Ho Family Student Guide Program

Check out this shoutout to the Ho Family Student Guide Program in the exhibition catalogue of “Edmonia Lewis: Said in Stone”. David Odo, Director of the Georgia Museum of Art, writes in his foreword, “I first learned about Lewis’s incredible work and compelling life story during my tenure at the Harvard Art Museums, where undergraduate students Alexis Boo and Kaitlin Hao, then members of the Ho Family Student Guide Program under the direction of Camran Mani, created a virtual tour of works by Black artists for the museum’s Black History Month programs in February 2021. The students’ interest in Lewis’s work was infectious. Mani created a self-guided walking tour of Boston sites related to Lewis’s time in the city to accompany the students’ virtual tour…Walking the tour was deeply inspiring.” So happy that our work contributed to the conditions that made this important exhibition possible! Check it out at the Peabody Essex Museum ( ) through June 7 and at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens ( ) from August 8-January 3, 2027. (Photos: a few works in the show, including a portrait photo of Lewis on loan from )

On our recent trip to D.C., we explored the exhibition “Miró and the United States” at the Phillips Collection ( ) with Program Director Camran Mani. This show has two loans from including the large “Mural, March 20, 1961” that once graced the living room of architect and Harvard professor Josep Lluís Sert. Wonderful to see Miró and some of the Fogg Museum’s paintings in a new light.

Hey! We’re hiring!

Ho Family Student Guide is a paid position at the Harvard Art Museums open to Harvard College sophomores and juniors with the opportunity to stay on through senior year. The Ho Family Student Guide Program prepares Student Guides to create and lead original, research-based tours of the museums for the public, and other audiences by request. The tours typically approach the museums via a theme of each Guide’s own choosing, sample the variety and diversity of the collections, and engage visitors in conversation.

Student Guides may also teach 1-2 sessions of our Free U.S. Citizenship Course, which prepares aspiring U.S. citizens for the naturalization test with American art tours and classroom instruction on Saturday mornings in the fall. Additionally, Student Guides may develop educational and interpretive materials for social media and support other museum programs.

Student Guides sign up to lead tours that work with their schedules. (Public tours are at 11am and 2pm on the weekends when classes are in session.) Weekly training meetings with the Student Guide community create opportunities to workshop ideas, learn about object-based research, and explore how museums work. Guides usually debut their first tour at the end of their first semester in the program at the earliest.

No art history, studio art, or museum experience necessary! Students from all concentrations are encouraged to apply. (Previous Student Guides have come from a wide range of concentrations, including Astrophysics, Integrative Biology, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Philosophy, Comparative Study of Religion, History of Science, History and Literature, and History of Art and Architecture.)

To apply, submit a résumé/C.V. and short responses to two prompts. No cover letter required. For more info and full application instructions, visit the Harvard SEO job board: ID 23413. Applications will be accepted through June 14, 2026.