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Fee: Note new pricing as of July 1, 2026: $75 paid at registration; $60 for current Fellows, Friends and Partners, paid at registration. Materials are included. Your purchase helps support the educational mission of the Harvard Art Museums.Age restrictions: Age 14 and older
Where to go: Materials Lab, Lower Level
Accessibility accommodations: If you would like to request accommodations for your visit, please contact Visitor Services at [email protected] or 617-495-9400. For more details about accommodations at the museums, please see the Accessibility page.
Join research curator Francesca Bewer for a workshop focused on art and science. We’ll explore the intimate connections between models, molds, and casts; how molds and casts have been used to produce, replicate, and preserve three-dimensional objects; and what these objects can teach us about skill, technology, and value. Working with clay, plaster, wax, alginate, and silicone putty, we’ll experiment with different processes of molding and casting. Along the way, you’ll be introduced to the scientific tools used to investigate and identify the traces of process and change. Through discussion and comparison with historical plaster casts, wax models, and other surrogates in the Harvard Art Museums collections, we’ll ask when a copy might be considered “fake,” “genuine,” or something in between, and how replicas support research, teaching, and conservation in museums today.
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