Opening Lecture for Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black

Name: Opening Lecture for Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Start: 2025-09-11T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-11T19:30:00-04:00
Location: Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138

Schedule

Thu Sep 11 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 | Cambridge, MA

We invite you to the opening lecture for the special exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.
In her lecture, Kimberly Schenck, former head of paper conservation at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will discuss the diversity of black drawing media and how it affords artists different mark-making possibilities. Textures can range from crumbly to waxy, and marks made from pencils and sticks can be manipulated with tools such as fingertips, rolled paper stumps, and chamois cloths to create a range of tones. Artists also choose the paper for their media carefully—for its surface texture, resiliency, and color.
Following the program, guests are invited to visit the exhibition on Level 3.
Speaker:
Kimberly Schenck, former Head of Paper Conservation at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Free admission, but seating is limited and registration is encouraged. You can register by clicking on the event on this form beginning Monday, September 1, after 10am.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Doors to the hall will open for seating at 5:30pm. Please enter at Broadway.
Limited complimentary parking is available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.