The Davis Museum is closed for Wellesley College’s winter break. Please join us at our spring opening celebration on February 5, 2026, at 4 pm.
Immortalizing Magu: The Conservation of a Chinese PaintingWednesday, April 8, 2026 - 4:30pm to 5:30pmCollins CinemaJoin Dr. Yuhua Ding, Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs, for a conversation with Jing Gao, world-renowned conservator of Asian paintings, Deborah La Camera, Partner and Senior Conservator at Studio TKM Associates, and Berit Raines ‘27. They will share their firsthand insights from the year-long conservation project that preserved a sixteenth-century Chinese painting for generations to come.
This program is supported by Kathryn Wasserman Davis ‘28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership and Wellesley College Friends of Art at the Davis. The conservation work for this exhibition was supported by funds from the Mayling Soong Foundation and Barbara E. Sweeny ‘26 Art Conservation Fund.
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 -
4:30pm to 5:30pm
Collins Cinema
Join Dr. Yuhua Ding, Kemper Assistant Curator of Collections and Academic Affairs, for a conversation with Jing Gao, world-renowned conservator of Asian paintings, Deborah La Camera, Partner and Senior Conservator at Studio TKM Associates, and Berit Raines ‘27. They will share their firsthand insights from the year-long conservation project that preserved a sixteenth-century Chinese painting for generations to come.
This program is supported by Kathryn Wasserman Davis ‘28 Fund for World Cultures and Leadership and Wellesley College Friends of Art at the Davis. The conservation work for this exhibition was supported by funds from the Mayling Soong Foundation and Barbara E. Sweeny ‘26 Art Conservation Fund.