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Gallery Talks by museum curators and guest artists

Welcome by David Mickenberg, Ruth Gordon Shapiro ’37 Director

Ensemble Zili Misik on the Davis Museum Plaza
The Concert Series at Wellesley College will open the 2008-09 season with a performance by ensemble Zili Misik at the Opening Celebration on the Plaza (rain location: Jewett Auditorium). Under the direction of Kera Washington, Music Performance Faculty, the all female group retraces routes of forced exile and cultural resistance through Diasporic rhythm and song. By bridging cultures, generations, and continents with music and rhythm, Zili is the musical counterpoint to the works of art on display in Black Womanhood.

In their performance, a group of New York and Boston based artists including Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons and Dineo Bopape, incorporate a sound component and address the Black Womanhood exhibition. In conjunction with the performance artists, Visiting Instructor Genevieve Hyacinthe will teach a class in the Art Department/Africana Studies (ARTH 316); guest artists are invited to her class.

Ellen Zweig’s work ranges from poetry to performance art,
installation to interactive webbased art. HEAP, her series of videos currently on view at the Davis Museum, explores the cultural encounters that are the result of travel by portraying China through Western eyes. Funded by the E. Franklin Robbins Art Museum Fund and and Wellesley College Friends of Art.