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The Davis Museum and Cultural Center is a vital force in the
intellectual, pedagogical, and social life of Wellesley College.
It seeks to create a challenging environment that fosters visual
literacy; supports interdisciplinary study; and inspires new
ideas, research, discourse, and critical thinking.
The Museum is a dynamic venue where cultural pluralism forms
a basis for an involvement with the arts in the academy and in
life.
As an art museum the Davis collects, preserves, exhibits, and
interprets works of art for the benefit of all: students, faculty,
alumnae, and staff of the college; visitors from the greater
Boston area; and museum and scholarly communities globally. Its
collections are a key educational resource for the College and
for the surrounding community. As a cultural center the Davis
offers opportunities to explore and pursue an understanding of
the arts, broadly defined, and their place in and impact on the
world today.
To fulfill its mission, the Davis:
• Presents its permanent collections and organizes temporary
exhibitions in a thoughtful, intellectually stimulating, and
creative way;
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Seeks to strategically expand and develop its collections;
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Encourages the staff of the Museum staff, and Wellesley faculty
and students to experiment, take risks, and test boundaries in
creating and interpreting the arts;
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Explores new ways to present narrative and content within the
Museum in interdisciplinary contexts and, as appropriate, employs
new technologies to do so;
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Sponsors and publishes original scholarly research on the Museum’s
collections, on topics in the history of the arts, and on the
place of the arts in culture;
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Fosters collaborations amongst faculty/disciplines/departments/programs
of the College that lead to greater use of the Museum’s
collections and exhibitions and the arts in teaching;
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Organizes and presents thematic programming in multiple formats
including performances, conversations, lectures, symposia, films,
concerts, conversations, electronic media, etc.;
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Seeks to engage all of the arts at Wellesley and to take a position
of leadership in organizing their programming and communicating
to audiences on and off campus;
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Offers cross-disciplinary courses that explore the arts as well
and the place of the museum in culture;
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Fosters innovative relationships in the arts, culture,
humanities, and sciences; and
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Offers students opportunities to explore and engage the arts
in their full variety and complexity through on- and off-campus
work and study experiences.
Click here if you would like to read Documents on the HIstory,
Governance, and Mission of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center
at Wellesley College
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