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Carpenter Center
for the Visual Arts
MissionDonateStaffPress
About
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is the center for contemporary art and artists at Harvard University. Plan your visit.
We share our building with the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) and the Harvard Film Archive (HFA).
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts advances contemporary art through exhibitions, artistic collaboration, research, and public engagement that connects artists and audiences within Harvard University and beyond. It is a site of learning, experimentation, and encounter within a living academic environment. Housed within Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, the Carpenter Center’s projects are enriched by the educational mission of the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies and the cultural resources of a large research university.
A center is not defined by what it contains, but by what it brings into relation.
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is Harvard University’s center for contemporary art — a place where artists, ideas, and communities meet through exhibitions, research, and shared inquiry. As a non-collecting institution, the Carpenter Center remains responsive to the present; it is shaped by artists, the evolving conditions of contemporary practice, and its surrounding learning publics.
Exhibitions are the foundation of our work. Presented across the Sert and AUX Intermedia Galleries, each project develops in response to the needs of the artist, allowing the Carpenter Center’s spaces to shift in form, scale, and tempo. Rather than presenting a fixed program, the Carpenter Center creates an environment where artistic work unfolds over time in dialogue with students, faculty, and the broader university's ecology.
A wider constellation of activities gathers around our exhibitions: conversations, residencies, publishing initiatives, study spaces, and alumni exchange. These programs extend artistic ideas beyond the gallery, connecting making, learning, and public life across multiple registers of engagement within the Center, the university, and the contemporary art field.
Situated within Harvard University, the Carpenter Center acts as a point of convergence, linking artists with students, faculty, collections, and communities across the building itself, the university, and wider artistic and intellectual networks. The Carpenter Center is both an exhibition space and gathering place: a site to encounter art, think alongside others, and to return to over time.
All exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.
Donate
Your contributions makes our most impactful projects possible! Invest in the creation of new works by the leading artists of our time, and our core educational mission of teaching through experimental exhibitions and perspective-changing public programs. Learn about ways to support us.
Staff
Get in touch!
Kate McNamara
John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director
kmcnamara@fas.harvard.edu617.496.2933
Laura Céré
Communications and Administrative Coordinator
laura_cere@fas.harvard.edu617.495.5666
Please contact for information about donating to the Carpenter Center and press and marketing inquiries.
Maria Gonzalez
Gallery and Bookshop Attendant
mfgonzalezvasquez@fas.harvard.edu617.496.5387
Matt Murphy
Exhibition Production Coordinator and Preparator
matthew_murphy@fas.harvard.edu617.496.2632
Danni Shen
Senior Curatorial and Public Programs Assistant
dannishen@fas.harvard.edu617.498.1606
Please contact for information about the Carpenter Center archives, exhibitions, public programs, and publications.
Caitlin Tucker-Melvin
Temporary Exhibitions Manager and Registrar
ctuckermelvin@fas.harvard.edu
Tarik Garrett
Graduate Curatorial Research Assistant
A Note About Exhibition Proposals
All exhibitions and public events at the Carpenter Center are part of a planned and curated program. Initiated and organized by the Carpenter Center’s curatorial staff and their collaborators, the Carpenter Center's program reflects the institution’s specific artistic, thematic, pedagogical, and civic goals. Exhibitions and public programs are the result of extensive research, studio visits, and engagement with colleagues across disciplines. Therefore, we are not able to accept unsolicited submissions of artwork for exhibition or event proposals.
Recent Press
ArtReview
Nov 2025
What does freedom look like?
The New York Times
Mar 2025
"A Painter Whose Work Is Never Finished: Janiva Ellis questions past solutions with her fractured spaces and artworks that feel as if they are under construction, including some that actually are."
The Boston Globe
Jul 2024
"There’s a lot going on in 'Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith'...One-of-a-kind but also aligned with other artistic ones-of-a-kind: in spirit and temperament, in various aesthetic valences, in fertile eccentricity."
Bomb Magazine
Mar 2024
"Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s first East Coast institutional solo exhibition, Poems of Electronic Air, at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center presents an expansive survey of her ideas and work."
The Harvard Gazette
Oct 2023
"At 60, Carpenter Center takes a rare look back. Four shows inspired by the building's iconic architecture return for the anniversary."
Credits
Website design and development by Other Means.
Free & open to the public
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts shares the building with the department of art, film, and visual studies and the harvard film archive.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photo: Aerial Photography of New England.
[The CCVA building]
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photo: Aerial Photography of New England.
[The CCVA building]
- for the Visual Arts
for the Visual Arts
MissionDonateStaffPress
About
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is the center for contemporary art and artists at Harvard University. Plan your visit.
We share our building with the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) and the Harvard Film Archive (HFA).
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts advances contemporary art through exhibitions, artistic collaboration, research, and public engagement that connects artists and audiences within Harvard University and beyond. It is a site of learning, experimentation, and encounter within a living academic environment. Housed within Le Corbusier’s only building in North America, the Carpenter Center’s projects are enriched by the educational mission of the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies and the cultural resources of a large research university.
A center is not defined by what it contains, but by what it brings into relation.
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts is Harvard University’s center for contemporary art — a place where artists, ideas, and communities meet through exhibitions, research, and shared inquiry. As a non-collecting institution, the Carpenter Center remains responsive to the present; it is shaped by artists, the evolving conditions of contemporary practice, and its surrounding learning publics.
Exhibitions are the foundation of our work. Presented across the Sert and AUX Intermedia Galleries, each project develops in response to the needs of the artist, allowing the Carpenter Center’s spaces to shift in form, scale, and tempo. Rather than presenting a fixed program, the Carpenter Center creates an environment where artistic work unfolds over time in dialogue with students, faculty, and the broader university's ecology.
A wider constellation of activities gathers around our exhibitions: conversations, residencies, publishing initiatives, study spaces, and alumni exchange. These programs extend artistic ideas beyond the gallery, connecting making, learning, and public life across multiple registers of engagement within the Center, the university, and the contemporary art field.
Situated within Harvard University, the Carpenter Center acts as a point of convergence, linking artists with students, faculty, collections, and communities across the building itself, the university, and wider artistic and intellectual networks. The Carpenter Center is both an exhibition space and gathering place: a site to encounter art, think alongside others, and to return to over time.
All exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.
Donate
Your contributions makes our most impactful projects possible! Invest in the creation of new works by the leading artists of our time, and our core educational mission of teaching through experimental exhibitions and perspective-changing public programs. Learn about ways to support us.
Staff
Get in touch!
Kate McNamara
John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director
kmcnamara@fas.harvard.edu617.496.2933
Laura Céré
Communications and Administrative Coordinator
laura_cere@fas.harvard.edu617.495.5666
Please contact for information about donating to the Carpenter Center and press and marketing inquiries.
Maria Gonzalez
Gallery and Bookshop Attendant
mfgonzalezvasquez@fas.harvard.edu617.496.5387
Matt Murphy
Exhibition Production Coordinator and Preparator
matthew_murphy@fas.harvard.edu617.496.2632
Danni Shen
Senior Curatorial and Public Programs Assistant
dannishen@fas.harvard.edu617.498.1606
Please contact for information about the Carpenter Center archives, exhibitions, public programs, and publications.
Caitlin Tucker-Melvin
Temporary Exhibitions Manager and Registrar
ctuckermelvin@fas.harvard.edu
Tarik Garrett
Graduate Curatorial Research Assistant
A Note About Exhibition Proposals
All exhibitions and public events at the Carpenter Center are part of a planned and curated program. Initiated and organized by the Carpenter Center’s curatorial staff and their collaborators, the Carpenter Center's program reflects the institution’s specific artistic, thematic, pedagogical, and civic goals. Exhibitions and public programs are the result of extensive research, studio visits, and engagement with colleagues across disciplines. Therefore, we are not able to accept unsolicited submissions of artwork for exhibition or event proposals.
Recent Press
ArtReview
Nov 2025
What does freedom look like?
The New York Times
Mar 2025
"A Painter Whose Work Is Never Finished: Janiva Ellis questions past solutions with her fractured spaces and artworks that feel as if they are under construction, including some that actually are."
The Boston Globe
Jul 2024
"There’s a lot going on in 'Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith'...One-of-a-kind but also aligned with other artistic ones-of-a-kind: in spirit and temperament, in various aesthetic valences, in fertile eccentricity."
Bomb Magazine
Mar 2024
"Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork’s first East Coast institutional solo exhibition, Poems of Electronic Air, at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center presents an expansive survey of her ideas and work."
The Harvard Gazette
Oct 2023
"At 60, Carpenter Center takes a rare look back. Four shows inspired by the building's iconic architecture return for the anniversary."
Credits
Website design and development by Other Means.
- 24 QUINCY STREET CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138 (617) 496-5387
- Plan Your Visit
Free & open to the public
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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts shares the building with the department of art, film, and visual studies and the harvard film archive.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photo: Aerial Photography of New England.
[The CCVA building]
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. Photo: Aerial Photography of New England.
[The CCVA building]