Arts at Wellesley Fall 2012 Calendar by Wellesley College Alumnae Association

WELLESLEY ARTS AND CULTURE EVENTS Calendar FALL 2012

Ca l e ndar of events

08 08/27–09/28

In the Works: Exhibition Jewett Art Gallery

09 09/10 (Mon)

In the Works: Opening Reception 4:45 PM–6:00 PM Jewett Art Gallery 09/11 (Tue)

Arts and Culture at Wellesley

Fall 2012

Author Sheryl WuDunn: Half the Sky 4:15 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall 09/12–12/16

A Generous Medium Photography at Wellesley 1972–2012 the Davis. 09/12 (Wed)

A Generous Medium Keynote Address Eugenia Parry 5:00 PM Collins Cinema 09/12 (Wed)

Alex Brown: The Pop Up Photo Booth 6:00 PM–8:00 PM Davis Museum Plaza 09/12 (Wed)

A Generous Medium Opening Celebration 6:30 PM Davis Museum Lobby and Galleries 09/13 (Thu)

The Goldman Lecture: Douglas Elmendorf 8:00 PM Tishman Commons

09/13 (Thu)

09/29 (Sat)

10/16 (Tue)

A Generous Medium Teacher Workshop

Family Day at the Davis.

4:00 PM Davis Museum Lobby and Galleries

11:00 AM–1:00 PM Davis Museum Lobby and Galleries

Distinguished Writers Series: Joy Harjo

09/16 (Sun)

Screening: Ivan’s Childhood 3:00 PM Collins Cinema 09/19 (Wed)

The Wilson Lecture: E.J. Dionne 8:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall 09/22 (Sat)

Wellesley Classical Faculty in Concert 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel 09/23 (Sun)

Screening: Photogs on Film Susan Meiselas on Pictures from a Revolution 3:00 PM Collins Cinema 09/27 (Thu)

Distinguished Writers Series: Nathan Englander 4:30 PM Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 09/27 (Thu)

River of Fire: Evening with Sister Helen Prejean 7:00 PM Houghton Chapel 09/27–09/29 (Thu–Sat)

Actors From The London Stage: The Merchant of Venice 7:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

09/30 (Sun)

Screening: Four Nights of a Dreamer

4:30 PM Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 10/17–01/11

3:00 PM Collins Cinema

Provisional Aesthetics, Rehearsing History

the Davis.

10/03 (Wed)

Steve Langone Group

10/17 (Wed)

PoemJazz: Robert Pinsky with Laurence Hobgood and Stan Strickland

12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

7:00 PM Location TBA

10/03 (Wed)

10/18–10/21 (Thu–Sun)

Afro Flow Yoga 7:00 PM Multifaith Center, Houghton Chapel 10/10 (Wed)

Provisional Aesthetics Lecture: Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency 5:00 PM–7:00 PM Babson College, Sorenson Center for the Arts Theater 10/13 (Sat)

Galileo’s Muse 8:00 PM Science Center Focus 10/14 (Sun)

Screening: The Sacrifice 3:00 PM Collins Cinema 10/15 (Mon)

Debate: 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts 7:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

A Night of Ionesco: The Bald Soprano and The Chairs Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre 10/20 (Sat)

Classical Jam 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel 10/21–10/28 (Sun–Sun)

Circles of Healing: Tibetan Sand Mandala 10:00 AM–5:30 PM Houghton Chapel 10/23 (Tue)

Everybody’s a Critic! A Panel Discussion on the Art of Criticism 4:30 PM Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 10/24 (Wed)

The Critical Eye: Photography Now Reception 4:30 PM–5:30 PM Panel Discussion 5:30 PM Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities

11/05 (Mon)

11/14 (Wed)

12/05 (Wed)

Provisional Aesthetics Lecture: An-My Lê

Lecture: Architect Paul Rudolph and American Modernism in the 1950s

The Afro-Semitic Experience

3:00 PM Collins Cinema 11/04 (Sun)

The Jubilee Trio 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 PM Multifaith Center Main Room

11/12 (Mon)

Distinguished Writers Series: Geoff Dyer 4:30 PM Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 11/14 (Wed)

Kinan Azmeh and City Band 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

12/02 (Sun)

Screening: Russian Ark 3:00 PM Collins Cinema 12/02 (Sun)

Vespers 7:30 PM Houghton Chapel

3:00 PM Collins Cinema

ST Y E A TR EN Botanic Garden Visitor Center

01/10–02/03

12/03 (Mon)

Holiday

Chamber Music Society

Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

Wellesley College Club

Multifaith Center (Chapel)

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Tupelo Lane

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Academic Quad

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Severance Green

Davis Museum Collins Cinema

Pendleton

Chamber Music Society

Admission Office

East Campus

Newhouse Center

Hunnewell Arboretum

Science Center

Whitin Observatory Alexandra Botanic Garden

CENTRAL STREET – ROUTE 135

A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley................. 4

12/10 (Mon)

7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

Critics and Commentary...................................................... 2 The Merchant of Venice....................................................... 6 College Buildings

1:00 PM Houghton Chapel

8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

12/09 (Sun)

Screening: Photogs on Film Laura McPhee on The Searchers

Table of Contents

Public Buildings

Wellesley College Choir The Dober Concert: Journeys

12/01 (Sat)

Yanvalou

2:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

West Campus

11/11 (Sun)

12/09 (Sun)

Chamber Music Society

Through the arts, we learn to tackle that which at first seems incomprehensible. The triumph that comes from newfound knowledge—or knowledge found anew—is sublime, and the innovation it inspires is transformative and far-reaching. This fall, immerse yourself in the arts at Wellesley. The programs featured in this calendar are free of charge and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Lake Waban

11/04 (Sun)

Screening: Photogs on Film Aberaldo Morell on Vertigo

3:00 PM Collins Cinema

7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

8:00 PM Houghton Chapel

Alumnae Valley

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

11/11 (Sun)

Screening: Stalker

11/30 (Fri)

BlueJazz Strings and Combos

12/08 (Sat)

Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra

Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall & Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

11/01 (Thu)

The Mary L. Cornille Lecture: Nancy Cott

4:00 PM Collins Cinema

7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

Wang Campus Center

11/10 (Sat)

Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age

11/18 (Sun)

The Carey Concert: Charles Fisk, Piano

12/07 (Fri)

BlueJazz Big Band

Tishman Commons

6:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

7:00 PM Houghton Chapel

Visitor Parking

10/31 (Wed)

Dan Kwong: Center of the Universe

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

At Wellesley, the arts demand more than passive observation or mere participation—they challenge us to awaken our keenest intellect and bring our most creative selves to every endeavor. The resulting impact is both immediate and lifelong.

Kinan Azmeh City Band....................................................... 8 The Newhouse Center for the Humanities........................ 10 The Art Department and Cinema & Media Studies........... 13 Theatre............................................................................... 16 The Davis........................................................................... 18 The Art of Good Taste........................................................ 21 The Concert Series............................................................ 22

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

11/8–11/11 (Thu–Sun)

11/14 (Wed)

Where Heaven Meets Earth: Opening Reception

DOWNTOWN WELLESLEY

10/30 (Tue)

Distinguished Writers Series: Mat Johnson and Tracy Smith

The Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

WEST ENTRY

3:00 PM Collins Cinema

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

12/06–12/9 (Thu–Sun)

Houghton Chapel

TO NATICK

Screening: Distant

Lecture: Tarkovsky’s Stalker

7:00 PM Pendleton Concert Salon

Au dJ ewe t t itor ium

10/28 (Sun)

Where Heaven Meets Earth: Exhibition

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11/07 (Wed)

11/14–11/20 (Wed–Tue)

12/06 (Thu)

Chamber Music Society

8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

10/27 (Sat)

5:00 PM Jewett Arts Center, Room 450

ARTS AND CULTURE at wellesley

7:00 PM Houghton Chapel

Russian Cello Music from Davydof to Schnittke

6:00 PM Collins Cinema Reception to follow at 7:30 PM Davis Museum Lobby and Galleries

5:00 PM Olin College

Wellesley Campus Map Child Study Center

10/25 (Thu)

Provisional Aesthetics Lecture: Danh Vo

Art and Soul at the Multifaith Center.................................. 26 Arts and the Liberal Arts..................................................... 28 The Spoken Word.............................................................. 30 About Wellesley................................................................. 32

8:00 PM Pendleton Concert Salon

Visiting Wellesley............................................................... 33

12/04 (Tue)

Collegium Musicum 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel

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Cindy Sherman, detail from Untitled (Bus Riders), 1976/2005. 20 black and white photographs, 8 x 10 in. Museum purchase with funds provided by Wellesley College Friends of Art, 2012.17. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.

ARTS AND CULTURE at Wellesley

FALL 2012

Critics and criticism We take as this fall’s theme the sweeping concept of Critics and Criticism. Expanding traditional literary, cultural, and theoretical notions of “criticism,” we construe our theme to imply thought, art practice, or performance that entails reflection and comments on experience.

I can’t imagine a more perfect art form, a more perfect career than criticism. I can’t imagine anything more valuable to do, and I've always felt that way. —Manny Farber, American film critic (1917–2008)

Captions not listed in calendar: a. An-My Lê, Aircraft Carrier Arresting Gear Mechanic, USS Ronald Reagan, North Arabian Gulf, 2009 (Archival pigment print). 26

criticism, and Sheryl WuDunn—author with Nicholas Kristof of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide—weighs in with a call to action. But whether criticism is a formal exercise or a broader response to one’s times and its challenges (such as Hildegard of Bingen’s 12th-century morality play, Ordo Virtutum; or the conversation between poetry and music that Robert Pinsky explores; or the creation of a sand mandala by Tibetan nuns—an artistic enterprise rarely witnessed in this country), productive criticism remains an act of reflection.

The wide range of events we have planned underscores the inclusive nature of our approach: the Davis Museum presents from its collection photography spanning 100 years, curated to celebrate Wellesley’s unique lens on the world; the Cinema and Media Studies Program has assembled a remarkable selection of films paying homage to the late Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, spiked by Yale professor John MacKay’s deconstruction of the political and artistic environment in which Tarkovsky’s Stalker was made, and essayist Geoff Dyer’s reading from Zona, his “übercommentary” on that film.

In an age when communication is instantaneous and pervasive—when anybody can be, and is, a critic (the “Everybody’s a Critic” panel is a program highlight)—we must strive to maintain the thoughtfulness of our discourse. Constructive criticism demonstrates profound engagement with—and a creative response to—a work or action in the world. More than a thumbs-up/thumbsdown shorthand, it displays rigor and consideration, and is driven by deep, direct experience of an object or activity. We hope this fall’s events bring texture and substance to the abstractions of Critics and Criticism.

Nathan Englander, one of The New Yorker’s “20 Writers for the 21st Century,” juggles in his work the responsibility of serving both historical truth and fictional ends. Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh also juggles in the dialogue he has developed between Western classical and Syrian musics—a dialogue that resonates politically beyond the music itself. E.J. Dionne, journalist and commentator, helps us understand the role of political commentary as cultural

1/2 x 38 inches / 67.3 x 96.5 cm. Edition of 5. Courtesy Murray Guy. b. Geoff Dyer, detail from Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, 2009. [For all other photo captions,

THE DAVIS PRESENTS

A Generous Medium Photography at WellesleY 1972–2012

Cindy Sherman, from Untitled (Bus Riders), 1976/2005. 20 black and white photographs, 8 x 10 in. Museum purchase with funds provided by Wellesley College Friends of Art, 2012.17. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures, New York.

This fall, the Davis honors the extraordinary legacy of collecting and pedagogical leadership in photography at Wellesley College.

On View: September 12–December 16 Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery Keynote Address: Eugenia Parry September 12 (Wed) / 5:00 PM

Mined from the extensive photographic holdings, this Opening Celebration innovative exhibition features works September 12 (Wed) / 6:30 PM selected for interpretation by 65 Davis Museum Lobby and Galleries participants—Davis directors and curators, Wellesley faculty, alumnae in the field, and major donors—all of whom have had an instrumental role in the shape and pedagogical use of the collection over the last 40 years. The selections are organized unconventionally, by date of acquisition, to allow for serendipitous and revealing juxtapositions, surprising connections, and startling revelations. Collins Cinema

The exhibition and the accompanying catalogue feature an eloquent range of pictures, from unattributed early photographs to works by renowned contemporary artists. This diversity reflects the impassioned engagement of many contributors over time, and the aspirational ambitions and exuberant inventiveness of the photographic project at Wellesley writ large. Organized by Lucy Flint, with Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro ’37 Director of the Davis, and Hannah Townsend ’11, A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley 1972–2012, has been realized with major funding from The J. Paul Getty Trust. Additional funding has been provided through the generous support of the Judith Blough Wentz ’57 Museum Programs Fund, an endowed fund established by an anonymous alumna donor ’70, and Wellesley College Friends of Art. The exhibition catalogue has been made possible by gifts from Rosamond Brown Vaule ’59 and Tucker Ayers Harris ’59 in celebration of their 50th reunion and their lifelong friendship; and through the visionary generosity of Linda Wyatt Gruber ’66.

Free and open to the public. www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu | 781.283.2051 Andy Warhol, Diana Ross, 1981. Polacolor 2, 3 3/4 x 2 7/8 in. Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2008.24. © 2012 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

The department of theatre studies presents

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The merchant of venice In order to obtain the funds to woo a Venetian heiress, the suitor Bassiano and September 29 (Sat) / 7:00 PM his merchant friend Antonio strike a Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall gruesome deal with the usurer Shylock. Using its signature spare and inventive style, Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) will bring Shakespeare’s tragic comedy, The Merchant of Venice, to life. September 27 (Thu) / 7:00 PM September 28 (Fri) / 7:00 PM

Formed 37 years ago, AFTLS is one of the oldest established touring companies in the world. Coming from such prestigious companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, AFTLS’s classically trained actors are equally dedicated to presenting fine professional performances at American colleges and universities and to working with students.

Free and open to the public. No advance reservations. www.wellesley.edu/theatre

the concert series presents

KINAN AZMEH and city band November 14 (Wed) / 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium Formed in 2006 in New York City, Kinan Azmeh’s City Band immediately gained recognition for its virtuosic and high-energy performances, receiving praise from New York Times critic Vivien Schweitzer, who deemed its segment “the highlight of the evening.” Azmeh’s impressive resume includes performances in Paris, London, Berlin, New York, Moscow, and Damascus, both as a soloist and composer. With this New York ensemble, he strives to balance classical music, jazz, and the music of his homeland, Syria. Azmeh’s expressive clarinet meets Kyle Sanna’s rustic guitar, soaring at times over the dynamic and volatile backdrop of John Hadfield’s percussion and Josh Myers’s double bass.

Joy Harjo by Karen Kuehn.

Nathan Englander.

Tracy Smith.

Founded in 2004 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.

a 2011 Arts Writers Grant. She writes about performance for The New York Times, and is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts’ graduate program in Art Criticism and Writing. Sebastian Smee is the art critic for the Boston Globe and winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He joined the paper’s staff from Sydney, where he worked as national art critic for The Australian. James Wallenstein is the author of a novel The Arriviste (2011) and of essays and stories that have appeared in GQ, The Believer, Tikkun, The Antioch Review, Boston Review, and The Hudson Review.

Everybody’s a Critic! A Panel Discussion on the Art of Criticism October 23 (Tue) / 4:30 pm Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall)

At a time when anyone can write a review on Amazon or express her opinion in a variety of public venues, what does it mean to be a professional critic? How do critics form their opinions? What makes a good review? Claudia La Rocco is the founder and artistic director of theperformanceclub.org, which won

In the Tracks of Tarkovsky’s Stalker

October 24 (Wed) / 5:30 PM

Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities

Reception 4:30 PM–5:30 PM

(237 Green Hall)

Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities

John MacKay is a professor of film studies and Slavic languages and literatures at Yale University. His talk will explore the making and early reception of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker.

November 7 (Wed) / 4:30 PM

In conjunction with the Davis Museum exhibition, A Generous Medium: Photography at Wellesley 1972–2012, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities invites a panel of scholars to discuss critical responses to the state of photography today. Featuring Joel Snyder, Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, and W.J.T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, with Lisa Fischman, Ruth Gordon Shapiro ’37 Director of the Davis, and Patricia Berman, Chair of the Art Department and Theodora L. and Stanley S. Feldberg Professor of Art, this panel considers the pressing questions and challenges that circulate around photography as a medium within broader humanistic discussions of contemporary visual culture. What are photographers doing now? What compels today's scholars, critics, and curators? Snyder and Mitchell are co-editors of Critical Inquiry, a journal devoted to the study of art, culture, and politics, and have published extensively on photography, visual culture, and narrative.

The College is hosting two complementary progams this fall: For information about Geoff Dyer’s reading from his newest book, Zona, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, please see page 12. Please see page 15 for more information about the Cinema and Media Studies program’s screening of Stalker.

The Distinguished Writers Series This 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 a faculty member, and then engage in an open dialogue with the audience.

Nathan Englander September 27 (Thu) / 4:30 PM Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall)

Selected as one of the “20 Writers for the 21st Century” by The New Yorker, Nathan Englander is the author of the story collections For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, and the novel Andrei Tarkovsky. Still from Stalker (1979).

Mat Johnson.

The Critical Eye: Photography Now Panel Discussion

(237 Green Hall)

Susan and Donald NEWHOUSE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES

Geoff Dyer by Mat Stuart.

Johnson is a faculty member at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

The Ministry of Special Cases. His fiction and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, and The Washington Post. Englander has translated the text for the forthcoming New American Haggadah from Hebrew to English, and the theatrical adaptation of his short story “The Twenty-Seventh Man” will premiere at New York’s Public Theater in November 2012.

Tracy Smith received degrees from Harvard College and Columbia University, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. She is the author of three books of poetry: Life on Mars, Duende, and The Body’s Question. Smith is the recipient of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Princeton University.

Joy Harjo October 16 (Tue) / 4:30 PM Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall)

Geoff Dyer

Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation. Her seven books of poetry include She Had Some Horses, The Woman Who Fell from the Sky, and How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems. Her poetry has garnered many awards including a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, a New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, and a William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America.

November 12 (Mon) / 4:30 PM

Paul Rudolph, Perspective rendering for the Mary Cooper Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, 1956. (Courtesy, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

THE ART DEPARTMENT and cinema & media studies

Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for

Mat Johnson and Tracy Smith October 30 (Tue) / 4:30 PM Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall)

Mat Johnson is the author of the novels Pym, Drop, and Hunting in Harlem, the nonfiction novella The Great Negro Plot, and the comic books Incognegro and Dark Rain. He is a recipient of a United States Artist James Baldwin Fellowship, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection, and the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature.

the Humanities (237 Green Hall)

The Art Department is home to art history, studio art, architecture, and media arts at Wellesley.

Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels: Paris Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory, and, most recently, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; two collections of essays, Anglo-English Attitudes and Working the Room; and five genre-defying titles: But Beautiful, The Missing of the Somme, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It, and The Ongoing Moment. His recently published collection of essays from the last twenty years, entitled Otherwise Known as the Human Condition, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. His newest book, Zona, is about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker.

Each year, the department brings guest lecturers, exhibitions, films, and visiting artists to the

Please see page 15 for more information about the Cinema and Media Studies program’s screening of Stalker, and page 11 for information about John MacKay’s lecture on the making of the film.

Paul Rudolph’s “Adolescent Architecture”: American Modernism in the 1950s

campus and community. The Jewett Art Gallery is the department’s teaching gallery; it hosts exhibitions generated by faculty for teaching purposes as well as exhibitions of student work.

The Harry Halverson Lecture on American Architecture

Sandwiched between the International Style and the concrete Brutalism of the 1960s, the mid– and late–1950s can also be understood as American modernism’s poorly understood architectural adolescence. American modern architecture was at its zenith, and yet troubled by the glass-walled uniformity of the International Style. At that moment, the young architect Paul Rudolph (1918–1997) emerged from Sarasota, Florida, where he had built a series of acclaimed beach houses that informed his first large-scale buildings. Timothy Rohan’s lecture will explore how Rudolph recovered the things he believed the International Style had “brushed aside,”

Timothy M. Rohan Associate Professor of Art and Art History University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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

November 14 (Wed) / 5:00 PM Jewett Arts Center

namely monumentality, urbanism, symbolism, and decoration, in buildings like his Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College (1955–1958), in ways that would inform postwar modernism well into the 1960s and make him one of the most acclaimed and criticized architects of the late twentieth century.

Jewett ART Gallery In the Works: Art by the 2012–2013 Studio Faculty On View August 27–September 28 Opening Reception September 10 (Mon) / 4:45–6:00 PM

Recent projects by artists on the studio faculty, including Carlos Dorrien, Bunny Harvey, Candice Ivy, Steffani Jemison, David Kelley, Phyllis McGibbon, Salem Mekuria, Qing-Min Meng, Andrew Mowbray, Dave Olsen, Daniela Rivera, and Betsy Lin Seder, and Sergei Tsvetkov.

Aleksandr Sokurov. from Russian Ark (2002).

Gallery reception with the artists: Monday September 10, 4:45–6:00pm

Andrei Tarkovsky. Still from Ivan’s Childhood (1962).

CINEPHILE SUNDAYS a.

Cinéphile Sundays, presented by the Cinema and Media Studies Program, pay tribute to the past, celebrate contemporary artists, and aim to restore the communal aspect of the filmic experience. The collective appreciation of film—dreaming the same dream next to strangers in the dark—gives cinema its unique affective power, especially in the age of home theaters and computers.

Ivan’s Childhood (Ivanovo detstvo, 1962, 95 min.)

Stalker (1979, 163 min.)

By Andrei Tarkovsky

November 11 (Sun) / 3:00 PM

September 16 (Sun) / 3:00 PM

Collins Cinema

Please see page 11 for information about John MacKay’s lecture on the making of the film, and page 12 for information about Geoff Dyer’s reading from his newest book, Zona, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker.

By Andrei Tarkovsky

Four Nights of a Dreamer (Quatre nuits d’un rêveur, 1971, 87 min.)

Slow is for the Soul: The Cinema of Tarkovsky and CO.

By Robert Bresson Collins Cinema

Russian Ark (Russkiy kovcheg, 2002, 99 min.)

The Cinema and Media Studies program (CAMS) presents a selection of films paying homage to the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932– 1986), whose type of cinema is like therapy for the soul and whose films are consistently ranked among the masterpieces of world cinema. In addition to showing three films by Tarkovsky, CAMS will also screen films by Robert Bresson (one of Tarkovsky’s favorite filmmakers), Aleksandr Sokurov (the Russian filmmaker whom critics regard as Tarkovsky’s successor), and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (the renowned Turkish filmmaker who was likewise inspired by the Russian master).

The Sacrifice (Offret, 1986, 142 min.)

By Aleksandr Sokurov

September 30 (Sun) / 3:00 PM

December 2 (Sun) / 3:00 PM

By Andrei Tarkovsky

Collins Cinema

October 14 (Sun) / 3:00 PM Collins Cinema

Free and open to the public.

Distant (Uzak, 2002, 110 min.)

Gallery Hours Monday–Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM Weekends, 12:00 PM–5:00 PM See page 20 of the Calendar.

By Nuri Bilge Ceylan October 28 (Sun) / 3:00 PM Collins Cinema

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a. Andrei Tarkovsky. Still from Stalker (1979). b. Robert Bresson. Still from Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971).

Wellesley College Theatre

One of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd, Eugène Ionesco’s plays ridicule the banalities of everyday life. Both The Chairs and The Bald Sopranos are surrealist sketches that explore the passing of time and impending mortality.

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

The Unsinkable Molly Brown Music and lyrics by Meredith Willson Book by Richard Morris November 8 (Thu) / 7:00 PM November 9 (Fri) / 8:00 PM November 10 (Sat) / 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM November 11 (Sun) / 2:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

THEATRE The Department of Theatre Studies at Wellesley College allows students 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.

Saturdays / 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM

The Merchant of Venice Actors From The London Stage

Sundays / 3:00 PM Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

Please see page 6 for more information.

Johnny Case romances Julia Seton, the daughter of a well-heeled New York family, but sparks fly when he announces his ambition to “retire early and work late.” As it happens, the Setons’ younger daughter, Linda, has dreams of her own. Written just before the stock market crashed, Holiday was a Broadway hit that later became a film starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

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

Holiday

$20 general admission $10 for seniors, students, and members of the Wellesley College community

By Philip Barry Directed by Nora Hussey January 10–February 3

Funny and uplifting in equal measure, The Unsinkable Molly Brown follows the exploits of legendary American Molly Brown, whose determination led her to rise from her impoverished beginnings in rural Hannibal, Missouri, to the palaces of Europe. Meredith Willson’s rousing score, in the tradition of his classic The Music Man, brings this irresistible and outrageous title role to life.

The Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Conceived by Rebecca Feldman Directed by Alexa Keegan ’14 Music and lyrics by William Finn Book by Rachel Sheinkin Additional material by Jay Reiss December 6 (Thu) / 7:00 PM December 7 (Fri) / 8:00 PM

$15 general admission $10 for seniors $5 for students and members of the Wellesley College community

December 8 (Sat) / 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM December 9 (Sun) / 6:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

The Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a hilarious tale of overachievers’ angst chronicling the experience of six adolescent outsiders vying for the spelling championship of a lifetime. The show’s Tony Award–winning creative team has crafted the unlikeliest of hit musicals about the unlikeliest of heroes: a quirky, yet charming, group for whom a spelling bee is the one place where they can stand out and fit in at the same time.

Wellesley College Theatre box office: 781.283.2000

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

Free to Wellesley, Babson, and Olin students with ID. $5 general admission

A Night of Ionesco: The Bald Soprano and The Chairs

Upstage Series box office: 781.283.2220

By Eugène Ionesco October 18 (Thu) / 7:00 PM October 19 (Fri) / 8:00 PM

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October 20 (Sat) / 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM October 21 (Sun) / 6:00 PM

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Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

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Thursdays / 7:00 PM Fridays / 8:00 PM

Susan Meiselas, Muchachos Await Counterattack by the National Guard in Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 1978 (printed 1981). Chromogenic color print, 14 1/8 x 19 5/8 in. Museum purchase, The Dorothy Johnston Towne (Class of 1923) Fund, 2002.72. © Susan Meiselas and Magnum Photos.

Eugène Atget, Saint-Cloud from the portfolio Eugène Atget Portfolio, Twenty Photographic Prints from His Original Glass Plate Negatives, 1915–19/1956. Gelatin silver print, 6 3/4 x 8 1/2 in. Museum purchase with funds given by Heidi Nitze (Class of 1956) and Phyllis Anina Nitze Moriarty (Class of 1969), 1972.13.1.

the davis. One of the oldest and most acclaimed academic fine arts museums in the United States, the Davis Museum 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.

work has been featured in major publications, including Elle, Vice, Soma, Slam, and Trace. To celebrate the opening of A Generous Medium, Brown brings his most recent project—a tented photo booth in which he conducts five-minute portrait sessions—to the Davis.

Film Series Photogs on Film: Cinéphile Sundays September 23 (Sun) / 3:00 PM Susan Meiselas on Pictures from a Revolution (dir. Meiselas, 1991) November 4 (Sun) / 3:00 PM Aberaldo Morell on Vertigo (dir. Hitchcock, 1958)

A Generous Medium Opening Celebration

December 9 (Sun) / 3:00 PM Laura McPhee on The Searchers (dir. John Ford, 1956)

September 12 (Wed) / 6:30 PM

Collins Cinema

Davis Museum Lobby and Galleries

In partnership with the Cinema and Media Studies (CAMS) program, the Davis welcomes three prominent photographers with work on view in A Generous Medium to participate in an unusual and exciting Sunday series. These photographers will not lecture on their own work or practice, per se, but instead will bring their photographic perspective to bear in a trans-medial context. Each artist has selected a film, will introduce the screening, and will follow with a lively Q&A.

Join us to celebrate our community, our collaborators in creating this landmark exhibition and the remarkable collection that it honors!

Teacher Workshop September 13 (Thu) / 4:00 PM

A Generous Medium Photography at Wellesley 1972–2012

the National Endowment for the Arts in creative nonfiction. Parry is known for her imaginative texts on the creative processes of artists. Besides pioneering studies of mid-19th century photography, of photographers, and of impressionists, her essays have appeared in books on many contemporaries, from Joel Peter Witkin to Georgia O’Keeffe. Her metafictional Crime Album Stories (2000) received the International Center for Photography’s Infinity Award for writing on photography. She is adjunct professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico.

On View September 12–December 16 Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery

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EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING Keynote Address: Eugenia Parry September 12 (Wed) / 5:00 PM Collins Cinema

Alex Brown: The Pop Up Photo Booth

Former professor of art at Wellesley College, Eugenia Parry has published and lectured widely on the histories of art and photography. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a grant from

September 12 (Wed) / 6:00 PM–8:00 PM Davis Museum Plaza

Alex Brown was born in Hong Kong, raised in London, and currently lives in New York. His 18

Davis Museum Lobby and Galleries

With the generous support of the Palley Endowment Fund for Davis Museum Outreach Programs, the Davis offers a workshop led by exhibition curators, offering area educators an opportunity to participate in an intensive investigation of A Generous Medium.

This series is generously supported by the Davis Museum Film Program Gift.

The Critical Eye: Photography Now Panel Discussion

Family Day at the Davis: Pictures in the Plaza

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Provisional Aesthetics, Rehearsing History

September 29 (Sat) / 11:00 AM–1:00 PM Davis Museum Lobby and Galleries

On View October 17, 2012–January 11, 2013

Inspired by A Generous Medium, Family Day invites visitors of all ages to experience the fun of snapshot portraits and the stories they tell. If each picture is worth a thousand words, what do yours say? Photo games, a scavenger hunt, and light refreshments round out the day.

Joan Levine Freedman ’57 and Richard I. Freedman Gallery Morelle Lasky Levine ’56 Works on Paper Gallery Friends of Art Gallery

Provisional Aesthetics, Rehearsing History brings together for the first time in the region 19

Phil Collins, An-My Lê, and Dahn Vo— critically acclaimed international artists whose work complicates the realism associated with photography and video. Embracing the double bind between the real and the imaginary, these artists deploy performance, proposition, rehearsal, and play to dramatic and unexpected ends.

Danh Vo October 25 (Thu) / 5:00 PM Olin College

Born in Vietnam and raised in Denmark, Danh Vo is a conceptual artist whose practice circles around the construction of identity, rendered in terms that connect personal and political history.

Curated by David Kelley, Associate Professor of Photography in the Department of Art, the exhibition has been generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art, with additional support from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis ’28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership.

An-My Lê November 5 (Mon) / 6:00 PM Collins Cinema

Vietnamese-American photographer and video artist An-My Lê continues the traditions of largeformat war and landscape photography associated with Mathew Brady and Timothy O’Sullivan, with a focus on young women in military service. Selections from the artist’s Small Wars series will be on view in the Babson College Hollister Gallery, November 5 to January 10. An-My Lê, Patient Admission, US Naval Hospital Ship Mercy, Vietnam, 2010 (Archival pigment print). 40 x 56 1/2 in. Edition of 5. Courtesy Murray Guy.

Provisional Aesthetics Reception November 5 (Mon) / 7:30 PM

EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING

Davis Museum Lobby and Galleries

International Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Join us to celebrate the exhibition, Provisional Aesthetics, and to welcome visiting artist An-My Lê to campus. Reception in the Davis lobby follows the artist’s lecture.

Provisional Aesthetics is a Mellon Presidential Innovation Project, organized by David Kelley, Associate Professor of Photography in the Department of Art at Wellesley, for the BabsonOlin-Wellesley three-college consortium. The lecture series presents three acclaimed artists whose practices have a provisional, propositional, and spontaneous character.

THE ART OF GOOD TASTE The Wellesley College Club, situated on the shores of Lake Waban, is delighted to open its doors to the public for three culinary events designed to complement programs in the fall calendar.

THE CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS

dessert, and one glass of wine. Other alcoholic beverages, tax, and gratuity not included.

WELLESLEY CLASSICAL FACULTY IN CONCERT

THE CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS

Pre-concert Dinner Museum Hours Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM Wednesday until 8:00 PM Sunday, 12:00 PM–4:00 PM

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR)

Closed Mondays, major holidays, and campus recesses.

October 10 (Wed) / 5:00 PM–7:00 PM

To schedule a tour, please call: 781.283.3382

Babson College, Sorenson Center for the Arts Theater

The Davis is supported in part by a grant from the

Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (DAAR), a prize-winning collective founded by Eyal Weizman, Alessandro Petti, and Sandi Hilal, takes the conflict over Palestine territories as its main case study and presents its findings—a form of propositional architectural activism—through drawings, models, videos, and proposals.

Massachusetts Cultural Council.

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

MassCulturaCouncil.org

The Davis is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY

September 22 (Sat)

Pre-concert Dinner

$35 per person. Our chef will prepare a special prix fixe menu to include an appetizer, entree, dessert, and one glass of wine. Other alcoholic beverages, tax, and gratuity not included.

December 6 (Thu)

$35 per person. Our chef will prepare a special prix fixe menu to include an appetizer, entree, dessert, and one glass of wine. Other alcoholic beverages, tax, and gratuity not included.

ARTS AND LIBERAL ARTS PRESENTS

PoemJazz: Robert Pinsky with Laurence Hobgood and Stan Strickland

Reservations are required for these special programs.

Pre-concert Dinner

Please call 781.283.2700 for reservations and membership inquiries.

October 17 (Wed)

$35 per person. Our chef will prepare a special prix fixe menu to include an appetizer, entree,

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Greg Osby, Greg Hopkins, Nat Reeves, Dave Zinno, Mike Renzi, and Kevin Harris. At Wellesley, Langone will be joined by Cercie Miller, saxophone; Paula Zeitlin, violin; Doug Johnson, piano; and Keala Kaumeheiwa, bass.

Galileo’s Muse October 13 (Sat) / 8:00 PM Science Center Focus

THE Concert Series

Galileo’s Muse is a multifaceted performance piece that explains the delightful and surprising relationship between scientist Galileo Galilei and the music of late Renaissance Italy. It tells the story of how Galileo’s love of music and his experience as a lute player held the key to one of his most important scientific experiments—the formulation of his “Law of Falling Bodies.” With rarely performed lute music by Galileo’s father and brother, sparkling 17th-century Italian dances and sonatas, and a live reenactment of the experiment of the inclined plane, Galileo’s Muse introduces audiences into a unique world where art and science share a conversation.

Classical Jam.

Bartok, Piazzola, and Gershwin have incorporated their unique heritages, rhythms of their cultures, and what was considered “popular” during their lifetime into concert music.

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.

The Jubilee Trio November 4 (Sun) / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel Pre-concert lecture at 7:00 PM Multifaith Center Main Room

Galileo's Muse.

piano; Suzanne Stumpf, flute; and Jenny Tang, piano. They will perform works by Debussy, Moszkowski, Mozart, Ravel, and Schoenberg.

Wellesley Classical Faculty in Concert September 22 (Sat) / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel

Steve Langone Group

The annual classical faculty concert brings members of Wellesley’s performing faculty, comprising prominent musicians in the greater Boston area, from the studio and classroom to the stage and community. This semester’s concert features Eliko Akahori, piano; Fred Aldrich, french horn; Laura Bossert, violin; Glorianne Collver-Jacobson, guitar; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Jane Harrison, oboe; Katherine Matasy, clarinet; Andrea Matthews, soprano; Lois Shapiro,

October 3 (Wed) / 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

A graduate of the Berklee College of Music, jazz drummer Steve Langone has studied with jazz great Alan Dawson and Fred Buda of the Boston Pops. He has toured throughout Europe, the Caribbean, and South America, performing and recording with Jinga Trio, George Garzone, Harry Allen, Jerry Bergonzi, Shawnn Monteiro,

The Jubilee Trio, featuring Marion Dry, contralto; Leslie Amper, piano; and Robert Honeysucker, baritone, is an ensemble dedicated to promoting the significant contributions of African-American and women composers to American musical composition. This concert—the first arts offering of the Three-College Collaboration among Babson, Olin, and Wellesley—features the world premiere of a piano composition by Olin professor Diana Dabby and two world-premieres of song sets by Babson professor Toni Lester. These works will be framed in concert by songs and spirituals by American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Classical Jam October 20 (Sat) / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel

A vibrant ensemble of flute, percussion, violin, viola, and cello, Classical Jam is best known for its engaging and lively presentations for today’s contemporary audiences. Classical Jam was recently selected by the Concert Artists Guild to receive the Cary Trust Fund for Contemporary Music Projects. Members have appeared with the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and Musicians From Marlboro, and have performed in venues throughout Europe, Asia, the Americas, and the Middle East. Their program From the Street to the Concert Hall examines how Mozart,

Kinan Azmeh.

Kinan Azmeh and City Band November 14 (Wed) / 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium

BlueJazz.

Yanvalou.

Chamber Music Society.

concert featuring the music of composers Steven Sametz, Eric Whitacre, Veljo Tormis, R. Murray Shafer, and Donald Patriquin.

Yanvalou

An ensemble of singers and instrumentalists, Collegium Musicum specializes in the performance of Western music from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century. This fall, Collegium will present the 12th-century abbess Hildegard of Bingen’s allegorical morality play, Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues), in a new production by Professor Claire Fontijn based on the Scivias, an early manuscript of Hildegard’s visions. The performance will be accompanied by a slide presentation of English translations of the texts, as well as Hildegard’s beautiful and revelatory illuminated miniatures. First performed around the year 1150, the Ordo Virtutum may be described as the earliest surviving musical drama.

Vespers

Please see page 8 for more information.

December 2 (Sun) / 7:30 PM Houghton Chapel

The Carey Concert: Charles Fisk, piano

The choral program at Wellesley allows students to experience the exhilaration and joy of performing the great choral repertoire from the Renaissance to the present day. National and international tours have led them to perform in such venues as the Washington National Cathedral, La Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal, and the Mezquita in Córdoba, Spain. The Wellesley College Choir appeared in the 2003 motion picture Mona Lisa Smile.

November 18 (Sun) / 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

Pianist and Phyllis Henderson Carey Professor of Music Charles Fisk presents a concert of music by—and inspired by—Johann Sebastian Bach. The program will include Bach’s Goldberg Variations and three transcriptions: one by Busoni of the chorale prelude Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, one by Mary Howe of the aria Sheep May Safely Graze, and one by Rachmaninoff of the Gavotte from the Violin Sonata in E Major. The concert will also feature the world premiere of a work based on Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze” by Wellesley composition faculty member Martin Brody.

Wellesley BlueJazz Cercie Miller, Director BlueJazz Strings and Combos November 30 (Fri) / 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium BlueJazz Big Band December 7 (Fri) / 7:00 PM

STUDENT ENSEMBLES

Jewett Auditorium

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 Wellesley College Choral Program Lisa Graham, Evelyn Barry Director of Choral Program The Dober Concert: Journeys November 11 (Sun) / 1:00 PM Houghton Chapel

Kera Washington, Director December 1 (Sat) / 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

Yanvalou performs the traditional music of Africa and the Caribbean. The ensemble lets students perform on authentic instruments and experience a variety of cultures through their music. Performances are presented in collaboration with the Harambee dancers.

Chamber Music Society David Russell, Director; Jenny Tang, Assistant Director December 3 (Mon) / 8:00 PM Pendleton Concert Salon

Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra

December 6 (Thu) / 7:00 PM

Neal Hampton, Conductor

Pendleton Concert Salon

December 8 (Sat) / 8:00 PM

December 9 (Sun) / 2:00 PM

Houghton Chapel

Jewett Auditorium

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. Its fall program will include excerpts from Humperdink’s opera Hansel and Gretel, featuring Marion Dry, Pam Dellal, and Andrea Matthews, Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2, and Tchaikovsky’s Overture of 1812 (commemorating the Russian defense of Moscow against Napoleon’s army at the Battle of Borodino).

December 10 (Mon) / 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium

The Wellesley College Chamber Music Society offers students 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 Department of Music faculty. Each semester culminates in a series of concerts given by participants.

Collegium Musicum Tom Zajac, Director

The Lehigh University Glee Club, Steven Sametz, conductor, join the Wellesley College Choir and Chamber Singers, Lisa Graham, conductor, in a

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Ordo Virtutum (Order of the Virtues)

Co-sponsored by the Department of Russian at Wellesley College.

December 4 (Tue) / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel

Afro Flow Yoga.

Nuns of Keydong Nunnery.

Where Heaven Meets Earth Local Artists Carol Dearborn and Karin Stanley

strength and flexibility, and rejoice in the bliss of feeling renewed, grounded, and peaceful!

The Afro-Semitic Experience.

ART AND SOUL AT THE MULTIFAITH CENTER

Leslie Salmon Jones is a professional dancer, yoga instructor, and creator of Afro Flow Yoga™. Jones began ballet and Afro Caribbean dance at the age of seven. Through her intensive dance training at the esteemed Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Jones was introduced to yoga. Her connection with African spirituality, yogic principals, and the intrinsic expression of movement through nature’s elements inspired Jones to create Afro Flow Yoga.

October 21–28 (Sun–Sun) / 10:00 AM–5:30 PM daily

historic belief that education is both an intellectual and a spiritual journey. With this mission

Houghton Chapel

in mind, ORSL has developed Art and Soul as a program to foster a community exploration

The Tibetan nuns of Keydong nunnery will visit Wellesley to create a sand mandala, a cultural treasure of Tibet. These nuns are among the first women trained in the art of sand mandala and thankga painting. The mandala is a visual metaphor for the path to enlightenment, which is both a microcosm and a macrocosm: it includes the individual and the universe in its transformative power. Upon completion of the intricate designs and complex iconography of the mandala, it is dismantled and the sand is offered back to the earth as a powerful symbol of the transitory nature of life.

River of Fire: An Evening with Sister Helen Prejean

the experience, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. It became a movie, an opera, and a play.

September 27 (Thu) / 7:00 PM Houghton Chapel

Poetry in Motion: Afro Flow Yoga with Leslie Salmon Jones and Friends

Sister Helen Prejean is an instrumental voice in the national dialogue on the death penalty, helping to shape the Catholic Church’s newly vigorous opposition to state executions. As part of her ministry, Sister Prejean was asked to correspond with a death row inmate Patrick Sonnier at Angola, Louisiana’s state penitentiary. After becoming his spiritual advisor and witnessing his execution, she wrote a book about

Opening Reception and Lecture November 14 (Wed) / 7:00 PM Houghton Chapel

Where Heaven Meets Earth documents research expeditions to sacred places and explores their vital relationship to human consciousness. Whether a remote mountaintop or a great cathedral or mosque, places that have received sustained human reverence over hundreds or thousands of years are uniquely potent portals. The exhibition promises to awaken visitors to the experience of the power and possibility inherent in our interactions with sacred centers on Earth, and our responsibility to revere and protect sacred wildness everywhere.

Circles of Healing, Circles of Peace: A Tibetan Sand Mandala with the Nuns of Keydong Nunnery

The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (ORSL) at Wellesley strives to embody the College’s

of spirituality and the arts.

On View November 14–20 (Wed–Tue)

The Afro-Semitic Experience December 5 (Wed) / 7:00 PM Houghton Chapel

The Afro-Semitic Experience is an ensemble dedicated to preserving, promoting, and expanding the rich cultural and musical heritage of the Jewish and African diaspora. The band was co-founded by African-American jazz pianist Warren Byrd and Jewish-American jazz bassist David Chevan for an interfaith Martin Luther King memorial service in 1998. Their music is an intricate tapestry of the distinct cultures and heritages of the members of the group. They weave stories and music together as they celebrate and explain the Jewish and AfricanAmerican sacred traditions.

October 3 (Wed) / 7:00 PM Multifaith Center, Houghton Chapel

Afro Flow Yoga infuses electrifying dance movements of the African Diaspora with a meditative yoga sequence of gentle, yet powerful, stretches. Deeply connect with the soulful rhythmic drums, energize your charkas, gain

All events are free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/rellife/ 781.283.2373

intellectual history of early modern Europe (16th and 17th centuries) with an emphasis on France, will speak on her current research. Blair’s expertise includes the history of the book and of education, the history of academic disciplines and of scholarship, and early modern natural philosophy and its interactions with religion. Her most recent work, Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age, featured on National Public Radio and in The New York Times, argues that our contemporary sensation of “information overload” was already prevalent in the Renaissance when the invention of the printing press forced scholars to create information management techniques to cope with the onslaught of new material. Her penetrating study explores the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic methods readers used to organize and retrieve the abundant information that marked a period of sudden technological transformation.

Alexey Stadler.

part of The Educational Bridge Project, whose mission is to provide a forum for collaborative American-Russian creative initiatives.

Poem Jazz. Photo by Eric Antoniou.

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

PoemJazz: Robert Pinsky with Laurence Hobgood and Stan Strickland

Russian Cello Music from Davydof to Schnittke

October 17 (Wed) / 7:00 PM

Jewett Auditorium

Location TBA

Russian cellist Alexey Stadler and pianist Karina Sposobina present a program of works by Davydof, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Schnittke. Karina Sposobina is a professor of chamber music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory an an international award-winning pianist. Alexey Stadler was awarded the Russian Young Talent award for three consecutive years (2008–2010), and the Hope of Russia award for two (2008 and 2009). This program is

October 27 (Sat) / 8:00 PM

Poet Robert Pinsky (United States Poet Laureate 1997–2000), Grammy-winning pianist Laurence Hobgood, and vocalist Stan Strickland present PoemJazz. PoemJazz treats a voice speaking poetry as if it were a horn: speech with its own poetic melody and rhythm, in conversation with melody and rhythm in the music, a conversation between the sounds of poetry and music.

Dan Kwong: Center of the Universe October 31 (Wed) / 6:00 PM

For more information about the conference, please visit: se17.bowdoin.edu.

Jewett Auditorium

Award-winning performance artist Dan Kwong will present a new solo multimedia work focusing on the challenges of single motherhood for working-class women of color. Center of the Universe is a tribute to mothers who have been affected by the multiple oppressions of sexism, racism, and classism. Using the life story of his late mother, Momo Nagano, a Nisei artist who spent part of World War II in a Japanese-American internment camp, as a springboard, Kwong combines personal narrative contextualized within post-WWII American culture. Historical facts and anecdotes illustrate shifting societal attitudes toward women, motherhood, single mothers, and women of color, from the Baby Boom era on.

Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age A Lecture by Ann Blair, Harvard University (Keynote address for annual conference of the Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies)

Woodcut: Gutenburg-style printing press 1568.

November 10 (Sat) / 4:00 PM Collins Cinema

Ann Blair, Henry Charles Lea Professor of History at Harvard University, recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, and specialist in the cultural and

The Wilson Lecture E.J. Dionne, Journalist and Political Commentator Insights into Presidential Politics September 19 (Wed) / 8:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

A longtime op-ed columnist for The Washington Post, E.J. Dionne is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and is on the faculty at Georgetown University. He is also a frequent political commentator for National Public Radio, ABC’s This Week, and NBC’s Meet the Press. He is the author of four books, including Why Americans Hate Politics, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award nominee.

Sheryl WuDunn.

THE Goldman Lecture in Economics Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director of the Congressional Budget Office Choices for Federal Spending and Taxes

Sponsored by an endowed fund established by Carolyn Ann Wilson, Class of 1910.

September 13 (Thu) / 8:00 PM Tishman Commons

THE SPOKEN WORD: MAJOR LECTURES

Wellesley enriches its vibrant academic community by inviting today’s thought leaders to speak at the College. Coming from a broad range of disciplines, speakers from Melissa Harris-Perry to Pico Iyer and from Hillary Clinton ’69 to Ophelia Dahl ’94 showcase the dynamism of a liberal arts education.

also co-author of three best-selling books, the most recent of which—written with her husband, Nicholas D. Kristof—is Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. An ancient Chinese proverb tells us that women hold up half the sky. This book— featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Colbert Report, and other network television shows— asserts that the global struggle for women’s equality has become “the paramount moral challenge of our era.”

THE KENNER LECTURE Associated with the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs

Sheryl WuDunn, Author Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide September 11 (Tue) / 4:15 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

Sheryl WuDunn, the first Asian American to win a Pulitzer Prize, is a business executive, entrepreneur, and best-selling author. She has special expertise in Asia, entrepreneurship, global women’s issues, and philanthropy. WuDunn is

Douglas Elmendorf is the eighth director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) since its creation in 1974. Before taking the top job at the CBO, Elmendorf was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. As the Edward M. Bernstein Scholar, he served as co-editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and director of the Hamilton Project, an initiative to promote broadly shared economic growth. Elmendorf was previously an assistant professor at Harvard University, a principal analyst at the CBO, a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, a deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and an assistant director of the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board.

E.J. Dionne.

Debate: Candidates for the 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts. October 15 (Mon) / 7:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

Sponsored by an endowed fund established by Marshall Goldman, Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Russian Economics, Emeritus.

Wellesley College is proud to join the League of Women Voters in hosting a debate between the candidates running for U.S. House of Representatives for the 4th Congressional District of Massachusetts. The contest to succeed U.S. Representative Barney Frank in the newly redrawn district is—at press time—wide open and heating up.

Sponsored by an endowed fund established by Hyunja Laskin Kenner, Class of 1988, and Jeffrey Kenner.

new.wellesley.edu/events 781.283.2373 Douglas W. Elmendorf.

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The world’s preeminent college for women, Wellesley College 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 also 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. Your gift to Wellesley helps maintain the excellence of our arts programming, and keeps our events free of charge. new.wellesley.edu/alumnae/give/ | 800.358.3543

Visiting Wellesley

that showcases the work of distinguished architects, including Ralph Adams Cram, Paul Rudolph, and Rafael Moneo.

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.

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, awarded first prize for design by the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2006 for returning a parking lot to native wetland. Pause on the shores of Lake Waban to take in the elaborate topiary on the far shore. And don’t miss the Botanical Gardens, featuring specimens from around the world and its own butterfly garden.

Attending an event at Wellesley is as stressfree 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.

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

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 our guest artists do. Designed in consultation with landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., the campus is a historic landmark

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