Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Tennis v Emerson
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMMH.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
KSC-FLDHS2, KSC-TENNIS1, KSC-TENNIS2, KSC-COURT1, KSC-COURT2, KSC-COURT3, KSC-INDOOR TRACK.
Collegium Musicum Spring Concert
Arts & Cultural Events
The Wellesley Collegium Musicum is a group of students and faculty members who meet on Monday evenings to play early music. Each semester their work culminates in a performance which is open to the college community. The Collegium's spring concert will offer an entertainment called "The Musical Life of Samuel Pepys." For ten years, beginning in 1660, Samuel Pepys secretly kept one of the most remarkable records ever made of a human life. Today he is remembered not because of his professional success, becoming the administrative head of the British Royal Navy, but for the candor with which he observes the world around him. This Collegium program pairs some of his diary entries with music that he played as a dedicated amateur musician who loved to sing, play the lute, viola da gamba, flageolete and 'harpsicon.' All of the musical examples are drawn from his text and reflect his life in restoration England. Historian Robert Strassler will give a short introduction to Pepys in a broader perspective and our Mr. Pe…
Event Title: The Musical Life of Samuel Pepys. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABKGJG. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): Portrait by John Hayls, 1666.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
PNW-201.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball @Endicott (DH)
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJNGW.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
AWAY-1.
2024 Distinguished Faculty Lecture
Lecture/Panel/Symposium
Nina Tumarkin, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Slavic Studies and professor of history at Wellesley, will deliver this year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecture.
Professor Tumarkin will present “‘Back in the USSR’: The Soviet Legacy in Putin’s Russia” on April 17 at 4:30 p.m. in Collins Cinema, to be followed by a reception on the Davis Plaza. Please register to attend the lecture in person; it will also be livestreamed.
Since coming to the College, Professor Tumarkin has educated generations of Wellesley students about Russian history from the medieval period to the present. She has also taught the history of 20th-century Europe, including a comparative history seminar, HIST 302: World War II as Memory and Myth. Her service to the College has been significant: She has twice been chair of the Department of History and served as longtime director of the College’s dynamic and highly respected Russian Area Studies Program.
In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Professor Tumarkin has stepped in to…
Event Title: Back in the USSR: The Soviet Legacy in Putin’s Russia, delivered by Professor Nina Tumarkin. Organization: Provost (Office of). Event Locator: 2024-ABKRNM.
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
COL-CIN, COL-CAFE.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Philosophy Colloquium - Serena Parekh
Lecture/Panel/Symposium
Philosophy Colloquium - Serena Parekh,
Professor of Philosophy; Chair - Philosophy and Religion Departments; Northeastern University,
Morality and the Refugee Crisis: The Need for a New Paradigm,
Abstract:
In this talk, Serena Parekh will show why it’s important to understand that there is not one but two global refugee crises. The first is the more well-known crisis faced by Western states who are asked to take in refugees and asylum seekers; they must balance their commitments to human rights with what they see as a need to protect their borders and sovereign right to decide who enters. The second crisis is the crisis faced by refugees themselves who are unable to find refuge anywhere in the world, that is, they are unable to access the minimum conditions of human dignity. Formulating a morally adequate refugee policy will require understanding both crises, especially the second, lesser-known crisis. Dr. Parekh shows why we should understand the global refugee crisis as a structural injustice …
Organization: Philosophy. Event Locator: 2024-ABLGZP.
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM.
FND-307.
The Diane Silvers Ravitch ’60 Lecture
Lecture/Panel/Symposium
We live in an oddly contradictory moment: politicians who position themselves as supporters of “absolute” freedom of speech simultaneously enact laws that restrict access to books about race, gender, or critical theory, and seek to constrain conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion. There have always been “culture wars” in America—it is not surprising that conversations about traumatic histories and contested historical perspectives might be fractious.
In a civil society we commit to arguing our way to consensus, however noisily or uncomfortably, and even if it takes generations. But it is the mark of an uncivil—or authoritarian—society when we find ourselves without the right to speak, hear, write, publish, dissent, or share common space even in our disagreement. The First Amendment rightly allows us to curtail speech that poses an “imminent threat of physical harm.” But recent “anti-woke” laws banish from public spaces books and ideas that merely might inspire “shame,” “guilt,” or…
Event Title: Burying the Bodies: Book-Banning and the Legacy of Anti-Literacy Laws in Constructing Erasures of History. Organization: Education. Event Locator: 2023-ABJPGQ. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): Mark Ostoff.
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
JAC-202 AUD, JAC-Auditorium Foyer.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Friday, April 19, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball @Babson (DH)
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJNGV.
Friday, April 19, 2024, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
AWAY-1.
Tennis @MHC
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJWVZ.
Friday, April 19, 2024, 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM.
AWAY-2.
BlueJazz Big Band
Arts & Cultural Events
Wellesley BlueJazz Big Band presents “Manteca: Music of Miles, Diz and more!”
For our spring concert, the band features our spirited brass section in a trio of tunes by trumpet titans Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie. We will also be performing works brought to us by this year’s Jazz Guest Artist Anat Cohen, including her beautiful original composition “Ima” and Benny Goodman’s hot swing anthem “Oh Baby”. Wellesley BlueJazz will also be premiering Low Brass Faculty Mark Hamilton’s French horn arrangement of “The Boy Next Door” and our first ever Timbales solo on our finale piece, afro-cuban jazz classic “Manteca.”
Please join us for a spirited evening of great jazz by Wellesley BlueJazz Big Band! Directed by Cercie Miller.
Event Title: Manteca: Music of Miles, Diz and more! Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLJZ. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): student photo.
Friday, April 19, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
JAC-202 AUD.
Family Day at the Davis: Both/And
Arts & Cultural Events
FAMILY DAY,
SATURDAY, APRIL 20,
Family Day at the Davis: Both/And,
11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Inspired by Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And, the Davis invites visitors of all ages to explore themes of identity and power. Exciting activities will bring the art to life, including an interactive scavenger hunt, a “make your own poem” activity, family tours, an “Art Is…” photo station, and light refreshments. .
Event Title: Free and Open to the Public. Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABLAGN.
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
DVM-Lobby.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball @ MIT (DH)
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJNGS.
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
AWAY-3.
Tennis @ Smith
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMMK.
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
AWAY-1.
Lacrosse vs Mount Holyoke
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJNJA.
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
KSC-TURF.
Baum Memorial Concert
Arts & Cultural Events
The highly acclaimed Wellesley College Choral program promotes the great art of ensemble singing while building community and joy in performance.
Event Title: Wellesley College Choral Program. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLMJ. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): Karen Osuna Martinez '25, Wellesley Public Affairs.
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
HMC-Gathering Area, HMC-Chapel, HMC-Multifaith Room.
Global Flora Open Hours & Tours
Arts & Cultural Events
The Global Flora conservatory is free and open to the public on Sundays 11am-4pm only until further notice due to active construction nearby on weekdays. Free drop-in tours are Sundays at 2pm.
You may also enjoy self-guided exploration, student exhibits, or just relax amongst diverse and beautiful flora. Student guides are available to answer questions. , We are closed on holidays, long weekends, and campus breaks. Plan your visit, find parking directions, and check specific closure dates at https://www.wellesley.edu/wcbg/visit,
Follow us @wellesleybotanicgardens
Email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu with questions. Contact accessibility@wellesley.edu regarding accommodations. Find us at "WCBG Visitor Center" on google maps.
Event Title: Open to Public. Organization: Botanic Garden/Greenhouse. Event Locator: 2023-ABJQAB.
Sunday, April 21, 2024, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
SCI-Global Flora Link.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Sunday, April 21, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Tennis @Wheaton
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJWWA.
Sunday, April 21, 2024, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
AWAY-2.
Chamber Music Society
Arts & Cultural Events
Founded in 1958, The Chamber Music Society of Wellesley College provides an opportunity for instrumentalists and vocalists to prepare and perform works for small ensembles. Each chamber group receives weekly coaching from a member of the Wellesley College Music Department, and performs at one of several concerts held at the end of each semester.
Event Title: Chamber Music Marathon. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLJG. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): unsplash.com - Julio Rionaldo.
Sunday, April 21, 2024, 1:00 PM – 4:30 PM.
JAC-202 AUD.
Franco-Italian Roundtable Discussion
Lecture/Panel/Symposium
Join the French House in welcoming Vassar College’s Roberta Antognini and Pacific Lutheran University’s Rebecca Wilkin for a Franco-Italian Roundtable Discussion on Translation, moderated by Wellesley College’s Hélène Bilis and Sergio Parussa.
Roberta Antognini is originally from Canton Ticino in Switzerland. She is Associate Professor Emerita of Italian Studies at Vassar College. She is the author of a monograph on Petrarch’s letters, Il progetto autobiografico delle Familiares di Petrarca (2008), and co-editor of the collection of essays Poscritto a Giorgio Bassani (2012). With Deborah Woodard, she has translated into English Amelia Rosselli’s collections, Hospital Series (2015), Obtuse Diary (2018), The Dragonfly (2023), Notes Scattered and Lost (forthcoming 2024), and Document (forthcoming 2025).
Rebecca Wilkin is Professor of French at Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA), where she also teaches in the First Year Experience Program, in the International Honors Program, and in Global Studies.…
Organization: French House. Event Locator: 2024-ABLGMW.
Monday, April 22, 2024, 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM.
FHM-LR.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Tennis v Clark
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMMJ.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
KSC-FLDHS2, KSC-TENNIS1, KSC-TENNIS2, KSC-COURT1, KSC-COURT2, KSC-COURT3, KSC-INDOOR TRACK.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Chamber Music Society
Arts & Cultural Events
Founded in 1958, The Chamber Music Society of Wellesley College provides an opportunity for instrumentalists and vocalists to prepare and perform works for small ensembles. Each chamber group receives weekly coaching from a member of the Wellesley College Music Department, and performs at one of several concerts held at the end of each semester.
Event Title: Spring Concert 1. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLMG. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): unsplash.com - Julio Rionaldo.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
JAC-202 AUD.
Silent Sky
Arts & Cultural Events
Wellesley College Theatre presents its Spring 2024 Mainstage Production: Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Marta Rainer.
Tickets available here.
About the show: Silent Sky tells the true story of pioneering astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. In the early 1900’s, Henrietta joins a unique team of women “computers” - lead by Wellesley graduate Annie Jump Cannon and Williamina Fleming - to chart the celestial skies at the Harvard Observatory. Responsibilities, relationships and obstacles on our own planet can’t keep her from her life’s passion: to identify the exceptional. Lauren Gunderson’s play celebrates Henrietta’s life of deep inquiry and determination, while it explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, the growing suffragette movement and beyond. Henrietta Leavitt and her trailblazing peers believed in both social progress and scientific progress, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
Event Title: Wellesley College Theatre Spring 2024 Mainstage Production. Organization: Theatre Studies. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMPM.
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
ALH-111 Jones.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball vs Smith (DH)
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJNGL.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
KSC-SOFTBALL.
Silent Sky
Arts & Cultural Events
Wellesley College Theatre presents its Spring 2024 Mainstage Production: Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Marta Rainer.
Tickets available here.
About the show: Silent Sky tells the true story of pioneering astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. In the early 1900’s, Henrietta joins a unique team of women “computers” - lead by Wellesley graduate Annie Jump Cannon and Williamina Fleming - to chart the celestial skies at the Harvard Observatory. Responsibilities, relationships and obstacles on our own planet can’t keep her from her life’s passion: to identify the exceptional. Lauren Gunderson’s play celebrates Henrietta’s life of deep inquiry and determination, while it explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, the growing suffragette movement and beyond. Henrietta Leavitt and her trailblazing peers believed in both social progress and scientific progress, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
Event Title: Wellesley College Theatre Spring 2024 Mainstage Production. Organization: Theatre Studies. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMPM.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
ALH-111 Jones.
BlueJazz Strings and Combos
Arts & Cultural Events
Join us for a lively evening as our wonderful instrumentalists and vocalists create the interplay between group and individual expression, weaving together musical influences from around the world, in the best of small ensemble jazz.
Event Title: Spring Concert. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLJC. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): student.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
JAC-202 AUD.
Whitin Observatory Public Night
Arts & Cultural Events
Please join us for a public night and astronomy talk at the Whitin Observatory of Wellesley College. The subject of the talk is still to be announced. Observing opportunity with historic telescopes available if skies are clear. Additional information and directions available at https://www.wellesley.edu/astronomy/events .
Event Title: Whitin Observatory Public Night. Organization: Astronomy. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRCZ.
Friday, April 26, 2024, 8:30 PM – 10:30 PM.
OBS-LIB, OBS-114, OBS-123.
Crew NEWMAC Championship
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMNF.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 6:00 AM – 3:00 PM.
AWAY-2.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball vs Wheaton (DH)
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJNGN.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
KSC-SOFTBALL.
Tennis @ Babson
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMML.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 12:00 PM – 5:00 PM.
AWAY-1.
Lacrosse NEWMAC Quarterfinals
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2024-ABLAJF.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
KSC-TURF.
Guild of Carillonneurs
Arts & Cultural Events
The Wellesley College Guild of Carillonneurs carries on the 90-year tradition of bell-ringing in Galen Stone Tower, which began when the carillon was installed in 1931.
Event Title: Change Ringing Open Tower. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLHZ. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): unknown.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
GRH-Tower.
Silent Sky
Arts & Cultural Events
Wellesley College Theatre presents its Spring 2024 Mainstage Production: Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Marta Rainer.
Tickets available here.
About the show: Silent Sky tells the true story of pioneering astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. In the early 1900’s, Henrietta joins a unique team of women “computers” - lead by Wellesley graduate Annie Jump Cannon and Williamina Fleming - to chart the celestial skies at the Harvard Observatory. Responsibilities, relationships and obstacles on our own planet can’t keep her from her life’s passion: to identify the exceptional. Lauren Gunderson’s play celebrates Henrietta’s life of deep inquiry and determination, while it explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, the growing suffragette movement and beyond. Henrietta Leavitt and her trailblazing peers believed in both social progress and scientific progress, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
Event Title: Wellesley College Theatre Presents its Spring 2024 Mainstage Production. Organization: Theatre Studies. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMPN.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
ALH-111 Jones.
Silent Sky
Arts & Cultural Events
Wellesley College Theatre presents its Spring 2024 Mainstage Production: Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Marta Rainer.
Tickets available here.
About the show: Silent Sky tells the true story of pioneering astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. In the early 1900’s, Henrietta joins a unique team of women “computers” - lead by Wellesley graduate Annie Jump Cannon and Williamina Fleming - to chart the celestial skies at the Harvard Observatory. Responsibilities, relationships and obstacles on our own planet can’t keep her from her life’s passion: to identify the exceptional. Lauren Gunderson’s play celebrates Henrietta’s life of deep inquiry and determination, while it explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, the growing suffragette movement and beyond. Henrietta Leavitt and her trailblazing peers believed in both social progress and scientific progress, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
Event Title: Wellesley College Theatre Spring 2024 Mainstage Production. Organization: Theatre Studies. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMPM.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
ALH-111 Jones.
Yanvalou Drum and Dance Ensemble
Arts & Cultural Events
Yanvalou Drum and Dance Ensemble will perform the folkloric music and dance of Africa, as it exists today throughout Africa and the African Diaspora, particularly in Haiti, Ghana, Zimbabwe, and Brazil.
Event Title: Spring Concert. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLJP. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): unknown.
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM.
JAC-202 AUD.
Global Flora Open Hours & Tours
Arts & Cultural Events
The Global Flora conservatory is free and open to the public on Sundays 11am-4pm only until further notice due to active construction nearby on weekdays. Free drop-in tours are Sundays at 2pm.
You may also enjoy self-guided exploration, student exhibits, or just relax amongst diverse and beautiful flora. Student guides are available to answer questions. , We are closed on holidays, long weekends, and campus breaks. Plan your visit, find parking directions, and check specific closure dates at https://www.wellesley.edu/wcbg/visit,
Follow us @wellesleybotanicgardens
Email wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu with questions. Contact accessibility@wellesley.edu regarding accommodations. Find us at "WCBG Visitor Center" on google maps.
Event Title: Open to Public. Organization: Botanic Garden/Greenhouse. Event Locator: 2023-ABJQAB.
Sunday, April 28, 2024, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
SCI-Global Flora Link.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Sunday, April 28, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Chamber Music Society
Arts & Cultural Events
Founded in 1958, The Chamber Music Society of Wellesley College provides an opportunity for instrumentalists and vocalists to prepare and perform works for small ensembles. Each chamber group receives weekly coaching from a member of the Wellesley College Music Department, and performs at one of several concerts held at the end of each semester.
Event Title: Spring Concert 2. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLJK. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): unsplash.com - Julio Rionaldo.
Sunday, April 28, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
JAC-202 AUD.
Silent Sky
Arts & Cultural Events
Wellesley College Theatre presents its Spring 2024 Mainstage Production: Silent Sky by Lauren Gunderson, directed by Marta Rainer.
Tickets available here.
About the show: Silent Sky tells the true story of pioneering astronomer Henrietta Leavitt. In the early 1900’s, Henrietta joins a unique team of women “computers” - lead by Wellesley graduate Annie Jump Cannon and Williamina Fleming - to chart the celestial skies at the Harvard Observatory. Responsibilities, relationships and obstacles on our own planet can’t keep her from her life’s passion: to identify the exceptional. Lauren Gunderson’s play celebrates Henrietta’s life of deep inquiry and determination, while it explores a woman’s place in society during a time of immense scientific discoveries, the growing suffragette movement and beyond. Henrietta Leavitt and her trailblazing peers believed in both social progress and scientific progress, and their dedication changed the way we understand both the heavens and Earth.
Event Title: Wellesley College Theatre Presents its Spring 2024 Mainstage Production. Organization: Theatre Studies. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMPN.
Sunday, April 28, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM.
ALH-111 Jones.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Tennis NEWMAC Quarter Finals
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMMM.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
KSC-FLDHS2, KSC-TENNIS1, KSC-TENNIS2, KSC-COURT1, KSC-COURT2, KSC-COURT3, KSC-INDOOR TRACK.
Chamber Music Society
Arts & Cultural Events
Founded in 1958, The Chamber Music Society of Wellesley College provides an opportunity for instrumentalists and vocalists to prepare and perform works for small ensembles. Each chamber group receives weekly coaching from a member of the Wellesley College Music Department, and performs at one of several concerts held at the end of each semester.
Event Title: Spring Concert 3. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLJL. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): unsplash.com - Julio Rionaldo.
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
JAC-202 AUD.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball vs Worcester State (DH)
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJNGM.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
KSC-SOFTBALL.
Lacrosse NEWMAC Semifinals
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2024-ABLAJG.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
KSC-TURF.
Chamber Music Society
Arts & Cultural Events
Founded in 1958, The Chamber Music Society of Wellesley College provides an opportunity for instrumentalists and vocalists to prepare and perform works for small ensembles. Each chamber group receives weekly coaching from a member of the Wellesley College Music Department, and performs at one of several concerts held at the end of each semester.
Event Title: Spring Concert 4. Organization: Music. Event Locator: 2023-ABJLJQ. Publicity Image Credit (Photographer or agency): unsplash.com - Julio Rionaldo.
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
JAC-202 AUD.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Thursday, May 2, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Friday, May 3, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball @ Emerson (DH)
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJNGT.
Friday, May 3, 2024, 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
AWAY-1.
Tennis NEWMAC Semi Finals
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMMN.
Friday, May 3, 2024, 4:00 PM – 9:00 PM.
KSC-FLDHS2, KSC-TENNIS1, KSC-TENNIS2, KSC-COURT1, KSC-COURT2, KSC-COURT3, KSC-INDOOR TRACK.
Crew NERC
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMNG.
Saturday, May 4, 2024, 6:00 AM – 8:00 PM.
AWAY-1.
Tennis NEWMAC Finals
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMMQ.
Saturday, May 4, 2024, 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM.
KSC-FLDHS2, KSC-TENNIS1, KSC-TENNIS2, KSC-COURT1, KSC-COURT2, KSC-COURT3, KSC-INDOOR TRACK.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Saturday, May 4, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lacrosse NEWMAC Championship
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2024-ABLAJL.
Saturday, May 4, 2024, 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
KSC-TURF.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Sunday, May 5, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball NEWMAC Quarterfinals
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2024-ABLAJM.
Monday, May 6, 2024, 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
KSC-SOFTBALL.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball NEWMAC Semifinals
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2024-ABLAJN.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
KSC-SOFTBALL.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Friday, May 10, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball NEWMAC Semifinals
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2024-ABLAJN.
Friday, May 10, 2024, 4:30 PM – 8:30 PM.
KSC-SOFTBALL.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Saturday, May 11, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball NEWMAC Championship
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2024-ABLAJP.
Saturday, May 11, 2024, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
KSC-SOFTBALL.
Crew NIRC
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJMNH.
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 6:00 AM – 8:00 PM.
AWAY-1.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball NEWMAC Championship
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2024-ABLAJP.
Sunday, May 12, 2024, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM.
KSC-SOFTBALL.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Baccalaureate Luncheon
Lecture/Panel/Symposium
Tickets are required for students and all guests and may be purchased here. Bates Hall Culinary Center.
Event Title: Commencement 2024. Organization: Wellesley Fresh (AVI) Dining Services. Event Locator: 2024-ABLHBC.
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM.
BAT-DH.
Baccalaureate Celebration
Lecture/Panel/Symposium
Held the day before Commencement each year, the Baccalaureate service is a multifaith, spiritual gathering for graduating seniors to celebrate their journey through Wellesley College. The program includes student reflections, music, singing and lots of shared memories. Inspired by Wellesley's historic belief that educations is a spiritual as well as an intellectual journey, Baccalaureate celebrates and affirms the diversity of religious and cultural identities of our students as a part of the student experience.
The procession will form at 1:40 pm on the path between Founders Hall and the Margaret Clapp Library if the weather is fair, or under the tent on Severance Green if rain. As seating is limited in the Chapel, additional seating for families will be available in Collins Cinema where we will simulcast the program. The program is videotaped and will also be available for viewing after the event. .
Event Title: Commencement 2024. Organization: Commencement, Dean Religious Life (Office of). Event Locator: 2024-ABKZKX.
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
HMC-Chapel.
Baccalaureate overflow viewing
Lecture/Panel/Symposium
Event Title: Commencement 2024. Organization: Commencement, Dean Religious Life (Office of). Event Locator: 2024-ABLHBA.
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM.
COL-CIN.
Commencement Baccalaureate Concert
Arts & Cultural Events
Join us as the Music Department celebrates the senior class musicians in their final concert performances at Wellesley. All are welcome to attend this festive and memorable occasion.
Event Title: Commencement 2024. Organization: Music, Commencement. Event Locator: 2024-ABLHBJ.
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM.
HMC-Chapel.
Commencement 2024 Ceremony
Lecture/Panel/Symposium
The 2024 Commencement Ceremony will be held under the tent on Severance Green. The ceremony will also be live streamed. Seating will open at 9 am.
Event Title: Commencement 2024 Exercises under the tent on Severance Green. Organization: Commencement. Event Locator: 2024-ABLHAZ.
Friday, May 17, 2024, 10:30 AM – 1:30 PM.
SEV-GRN.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Friday, May 17, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Saturday, May 18, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Sunday, May 19, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Softball Alumnae Game
Athletics
Organization: PERA Athletic Operations. Event Locator: 2023-ABJNHB.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM.
KSC-SOFTBALL.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Wednesday, May 22, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Thursday, May 23, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Friday, May 24, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Saturday, May 25, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Sunday, May 26, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Thursday, May 30, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Friday, May 31, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Saturday, June 1, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And Exhibition
Arts & Cultural Events
Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And is the first retrospective of an artist who has been a critical voice in performance, conceptual, and feminist art for more than four decades. Lorraine O’Grady became an artist at age forty-five, after successful careers in the U.S. Departments of State and Labor, professional translating, rock criticism, and teaching French literature and art. She jokes that because she came to her artistic career late in life, she “only had time for masterpieces.”
O’Grady’s work revolves around a consistent set of themes: Black female subjectivity and Black feminism; hybridity and diaspora; the unspoken aftermath of slavery in the Western Hemisphere; the contradictions and complications of her upbringing in Boston as the daughter of Jamaican immigrants; and the impossibility of separating the personal from the political, or the self from history. The artist’s practice is driven by a desire to replace Western “either/or” thinking—which O’Grady sees as the basis of the inequalities that… .
Organization: Davis Museum & Cultural Center. Event Locator: 2024-ABKRSZ.
Sunday, June 2, 2024, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM.
DVM-Bronfman Gallery, DVM-Chandler Gallery.