The Art Department [of Wellesley College] is pleased to welcome this semester’s Frank Williams Visiting Artist in honor of Rachael Arauz ’91 on Friday, November 14. Boston-based artist Venetia Dale will present a survey of her pewter and fiber sculptural works made from isolating fragments from her life and others in order to speak to the emotional landscape and interconnection of mothering, interpersonal relationships, and community. We hope you’ll join us for this excellent artist talk in the Jewett Auditorium on Friday at 11:00 am!
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Venetia Dale (b. 1981) is an artist, mother and educator living and working in Boston, Massachusetts. Dale pieces together fragments of mundane objects into sculptural works. The material history of pewter – as well as the anonymous stewards who keep things clean, fixed, and loved – are translated through her work as intimacies of domestic life that remind us of the generative potential of the everyday.

Dale was awarded the prestigious James and Audrey Foster Prize at ICA/Boston in 2023 and was the 2019 Polly Starr Thayer Visiting Artist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Prior, she was a resident artist at the Kohler Factory in 2013 and at the Oregon College of Art and Craft in 2010. Dale exhibits nationally and her work is included in the permanent collections of the Metal Museum in Tennessee and John Michael Kohler Art Center in Wisconsin. Her most recent acquisition was by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 2022.
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