Events at Wellesley

Please join the Art Department in welcoming Lenka Clayton as the Spring 2026 Frank Williams Visiting Artist. Clayton will deliver an artist talk in the Jewett Auditorium at 11:00 am on Friday, March 27, followed by a brief Q+A session. Read more about the artist below.

Please join us for a public night including an astronomy talk, demonstrations, and crafts at the Whitin Observatory of Wellesley College.  The topic will be announced closer to the event date.  Visual observing opportunities with the historic telescopes and digital observing opportunities with the…

Concert and recording artist Christa Rakich performs widely throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. She is Visiting Professor of Organ at Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio through the academic year 2019-2020. Near her home in Connecticut, she maintains two Artist-in-Residencies: St. John’s…

This is the first time in Wellesley’s history that a full program of Chinese traditional opera has been presented, and our first attempt to bring Yue Opera together with modern theater, letting classical love stories meet contemporary romance.

The Global Flora Conservatory and Wellesley College Botanic Garden Visitor Center are open to the public on Sundays from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Outdoor gardens are free and open to the public, available 24/7, 365 days a year.

This upcoming year will be the Pacific Islander Association’s (PIA) 20th Annual Lu`au. The lu`au is PIA’s main event each year; it serves to share Hawaiian culture and language with Wellesley College and the wider community. We share our love of our culture by performing hula dances, effectively…

Lifted, by Mfoniso Udofia, directed by Josiah Davis

Join the Art Department for a closing reception celebrating murmurations and other spiritual entanglements, a site-specific installation by Providence, RI-based transdisciplinary artist bashexo in the Jewett Art Gallery.