Upcoming Lectures & Talks
2 upcoming lectures and talks from Davis Museum at Wellesley College, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All lectures in Greater Boston →
Tue Oct 6 · 4:30pm
Ria Brodell discusses More Butch Heroes (MIT Press, 2025), 15 paintings and biographies styled as subverted Catholic holy cards, portraying people assigned female at birth who presented as masculine. Brodell, a queer and trans artist and author based in Boston, holds an MFA from SMFA at Tufts, has received an Artadia Award and a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship, and was a Lambda Literary Award finalist.
Thu Oct 29 · 5:00pm
Jan Stuart, the National Museum of Asian Art's curator of Chinese art, on scholars' rocks — stones collected for a millennium by China's elite for their shape and their perceived spiritual charge, set in gardens and studies as objects of meditation and treated as embodiments of cosmic force rather than decoration.