Faculty Favorites: Impressionable Stretching

This series features Wellesley College Faculty members from various departments, reflecting on their favorite Davis Museum Collections objects. Faculty participants are nominated by students and invited to select works related to their research, teaching, or personal interests and experiences.

This podcast features an essay written by Associate Professor Nicolas DeWarren, of the philosophy department. He reflects on Shusaku Arakawa’s painting entitled Impressionable Stretching, from 1977-78. The essay is read by Wellesley College student Haley Harris from the Class of 2012.

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Teen Produced Audioguide: David Smith
This podcast invites viewers to enjoy the ease, depth and imagination of teen responses to art. Evelyn Osei-Kuffor, Jessica Meek, Zach Pierce, Nathan Alvord and Danielle Solomon-- students at the Cameron Middle School in Framingham, MA-- encounter David Smith's Agricola IV, 1955, through dialogue and the production of this audio piece (with help from art teacher Sara Cummins and Teaching Artist Laura Starecheski).

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Don't Look: Interview with Martina Yamin,
class of 1958
This podcast features Jennifer Cawley, class of 2007 interviewing Martina Yamin, class of 1958. Yamin, a collector and a conservator of works on paper discusses objects from the exhibition "Don't Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection (Martina Yamin, class of 1958.)"

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Creative Responses

This podcast series will explore the interpretations of you the viewer. We invite you to come to the museum, spend time with a work or group of works from the collection and share your creative responses with us. The series will feature poets, musicians, fiction writers, and actors, sharing the work that was inspired by works from the Davis Museum Collections.

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Contemporary Voices

Enjoy direct quotes from artists or their contemporaries that relate to their identities as American (or not American).  As read by Wellesley College students and staff, the quotes explore identity from cultural, geographical, and historical perspectives.  Featured artists include Rosa Acle, George Inness, Ana Mendieta, Grandma Moses, Adrian Piper, Andy Warhol, and others.

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[Introduction] - (0:19)
[Adolf Ulrik Wertmuller] - (1:07)
[Adrien Piper] - (4:57)
[Horace Pippin] - (0:29)
[Grandma Moses] - (1:21)
[Rosa Acle] - (2:35)
[John Frederick Kensett] - (2:30)
[George Inness] - (1:51)
[Ana Mendieta] - (1:05)
[Edward Kienholz] - (1:23)
[Andy Warhol] - (2:00)

Visual Conversations

Experience works of art through the views and opinions of Wellesley College students, as captured during ”Looking Sessions.” A group of students explore the small gallery in Stories Ideals Beliefs, looking long and hard at works of art and discussing the gallery’s curatorial focus on narrative and visual stories.  In the coming weeks, we will invite listeners to add their own comments to the podcast.

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Exploring the Ideal

Listen to a scholarly discussion of the Baga Shoulder Mask (D’mba) and the Roman Standing Male Nude installed in the Stories Ideals Beliefs section of the reinstallation. Dabney Hailey, Linda Wyatt Gruber '66 Curator of Painting, Sculpture and Photography and art department faculty members Genevieve Hyacinthe, Miranda Marvin, and John Rhodes create a cross cultural conversation between the two objects. Questions and topics for discussion include the works in and out of their original contexts, artists’ use of materials, gender, and the concept of ideal beauty.

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Landscape and Architecture of Wellesley College

This podcast presents highlights of the landscape and architecture of Wellesley College. Join Assistant Professor John Rhodes as he leads a tour of the beautiful Wellesley campus.

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Tour of Site-Specific Sculpture at Wellesley

The Davis Museumcast Sculpture Tour is a podcast tour of three site-specific sculptures on the Wellesley College campus. The tour features an informal conversation between Dabney Hailey, Linda Wyatt Gruber, Class of 1966, Curator of Collections and Photography, and Erin Doherty, Class of 2007. They discuss Robert Irwin's Untitled (Filigreed Line) from 1980, Michael Singer and Michael McKinnell's Untitled work from 1989-1992, and Nancy Holt's Wild Spot created in 1979-1980.

Click here for a printable tour map

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Davis After Dark - Fall 2006

This podcast presents highlights of the Fall 2006 Davis After Dark event at the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College. The event is organized by the Davis Museum Student Advisory Committee (DMSAC). Students manage and program Davis After Dark each semester.

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The Art of Poetry:
Marjorie Agosin, Untitled Poems

This is the fourth in a series of ekphrasis poetry by Wellesley College students, staff, and faculty. Ekphrasis is poetry inspired by an art object. Marjorie Agosin's Untitled poems were inspired by Lesley Dill's piece Clothe My Naked Body, Print Tapestries...Poem Wedding Dress, 1995.

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Summer Fellowship Experience

This podcast was produced by Summer Technology Intern Zsuzsa Moricz, Class of 2006. It provides an overview of the Summer Fellowship Program and describes the exciting opportunities offered each summer at the Davis Museum.

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The Art of Poetry:
Nora Hussey, Fault Lines

This is the third of a series of ekphrasis poetry by Wellesley College students, staff, and faculty. Ekphrasis is poetry inspired by an art object. Nora Hussey's poem, Fault Lines, was inspired by a print in our collection by Kerr Eby entitled
Shadows, 1936.

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The Art of Poetry:
Kim Akins, Untitled

This is the second of a series of ekphrasis poetry by Wellesley College students, staff, and faculty. Ekphrasis is poetry inspired by an art object. Kim Akins' untitled poem was inspired by a sculpture in our collection by Michael Singer and Michael McKinnell.

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The Art of Poetry:
Roheeni Saxena, The Nefertiti of My Dreams

This is the first of a series of ekphrasis poetry by Wellesley College students, staff, and faculty. Ekphrasis is poetry inspired by an art object. Roheeni Saxena's poem, The Nefertiti of My Dreams, was inspired by a sculpture in our collection by Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier's
Capresse des Colonies (Negress of the Colonies), 1861.

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[PODCASTS FROM PAST EXHIBITIONS]

Curator Anja Chavez and Chanda Wong, Class of 2009, interview artist Xu Bing about his Spring 2006 Davis Museum and Cultural Center
lobby installation and his work in the Spring 2006 exhibition On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West.

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On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West

These are tours of our Spring 2006 exhibition On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter the West. The first tour is in English and is led by guest curator, Britta Erikson. The second tour, by Associate Professor of Art, Heping Liu is in Mandarin Chinese. The tours cover some of the same objects, but each tour is unique and explores a wide range of topics and perspectives.

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