Exhibitions

Contemporary artist Mika Obayashi will display a new sculptural installation, made of indigo-dyed handmade paper, in the Jewett Art Gallery to start the Fall ’22 semester.

This exhibition highlights the impact of overseas travel on the artistic practice and printmaking of ten artists who journeyed to Europe, Africa, and Latin America.

Through a focus on craftsmanship and technology, Gold, Glass, and Pearls examines the journey of jewelry from raw materials to objects of personal adornment.

Māori artist Lisa Reihana’s visually stunning and conceptually provocative digital panorama, In Pursuit of Venus [infected], is based on a fashionable early nineteenth-century French scenic wallpaper.

Explore some of the Davis’ recent acquisitions and see how they contribute to shifting narratives at Wellesley and in the museum field writ large. Witness how objects come into the museum marked by their histories.