Spotlight Tour: Naming Grief, with Diana Ochoa-Chavez ‘26

On this tour, Diana Ochoa-Chavez ’26 will explore how artists have attempted to live with loss and how grief has impacted their art. Moving from ancient portraiture to modernist abstraction, Ochoa-Chavez will highlight works that don’t announce grief in their titles, and will think about what it means to name, express, and carry grief. The stops on the tour are an Egyptian funerary portrait Portrait of a woman (130–50 CE), James McNeill Whistler’s painting Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour (1872–74), and the sculpture Curve X (1974) by Ellsworth Kelly.

Spotlight Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Free and open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm. Drop in and join the conversation! And find out what the Student Guides are up to anytime on Instagram @harvardarthappens.

Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Space is limited, and tours are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.

You may also like the following events from Harvard Art Museums:

• This Sunday, 5th October, 11:00 am, Spotlight Tour: The Art of Conservation, with Sachi Laumas ’2 in Cambridge
• This Sunday, 5th October, 01:00 pm, Materials Lab Workshop: Inspired by Nature—Imaginative Drawing, with Erica Beade in Cambridge
• This Sunday, 5th October, 02:00 pm, Spotlight Tour: What’s Real?, with Jade Xiao ’27 in Cambridge

Also check out other Arts events in Cambridge, Fine Arts events in Cambridge.