Press Releases

Sept 2024 Davis Museum at Wellesley College Announces Joanna Tam as Winner of the 2024 Prilla Smith Brackett Award

Aug 2024 Scottish artist Rory McEwen’s luminous plant portraits debut at Davis Museum, celebrating nature’s timeless beauty

Jan 2024 DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE APPOINTS DR. SEMENTE AND RESUMES PUBLIC PROGRAMMING

Jan 2024 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE HOSTS DAY-LONG SYMPOSIUM FOR LORRAINE O’GRADY’s BOTH/AND EXHIBITON

Jan 2024 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE HOSTS TAKING THE WHITE GLOVES OFF: A PERFORMANCE ART SERIES IN HONOR OF LORRAINE O’GRADY ‘55

Dec 19,2023 Renowned artist and Wellesley College alumna Lorraine O’Grady ’55 brings critically acclaimed Both/And exhibit to the Davis Museum

Sept 15, 2023 DAVIS MUSEUM’S APPOINTMENT OF DR. JESSICA ORZULAK KICKS OFF SECOND DECADE OF PRESTIGIOUS GRUBER FELLOWSHIP IN PHOTOGRAPHY

Sept 30,2022 Davis Museum at Wellesley College Announces Maria Molteni as Winner of the 2022 Prilla Smith Brackett Award

Sept 6, 2022 Davis Museum at Wellesley College to Present Four Exhibitions for Fall 2022

Aug 15, 2022 The Davis Museum at Wellesley College Names Mary Beth Timm as Associate Director for Operations and Collections Management

Aug 15, 2022 Davis Museum at Wellesley College Names Yuhua Ding Assistant Curator of Collections

July 20, 2022 Davis Museum at Wellesley College Announces Finalists for 2022 Prilla Smith Brackett Award

April 15, 2022 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE ANNOUNCES CALL FOR ARTISTS FOR PRILLA SMITH BRACKETT AWARD

Mar 3, 2022 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE REOPENS TO THE PUBLIC FOR FIRST TIME SINCE START OF PANDEMIC

Feb 7, 2020 DAVIS MUSEUM NAMES NICOLE BERLIN NEW ASSISTANT CURATOR OF COLLECTIONS

Jan7, 2020 WELLESLEY ART INSTRUCTORS PUSH THE ENVELOPE IN Q20 FACULTY SHOW

Jan 7, 2020 PHOTOGRAPHY BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE IN TWO SPRING SHOWS AT THE DAVIS MUSEUM

Dec 19, 2019  DAVIS MUSEUM ANNOUNCES SPRING 2020 EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Nov 21, 2019 DAVIS MUSEUM NAMES HEATHER HUGHES NEW KEMPER ASSISTANT CURATOR OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS AND EXHIBITIONS

Sept 19, 2019DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE ANNOUNCES YU-WEN WU AS THE RECIPIENT OF THE INAUGURAL PRILLA SMITH BRACKETT AWARD

Sept 9, 2019 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE PROMOTES AMANDA GILVIN TO SONJA NOVAK KOERNER ’51 SENIOR CURATOR OF COLLECTIONS AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF CURATORIAL AFFAIRS

Sept 4, 2019 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE DEBUTS THIRD WINDOW INVITATIONAL COMMISSION WITH SEEDS TO HARVEST

Aug 22, 2019 THE DAVIS MUSEUM CELEBRATES THE ART AND LIFE OF KANISHKA RAJA WITH EXHIBITION OF THE ARTIST’S I AND I SERIES

Aug 14, 2019 THE DAVIS MUSEUM PRESENTS AN EXPLORATION OF A 16th CENTURY WORK OF ART IN HIDDEN HISTORIES: REVEALING THE LIFE OF A PAINTING

Aug 5, 2019 THE DAVIS MUSEUM PRESENTS RECENT ACQUISITIONS NEW PHOTOGRAPHY WITH WORKS BY HALEY MORRIS-CAFIERO AND HABIBA NOWROSE

July 11, 2019 DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE PRESENTS MAJOR SOLO EXHIBITION OF MULTIMEDIA WORKS BY FATIMAH TUGGAR

June 18, 2019 Davis Museum at Wellesley College Announces Finalists for Inaugural Prilla Smith Brackett Award

June 10, 2019 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE APPOINTS KARA SCHNEIDERMAN AS ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS AND COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT

May 29, 2019 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE HOSTS FOURTH ANNUAL OUTDOOR SUMMER FILM SERIES  

April 18, 2019 Family Day: Día de la familia

Jan 22, 2019 DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE AWARDED $75,000 GRANT FROM WARHOL FOUNDATION FOR UPCOMING EXHIBITION ON FATIMAH TUGGAR

Jan 07, 2019 DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE ANNOUNCES THE PRILLA SMITH BRACKETT AWARD FOR WOMEN ARTISTS

Dec 17, 2018 ART_LATIN_AMERICA: AGAINST THE SURVEY

Dec 12, 2018 THE DAVIS MUSEUM PRESENTS TABITHA SOREN: SURFACE TENSION Your Intense Relationship with Technology is Actually a Work of Art

Dec 3, 2018 THE DAVIS MUSEUM DISPLAYS NEW CONTEMPORARY PRINT ACQUISITION WITH YINKA SHONIBARE MBE: GUNS DRAWN

Dec 3, 2918 THE DAVIS MUSEUM PRESENTS COLD WAR-ERA SOCIAL DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY FROM MILTON AND ANNE ROGOVIN

Oct 15, 2018 The Davis Museum Celebrates its 25th Anniversary

Oct 1, 2018 Family Day: Playing with Printmaking

Aug 27, 2018 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE DEBUTS SECOND WINDOW INVITATIONAL COMMISSION WITH FRAGMENTS FOR A HISTORY OF DISPLACEMENT

Aug 6, 2018 Jacob Lawrence: The Legend of John Brown

Jul 24, 2018 Sky Hopinka: Dislocation Blues

Jul 18, 2018 Davis Museum Acquires Collection of Modernist Photographs and Photograms by Mexican-American Artist Rosa Rolanda

Jul 6, 2018 A Critical Eye: James Gillray and the Art of Satire

Jun 21, 2018 Christiane Baumgartner: Another Country

May 16, 2018 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE TO HOST THIRD ANNUAL OUTDOOR SUMMER FILM SERIES & Free Fun Fridays Joins the Davis Summer Lineup

Apr 28, 2018 THE DAVIS MUSEUM PROVIDES EDUCATIONAL FUN DURING FAMILY DAY: PHOTOS AND FRAGMENTS 

Mar 6, 2018 Ria Brodell’s Butch Heroes Series at the Davis Museum Commemorated with Limited-Edition Signed Cards

Feb 6, 2018 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE ANNOUNCES BROADER EVENT OFFERINGS FOR LOCAL COMMUNITY THIS SPRING

Jan 24, 2018  VIVID POSTERS ADDRESSING POLITICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES ON VIEW IN EXHIBITION AT DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE

Jan 2, 2018 Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925.

Dec 20, 2017 BRILLIANT COLORFUL QUILTS FROM DESCENDANTS OF AFRICA IN INDIA ADORN GALLERIES OF THE DAVIS MUSEUM

Dec 20,2017 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE EXAMINES POSTWAR ART COLLECTING TRENDS IN FRAGMENT: A MUSEUM’S MID-CENTURY LEGACY

Oct 11, 2017 Family Day - Ready, Set, Excavate!

Sept 29, 2017 THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE WINS “BEST SOFT POWER CULTURAL ACTIVATION AWARD”

Sept 27, 2017 The Davis Acquires Collection Of Paintings From Ria Brodell’s Celebrated Butch Heroes Series

Sept 6, 2017 Smoked my Head on Yes Waters

Aug 28, 2017 The Davis Museum presents artist's first U.S. Solo Museum Exhibition with EDDIE MARTINEZ: ANTS AT A PICKNIC

Aug 28,2017 Hrair Sarkissian: Horizon

Aug 16, 2017  Life on Paper: Contemporary Prints from South Africa

Aug 7, 2017 Martin Luther: Protest in Print

July 25, 2017 Davis Receives Warhol Grant for Exhibition on Fatimah Tuggar

May 31, 2017  THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE KICKS OFF SUMMER OF 2017 

Apr 18, 2017 THE DAVIS MUSEUM OFFERS THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF ITALY DURING FAMILY DAY: A GRAND TOUR

Feb 16, 2017 ART-LESS: THE DAVIS DEMONSTRATES A VISION OF THE MUSEUM WITHOUT THE CONTRIBUTION OF IMMIGRANTS

Feb 11, 2017 The Davis Museum Immerses Galleries in Classical Music with Concert The Sound World of Carlo Dolci

Jan 30, 2017 The Davis Museum Displays Meditation Reflecting Many Faiths in Daphne Wright: Prayer Project

Jan 30, 2017 The Davis Museum Announces Bequest of More Than 200 Prints from the Ann Kirk Warren Collection 

Jan 25, 2017 Arthurina Fears Joins the Davis Museum as Manager of Museum Education and Programs

Jan 23, 2017 The Davis Museum Presents Roman Monuments through the Dramatic Etchings of Giovanni Piranesi

Jan 10, 2017  The Davis Museum Presents First US Retrospective of the Works of Carlo Dolci 

Nov14, 2016 Davis Museum Photography Curator Ileana Selejan Selected to participate in Major European Research Council Project

Oct 31, 2016 The Davis Museum Celebrates the Newly Installed Galleries with a Day of Education and Engagement for All Interests

Oct 24, 2016 The Davis Museum Offers Families A Globetrotting Expedition During Family Day: Around the World in 6,000 Years

Sept 21, 2016 The Davis Museum at Wellesley College Enhances Encounters with Art by Adopting Cuseum Mobile App. 

Aug 25, 2016 The Davis Museum at Wellesley College awarded three major grants for upcoming exhibition on Carlo Dolci

Aug 25, 2016 The Davis ReDiscovered

Aug 8, 2016 Charlotte Brooks at Look, 1951-1971 Documents Changes in Postwar American Life Through Photographic Essays

Aug 1, 2016 Partners in Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. and Philip Johnson Examines the Establishment of Modernism in North America 

July 29, 2016 The Davis Museum at Wellesley College Appoints Amanda Gilvin As Associate Curator

July 19, 2016 The Davis Museum at Wellesley College Explores Famous Textile Artist's Career in Anni Albers: Connections

Jun 8, 2016 Davis hosts Outdoor Screening of Classic Museum-related movies

Apr 25, 2016 Davis  promotes Claire Whitner to Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs 

Mar 30, 2016 Davis awarded International Fine Print Dealers Curatorial Program Grant

Feb 17, 2016 Davis Provides Access to Collection with Google Cultural Institute and Artsy

Jan 5, 2016 Gendered Value: Curators' Choice Highlights