Events at Wellesley

Experience the unique fusion of tradition and innovation as cutting-edge klezmer clarinetist Glenn Dickson joins forces with electronic musician and Boston rock veteran Bob Familiar. Together, they craft a lush, orchestral sound, layering clarinet and synths into something both expansive and deeply…

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…

Siyu ('26) and Ningyue ('29) will bring a beautiful set of Chinese traditional opera! If you attended the Slater Cultural Show and enjoyed our performance, we will get more of that to you. It should be the first-ever Chinese traditional opera-themed recital on campus! 

Right from its foundation in 1961, the National Institute of Design (NID) in Ahmedabad, India, attempted to reorient art and design theory and practice away from the legacy of colonial-era arts pedagogies, and towards internationally resonant ideas borrowed from academies such as the German Bauhaus…