Viola Davis Named Harvard Artist Of The Year

Viola Davis has been named the 2017 Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year. The actress will be honored at the foundation’s annual award ceremony on March 4 during Harvard’s Cultural Rhythms Festival. Dr. S. Allen Counter, director of the Harvard Foundation, said students and faculty are “delighted” to honor Davis, who recently won Critics Choice, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, and an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Rose Maxson in “Fences.”