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Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Davis Museum
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Opening Reception |
Please join us for:
Gallery Talks by museum curators and guest artists
Welcome by David Mickenberg, Ruth Gordon Shapiro ’37 Director
Ensemble Zili Misik on the Davis Museum Plaza
The Concert Series at Wellesley College will open the 2008-09 season with a performance by ensemble Zili Misik at the Opening Celebration on the Plaza (rain location: Jewett Auditorium). Under the direction of Kera Washington, Music Performance Faculty, the all female group retraces routes of forced exile and cultural resistance through Diasporic rhythm and song. By bridging cultures, generations, and continents with music and rhythm, Zili is the musical counterpoint to the works of art on display in Black Womanhood. |
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Bevington/Duncan Gallery
12:30pm - 1:00pm
Concert |
Join us for a mid-day concert featuring accomplished folk singer Beth DeSombre. She performs a short set of songs including Ex-voto, a song inspired by the Peres-Maldonado Ex-voto in the Davis Museum Collection. DeSombre is the Frost Professor of Environmental Studies and Professor of Political Science. |
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Location TBD
9:00am - 5:30pm
Symposium |
Black Womanhood Symposium:
Scholars will discuss cultural identity, aesthetics, politics, and religion. Sessions will include perspectives by scholars from the areas of sociology, Africana studies— including the religions of Africa and the African Diaspora—as well as artists, art historians, and curators on visual arts and film. Chairing the symposium from Wellesley College are Professor Filomina Steady and Assistant Professor Pashington Obeng, Africana Studies Department; discussant is Visiting Instructor Genevieve Hyacinthe, Art Department; and speakers include Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi, Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, New York; Professor Stanlie M. James, Director African & African American Studies Program, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Arizona State University; artist Renée Cox, New York; and guest curator Barbara Thompson, Curator of African, Oceanic, and Native American Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Check back in a few days for the symposium registration form. |
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Chandler Gallery
5:30pm
Performance |
In their performance, a group of New York and Boston based artists including Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Dineo Bopape, incorporate a sound component and address the Black Womanhood exhibition. In conjunction with the performance artists, Visiting Instructor Genevieve Hyacinthe will teach a class in the Art Department/Africana Studies (ARTH 316); guest artists are invited to her class. |
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Collins Cinema
6:00pm
Artist's Talk |
Ellen Zweig’s work ranges from poetry to performance art,
installation to interactive webbased art. HEAP, her series of videos currently on view at the Davis Museum, explores the cultural encounters that are the result of travel by portraying China through Western eyes. Funded by the E. Franklin Robbins Art Museum Fund and and Wellesley College Friends of Art. |
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Davis Museum
1:00 - 4:00pm
Family Day
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Children of all ages and their adult friends are invited to enjoy an interactive day of drumming, dancing, gallery activities, and fun. Musician/composer Martin Case will lead a drumming and dance performance and lesson, with help from Wellesley student dancers and friends. Light refreshments will be served. This event highlights the ongoing reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection as well as the exhibition Black Womanhood: Images, Icons and Ideologies of the African Body. All are welcome to stay for the performance to follow. |
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Davis Museum
3:00 - 4:00pm
Dance
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Choreographer and Physical Education Dance Instructor Samantha Cameron creates a dance with composer/percussionist artist Martin Case based on the objects in Black Womanhood. Wellesley College student dancers interpret chosen works of art through dance. |
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