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The first time Ethiopian artist Elias Sime saw a motherboard, he thought it looked like a landscape. Created by Sime and his collaborator, Meskerem Assegued, “Tightrope” is a commentary on humanity, technology, and the environment – and how the three interact. On Sept 7, the Wellin Museum not only celebrated the opening reception of “Tightrope,” but also welcomed Sime and Assegued (who acted as translator) to Hamilton as part of the Wellin’s Artists in Conversation series. Johnson-Pote Director of the Wellin Tracy Adler guided the conversation.
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The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College will present the work of contemporary Ethiopian artist Elias Sime (b. 1968) in an exhibition titled Elias Sime: Tightrope opening Saturday, Sept. 7, through Sunday, Dec. 8.
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Every day of her internship, Mary Bei Prince ’20 interacts with Thomas Nast, the nineteenth-century cartoonist who developed visual archetypes such as the Republican elephant, Democratic donkey, Uncle Sam, and Santa Claus.
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On the first day of his civil procedures course, students examined a case in which a judge spoke of the “sword of Damocles,” a reference that was perfectly clear to Teddy Altman ’15 but not, it seems, to the rest of his Boston College Law School class.
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Katherine Alcauskas, collections curator and exhibitions manager at the Wellin Museum of Art, recently participated in a professional workshop on “The Potential of Technical Studies and Conservation for Prints and Drawings Curatorship.”
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Director of the Wellin Museum of Art Tracy Adler and Katherine Alcauskas, the Wellin’s collections curator and exhibitions manager, recently participated in a conference on “Teaching & Learning with Museum Exhibitions—Innovations across the Disciplines.”
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Sime’s piece titled Flowers & Roots, located on the Wellin’s Selch Terrace, is made out of bronze, cement, and repurposed technological elements like computer motherboards and electrical wire.
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The Wellin Museum of Art’s newest exhibition, Theaters of Fiction – works that address both the theater and opera’s historic associations with power, privilege, and wealth and those that represent sites of more democratic and popular entertainment – opens on Saturday, Feb. 16.
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Students, alumni, faculty, and staff as well as the College’s many centers, activities, and achievements were regularly noted and celebrated in 2018 by national media outlets.
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From September through December, the Wellin Museum’s Jeffrey Gibson: This is the Day exhibition attracted a continuous flow of media attention.
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