The Spring 2023 Frank Williams Visiting Artist: Emily Hass
Friday, March 24, 2023, 11:00 am, Jewett Auditorium
The Spring 2023 Frank Williams Visiting Artist will be Emily Hass, a New York-based contemporary artist. Hass holds degrees in design and psychology from Harvard University. Much of her work is structured around the topics of forced migration and exile, looking at the destruction of Jewish homes and neighborhoods in WWII and current mass displacements in Syria and elsewhere. Experiments in architectural mapping intersect with installation and sculpture to explore concepts of home remembered and lost. Hass has been a Howard Foundation Fellow and a MacDowell Fellow. She was awarded the McCloy Fellowship in Art and has received grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has been exhibited internationally and in the US, and is in the permanent collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
For this event Hass will be in conversation with curator Rachael Arauz '91 in the Jewett Auditorium.
This event is open to the campus community and invited guests only.
The 2023 Dr. Ruth Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Art Lecture - Drs. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard
This year's Bakwin Art Lecture will feature eminent feminist art historians Dr. Norma Broude and Dr. Mary Garrard.
Tuesday, April 4
5:15 pm EDT
The lecture will take place on Zoom, advance registration required. Register online here!
Members of the campus community and invited guests have the option of watching the talk together in JAC 450, where refreshments will be served.
Email Meghan Murray with any questions.
The 2023 Wellesley/Deerfield Symposium
The Digital Image as Material Object: Archaeologies of Computer Graphics
The computer is not a visual medium, and yet computation as we know it today has been fundamentally shaped by computer graphics. It was the desire to make computation legible and accessible to human users that drove researchers to develop systems for graphical human-machine communication, and while visual representation is in no way essential to the theory of computing or the practice of procedural calculation, computer graphics played a significant role in the development of the computer as a technical medium, and for shaping our modern understanding of what computers are for and can do. This talk engages this seventy year history, arguing that computer graphics mark a transformation in the very notion of what computing is through the imposition of a formal logic tied to a theory of the world as a structure of visible, interactive objects.
The 2022 Dr. Ruth E. Morris Bakwin Class of 1919 Art Lecture: Professor D. Fairchild Ruggles
A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ALHAMBRA
An historian of Islamic art and architecture, Dr. Ruggles’ research examines the medieval landscape of Islamic Spain and South Asia and the complex interrelationship of Islamic culture with Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism and the precise ways that religion and culture are often conflated in the study of these. She is the author of two award-winning books on gardens: Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (2000), and Islamic Gardens and Landscapes (2008). Additionally she has edited or co-edited numerous works, including Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies (2000), the award-winning Sites Unseen: Landscape and Vision (2007), Cultural Heritage and Human Rights (2007), Intangible Heritage Embodied (2009), On Location (2012), and Islamic Art and Visual Culture: An Anthology of Sources (2011).
Slade Graduate Applications Now Open
The Slade Graduate Fellowships provide financial aid for graduating seniors and alumnae to pursue graduate studies in Art History and Studio Art. At her death, Mary Clothier Slade (1865-1953) left funds to a variety of charitable and philanthropic institutions. She included Wellesley as a recipient because her son, Bernard Heyl, was Kimball Professor of Art at Wellesley from 1931 to 1965. According to Professor Heyl, through art “our powers are expanded, our enjoyment enriched, our understanding of the world and its people broadened and deepened.”
A committee comprised of Art Department faculty will name a recipient in Art History and Studio Art, based on merit and need. Applicants may be either graduating seniors or alumnae of Wellesley College, and must have been Art History or Studio Art majors or minors. Applicants must be enrolled in a degree-granting graduate program during the 2022-23 academic year to be eligible for this fellowship. Prior Slade Graduate Fellowship recipients are not eligible to apply again. The fellowship can be used to offset graduate school expenses or to fund specific research or projects related to an applicant’s degree, and will be approximately $6,000 each. Incomplete applications will not be considered; please follow up with your recommenders well ahead of the deadline to make sure they will submit letters on your behalf.
LINK TO APPLICATION. DEADLINE APRIL 15 2022
