university faculty and students with material intelligence. mindingmaking.org

03/14/2018

in the Harvard Gazette today!

Harvard class encourages students to create artworks to better understand how they’re made.