Olivia DrakeThe Davison Art Center gallery, located at 301 High Street, is open noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. The gallery is open to the public free of charge.
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In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the Friends of the Davison Art Center present "The Big Draw: Middletown," a community celebration of drawing with workshops for people of all skill levels, from beginners to accomplished artists. The event is free and open to the public: adults, students, and children ages 5 and up. The Big Draw's activities break down the "I can't draw" syndrome and celebrate the visual arts. The event takes place from 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday April 22 on campus. "The Big Draw: Middletown" will feature 10 to 12 drawing workshops throughout the Wesleyan University campus. Wesleyan…
The Davison Art Center received a $1,000 grant from the Middletown Commission on the Arts and a $500 grant from the Middlesex County Community Foundation/Mary Ann Lambert Fund to support "The Big Draw: Middletown." "The Big Draw: Middletown" is a community event with drawing activities on Sunday, April 22. It is modeled on the successful British program that promotes interactive activities designed to break down the “I can’t draw” syndrome and promote the visual arts. Organized by the Friends of the Davison Art Center to celebrate their 50th anniversary, the event will be located on Wesleyan's campus, including the Davison…
For 15 minutes, Elizabeth Milroy, professor of art history, describes the life, artistic techniques and style of abstract expressionist painter and printmaker Helen Frankenthaler. "Here, we see her thinking about framing and edging," Milroy says, pointing at a lithograph in the Davison Art Center. "She emulates Chinese characters in this print. She bring out lusciousness in lithography." As part of the new series, "Artful Lunch," faculty briefly speak about an artist, and display one example of the artist's work from the Davison Art Center's collection. The series is sponsored and hosted by the Friends of the Davison Art Center as…
Wesleyan will present two traveling exhibits this fall. The Davison Art Center gallery will host Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu, Sept. 16-Dec. 11. Mehretu is best known for her large-scale paintings and drawings, which layer maps, urban planning grids and architectural renderings with whorls of abstract markings and bright shapes of color. This the first-ever comprehensive exhibition of prints produced by the artist thus far in her career. A gallery talk is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Oct. 5 with Cole Rogers, artistic director and Master Printer at the Highpoint Center for Printmaking. Rogers will speak on his experience working with…
The Davison Art Center's exhibition catalog, “Counting on Chance: 25 Years of Artists’ Books by Robin Price, Publisher” (DAC 2010) has won third place in the 2011 New England Museum Association Publication Award Competition in the category “Exhibition Catalogues over $10.” The catalog will be featured in the summer issue of NEMA News. The catalog was organized by Suzy Taraba, university archivist and head of Special Collections and Archives. The original exhibition at the DAC was co-curated by Suzy Taraba and Clare Rogan, curator of the DAC. "We are absolutely delighted by this award," Rogan says. First place in this category…
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Janette Boothby, 89, formerly of Middletown, died Feb. 16 at the Seabury Retirement Community in Bloomfield, Conn. where she had been a resident for 17 years. She was employed for more than 30 years by the Art Department and the Davison Art Center at Wesleyan as librarian and registrar of the Davison Art Center Print Collection. She pursued other forms of artistic expression in her life, including drawing, painting, graphic design and calligraphy. She won many prizes for her watercolor paintings and was a member of several area arts organizations. After her retirement from Wesleyan, she volunteered with The Middlesex…
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