Join us for a celebration of the 2024 Harvard Arts Medal recipient Kevin Young '92—prize-winning poet and visionary museum director. The Harvard Arts Medal will be awarded by Harvard University Interim President Alan Garber. Additional speakers at the event will include Jack Megan, Director of the Office for the Arts; Tracy K. Smith ‘94, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and Interim Director of Creative Writing; Brenda Tindal, Chief Campus Curator for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Kuumba Singers of Harvard College; undergraduate poets Taylor Fang '25, Mia Word '24 and Isabella Cho '24; as well as a student musician trio including Lucas Gazianis ‘24, Marc Courtemanche ‘24 and Zeb Jewell-Alibhai ‘27.

Presented by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, in partnership with the Harvard Department of English. Free and open to the public!

This event includes ASL interpretation by Brandon Kazen-Maddox, live captioning and will also be livestreamed at HarvardArts on YouTube.

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