Join the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural + Race Relations, Office for the Arts at Harvard, Harvard College Women’s Center and Cabot House, with the support of the Harvard Art Museums, for Seeing Each Other: A Conversation Between the Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project and Americans Who Tell the Truth. 

The exhibition features four select paintings from the Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project, by Stephen Coit ‘71, and  four paintings from Americans Who Tell the Truth, by Robert Shetterly ’69, in a celebration of Women’s Week 2025. Seeing Each Other is on view at Cabot House 10am–4pm daily March 3–7, 2025.

Meet the artists and learn about the portraits from student docents at an opening reception 5–6:30pm Monday, March 3. Shetterly will also unveil his most recent portrait of Howard University law professor Sherrilyn Ifill, who was also the Steven and Maureen Klinsky Visiting Professor of Practice for Leadership and Progress at Harvard Law School, 2023-2024. All of the subjects in the portraits on exhibition have connections to Harvard University—past and present, including W.E.B. Du Bois, Pauli Murray, Regina Jackson, Chloe Maxmin, Rulan Pian, Rosa Rios, Eileen Southern and the late Dr. S. Allen Counter, who proposed and was the first (and beloved) director of the Harvard Foundation. 

On Tuesday, March 4, 12–1pm, join the Office for the Arts at Cabot House for an informal OFA ArtsBites luncheon with Shetterly. Talk with the artist about who gets portraits, who doesn't and how to go about painting a portrait. Registration required. Open to all. 

At the end of the week return to Cabot House for a closing reception with cookies and lemonade, 3–4pm Friday, March 7. Free and open to all. 

Find out more about Women's Week programming. 

Image credit: Thumbnails from the Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project by Steve Coit '71 and from Americans Who Tell the Truth by Robert Shetterly '69.