Save the date: Family Day at the Davis Museum, April 28

April 21, 2018 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

Family members of all ages are invited to Family Day: Photos and Fragments on Saturday, April 28, 11am – 3pm at theDavis Museum at Wellesley College. This free event includes activities with inspiration drawn from current exhibitions, Fragment: A Museum’s Midcentury Legacy and Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925.

During Family Day, visitors can participate in treasure hunts in the galleries, story time, creation of sun prints, a photography demonstration with Wellesley students, a museum tour, and more. Light refreshments will be provided.

Schedule:
11am –3pm: Free art activities: sun prints, art projects made from vintage slides, sketching in the galleries, and a treasure hunt

11:3oam–2pm: Cyanotype demonstration with Wellesley College students

1 – 1:30pm: Story time and songs from Wellesley Free Library

2 – 2:45pm: Family tour of Fragment: A Museum’s Midcentury Legacy and Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925.

During April Vacation Week, (April 17-20), families are welcome to check out free multi-sensory art kits that will be available at the Davis Museum.

Wellesley Public Schools student art show is a thing of beauty

April 3, 2018 by Deborah Brown 1 Comment

K – 12 Director of Art Thom Carter in the library, hanging student work for the upcoming show.

The Wellesley Public Schools Art Show will display K – 12 student art throughout the Wellesley Free Library April 3 – 25. Each grade level from all nine public schools will be represented. Also on display will be national and state award-winning artwork from the Scholastic Art Competition.

I bumped into K – 12 Director of Art Thom Carter in the library as he was hanging some of the work, and he showed me a new collaborative addition to the displays. Hunnewell 5th graders drew a fantasy creature and sent the drawings along with a personalized letter to students in the Ceramics Intensive & Sculpture classes at Wellesley High School. The high school students were charged with the task of creating their own 3-D artistic interpretation from the 5th graders’ drawings. The size parameter: final works had to fit into a take-out food box. The goal, besides artistic: to embody the Wellesley Public Schools’ Core Value of Commitment to the Community.

“This project created a lot of fun and a lot of stress,” Carter said. “The high school students were very conscious of creating something that did justice to the Hunnewell students’ drawings.”

Please celebrate all the creativity with the student artists on Tuesday, April 3, from 5-7 p.m. at the Meet the Artists reception. The Wellesley Jazz band will be on hand to set the tone.

Giant paper artwork on display at Wellesley College; free workshop slated, too

March 30, 2018 by bbrown Leave a Comment

Hong Hong paper art at Wellesley College

An exhibit called All the Light in a Vivid Dream, on display at Wellesley College’s Jewett Art Gallery through April 27, features handmade paper artwork by Connecticut-based artist Hong Hong. The art was too large to be poured indoors and had to be created in temporary frames outside, where they are subject to the influence of sun, wind, and water.

Hong Hong paper art at Wellesley College The pieces in this exhibition are made from kozo (long plant fibers traditionally used in papermaking) and recycled paper pulp from earlier iterations of a larger collection called Everlasting Ephemera. Works in the series are made from the art that came before in a cycle of transience and rebirth that mimics many natural processes.

Born in Hefei China, Hong Hong earned her MFA in 2014 from the University of Georgia and her BFA in 2011 from the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States.

The Jewett Art Gallery is open 10:00 am – 4:00 pm, 7 days a week, on the 2nd floor of the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College. The Gallery is free to visit and open to the public.

For more information about the exhibition, contact Gallery Director Samara Pearlstein at 781-283- 2043 or [email protected]

In addition to the exhibition, Hong Hong will be running an all-day papermaking workshop on Sunday, April 22. The workshop is free and open to the public, but because space is limited, registration is required. If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please contact Wellesley’s Book Arts Lab Director Katherine Ruffin, [email protected], for registration details.

Save the date for Wellesley Theatre Project’s annual fundraiser, “A Teal Tie Affair”

March 27, 2018 by admin Leave a Comment

Wellesley Theatre Project will hold its annual Spring Soirée, “A Teal Tie Affair”, on Friday, April 27, at 6:30pm at the Wellesley Community Center, 219 Washington St.

This fundraising event will provide entertainment and fun for the whole family including a food, bar, photo booth, silent auction, and entertainment. Ticket and silent auction sales help support this local 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, which has an active community service program and provides scholarships, after school programming, performance opportunities and theatre education to area youth.

Attire: celebratory.

Tickets for adults are $55. Tickets for students (with I.D.) are $25.

Click Here To Purchase Tickets and RSVP

Click Here to Make A Donation

Wellesley Community Center
219 Washington St
Wellesley , MA 02481
Map & DirectionsPhone: (781) 235-1550

Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.wellesleytheatreproject.org

Wellesley HS art students to exhibit at Clever Hand Gallery

March 21, 2018 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

The Clever Hand Gallery will showcase work by Wellesley High School’s Intensive Metals and Intensive Ceramics students starting Sunday, March 25. This is the eighth year of collaboration between the local artisans’ cooperative and the talented artists. The shop is owned and operated by the cooperative’s members and has been a fixture in Wellesley Square since 1973.

To prepare for the exhibit, teachers Shayla Vines and Amie Larson had the students research professional-level jewelers, smiths, and sculptural artists who work with metals. After their research, students created a work based on their inspirational findings. The Metals Department recently received funds to purchase and add Casting to the curriculum. The Metals Intensive students were the first to break in the equipment and learn about the ancient tradition of Lost Wax Casting.

Wellesley metal working students — Wellesley High School Intensive Metals and Intensive Ceramics students. They look pretty intense, don’t they?

Sculptures, jewelry, and other student creations will be on display, and some will be for sale, March 25 – April 7. You can meet the WHS artists and their teachers at the store at a reception on April 3, 2pm -5pm. And of course, The Clever Hand’s regular artists’ work will be displayed in the store and for sale as usual.

Clever Hand, Wellesley — Patrick Kley working on his Celadon Vase with India Ink

Clever Hand, Wellesley, Emma Soliva — Shoe Sculpture: Emma Soliva (Wellesley High School senior)