Alexandria Smith: Seed to Harvest is the third commission in the Windows Invitational, a series where artists transform the dramatic floor-to-ceiling lobby windows of the Davis Museum’s Rafael Moneo building and courtyard plaza.
This exhibition explores the painting Sacra Conversazione through conservation, technical analysis, and an art historical lens to uncover a wealth of new information and highlight the unknown.
Toisha Tucker, the College’s 2018–19 Alice C. Cole ’42 Fellow, exhibits artwork made during their fellowship year. The sculptures and conceptual installations offer commentary on social and political issues in the U.S. today.
This exhibition considers our everyday relationship to photography: the ways in which we mediate, understand, and narrate our lives through the snapping and sharing of photos, and why certain types of images become socially infectious.
This exhibition recreates the environment of a 19th-century portrait studio with selections from the Davis’s collection of daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards, and tintypes.
Q20 celebrates the inventive diversity of practices among faculty artists at the College, featuring works across media, including photography, painting, sculpture, book-arts, installation, video, sound, and transmedial making.
Designed by Wellesley students representing a range of academic majors, these thematic tours of special exhibitions and permanent collections led by a student guide are free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis.
Spend an art-filled morning at the Davis strolling the galleries during this free guided tour. Designed for art lovers and their little ones. Join us for a different theme on the second Wednesday of each month from 10:15-11 a.m.
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Making Memories is an accessible arts program for adults living with early Alzheimer’s and other dementias and their care partners, offering a guided exploration of permanent collections with specially trained staff and student guides.
Surround yourself with art, and experience present-moment awareness, in this 30 minute meditation session. Guided by Kotatsu John Bailes Roshi, the College’s Buddhist chaplain. Meet in in the Davis Lobby at 12:30 p.m.
