The Art Department actively brings in a wide variety of distinguished speakers every year for classroom lectures, special events and programs. Upcoming events are posted on the home page, and you may join the mailing list by contacting Lisa Priest, in the Art Department.
~ VISITING LECTURERS ~
Harry Halverson Lecture on American Architecture Professor Daniel Abramson Tufts University and 2007-8 Fellow, Newhouse Center for the Humanities "Let the Cities Perish: Urban Renewal and the Politics of Obsolescence" Wednesday, November 28, 5:00 p.m. Room 450, Jewett Arts Center   Dr. Ruth Morris Bawkin Class of 1919 Lecture Spring 2008
~VISITING ARTISTS & EXHIBITIONS~
Workshop November 7, 2007 Making Monkey Business with the GUERRILLA GIRLS Po litics Got you Down? The Art World Sucks? Bring your issues to a workshop with Kathe Kollwitz and Frida Kahlo, founding members of the Guerrilla Girls. November 8, 2007 FOUR GENERATIONS OF NAVAJO WOMEN Sculpture Court, Jewett Arts Center - 1:30 to 2:30 The Wellesley College Community welcomes five Navajo women representing four generations from the same family. They bring a wealth of information and experience and will speak about efforts to preserve Navajo language, culture and arts; realities of life on and off the reservation; public health, economic and educational challenges; and Navajo beliefs/spirituality (one of our guests is a highly regarded Navajo "singer"/medicine woman). 1:30 to 2:30 PM our guests will participate in an Open Studio demonstration in Jewett 3rd Floor Sculpture Court¦ at the invitation of the Studio Art Department