Now on view through May 29: Art, Film, and Visual Studies 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition: And Yet We Are Dreamers.
Open Tuesday–Sunday, 12–5pm on Levels 1 and 3.
From immersive environments shaped by light and sound to process-driven works rooted in gesture and accumulation, the exhibition reflects a wide range of approaches to making and meaning. Together, the theses form a constellation of investigations into how we experience and reimagine the world.
Image 1: Installation view of Zoe Price, Virtual Matter: Imaginings of a Network Consciousness (2026) for Art, Film, and Visual Studies 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition: And Yet We Are Dreamers. Courtesy of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photography: Julia Featheringill.
Image 2: Installation view of Art, Film, and Visual Studies 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition: And Yet We Are Dreamers. Courtesy of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photography: Julia Featheringill.
Image 3: Installation view of Milo Schwalbe, .A353: Views of the Roundness of the Earth (2026) for Art, Film, and Visual Studies 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition: And Yet We Are Dreamers. Courtesy of Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photography: Julia Featheringill.
We hope to see you tonight!!
AFVS Spring 2026 Open Studios will take place on Friday, May 1st from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on levels B, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, at 24 Quincy Street. Artwork made this semester in all AFVS studio classes will be on view.
The AFVS Spring 2026 Student Film Screenings will take place in the Theater in the lower level of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts on Friday, May 1st at 7PM. Thesis films and Senior Projects will be shown.
The AFVS 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition: And Yet We Are Dreamers will also be on display on May 1st and will continue to be on display until May 29th at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
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AFVS Spring 2026 Open Studios will take place on Friday, May 1st from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on levels B, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, at 24 Quincy Street. Artwork made this semester in all AFVS studio classes will be on view.
The AFVS Spring 2026 Student Film Screenings will take place in the Theater in the lower level of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts on Friday, May 1st at 7PM. Thesis films and Senior Projects will be shown.
The AFVS 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition: And Yet We Are Dreamers will also be on display on May 1st and will continue to be on display until May 29th at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
#harvard #harvardafvs #filmscreenings #openstudios
AFVS congratulates Assistant Professor Kianja Strobert on being named a recipient of the 2026-2027 Rome Prize Fellowship for her dynamic work in The Visual Arts.
Strobert will use her time at the fellowship to study the network of Madonnelle shrines that protect, watch, and illuminate the city of Rome’s intersections. She will explore these assemblage sculptures as sites of invisible theaters whose boundaries appear and disappear in tandem with each viewer’s entrance and exit from the temporary psychic states they encourage. This research expands her ongoing investment in the vignette as an arena to entangle the tactile, the ephemeral, the image, and the object.
Join us for Hoarding Fever, Archive Fatigue — a group exhibition featuring works by student artists.
Reception: April 28 at 6 PM
On view by appointment: April 29–May 1
92 Seattle Street, Allston, MA 02134
Featuring works by Grace Rose Bida, James Blue, Nuotama Bodomo, Yael Shana Goldstein, Mailyn Gonzalez, Samuel Grunebaum, Tenzin Reed Gund-Morrow, Luisa Haller, Esther Kondo Heller, Dang Lin, Ginger Miller, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Tengxin Sun, Bex Oluwatoyin Thompson, and Yifei Yao.
We hope to see you there!
AFVS Spring 2026 Open Studios will take place on Friday, May 1st from 5:00pm to 7:00pm on levels B, 2, 3, 4, and 5 of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, at 24 Quincy Street. Artwork made this semester in all AFVS studio classes will be on view.
The AFVS Spring 2026 Student Film Screenings will take place in the Theater in the lower level of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts on Friday, May 1st at 7PM. Thesis films and Senior Projects will be shown.
The AFVS 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition: And Yet We Are Dreamers will also be on display on May 1st and will continue to be on display until May 29th at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
Our next exhibition, Art, Film, and Visual Studies 2026 Senior Thesis Exhibition: And Yet We Are Dreamers, is opening next Friday, May 1, from 5—7pm. Come and celebrate our Seniors: Grace R. Bida, Katherrin Billordo, Namuungoo Enkhbat, Anne-Charlotte Gillard, Mailyn Gonzalez, Taylor Sean Johnson, Lisa Lin, Madelyn E. McKenzie, Zoë Price, Milo Schwalbe.
Throughout the spring semester, the team at the Carpenter Center works closely with AFVS Senior Thesis students to support the development and presentation of their work. This collaboration introduces students to the full scope of professional exhibition practice, as they gain hands-on experience curating, installing, and presenting their work in a gallery setting.
Link to more info in our bio.
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Join us this Thursday, April 23, for a conversation with Richard Renaldi—AFVS Visiting Lecturer and Artist—and AFVS Faculty & Artist Sharon Harper.
The program celebrates Renaldi’s recent monograph, Billions Served (Deadbeat Club, 2025), and will explore themes of labor within the fast-food service industry alongside his broader artistic practice. Renaldi will also preview new work from his forthcoming photographic memoir, 1996 (L’Artiere, 2026).
6:00–7:30 PM
Theater, Lower Level
Presented in collaboration with the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies.
Free and open to the public. Link in bio for more info.
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Are you interested in making films exploring topics like human rights, climate justice, public health, or racial and economic equity? AFVS 154M: Social Justice Filmmaking is an intermediate fall production course taught by Julie Mallozzi that meets Tu/Th 12-2:45pm
(section Fri 12-2pm).
Check out the AFVS website and course Canvas site for details about enrollment.
Please join us for the next faculty screening event on Wed. April 8 at 6pm in the CCVA theater: a sneak preview of ENTANGLED MINDS, with filmmaker Julie Mallozzi in conversation with Tala Hadid.
Faced with the limitations of Western medicine, four people seek relief from their physical and mental pain through treatments that induce altered states of consciousness. Grounded in deep meditation, their interconnected experiences with hypnosis, flotation therapy, music-induced trance, and sacred plant medicine bring the viewer on a transformative journey of healing from within. (78 minutes, 2026)
AFVS 50: Introduction to Nonfiction Filmmaking
Introductory exercises in live action 16mm filmmaking culminating in the production of a nonfiction film as a group project in the spring term. Students must complete both terms of this course (part A and part B) within the same academic year to receive credit.
