The Arts at Wellesley- Spring 2011

WELLESLEY ARTS Calendar SPRING 2011

Calendar of events

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02/23

03/3

HaMapah 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

Conversation with Francis Alÿs

A Huey P. Newton Story

02/13

5:00 PM Collins Cinema

Jewett Art Gallery

Music Department Honors Concert

02/24

01/27

8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

01/22–02/21

Trigger and Reconfigure

Trigger and Reconfigure Opening Reception 4:45 PM Jewett Art Gallery 01/29

Boston Modern Orchestra Project

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8:00 PM Houghton Chapel 7:00 PM Pre-concert talk with composer Martin Brody

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4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 02/16–06/5

Francis Alÿs

Santos y Pecadores

4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities

Welcome Back to the Davis

02/16

6:00–8:00 PM The Davis Museum 02/20

Navarasa Dance Theater

6:00 PM Collins Cinema

7:00 PM Houghton Chapel

02/4–03/13

02/21

Student Photography

Time in the Sun

Jewett Art Gallery

02/25

Refuge Trio 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

7:30 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall 03/7

Río Escondido 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

02/28

03/8

Poetry and Music from Jewish and Muslim Worlds

7:00 PM Collins Cinema

7:00 PM Multifaith Center

The Wave 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

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03/9

In the Time of Tolstoy Concert 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium 03/10–03/13

Yellow Face

03/1

Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

Distinguished Writers Series: Meir Shalev

Libana

4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 03/1

7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

03/5

Frederick Douglass NOW

A.R.F. Webber Documentary Film

02/28 02/16–06/5

The Davis Museum

Conversation and Screenings with Lynne Sachs

7:00 PM Multifaith Center

The Davis Museum

Distinguished Writers Series: Lydia Davis

02/2

Francis Alÿs, detail from Ambulantes, 1992–2006, 160 35mm slides, photograph courtesy of the artist / David Zwirner, New York

02/15

Distinguished Writers Series: Susan Straight and Marlon James

JourneyDance

7:00 PM Collins Cinema

Student Photography Opening Reception 4:45 PM Jewett Art Gallery

02/10–02/13

02/23

Festival of One-Act Plays

Randall Hodgkinson, Piano

Barynya

Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

03/2

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03/10 7:00 PM Multifaith Center 03/12

Jennifer Frautschi, Violin 7:45 PM Houghton Chapel 03/15

Distinguished Writers Series: Ha Jin 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities

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8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium 04/7

John Udvardy Opening Reception 4:45 PM Jewett Art Gallery 04/8

4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 04/14

Boston Modern Orchestra Project 8:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall 04/14–04/17

04/28

Jose Obando 7:00 PM Multifaith Center 04/29

Wellesley BlueJazz

James David Christie, Organ 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel

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Nine Armenians

04/30

The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

2:00 PM Houghton Chapel

John Udvardy Gallery Talk

The Shape of Things

Yanvalou

1:30 PM Jewett Art Gallery

The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

04/30

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Whitin Observatory Alexandra Botanic Garden

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7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

Collegium Musicum

The Wellesley arts curriculum—and the highly acclaimed Davis Museum—are integral and irreplaceable components of the College’s fine liberal arts education. The many outstanding exhibits, performances, and lectures featured in this calendar of events are free of charge and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

06/18–19 06/25–26

College Buildings

04/2

Boundary Line Faculty Concert

04/14

Lecture: Graphic Women

7:00 PM Multifaith Center

The arts don’t just reflect; they shape. They crystallize.

They educate and they force us to see things anew. They create models for the future. They give pleasure. And— most important—they connect us.

Public Buildings

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11:10 AM Jewett Auditorium

11:10 AM Jewett Auditorium

Lake Waban

6:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

04/26

No Impact Man Film Screening and Discussion

05/5

Lecture: Contemporary Art and Mexico City

Davis Museum Collins Cinema

Bakwin Lecture: El Anatsui

04/14

Lecture: Social Protest in Photography and Printmaking

Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

2:00–6:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

West Campus

03/31

Sense and Sensibility, The Musical

Chamber Music Society Marathon

Alumnae Valley

6:00–8:00 PM The Davis Museum

12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

04/26–05/1

05/1

Pendleton

El Anatsui Opening Celebration

6:00 PM Collins Cinema

Jewett Art Gallery

Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall & Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

03/30

Triple Helix Piano Trio LectureRecital with the Wellesley Chamber Singers

Conversation and Screening with Shirin Neshat

05/1–05/31

Studio Art Senior Theses

Wang Campus Center

El Anatsui The Davis Museum

04/13

04/20

Visitor Parking

03/30–06/30

6:00 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities

1:00–3:00 PM The Davis Museum Plaza

Keohane r Sports Cente

4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities

8:00 PM Houghton Chapel

CENTRAL STREET – ROUTE 135

Distinguished Writers Series: Caryl Phillips

Michal Held: Ladino Poetry and Personal Narratives

DOWNTOWN WELLESLEY

03/29

Mozart’s Requiem Wellesley Choir and Triple Helix Piano Trio

WEST ENTRY

04/12

The arts define who we are as a culture—what is important to us—what (and who) we mean to be. Our “life in art” surfaces those deepest aspects of ourselves—as individuals and as a society—that are difficult to access, and it is through words and color, movement and sound that we can be truest to our moment and to ourselves.

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Family Day at the Davis: Working like El

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Wellesley Summer Theatre for Children Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

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Beyond Our Walls............................................................ 2 Inventions and Interventions......................................... 4 El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa...... 6 Roger Guenveur Smith-LIVE....................................... 8 Sense & Sensibility, The Musical.................................. 10 The Newhouse Center for the Humanities...................... 12 The Davis Museum and Cultural Center........................ 16 The Concert Series......................................................... 20 Art and Soul at the Multifaith Center............................. 24 Theatre........................................................................... 26 Art Department............................................................. 28 Arts and the Liberal Arts................................................ 30 About Wellesley College................................................. 32 Visiting Wellesley........................................................... 33

The Arts at Wellesley

SPRING 2011

As we move into the spring—traditionally a time of newness and hope—we shift the focus of our year-long inquiry into the idea of WALLS from the exploration of the boundaries they describe to the act of breaching those same barriers. We seek ways of transcending the “walls” of nationality and culture, race and religion, art and science, words and music, public and private.

Beyond Our Walls

The future is increasingly about our ability to synthesize: how we can make words and images work together to create richer narratives; how we can bridge the gap between waking life and dreams, between reality and memory; and how we can move among and between the arts and sciences to illuminate each in some fresh way.

The arts celebrate the familiar and the unexpected—often in the same moment—all inspired by the improvisatory impulse, as well as the endless possibilities suggested by the marriage of words, image, performance, and sound. Extraordinary writers will share their love of the music of words. Dancers will remind us how space is a material to be worked. Singers and actors will pull us over the “fourth wall” into their worlds. Filmmakers and artists will show us what we cannot see, but they can.

We invite you to share with us the adventure of engaging with these difference-dissolving opportunities, and to contribute to it with your presence. Our spring calendar is about seeing anew, about collaboration and insight, and about remapping place, time, memory, and vision.

Don’t miss it.

Fred Sandback. Untitled (Sculptural Study, Two-part Cornered Construction), ca., 1982/2006, Yellow and red acrylic yarn, 15 x 29 x 29 inch © 2010 Fred Sandback Archive

THE CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES PROGRAM PRESENTS

Inventions and Interventions is a monthly series that will present a diverse range of internationally acclaimed film and media makers who are redefining the art of cinema and contemporary media in the 21st century.

Lynne Sachs: Conversation and Screenings

The Last Happy Day (2009)

An experimental documentary portrait of Sandor Lenard, a Jewish Hungarian Collins Cinema medical doctor and a distant cousin of the filmmaker, The Last Happy Day follows Sandor’s flight from the Nazis to Italy, where he reconstructed the bones of dead American soldiers for the U.S. Army Grave Registration Service. Post-war, Sandor moved to Brazil, where he translated Winnie the Pooh into Latin, an eccentric task that catapulted him to brief worldwide fame.

February 2 / 6:00 PM

Which Way Is East: Notebooks from Vietnam (1994) in collaboration with Dana Sachs

New Film and Media Visiting Artist Series

Inventions and Interventions

When Sachs and her sister travel north from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi, Vietnamese strangers and friends reveal to them the complexities of shared history. Which Way Is East starts as a road trip and flowers into political discourse, combining Vietnamese parables and history with personal memory.

Lynne Sachs has invented a unique hybrid cinema between the investigative documentary and the personal poetic film. Her work explores the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. Sachs’ films have screened most recently at the Museum of Modern Art and the Sundance Film Festival.

Shirin Neshat: Lecture and Screenings

Women Without Men (2009)

Internationally renowned artist Shirin Neshat brings her exquisite aesthetic Collins Cinema sensibilities as an artist to her visually stunning first feature film. Women Without Men is an adaptation of Shahrnush Parsipur’s novel chronicling the intertwining lives of four Iranian women during the summer of 1953, a cataclysmic moment in Iranian history when an American-led coup d’état brought down the democratically elected Prime Minister, and reinstalled the Shah to power.

April 20 / 6:00 PM

Iranian-born visual artist Shirin Neshat is known for her hauntingly beautiful explorations of Islam and gender relations. Over the past 15 years, Neshat has created provocative poetic expressions exploring the widening political and ideological rift between the West and the Middle East. Neshat’s many awards include the First International Prize at the Venice Biennale (1999) and the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York (2002).

Top: Lynne Sachs. Still from Last Happy Day (2009), Image courtesy of the artist.

Bottom: Shirin Neshat. Feature film still from Women Without Men (2009), ©Shirin Neshat, courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York.

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Co-sponsored by the Davis Museum and Art Department.

Free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/Art

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THE DAVIS MUSEUM PRESENTS

El Anatsui When I Last Wrote to You About Africa El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa, the internationally Harold and Estelle Newman Tanner Gallery renowned Ghanaian artist’s first career Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery retrospective, makes its U.S. debut at Joanne Larson Jobson Gallery the Davis. Widely lauded for large-scale Opening Celebration March 30 / 6:00–8:00 PM wall hangings made from thousands of Davis Museum lobby and galleries liquor-bottle tops “sewn” together with copper wire, and for installation pieces similarly crafted from refuse, Anatsui draws on traditional idioms and contemporary art practices to create work that resonates materially and symbolically with the cultural and historical conditions of West Africa.

On view March 30–June 26

Gerald and Marjorie Schechter Bronfman Gallery

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El Anatsui, Three Continents, 2009 Aluminum and copper wire, 98 x 191 in. Photo courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery

The exhibition, which features 65 works from the artist’s four-decade career, encompasses sculptures in wood, ceramic, and metal as well as rarely seen paintings and drawings. A richly illustrated catalogue, with entries by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Laurance S. Rockefeller University professor of philosophy at Princeton University; Lisa Binder, assistant curator at the Museum for African Art, New York; Olu Oguibe, professor of art and art history at the University of Connecticut; Chika Okeke-Agulu, assistant professor of art and archaeology at Princeton University; and Robert Storr, dean of the Yale School of Art, accompanies the exhibition and will be available at the Davis.

El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa is organized by the Museum for African Art, New York, and has been supported, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

The presentation at the Davis is supported by the Wellesley College Friends of Art and the Kathryn Wasserman Davis ’28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership.

All programs are free and open to the public. www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu

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The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities presents

Photo by Susan Helbock

Writer and actor Roger Guenveur Smith will discuss A Huey P. Newton Story, which he not only wrote but also Collins Cinema performed. The Peabody Award-winning film based on Smith’s Obie Award-winning solo stage performance of the same name was documented with multiple cameras by Spike Lee in front of a live studio audience in New York. Scored by Marc Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius) with featured instrumentation by Branford Marsalis, the film captures the vitality of Smith’s stage portrayal of the late Newton, the co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. The New York Times describes Smith’s portrayal as “dead-on … from the reedy voice to the posture of defiance” and the narrative (drawn mostly from the activist’s writings and interviews) as “a ride through the theme park of Newton’s strange life, a life full of sound and fury.”

A Huey P. Newton Story March 3 / 7:00 PM

Roger Guenveur Smith’s Frederick Douglass NOW is a monologue inspired by the life and work of the self-liberated Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall abolitionist and pioneering feminist Frederick Douglass. Smith has edited Douglass’ classic 19th century texts into a jazz-infused narrative, bookended by original writing of Beckettian force to produce the kind of edgy stylistic mash-up of which vital contemporary theater is made.

Originally commissioned at the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York, Smith’s Douglass has been continually refined in the tradition of Hal Holbrook’s ever-evolving Mark Twain Tonight. Smith has performed Frederick Douglass NOW at prestigious venues on both sides of the Atlantic, including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Frederick Douglass NOW March 5 / 7:30 PM

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Roger Guenveur Smith is an award-winning writer, actor, and director. His solo pieces for international stage include A. Huey P. Newton Story and Frederick Douglass NOW. Some of his other notable pieces for the stage are: Christopher Columbus 1992, In Honor of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Who Killed Bob Marley?, and Inside The Creole Mafia (with Mark Broyard). His film roles include the stuttering hero Smiley in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing in addition to an eclectic range of characters in Hamlet, Malcolm X, Get On the Bus, Eve’s Bayou, He Got Game, and American Gangster, which earned him a nomination for a Screen Actor’s Guild Award. His featured performances for HBO include roles in K Street, Oz, and Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives. He is a graduate of Occidental College and the Yale School of Drama. www.newhouse-center.org

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WELLESLEY THEATRE AND THE CONCERT SERIES PRESENT

Sense & Sensibility A New Musical

Book and lyrics by Jeffrey Haddow Music by Neal Hampton

Based on the novel by Jane Austen, Wellesley College’s production of Sense and April 26–May 1 Sensibility: The Musical will bring repressed Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall sentiments, soaring emotions, and Austen’s April 26–28 / 7:00 PM signature wit to life. Enter the world of April 29 / 8:00 PM the Dashwoods, two sisters as different as April 30 / 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM May 1 / 2:00 PM can be. Elinor is reserved, self-possessed, $15 general admission, $8 seniors, $5 faculty/staff and rational to a fault, while Marianne is Free to Wellesley, Olin, and Babson students with ID wildly romantic, emotionally uninhibited, No reservations required and disdainful of half-measures. Bound by their love for each other and their inner sense of social independence, but torn by their conflicting notions of ideal love, they struggle to cope with reduced circumstances and the pressure to marry well. Ecstasy, deception, dashed hopes, and near-tragedy lead them to discover profound truths that bring them closer together and finally put them within reach of true and lasting happiness.

Directed by Nora Hussey / Musical direction by Amy Lieberman

Sense and Sensibility is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the Music Department, Theatre Program (Wellesley College Theatre / Wellesley Summer Theatre), and the English Department at Wellesley College.

www.wellesley.edu/Theatre

and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust.

She is at work on a translation of Madame Bovary.

THE Susan and Donald NEWHOUSE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES Founded in 2003 by a generous gift from Susan Marley Newhouse ’55 and Donald Newhouse, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities generates and supports innovative, world-class programming in the humanities and arts. The mission of the Newhouse Center is to create a dynamic and cosmopolitan intellectual community that extends from Wellesley College to the wider Boston-area community and beyond.

Marlon James was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. His second novel, The Book Of Night Women, published in 2009, won the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2010 Minnesota Book Award in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and an NAACP Image Award.

Susan Straight and Marlon James

His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in addition to being a New York Times Editor’s Choice selection. James’ short fiction has appeared in Iron Balloons, Bronx Noir, and Silent Voices. He teaches literature and creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN.

February 15 / 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall) Susan Straight is the author of six novels, including Highwire Moon, which was a Finalist for the 2001 National Book Award, and A Million Nightingales, which was a finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her new novel, which she describes as “a companion to Nightingales,” is Take One Candle Light a Room, which was published in 2010.

Meir Shalev March 1 / 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall)

“The Golden Gopher,” a chapter from the novel published on its own, won the 2008 Edgar Award for best mystery story. “El Ojo de Agua,” a story about the novel’s men, won a 2007 O. Henry Prize. Ms. Straight has published stories and essays in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Harper’s, Zoetrope, McSweeney’s and elsewhere. She was born in Riverside, CA, where she lives with her family.

Israel’s most celebrated novelist, Meir Shalev was born in 1948 in Nahalal, Israel’s first moshav. His books include A Pigeon and a Boy, winner of the 2008 National Jewish Book Award, and Russian Romance (The Blue Mountain), one of the top five bestsellers in Israeli publishing history. His numerous awards include the Brenner Prize, the Juliet Club Prize, and

Lydia Davis

Susan Straight

Marlon James

Meir Shalev

Ha Jin

Caryl Phillips

Lydia Davis

The Distinguished Writers Series

February 1 / 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall)

The series reminds the world that reading, writing, conversation, and laughter are related arts. The format is simple, the emotional reward complex. The writers read, have a conversation with the series curator, then engage in an open dialogue with the audience.

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which, Varieties of Disturbance, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. In 2009, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, nearly 200 stories in a volume of over 700 pages.

“ The rigors of creativity are best appreciated at close range in small rooms where ideas swerve and loop and float with the kind of inventiveness and assurance that makes the mind swirl ….”

– Colin Channer, Series Curator

Ms. Davis is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts

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Graphic women: comics, autobiography, and mapping memory

the Chiavari Prize. His nonfiction book of essays, Beginnings: Reflections on the Bible’s Intriguing Firsts, will be published by Doubleday in 2011. In this secular work, Shalev shadows the heroes and heroines of the Old Testament, directing our attention to the first kiss, the first laugh, the first love, the first hate, the first dream, the first spy, and more.

Alison Bechdel Since its inception in 1983, Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For has become a countercultural institution. The strip is syndicated in dozens of newspapers, translated into several languages, and collected in a series of awardwinning books. Comics Journal says, “Bechdel’s art distills the pleasures of Friends and The Nation; we recognize our world in it, with its sorrows and ironies.” In 2006, Houghton Mifflin published her graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.

The bestselling coming-of-age tale has been called a “mesmerizing feat of familial resurrection” and a “rare, prime example of why graphic novels have taken over the conversation about American literature.” Time magazine named Fun Home number one of its “10 Best Books of the Year.” Fun Home was a finalist for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award in the memoir/autobiography category.

It also won the 2007 Eisner Award for Best RealityBased Work.

Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel have created two of the most significant autobiographies of the 21st century—in comics form. Graphic Women will focus on how two of the most important living cartoonists have presented aspects of their lives in both words and images, for comics autobiographies have changed the field of contemporary narrative. How are lives mapped out in words and images? How does drawing, in addition to writing, capture memory?

How do images express the past? Bechdel has said, “I always felt like there was something inherently autobiographical about cartooning,” while Barry has remarked, “I always think of images as lowering the drawbridge where stuff can cross over—memory.”

What does this innovative form of comics bring to the presentation of private and public histories?

Ha Jin March 15 / 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall) Ha Jin is the award-winning author of five novels, four collections of stories, three volumes of poetry, and one collection of essays. He was raised in the People’s Republic of China and moved to the United States in 1985. He has written exclusively in English since 1990.

His novels include Waiting, winner of the 1999 National Book Award, and War Trash, winner of the 2005 PEN/ Faulkner Award. His story collections include Ocean of Words, winner of the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award, Under the Red Flag, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award, and A Good Fall, which was published in 2009.

His essay collection, The Writer as Migrant, appeared in 2008. He is currently a professor of English at Boston University.

Hillary Chute Hillary Chute is the Neubaeuer Family Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago and at the forefront of scholarship on graphic narrative and its relationship to more traditionally text-based literature. She is particularly interested in the connections between word and image, fiction and nonfiction, that can be found in contemporary comics, a field with roots in the 1970s but also connected to deeper histories of drawn reportage and visual witnessing. Her book Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics examines the graphic narrative work of five authors, including Alison Bechdel and Marjane Satrapi, arguing that the medium of comics has opened up new spaces for nonfiction narrative—particularly for expressing certain kinds of stories typically relegated to the realm of the private. Chute is associate editor of Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus and has written about comics and culture for venues including The Village Voice and the Believer.

Caryl Phillips March 29 / 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall) Caryl Phillips is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was born in St. Kitts, West Indies, and brought up in Leeds, England. He currently lives in New York. He is the author of numerous books of nonfiction and fiction, including Crossing the River, winner of the 1993 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, A Distant Shore, winner of the 2004 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, and Dancing in the Dark, winner of the 2006 PEN/Beyond Margins Award. He began his writing career in the theater. He has also written several dramas and documentaries for radio and television, including, in 1996, the three-hour film based on his own novel The Final Passage. He wrote the screenplays for the films Playing Away (1986) and the Merchant Ivory adaptation of V.S. Naipaul’s The Mystic Masseur (2001).

Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics April 14 / 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall) A lecture by Hillary Chute, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago, on comics and memoir, including analysis of Lynda Barry’s and Alison Bechdel’s work.

Mapping Memory: Readings by Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel April 15 / 7:30 PM

Roger Guenveur Smith — LIVE

Collins Cinema

Please see page 8 for more information

Readings by Lynda Barry and Alison Bechdel, followed by conversation moderated by Hillary Chute.

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Lynda Barry Lynda Barry has worked as a painter, cartoonist, writer, illustrator, playwright, editor, commentator, and teacher, and found they are very much alike. She is the inimitable creator behind Ernie Pook’s Comeek, featuring the incomparable Marlys and Freddy, as well as the books One! Hundred! Demons!, The! Greatest! of! Marlys!, Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel, Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies! Naked Ladies!, and The Good Times are Killing Me, which was adapted as an off-Broadway musical and won the Washington State Governor’s Award. Her bestselling and acclaimed book, What It Is, won the Eisner Award for Best Reality Based Graphic Novel and R.R. Donnelly Award for highest literary achievement by a Wisconsin author.

Its sequel, Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book, was published last fall.

All events are free and open to the public. www.newhouse-center.org

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The Davis Museum and cultural Center

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One of the oldest and most acclaimed academic fine arts museums in the United States, the Davis Museum and Cultural Center is a vital force in the intellectual, pedagogical, and social life of Wellesley College. Its mission is to create an environment that encourages visual literacy, inspires new ideas, and fosters involvement with the arts in the academy and in life.

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Fred Sandback Estate, Installation Views, Courtesy of Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston / Photo by Richard Howard

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On View October 5, 2010–March 6 Harold and Estelle Newman Tanner Gallery Joanne Larson Jobson Gallery Fred Sandback: Sculpture and Works on Paper stages the artist’s elegantly inventive acrylic yarn sculptures in the architectural environment of the Tanner Gallery, and features a dramatic triangular piece reaching from the saw-tooth atrium skylights to the Towne Gallery below. Two varied rotations of prints and drawings complement the installation.

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Fred Sandback: Sculpture and Works on Paper has been generously funded by the Wellesley College Friends of Art, and by the E. Franklin Robbins Art Museum Fund.

1, 2 Francis Alÿs. Still from Ambulantes, 1992–2006, 160 35mm slides, photograph courtesy of the artist / David Zwirner, New York 3, 4 Francis Alÿs. Still from Paradox of Praxis 1, 1997, video, 5 mins, photograph courtesy of the artist / David Zwirner, New York

with slides and studies, to demonstrate the diverse range of Alÿs’s artistic practice over the past 20 years.

This will be the artist’s first one-man show in the Boston area.

Francis Alÿs: The Moment Where Sculpture Happens On View February 16–June 5

Francis Alÿs is one of the leading figures on the international contemporary art scene. This exhibition highlights the Davis’s recent acquisition of Alÿs’s major painting triptych, Cityscape (1996–97), and related drawings, also on view.

Joan Levine Freedman ’57 and Richard I. Freedman Gallery Friends of Art Gallery Francis Alÿs: The Moment Where Sculpture Happens features the artist’s subtle performances and extended documentation of life in the congested colonial center of Mexico City. This multimedia presentation includes 35mm slide shows, video projections, and a light-table

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This exhibition is funded by the Wellesley College Friends of Art, whose generosity also made possible the acquisition of Francis Alÿs’s Cityscape.

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Each evening features an informative introduction, a film screening, and a lively discussion.

Time in the Sun (1949) February 21 / 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium A version by Marie Seton of avant-garde Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein’s unfinished Que Viva México! (1931), a meditation on Mexican culture and politics from the ancient Maya to the Revolution.

El Anatsui. Zebra Crossing III, 2009, Aluminum and copper wire, 61 x 107 inch. Photo courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery El Anatsui, Sacred Moon, 2007, Aluminum and copper wire, 103 x 141 inch. Photo courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery

El Anatsui: When I Last Wrote to You About Africa Please see page 6 for more information

Welcome back to the Davis

Paul Strand. Virgin, San Felipe, Oaxaca from The Mexican Portfolio, 1933, photogravure, Wellesley College Art Library

February 16 / 6:00–8:00 PM

The Wave (1934)

Family Day at the Davis: Working like El

February 28 / 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

May 1 / 1:00-3:00 PM

Directed by Fred Zinnemann and Emilio Gómez Muriel, and sponsored by the Mexican government, this tale of class struggle set in the fishing village of Alvarado on the Gulf of Veracruz features captivating images by Paul Strand and a score by Silvestre Revueltas.

Davis Museum Plaza Children of all ages and adults with an inner child are invited to the Davis for an interactive afternoon of learning and play. Following an exploration of the numerous materials used by El Anatsui in his works, join us on the plaza for crafts using materials that tell a story.

Río Escondido (1948)

Davis Museum lobby and galleries Join us to celebrate Francis Alÿs: The Moment Where Sculpture Happens, Santos y Pecadores: Cinematic Drama in the Mexican Portfolios of Paul Strand and Leopoldo Méndez, and Fred Sandback: Sculpture and Works on Paper.

Conversation: The Moment Where Sculpture Happens February 23 / 5:00 PM Collins Cinema Leopoldo Méndez. El Bruto (The Brute) from the series Rio Escondido (Hidden River), 1948, linocut, Gift of Margaret S. Travers (Margaret Strauss, Class of 1966), 2001.67.1

Visiting artist Francis Alÿs in conversation with exhibition curator James Oles, senior lecturer in the Art Department at Wellesley College and adjunct curator of Latin American art at the Davis.

Santos y Pecadores: Cinematic Drama in the Mexican Portfolios of Paul Strand and Leopoldo Méndez

Annual Ruth Morris Bakwin Lecture March 31 / 6:00 PM

On View February 16–June 5

Jewett Auditorium

Morelle Lasky Levine ’56 Works on Paper Gallery

Internationally renowned Ghanaian artist El Anatsui in conversation with Lisa Binder (assistant curator, Museum for African Art, New York) and Chika OkekeAgulu (assistant professor, Princeton University).

On the occasion of the opening of his retrospective exhibition at the Davis Museum, El Anatsui discusses his work with exhibition curator Lisa Binder, and one of the authors of the exhibition catalogue, Chika Okeke-Agulu. Co-sponsored by the Art Department and the Davis Museum.

Santos y Pecadores, an innovative installation of photographs, prints, and film features the work of pioneering modernist photographer Paul Strand and major Mexican graphic artist Leopoldo Méndez. The exhibition examines how the juncture of visual arts and cinema addressed a critical point in Mexican art, society, and revolutionary politics.

This exhibition is funded by the Wellesley College Friends of Art.

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March 7 / 7:00 PM

Lecture: Social Protest in Photography and Printmaking

Jewett Auditorium This melodrama, directed by Emilio Fernández, is an emblematic production of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema; it features a schoolteacher’s heroic attempts to bring education and health to a remote village.

April 14 / 11:10 AM Jewett Auditorium Professor and Adjunct Curator James Oles discusses social protest in photography and printmaking as part of Art 237, Mexican Art and Architecture from the Conquest to Today, followed by a tour of the exhibition Santos y Pecadores: Cinematic Drama in the Mexican Portfolios of Paul Strand and Leopoldo Méndez.

Salt of the Earth (1954) March 28 / 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium Directed by Herbert J. Biberman during the height of the McCarthy era, and denounced as subversive on its release, Salt of the Earth chronicles a labor strike by Mexican-American and Anglo miners in New Mexico.

Lecture: Contemporary Art and Mexico City

Open Classes are special sessions of Wellesley College courses held in conjunction with Davis Museum exhibitions and collections. They are open to the public and free of charge.

May 5 / 11:10 AM Jewett Auditorium Professor and Adjunct Curator James Oles discusses how contemporary artists have used Mexico City as both medium and message as part of Art 237, Mexican Art and Architecture from the Conquest to Today, followed by a tour of the exhibition Francis Alÿs: The Moment Where Sculpture Happens.

All events are free and open to the public. www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu Museum Hours Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM Wednesday until 8:00 PM Sunday, 12:00 PM–4:00 PM Closed Mondays, major holidays, and campus recesses.

Open Class: Film Screenings Series

Open to the public and organized in conjunction with Santos y Pecadores and ArtH 338, Imagining Mexico and the Border in Film, this “open class” series is co-sponsored by the Davis and the Art Department.

Schedule a Tour! Please call 781.283.3382 The Davis Museum and Cultural Center is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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Randall Hodgkinson, Piano Preludes February 23 / 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

THE Concert Series Organized by the Department of Music, the Concert Series brings world-class performers to campus, complementing the department’s academic offerings and augmenting the cultural life of the College and surrounding community. With concerts ranging from early music to jazz, the series features both visiting artists and members of the performing faculty.

Ensemble-in-Residence Boston Modern Orchestra Project

Randall Hodgkinson, a member of the Wellesley College Performance Faculty, has been described by The Boston Globe as a pianist of the “highest level of artistry.” The grand prize winner of the International American Music Competition sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the Rockefeller Foundation, Hodgkinson appears frequently as recitalist and soloist with major orchestras, including those of Philadelphia, Boston, Atlanta, Buffalo, the American Symphony, the Orchestra of Illinois, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. His midday concert will include preludes

by Frédéric Chopin and Gabriel Fauré.

Photo by Lisa-Marie Mazzucco

gained acclaim as an adventurous violinist with a wideranging repertoire. She has created a sensation with appearances as soloist with Pierre Boulez and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, at Wigmore Hall, and Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival. Described as “the real thing” by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Frautschi’s performance at Wellesley will include Clara Schumann’s Three Romances, Op. 22, Brahms’s Sonatensatz for Violin and Piano, and Robert Schumann’s Sonata No. 2 in D Minor. The Chamber Music Society at Wellesley College will open Frautschi’s concert with a 15-minute performance.

professional series

Gil Rose, Artistic Director

The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) is in residence at Wellesley College for the 2010–2011 academic year. BMOP is dedicated to commissioning, performing, and recording new orchestral music.

Throughout the year, musicians of this premier orchestra will interact with music department student performers, composers, and music historians, teaching master classes, coaching ensembles, and visiting classrooms. They will offer the College and the wider community three free public performances.

Photo by Kate Schroeder

Refuge Trio February 25 / 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium “ Expect the unexpected with the Refuge Trio.”

–The New Yorker

Monsters of Modernism January 29 / 8:00 PM

The Music Department Honors Concert

Houghton Chapel

February 13 / 8:00 PM (Reception to follow)

Pre-concert talk with composer Martin Brody / 7:00 PM

Jewett Auditorium

Music by Milton Babbitt, Phillip Glass, and the world premiere of Touching Bottom by Wellesley College faculty member Martin Brody.

The music department at Wellesley College fosters an environment in which students combine serious musical study with the depth and richness of a traditional liberal arts curriculum. An important component of the music department, the Performance Program gives students the opportunity to take instrumental/vocal private instruction with faculty and prepare for professional careers in music. This concert will showcase eight women who have exhibited exceptional promise as performing musicians.

Bang Theory April 14 / 8:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Music by Bang on a Can composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe.

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Boundary Line Jazz and World Music Faculty Concert

Refuge Trio takes its name from the Joni Mitchell song “Refuge of the Roads.” The trio, formed to play at the 2002 Wall-to-Wall Joni Mitchell Marathon Concert at Symphony Space in New York, combines the talents of pianist Gary Versace, vocalist Theo Bleckmann, and percussionist John Hollenbeck.

Their unique voices also play an essential role in the ensembles of Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Bob Brookmeyer, John Scofield, and Maria Schneider.

Refuge Trio’s music is delicate and playful, mysterious and exuberant.

April 2 / 8:00 PM (Reception to follow) Jewett Auditorium “ It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the border lies between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line.” –Duke Ellington A cherished annual event, this year’s Jazz and World Music faculty concert will explore music that defies the boundary lines between genres. Through improvisation, the walls between jazz, pop, world music, and classical composition will disappear. Performers include: Kris Adams, voice; Glorianne Collver-Jacobson, guitar; Mark Henry, bass; Greg Hopkins, trumpet; Doug Johnson, piano; Steve Langone, drums; Lance Martin, flute; Cercie Miller, saxophones; Kera Washington, percussion and voice; and Paula Zeitlin, violin.

Jennifer Frautschi, Violin March 12 / 7:45 PM Houghton Chapel Jennifer Frautschi, recipient of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant for talented instrumentalists, has

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Organ Builder’s 50th anniversary as a company, Wellesley performance faculty member James David Christie will present a program, “In Praise of Sweelinck, the Orpheus of Amsterdam.” Acclaimed as one of the finest organists of his generation, Christie has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan in solo concerts and with major symphony orchestras under such conductors as Ozawa, Masur, Tennstedt, Dutoit, Bernstein, Davis, Norrington, Pinnock, Parrott, and Hogwood.

Triple Helix Piano Trio and Wellesley Chamber Singers April 13 / 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium The Triple Helix Piano Trio was formed in 1995 by three award-winning chamber musicians and soloists: Bayla Keyes, founding violinist of the awardwinning Muir String Quartet; Rhonda Rider, founding cellist of the Lydian String Quartet; and pianist Lois Shapiro, winner of the New York Concert Artists Guild Award. Composer Yu-Hui Chang was awarded a commissioning grant from the Barlow Endowment to write a new work for piano trio and women’s chamber choir with text by Wellesley faculty poet Frank Bidart. It will premiere at Wellesley College on April 16, 2011. This lecture-recital will include a special advance performance of the piece and provide insight into the creative minds (performer, composer, and poet) that collaborated in bringing this new music to life.

series, often in collaboration with choral programs such as those of Harvard, Cornell, Virginia, and Rutgers. Its spring program, in collaboration with Triple Helix Piano Trio, will feature Mozart’s Requiem (with faculty soloists Andrea Matthews and Marion Dry) and the world premiere of a new work for choir and piano trio by Yu-Hui Chang.

Student Ensembles

Yanvalou Kera Washington, Director April 30 / 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium Yanvalou is an ensemble that performs the traditional music of Africa and the Caribbean. The ensemble provides students with an opportunity to perform on authentic instruments and to experience a variety of cultures through their music. Performances are presented in collaboration with the Harambee dancers.

Wellesley BlueJazz Cercie Miller, Director

Sense and Sensibility: The Musical

April 29 / 7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

Please see page 10 for more information

Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra Neal Hampton, Conductor April 10 / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel The Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra is composed of students, faculty, staff, and associates of Wellesley College and Brandeis University. Uniting the standards of excellence associated with Wellesley and Brandeis, the orchestra brings inspiring performances of the great orchestral literature—past and present—to a new generation of musicians and audiences. Their spring program will include Mahler’s Symphony No. 1.

Wellesley College Choir, Chamber Singers, and Triple Helix Piano Trio Lisa Graham, Director

James David Christie, Organ

Mozart’s Requiem, and a World Premiere by Yu-Hui Chang

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Fisk Organ, and the 50th Anniversary of C.B. Fisk Organ Builders

April 16 / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel

May 7 / 8:00 PM

Wellesley’s choral ensembles allow students from all disciplines and backgrounds to experience the exhilaration and joy of performing great choral music in beautiful venues with excellent musicians. Consisting of approximately 50 singers, the Wellesley College Choir enjoys a 100-year history of dedication to the performance of great choral literature. The Choir regularly performs in Boston-area professional concert

Houghton Chapel (Reception to follow) Wellesley’s organ, built by the late Charles Brenton Fisk, is considered one of the three most important historic organs in America, and was designed specifically for the performance of north German organ music of the 17th century. To celebrate this magnificent instrument’s 30 years at the College and C.B. Fisk

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Chamber Music Society

Wellesley BlueJazz provides students with the opportunity to develop and nurture their love of jazz— one of the most vibrant American contemporary art forms. Composed of a large ensemble as well as smaller combos, BlueJazz plays contemporary and classic jazz repertoire, including the music of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and Duke Ellington. The ensemble performs several times each year, and presents joint concerts with other groups from Wellesley and colleges in the Boston area.

David Russell, Director Jenny Tang, Assistant Director Chamber Music Marathon May 1 / 2:00–6:00 PM Jewett Auditorium The Wellesley College Chamber Music Society (CMS) offers the opportunity to explore and perform the classical repertoire for small ensembles— including strings, winds, guitar, harp, piano, harpsichord, and voice—and to be coached weekly by members of the music department faculty. Each semester culminates in a series of concerts given by participants. This year, the CMS is home to some 20 student ensembles.

Collegium Musicum Tom Zajac, Director The Cloistered Muse: Nun Composers and Musicians in 17th Century Northern Italy April 30 / 2:00 PM Houghton Chapel The Collegium specializes in the performance of music from the Middle Ages to the late 17th century; its spring program will explore music by nuns in 17th century Italy. Recent research into the musical programs of Renaissance and early Baroque Italian convents have yielded musical compositions stunning in both their numbers and quality. These sacred works by women composers have only recently been brought to light, and show a quality and sophistication equal to those of their contemporary male composers. Alongside these choral works, Collegium instrumentalists will perform several early Italian sonatas and dances.

All events are free and open to the public. web.wellesley.edu/web/Acad/Music

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ART AND SOUL AT THE MULTIFAITH CENTER The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (ORSL) at Wellesley strives to embody the College’s historic belief that education is both an intellectual and spiritual journey.

With this mission in mind, ORSL has developed Art and Soul as a program to foster a community exploration of spirituality and the arts.

daughter are dragged into the fray. What starts as one man’s environmental experiment quickly becomes a test of what one woman is willing to sacrifice for her husband’s dreams. Laura Gabbert and Justin Schein’s film documents what became a national fascination and media sensation. No Impact Man is a narrative about our consumer society, a love story, and a portrait of a contemporary marriage.

Art and Soul events Coordinated by the Office of Religious and Spiritual Life, Houghton Chapel and Multifaith Center is host to concerts, performances, and educational programs on the themes of spirituality and religious pluralism.

Libana March 10 / 7:00 PM Multifaith Center Libana is a global music ensemble that illuminates the creativity, vision, and spirit of the world’s women through the performance of traditional and contemporary music and dance. By raising awareness and appreciation for diverse cultural expressions and the universal themes that unite us all, Libana inspires intercultural understanding, healing, and peace building.

and transformation. Toni Bergins, MEd, has been developing JourneyDance since 1997; she has danced with more than 75,000 people.

Art and Soul Café The Art and Soul Café is an evening of community celebration focused on the themes of spirituality and the arts. It features performances by guest artists as well as open-mike sessions, during which community members are invited to share their talents. Delicious treats will nourish the body, and positive performances feed the soul.

Poetry and Music from the Jewish and Muslim Worlds March 8 / 7:00 PM Multifaith Center Join students, faculty, and staff for an evening of poetry and music from the Jewish and Muslim worlds.

Poetry readings and musical pieces will include a variety of languages and cultures, with themes ranging from the sacred to the political. The event will be co-hosted by David Bernat, Jewish chaplain, and Najiba Akbar, Muslim chaplain.

No Impact Man: Environmental Awareness Film Screening and Discussion with Colin Beavan, Co-producer

JourneyDance with Toni Bergins

April 26 / 7:00 PM

February 24 / 7:00 PM

Multifaith Center

Multifaith Center

Author Colin Beavan began the No Impact Project in November of 2006. Initially a research project for his next book, the newly self-proclaimed environmentalist leaves behind his liberal complacency and vows to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year. No automated transportation, no electricity, no non-local food, no material consumption—no problem. That is, until his espresso-guzzling, retailworshipping wife, Michelle, and their 2-year-old

JourneyDance is a celebration that will have you loving your body and loving your life! Weaving simple, guided movement sequences with free exploration, JourneyDance reconnects you with your innate state of joyous well-being. Your mind becomes clear, free, and positive, and your body feels supple, energized, and powerful. Paired with inspiring world music, your dance is an empowering journey to self-acceptance

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HaMapah / The Map

By Adam McKinney February 12 / 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium “ I am the map, the quilt, and the tablecloth of those who have come before me. While rethreading the links, I consider our struggle to stay connected to each other as I uncover resistance of my non-Black, Jewish and Black, non-Jewish families.” –Adam McKinney

Jose Obando

HaMapah is a multimedia dance performance that traces the intersections of dancer Adam McKinney’s multiple heritages: maternal ancestors from Russia, Poland, Austria, Galicia, and Spain; paternal ancestors from Benin, Arkansas, Missouri, and Wisconsin. In Hebrew, HaMapah means “the tablecloth” or “the map.” HaMapah weaves contemporary dance with archival material, personal interviews, Yiddish and American songs, and video set to traditional, contemporary, and classical music.

Co-Sponsored by Wellesley College Hillel.

April 28 / 7:00 PM Multifaith Center Jose Obando, musicologist, will teach us the cultural history behind the sounds and sensations that make salsa come alive. The program presents instruments, music, and lyrics used in African, Taino, and Spanish Catholic cultures as the base for salsa. When Jose Obando and his musicians perform, the audience will be sure to get up and dance! Co-Sponsored by Multicultural Programs, Office of the Latina Advisor.

Tickets may be purchased at www.jccgb.org.

A portion of the proceeds from this performance will be contributed to DNAWorks (Dialogue and Healing through the Arts), founded by Daniel Banks and Adam McKinney, which is dedicated to furthering artistic expression and dialogue, focusing on issues of identity, culture, class, and heritage.

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A Festival of One-Act Plays February 10–13 Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Free to Wellesley, Babson, and Olin students with ID

Theatre

$5 general admission Wellesley College Theatre Phone: 781.283.2000

The Department of Theatre Studies at Wellesley College provides students with the opportunity to explore the history and literature of the theatre, and then bring their knowledge from the classroom to a hands-on application of the craft. To facilitate this essential experiential learning, the department hosts three active performing programs on campus: Wellesley Summer Theatre, Wellesley College Theatre, and the Upstage Series.

Upstage Series

The Department of Theatre Studies is delighted to welcome audiences to the newly renovated Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall for the 2010–2011 season.

By David Henry Hwang

Upstage productions are student produced and directed. They provide Wellesley College students the opportunity to explore all aspects of working independently in theatre.

Yellow Face Directed by Kat Chen March 10–13 Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

Wellesley Summer Theatre for Children

What makes people who they are? Is it the color of their skin or the content of their character? This question and more are asked in David Henry Hwang’s semi-autobiographical documentary-style play Yellow Face, in which an Asian-American playwright, in response to a blatant act of “yellow face” casting, hires the perfect actor to play his Asian-American leading role—only to find out later that he is actually white. Intersecting with the Donorgate scandals of the 1990s, this play is a humorous, zany, and ultimately moving study of what it means to be an American, and the lengths people will go to save their “face.”

June 18–19 and June 25–26 Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall $20 general admission $10 for seniors and students An exciting musical production written and created by Wellesley Summer Theatre company members; yet to be unveiled!

Wellesley Summer Theatre Company

Nine Armenians

By Leslie Ayvazian

Wellesley Summer Theatre Company is the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Wellesley College.

Wellesley Summer Theatre Phone: 781.283.2000

Directed by Nora Hussey June 2–26 Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre Thursdays / 7:00 PM

Sense and Sensibility: The Musical

Fridays / 8:00 PM Saturdays / 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM

Please see page 10 for more information

Sundays / 3:00 PM

The Shape of Things

Wellesley College Theatre

By Neil Labute Directed by Josephine Ho

Under the direction of the Department of Theatre Studies, performances feature cast members from the Wellesley College, Olin College, Babson College, and the Boston theatre community.

April 14–17 Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre Free to Wellesley, Babson, and Olin students with ID $5 general admission

Three generations of an Armenian-American family yell, dance, carry food around, play tambourines, rollerblade, cry, scream, laugh, and support each other. When daughter Ani, 21, travels to Armenia, she learns more of her history and troubled heritage.

When she returns, she learns much from her recently widowed grandmother, Non, who teaches her how to incorporate this new knowledge into her life. In doing so, Ani empowers her mother, who embarks on her own pilgrimage to the homeland. These are kindhearted people, embracing life even as they discover their historical tragedies.

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The Shape of Things questions what people are willing to do for love. Set in a small university town in the American Midwest, the play centers on the lives of four young students who become emotionally and romantically involved with each other.

Upstage Series Phone: 781.283.2220

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THE ART DEPARTMENT: EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES

century Europe. It combines Rococo and exotic ornament prints, genre scenes, and fantasy views by such artists as Antoine Watteau, William Hogarth, and Giovanni Battista Piranesi with French furnishings and decorative arts to suggest the rich interrelationship among interiors and new ideas of interiority, taste, and morality in this period.

Organized in conjunction with the Spring 2011 seminar ARTH 325, the show will feature a catalogue and gallery talks given by students enrolled in this course.

Jewett Art Gallery John Udvardy. Bonampak, painted wood, wood, and fired clay, 29.5 x 28 x 10 inch

The Department of Art is home to art history, studio art, architecture, and media arts at Wellesley. Each year, the department brings guest lecturers, exhibits, films, and visiting artists to the campus and community. The Jewett Gallery is the department’s teaching gallery; it hosts exhibits generated by faculty for teaching purposes as well as exhibits of student work.

John Udvardy: A Sculptor’s Vision On view March 16–April 20 Opening reception April 7 / 4:45–6:00 PM Gallery talk April 8 / 1:30 PM John Udvardy’s sculptures, drawings, and collages invite us into one of the most rarified of experiences— an unforgettable vehicle for contemplation. His work is masterfully crafted and imbued with secrets, like our own elusive memories and dreams that we forget at our peril. Udvardy’s work is one of the strangest and most satisfying visual experiences one can have: it is as if his work transports all the senses, giving sight, smell, proportion, and silence a raw, unpolluted collective power, like wisps of the seemingly lost, yet re-discovered, essential.

Jessica Straus. Brass pants, mixed media, 2010

Trigger and Reconfigure On view January 22–February 21 Opening Reception January 27 / 4:45–6:00 PM

Exhibition of Senior Theses

Artists: Laura Evans, Abigail Read, Antoinette Winters, and Jessica Straus.

On view May 1–31

Curated by Antoinette Winters and Jessica Straus

Thomas Rowlandson. Christie’s Auction Room, from the series The Microcosm of London (published 1808–1810), 1808, etching and aquatint hand-colored with watercolor. Bequest of Virginia E. Lewis (Class of 1929). From the collection of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

Rococo and Neoclassical Interiors On view January 18–May 6 The Davis Museum

Gabriel Huquier. L’Escarpolette: La Voltigeuse (The Age of Elegance), 18th century. Pen and black ink and wash with black chalk and white gouache. Gift of the Art Department Faculty in honor of Mary Cooper Jewett (Class of 1923). From the collection of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

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A work of art begins with an encounter between an object or image and the artist. The found form, not necessarily interesting or beautiful to others, is so compelling to the artist that it must be engaged with, seized. Intuitively the artist understands the possibilities this form offers for reinvention. The making of art is a dialogue—grappling, coaxing, and nudging of form until a new light or life emerges.

Exhibition of Student Photography

Gallery Talks in March and April; check museum website for specific dates

On view February 4–March 13

This multimedia exhibition showcases objects from the Davis Museum’s permanent collection related to the design and use of interiors in 18th and early 19th

This exhibition highlights photography works by students in Professor Christine Rogers’ Photo 208 course.

www.wellesley.edu/Art jewettgallery.wordpress.com

Opening Reception March 1 / 4:45–6:00 PM

Gallery Hours Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00–5:00 PM Gallery hours subject to change when school is not in session.

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ARTS AND THE LIBERAL ARTS The arts are a vibrant part of the greater intellectual community at Wellesley College. Every year, various academic departments bring art and artists from all over the world to campus to enrich their own curriculum and enliven the cultural life of the greater Wellesley community.

A.R.F. Webber— A Caribbean Visionary World Premiere Film Screening

In the Time of Tolstoy: Late 19th-Century Russian Poetry and Song

February 28 / 7:00 PM

Suzanne Ehly, Mezzo-soprano

Collins Cinema

March 9 / 8:00 PM

Based on Wellesley faculty member Selwyn Cudjoe’s Caribbean Visionary: A.R.F. Webber and the Making of the Guyanese Nation (2009, University of Mississippi Press), this film traces the life of a major intellectual who struggled for justice against colonialism. Albert Raymond Forbes Webber (1880–1932) was a distinguished Caribbean scholar, statesman, legislator, and novelist. His life is a lens for viewing the Guyanese struggle for justice and equality in an age of colonialism, imperialism, and indentureship.

Documentary filmmaker Talaya Grimes, scholar Paul Tennessee, Webber’s granddaughter, Jennifer Welshman, and Selwyn Cudjoe will hold a public conversation following the screening.

Jewett Auditorium In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Lev Tolstoy’s death, Soprano Suzanne Ehly will perform music by Chaikovskii, Musorgskii, Rimskii-Korsakov, and Rakhmaninov.

Michal Held Poetry and Personal Narratives: The JudeoSpanish (Ladino) Culture as an Imagined Community and a Portable Homeland April 12 / 6:00 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall) In the words of Michal Held, author, professor, and researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Center for Research on Jewish Language and Literatures, the Jewish language has historically functioned as a “portable homeland.” In her lecture, Michal Held will explore the confluence of Jewish and Spanish culture and language by reflecting on her own Ladino history as well as collected personal narratives from her book Come, I’ll Tell you / Ven, te Kontare. In doing so, she will raise questions about the journey toward finding refuge in imagined communities.

Barynya March 2 / 7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

Navarasa Dance Theater

Houghton Chapel

dialogue. The performance features a dance performed on a 12-foot-high wooden pillar and martial arts sequences with bamboo cane weaponry. All these elements are integrated seamlessly into the story of a remarkable woman, a peasant rebel named Dopdi.

Navarasa Dance Theater’s newest production, Encounter, addresses issues of exclusion and military violence through a unique presentation of Indian contemporary dance, martial arts, live singing, and

Led by artistic directors Aparna Sindhoor and Anil Natyaveda, NDT has toured their original works of dance theater throughout North America, Europe, and India to wide critical acclaim. www.navarasa.org

Encounter February 20 / 7:00 PM

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Russian music, dance and song ensemble Barynya, directed by Mikhail Smirnov, is considered the premier Russian folk ensemble outside of Russia.

Barynya presents Russian, Cossack, Ukrainian, Russian Jewish, and Russian Gypsy traditional dancing, music, songs, and virtuoso performances, and have performed at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, and the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.

All events are free and open to the public

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about wellesley

The world’s preeminent college for women, Wellesley is known for its intellectual rigor, its belief in the enduring importance of service, and its cultivation of an inclusive, pragmatic approach to leadership.

We take great pride in what we produce here: women who know how to succeed in every arena, public and personal, while keeping their values intact; women who bring worldchanging vision and an inimitable sense of purpose to even the smallest endeavor; women who understand that effective leadership means tempering the exercise of power with the commitment to serve. And as the sense of what it means to be an effective leader evolves, the crucial role that women are playing in making the world a better place is becoming increasingly apparent.

Preparing women for this role is perhaps Wellesley’s unique strength.

From the moment they step onto the campus, our students are cultivating not only their minds, but an aspirational drive and sense of responsibility. They know they are carrying forward a very special legacy, one in which purposeful leadership is a way of life, regardless of the life they choose — and one in which they are committed to taking their place at the table, to getting things done, to making a difference.

Visiting Wellesley

Just 12 miles from Boston, Wellesley’s rich and diverse arts scene feels worlds away. Nearby neighbors and Bostonians alike will discover that Wellesley is a wonderful untapped resource for cultural and intellectual pursuits.

Attending an event at Wellesley is as stress free as it is affecting.

Parking is free and readily accessible, our performance spaces are intimate and inviting, and the nearby town of Wellesley offers a variety of fine restaurants. Or join students and faculty on campus for a lively meal at the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center, affectionately called the Lulu. The Wellesley College Club is another option for lunch or dinner.

Take in the celebrated landscape and architecture.

Combine your visit to Wellesley with a stroll through the grounds and see if you don’t feel as inspired by our surroundings as by our guest artists. Designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., the campus is an historic landmark that showcases the work of distinguished architects, including Ralph Adams Cram, Paul Rudolph, and Raphael Moneo.

Podcast tours are available at the Davis Museum—check out Landscape and Architecture and walk with Professor John Rhodes as he presents highlights of the campus.

You’ll see Wellesley’s Alumnae Valley—honored in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum for returning a parking lot to native wetland. Pause on the shores of Lake Waban to take in the elaborate topiary garden on the far shore. And don’t miss the Botanical Gardens, featuring specimens from around the world and its own butterfly garden.

Leave Inspired.

Even if you visit for just an afternoon or an evening, you’ll find Wellesley will leave you feeling renewed and enriched.

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