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Student art brightens up Wellesley Free Library

By bbrown | Published: April 16, 2011

A great variety of art from Wellesley Public School students in grades K-12 is transforming Wellesley Free Library into an art museum this month. Check it out next time you’re there.    

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Young Wellesley resident organizes Sudanese art exhibit

By bbrown | Published: April 5, 2011

Wellesley’s Morgan Henderson, a senior at Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, has helped organize an exhibit, Between Worlds: Art from the South Sudanese Refugee Community, that will be highlighted at a reception on April 14 that’s free and open to the public. “This is an important body of work as it captures the experience [...]

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Celebrated African artist’s exhibit opens at Wellesley’s Davis Museum

By bbrown | Published: April 2, 2011

El Anatsui’s “When I Last Wrote to You About Africa” exhibit has opened at the Wellesley College Davis Museum and Cultural Center will run through June 26. The retrospective includes work from his five decades as an artist, and features works in wood, metal (including found bottlecaps), paint and ceramics. The Globe interviewed Anatsui and [...]

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“Footnotes” dance performance coming to Wellesley

By bbrown | Published: April 2, 2011

From Wellesley Public Schools Performing Arts: The Wellesley High School Performing Arts Department presents the Moving Company in “Footnotes” a collaborative performance which brings together dancers from local schools and professional dance companies in a sharing and informative setting. A variety of dance styles will be featured. Student and faculty choreographies will be showcased. The [...]

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Wellesley residents performing in “Ragtime, the Musical”

By bbrown | Published: April 2, 2011

Ragtime, the Musical, which about the struggles of the immigrant and African-American social groups in a white-dominated society in the early 20th century, will be performed at the Emerson Umbrella Center for the Arts on Stow St. in Concord this month and will feature a couple of Wellesley residents and a 20-piece orchestra. Wellesley’s Tom [...]

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Sculpture exhibit opens at Wellesley College’s Jewett Gallery

By bbrown | Published: March 28, 2011

Rhode Island-based artist John Udvardy‘s works — cubist-style sculptures fashioned from everyday items like spoons, table legs and scrap metal — are on display at Wellesley College’s Jewett Gallery starting today and running through April 22. The exhibit, called “John Udvardy: A Sculptor’s Vision,” is free and open to the public. An opening reception is [...]

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Wellesley High potters to show off their stuff

By bbrown | Published: March 24, 2011

Nine Wellesley High School students taking an Intensive Ceramics course will have their functional and sculptural works showcased at The Clever Hand Gallery in Wellesley Square from March 29 to April 16. A public reception will be held April 12 from 3-5pm. Ann Schunior, a potter at Clever Hand, says the fine arts gallery has [...]

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Wellesley students win national Scholastic Art & Writing Awards

By bbrown | Published: March 17, 2011

National medal winners have been announced for the 2011 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, and Wellesley has two silver medalists. Some 185,000 entries were submitted by students in grades 7-12 from across the country, and national winners will be feted at Carnegie Hall in May. National winners from Wellesley Middle School are Allison Kelliher, who [...]

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Wellesley Free Library features Rock/Candy

By bbrown | Published: March 4, 2011

Colorful color pencil drawings of rocks and candy apples are on display all month at Wellesley Free Library. The works were done by artists Debbi Friedman (rocks) and Kendra Bidwell Ferreira (candy). An opening reception is being held on Saturday, March 5 from 2-4pm. RELATED: Wellesley Society of Artists Your Ad Here

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Wellesley artist lets new bird book fly

By bbrown | Published: January 25, 2011

Wellesley artist Abby Glassenberg, whose specialty is making animal sculptures and soft toys, has released a book called The Artful Bird: Feathered Friends to Make and Sew. She’ll be having a book launch event at Essentia in Wellesley Square on Feb. 5 from 3-5 where several dozen of her works will be available for sale. [...]

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Willy Wonka coming to Wellesley Middle School this week, golden tickets and all

By bbrown | Published: January 19, 2011

UPDATE: The 4:30pm Wednesday show has been postponed until 4:30pm on Thursday Wellesley Middle School students this Thursday (4:30pm) and Friday (7pm) will perform the musical “Willy Wonka.” Admission is free, though donations are welcome. Wonka Bars will be sold, and there will be 5 golden tickets in the bunch that can be exchanged for [...]

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The Last Night of Ballyhoo coming to Wellesley College in January

By bbrown | Published: December 22, 2010

From Wellesley Summer Theatre: Opening January 6th @ 7pm in the Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre It is December 1939 and the world is facing numerous grave challenges.   The Freiberg household in Atlanta is consumed with more immediate matters, such as the world premier of Gone with the Wind and whether or not Lala will secure [...]

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Wellesley photographer has a ball, claims Billboard prize

By bbrown | Published: December 14, 2010

Wellesley photographer Richard Gastwirt for the 2nd year in a row has won the Fan’s Favorite award in Billboard Magazine’s Ultimate Music Moment photo contest. The winning picture, which beat out more than 2,500 other entries, is of Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne surfing the crowd in a giant hamster ball at the Nateva Festival [...]

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Wellesley College Davis Museum to showcase African artist’s “found object” art

By bbrown | Published: December 10, 2010

Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center has announced it will present the U.S. premiere of  a major retrospective of the African artist El Anatsui, known for making sculptures from found objects. The exhibition opens on March 30 and is free/open to the public According to the museum: “The Ghanaian-born El Anatsui, now based in [...]

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Wellesley’s flowery new statue

By bbrown | Published: October 25, 2010

Been meaning to post these pictures for a while. In case you missed it over the summer, Wellesley got a new statue thanks to the House and Garden Club of Wellesley. It’s located in the flowery little oasis called Central Park near Wellesley Square. The bronze statue of a girl grasping a bouquet topped off [...]

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