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Wellesley Black Arts Collective

Student Organization - Recreation

Website Mission

Mission
“Went looking for the art and we were the art.” Glenn Ligon, 2015
As Wellesley College has hosted, housed, and educated a lineage of Black artists and Black art
educators, against the backdrop of Wellesley College being the first American college to offer an
art history major, it is past time for a community to be established that nourishes the
propagation of Black art in this space. As we are surrounded by art, artists, and art historians, as
performance series have invited Black artists to our campus, there shall never be a void of Black
art once they depart. Black artists at Wellesley have the potential to harness a glowing artistic
presence for our school and the Boston area; by establishing a community that nurtures this
potential and passion, we assert our presence, our aesthetic, and our language. As society wishes
to stifle our expression and joyful existence, the Black Arts Collective is avant-garde. Our
mission shall be to live by the reaction of Wellesley alumna Lorraine O’Grady to the assertion
that “avant-garde art has nothing to do with Black people,” and present ourselves as the living
proof of otherwise.

Membership Benefits

Lifetime membership