Fantastical Fish to school kids at Winter Wednesdays finale

January 27, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

On January 30, children ages 5-10 are invited to explore “Fantastical Fish: Watercolors of Tropical Fish by Wellesley’s Sherman Denton” in the Wellesley Historical Society’s final Winter Wednesdays program of the season.

ellow Triggerfish, Nassau - Copy — Denton watercolor of Yellow Triggerfish (via Wellesley Historical Society)

While his brothers preferred collecting butterflies, Sherman Denton was entranced by fish. Denton traveled around the globe at the turn of the twentieth century to search out and paint exotic fish. Create your own watercolor of a fish or make a bookmark featuring a Denton fish. The program takes place in the children’s room of the main library from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Drop in anytime; there is no need to register and no admission fee.

Winter Wednesday’s is a series of weekly programs for children ages 5-10, each one featuring a different historical topic. Children learn history in a hands-on way, using arts and crafts, games, and other fun activities. For a full schedule of Winter Wednesday’s programs, visit www.wellesleyhistoricalsociety.org or call (781) 235-6690.

This program is made possible in part by a grant from the Wellesley Cultural Council.

Davis Museum at Wellesley College — Spring re-opening events

January 23, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College has a full slate scheduled for the cultural institution’s big Spring 2019 re-opening on Thursday, Feb. 7, 5:30 – 9pm. There are events for everyone from the educated art lover to the casual enjoyer, to families with kids in strollers. Here’s more information on upcoming events.

The museum will showcase special exhibitions through June 10 of artists working in mediums from painting to video to photography. Here’s a little about what to expect from each:

Art_Latin_America: Against the Survey

This exhibit will highlight the Davis Museum’s extensive and diverse collection of Latin American art, formed over the past twenty+ years. The exhibition’s thesis is expansive — on one side Art, from abstract paintings to political posters and photojournalism; on the other America, understood broadly and accurately, as geography demands.

Please note: Tickets are required for entry to this special exhibition. General admission, $20; Wellesley College alumnae, $12. Free entry for all students with I.D., Wellesley College faculty and staff, Friends of Art members, and Durant Society members.

If you want to see the exhibit for free, make sure you get over to the Davis on Feb. 7, 5:30 – 9pm for their big re-opening celebration. After that, you have to pay to see Against the Survey. The rest of the museum is open free of charge during regular museum hours.

Disappearances

This installation will feature video work from the past decade by three leading Latin American artists, all of whom refer metaphorically to those who have vanished because of state crimes and political violence.

Guns Drawn

Yinka Shonibare explores the inheritances of colonialism in our contemporary, globalized world. Best known for using wax print cloth to represent historic cultural and economic interdependence, Shonibare also has long plumbed a rich palette of other media and symbols—including firearms.

Bread and Roses

In 1957, in the midst of the Cold War-era crackdown on the Communist Party and other “Un-American” activities, the optometrist, social activist, and self-taught photographer Milton Rogovin was labeled the “Top Red in Buffalo.” Ostracized and silenced by his local community, Rogovin, together with his wife Anne Rogovin, turned to photography as a means of continuing his commitment to social equity, a commitment echoed by the political slogan, “Bread and Roses.”

Calling all women artists: Wellesley Davis Museum announces new $15k award

January 11, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

The Davis Museum at Wellesley College announces the launch of the new Prilla Smith Brackett Award. The biennial award will honor an outstanding female visual artist based in the Greater Boston area and is intended to draw attention to her exceptional contributions to the field and region. The award with be administered by the Davis Museum, and the inaugural winner will be announced in Fall 2019.

The Prilla Smith Brackett Award will be given to an artist whose work and exhibition record demonstrate extraordinary artistic vision, talent, and skill. Recipients will receive a $15,000 cash award intended to support travel, research, project development, or any other expenses related to career advancement.

Applications will be reviewed biennially by a three-person jury comprised of a curator from the Davis Museum, an outside representative from the arts community, and the most recent awardee. The Davis will strive to assemble a jury that is diverse in all regards to racial, ethnic, national, and religious identities and sexual orientations. The review process will identify three finalists for a studio visit by the jury members, a crucial step in determining the ultimate award recipient.

Eligibility and Award Application

To be eligible, applicants must: live in the Greater Boston area (all towns within Interstate 495); identify as female; work in the mediums of painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, photography, film, video, and/or new media arts. Artists at any career stage beyond the first five years of professional practice and of all ages, sexual orientations, and racial, ethnic, national, and religious identities are encouraged to apply.

Application guidelines for the Prilla Smith Brackett Award will be available on February 11, 2019. The deadline for submissions is April 8, 2019. The Award will be announced in September 2019, and its recipient will be honored on the Davis Museum website and be required to present her work at a public event and reception, in October 2019. Any interested parties can email [email protected] for additional information.

About Prilla Smith Brackett

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Holiday happenings in and around Wellesley

December 21, 2018 by Deborah Brown Leave a Comment

There are lots of opportunities around Wellesley to get into the Christmas spirit:

Wellesley Free Library

The Wellesley Free Library has lots of fun activities going on all through the holidays. You can find the whole line-up here.

Giant Snowpeople Craft — Wellesley Free Library

Wednesday, December 26 – Saturday, December 29
Drop in from 1:30 – 4:30 on any day Dec. 26 – 29 to construct Super-Sized
Snowpeople (up to 4 feet; tall).
Good for families with children of all ages.

Says You! heads ‘Home for the Holidays’ this year thanks to Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Join Says You on Thursday, December 27 and Friday, December 28, at the Keiter Center in Natick, for a special live event. If you’ve never tuned in to the popular weekly WGBH radio show, here’s how it works: Take one word, add two teams, create three definitions and throw in a live audience: and that’s Says You! See what happens when two teams vie for accuracy in the most literate and liberal of arts at the hilarious expense of the English language. Two games will be played with a brief intermission. The seasonal cast includes Wellesley’s own Carolyn Faye Fox, along with Barry Nolan, and Arnie Reisman.

And for those of you who would like to start the laughs rolling a little earlier, tickets are available for an intimate Q&A with the cast before the show at 6:30pm. For details contact Lenny Paul at (860) 510-8158 or [email protected]

WHEN: Thursday, December 27, 7:30pm and Friday, December 28, 7:30pm
WHERE: Walnut Hill School, Keiter Center, 146 Bacon St., Natick, MA
GET TICKETS HERE

Wellesley Kepes art committee attends local symposium

December 17, 2018 by bbrown Leave a Comment

The Wellesley Kepes Panel Committee took part in a recent symposium at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College that focused on Gyorgy Kepes (1906-2001), a renowned Hungarian and U.S. artist whose ceramic enamel panels adorn the back of Wellesley Free Library.

The symposium highlighted the recently restored Kepes painting, “Abstract Composition” (before 1963), now on exhibit in the fifth floor Davis gallery of modern and contemporary art. While Kepes is well known for his photographic techniques and became the founder of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT, the symposium concentrated on Kepes’s oil paintings.

The Kepes Panel Committee has been tasked by the Wellesley Board of Selectmen to find a home for the many Kepes ceramic enamel panels that once covered the 1959 Wellesley Free Library. Those not displayed at the main branch of the library are stored in the basement of the Hills Library branch are in need of a permanent home. For more information please contact Sylvia Hahn-Griffiths at [email protected].

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