Photo: Jewett Art Gallery, Flickr.
THE ART DEPARTMENT The Art Department is home to art history, studio art, architecture, and media arts at Wellesley. Each year the department brings guest lecturers, exhibitions, and visiting artists to the 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.
LECTURES AND SYMPOSIA RUTH MORRIS BAKWIN CLASS OF 1919 ART LECTURE
Claire Bishop: Déjà Vu: Contemporary Art and the Ghosts of Modernism April 3 (Thu) / 5:00 PM
Jewett Gallery and Auditorium Claire Bishop is professor of art history at the Ph.D. Program in Art History at CUNY Graduate Center, New York. Her books include Installation Art: A Critical History (2005) and Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (2012), for which she won the 2013 Frank Jewett Mather award for art criticism. Her curatorial
Calire Bishop by Ellie Harrison/Flickr.
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