Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Sunday, May 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Sunday, May 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Sunday, May 18, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Friday, May 23, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Friday, May 23, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Friday, May 23, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Saturday, May 24, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Saturday, May 24, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Saturday, May 24, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Sunday, May 25, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Sunday, May 25, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Sunday, May 25, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Tuesday, May 27, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Wednesday, May 28, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Thursday, May 29, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Friday, May 30, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Saturday, May 31, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Saturday, May 31, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Saturday, May 31, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Better on Paper
Arts & Cultural Events
The Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections join together to celebrate acquisitions of works on paper from the last decade that represent Wellesley’s commitment to inclusive excellence. Often collaborating with Wellesley faculty, staff, and students, curators have acquired the objects in Better on Paper to support and expand the Wellesley College curriculum. With books and works on paper that connect to every department on campus, Wellesley continues to enhance its renowned collections through purchases, gifts, and bequests. The prints, drawings, photographs, books, and other objects in Better on Paper originate from around the globe, spanning diverse makers and approaches and dating to many periods. The Davis and Special Collections each host around 100 class visits annually.
The majority of the Davis’s collection consists of works on paper, including prints, drawings, collages, photographs, and more. In addition to displaying them in special exhibitions and long-term galleries, Davis…
Event Title: Recent Acquisitions of Prints, Drawings, Photographs, and Books. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARP.
Sunday, June 1, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Nevers in the World
Arts & Cultural Events
Nevers in the World presents a selection of artworks from the generous bequest of Sidney R. Knafel, who spent decades assembling a world-renowned collection of French ceramics. These objects demonstrate how artistic innovation can flourish through cross-cultural exchange. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a group of artisans in Nevers, France created extraordinary ceramic vessels using the faience technique. Invented nearly a millennium earlier, faience describes a glaze for ceramics that includes tin. In eighth-century Iraq, craftspeople discovered that adding tin to ceramic glaze produced an opaque, white surface suitable for colorful decoration. As the method spread across Asia and Europe, Italians called it maiolica. In France, it became known as faience, after the Italian city of Faenza.
In 1565, French aristocrat Henriette of Cleves married Italian politician Louis of Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers. The couple brought artisans from Italian maiolica centers to Nevers, where they introduced a…
Event Title: French Ceramics from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARQ.
Sunday, June 1, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.
Sovereign Memory
Arts & Cultural Events
Sovereign Memory: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories explores photography as a strategy for healing from what Gloria Anzaldúa, celebrated queer Chicana cultural theorist and poet, has described as the colonial wound. The artists in this group exhibition each employ the photograph as a connective tissue, stitching together individuals, families, and communities to severed histories and identities. All share a concern with how images profoundly shape the stories of where we come from–and who we are.
Photography has revolutionized how we represent our histories, solidifying architectures of personal and collective memory through archives born of visual technologies. Photography also has a darker history as a colonial machine producing images in support of empires. For communities who have endured the global longue durée of colonialism and continue to navigate legacies of its violence, histories told through the lens of photography can re-implement a colonial gaze, enacting a series of erasures.…
Event Title: Photography, Remembrance, and Displaced Histories. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2025-ABNARZ.
Sunday, June 1, 2025, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Freedman Gallery, DVM-Friends of Art Gallery.