The Kathryn Wasserman Davis '28 Art Prize for Writing is now being administered by the Davis Museum. Please visit their webpage for more information and submission instructions. This page provides general information and past winners up until the time the prize was taken over by the Davis in Spring 2020.
A prize of $300 is offered to a Wellesley student for a paper written, either independently or for a course, about any object or event associated with the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, including:
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Objects exhibited as part of either permanent or temporary collections
- The Davis Museum itself
- Any aspect of Museum programming
The goals of the prize are to encourage intellectual and creative interaction with the objects in the museum, to draw as many students and faculty as possible into the museum, and to articulate far-reaching and innovative connections between the visual arts and the other intellectual activities of the campus.
In the past, the judges have been particularly impressed with writing that is lively and fresh as well as competent and thorough. We are especially interested in writing that expresses a rich and genuine response to objects in the Davis Museum.
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Kathryn Wasserman Davis '28 Art Prize: Past Prize Winners
2018-2019 Booklet
Charlotte Kasper '20
Transcending Construction: Susana Torre’s Walls of the House of Meanings
ARTH 258: The Global Americas, 1400 to Today, James Oles (Art)
Honorable Mention: Sanjana Ramchandran '22
Art as Artifact: Exchange and Appropriation in the Global Circuit
ARTH 100 The Power of Images: An Introduction to Art and its Histories, Pat Berman (Art)
2017-2018 Booklet
Izzy King '18
Sun Mad: Inverting the Imagery of Consumer Culture as Protest
Art History 354: The Arts of Dissent, Patricia Berman (Art)
2016-2017 Booklet
Amelia Alvarez ‘17
The Davis Museum Black-Figure Hydria: An Object Biography
ARTH/CLCV 373 Seminar: Antiquities Today, Kimberly Cassibry (Art) & Bryan Burns (Classical Studies)
2015-2016 Booklet
Ningyi Xi ‘17
Old Meets New, East Meets West: the Lettered Scrolls by Jin Yunpeng at the Davis Museum
ARTH 240 Asian Art and Architecture, Heping Liu (Art)
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