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Category Archives: art
Wellesley College Davis Museum readies Calculated Risks exhibit
From the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College: Calculated Risks, an exhibition celebrating the inventive diversity among the faculty studio artists at Wellesley College, will fill the special exhibition galleries of the Davis Museum from Sept. 15 – Dec. 12. Featuring 12 artists who range from emerging to internationally acclaimed, the exhibition displays [...]
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Vietnamese art display at Wellesley home open to public
Check out colorful exhibit of Vietnamese silk lanterns displayed at the home of a Wellesley couple at 62 Glen Rd., from 9am-5pm this month, as reported in the Wellesley Townsman (additional works will be on display Aug. 22). The art was produced by visiting artist and researcher Le Quoc Viet and its placement in Wellesley [...]
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Wellesley photographer’s concert photos exhibited at TCAN
If you’re in the neighborhood of The Center for the Arts in Natick during July check out the concert photo exhibit from Wellesley’s Rich Gastwirt, who has kindly passed along photos for us to use over the years. The exhibit features 30-plus pieces, including photos of everyone from BB King to The Dead to Jay-Z [...]
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Joining Forces to Promote Great Art for a Great Cause
by Sally Khudairi It’s been four years since my sister Sue and I opened Dorset Cafe. Part of our initial vision was to support our community through the arts by regularly mounting shows at the café that highlight local artistic talent and help raise funds. We realized this vision by creating “Future Masters”, the [...]
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Indian art exhibit opening at Wellesley College
From Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center: The first American exhibit celebrating contemporary Pardhan Gond art from India, Painted Songs & Stories, will be on view at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College from April 7 through June 6, 2010. An opening reception will be held on April 7, from 5-7pm. [...]
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Escape from Wellesley to France
Nick Terrett is exhibiting his photographs of central France at Wellesley Free Library through Sunday, Jan. 31. Terrett calls the exhibit “La France Profonde,” which translates into “deep France,” he says. Terrett, who says he commutes through Wellesley and is a fan of the library, is a scientist by profession and says he played a [...]
Wellesley’s Davis Museum to offer “immersive synaesthetic experience” (in other words, a new art exhibit)
Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center will feature three new exhibits starting Feb. 24 and running until June 6. “Something Like Fireworks” is a new installation by Stephen Vitiello, who will be on hand for a gallery talk during an opening reception for the new exhibits on Feb. 24 6-8pm (new director Lisa Fischman [...]
Wellesley College hires art museum director
Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center has tapped Lisa Fischman as its new director and she starts Feb. 1. She has been chief curator of the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson (she took that job in 2005 and said at the time she originally intended to become a doctor) and Gallery [...]
Wellesley High grad back in national comedy competition
2007 Wellesley High School graduate and Emerson College student Phil Hamilton stars in a short video that was among the contenders in the National College Funnyfilm Competition. Hamilton, whose work has appeared in the competition before, is part of a troupe called Chocolate Cake City, and he had a heavy hand in writing, directing the [...]
Wellesley native to display paintings at library
Wellesley native and current Holliston resident David Bastille will have his paintings on display throughout December in the Wellesley Free Library’s Wakelin Room. Bastille attended Perrin School, Bates School and Wellesley Junior High, and his parents still live in the same Wellesley home he grew up in. A reception will be held for Bastille at [...]
WellesleyWeston Magazine features Type 1 Diabetes clusters, a local artist and the yoga boom
WellesleyWeston Magazine’s winter edition has landed and it’s filled with lots of Wellesley-related stories, including the latest on the alarming number of Type 1 Diabetes cases in town, a profile of radio personality and Wellesley resident Candy O’Terry, a profile of local artist Eliane Markoff and the booming yoga scene in Wellesley.
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Fingerprints as art at Babson
A new art exhibit called Delirium II opening at Babson College on Oct.22 and running through Dec. 18 will feature enlarged fingerprints as art. The project is the work of Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed, who is an artist and human rights activist who will visit Babson for a three-week residency. According to Babson, his original Delirium [...]
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Whirlwind Wellesley College Davis Museum tour
A few notes from a rainy day visit to Wellesley College’s Davis Museum & Cultural Center: * Most popular kid attraction: Black-and-white video of a guy bouncing against a wall, with a headset for listening to him Whomping against it. * The cellphone photo-inspired Cell Tango exhibit was fun to watch for a few minutes. [...]
Babson art exhibit: MicroClimates