Fall 2026 Frank Williams Visiting Artist

The Wellesley College Art Department is pleased to welcome Elaine Reichek as this fall's Frank Williams Visiting Artist in honor of M. Rachael Arauz '91. Reichek will deliver an artist talk in Jewett Auditorium at 11:00 am on Friday, November 19. Read more about the artist below; we hope you'll join us for this excellent event!

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Elaine Reichek (born 1943) is a New York-based visual artist. Much of her work concerns the history of the embroidered sampler. Through her pieces of hand and machine embroidery and digital sewing machine, she addresses issues such as the craft/art and the old/new divide, the nature of women's work, and the interplay of text and image. The connection between the pixel and the stitch, as differently gendered types of mark-making, is a continuing theme in her work.