Arts+Culture
Fall 2015
In rural China in 1881, a child named Jinhua is sold to a brothel owner in the wake of her mandarin father’s beheading, forcing her into a career as a courtesan. Debut novelist Alexandra Curry’s fictional Jinhua is based on an actual Chinese woman of the same name.More
Fall 2015
The female connections sought by generations of women are a natural outcome of a Wellesley education.More
Fall 2015
The lives of six alumnae demonstrate the depth and breadth of the Wellesley Effect—the way four years at the College transforms students, and through their lives after graduation, helps to transform the world.More
Fall 2015
Construction is well under way on Pendleton West for a new center for the creative arts.More
Summer 2015
The renovation and addition to Pendleton West, slated to be completed in the fall of 2016, is the largest project to date of the Campus Renewal Program.More
Summer 2015
The Brillo Box, like this one from the permanent collection of the Davis Museum, became a sensation in 1964 as part of the first exhibition of 3-D objects by Andy Warhol (1928–87) at the Stable Gallery in New York.More
Summer 2015
Special Collections librarian Ruth Rogers recently went to the New York Book Fair and scored big. She beams as she holds out a small book bound in red Morocco leather.More
Summer 2015
After graduating from San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre in 2009, Mfoniso Udofia ’06 moved to New York City, secured an agent, and began auditioning for plays and films. It was the stuff her burgeoning dreams were made of—except she couldn’t get a part.More
Summer 2015
A literary talent to watch, Lauren Holmes ’07 was named a 2014 New Voice by the influential literary magazine Granta. Her first collection of short stories comes out in August.More