Live Performance
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Winter Dance Concert
Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 7:00pm
CFA Theater
Saturday, December 13, 2025 at 7:00pm
CFA Theater
Wesleyan students across different class years present new group works focusing on a diversity of techniques, methods, and aesthetic approaches.

Opening Reception for mayfield brooks’ Whale Fall With Me
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 at 4:30pm
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Whale Fall with Me is a solo exhibition by mayfield brooks, the 2025–2026 CFA Artist in Residence, culminating their multi-year research on the life and death cycle of whales—a project that extends across writing, ’zine making, moving image, and brooks’ embodied practice of vocal and dance improvisation. This opening reception will include remarks at 4:30pm in the gallery lobby.

AFTERWORDS: entanglement—Adrienne Edwards and Natalie Diaz
Friday, February 6, 2026 at 12:00pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Friday, February 6, 2026 at 12:00pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
For the fifth event in the AFTERWORDS: entanglement series of public programs curated by CFA Director Joshua Lubin-Levy '06 and ICPP Director Noémie Solomon, Natalie Diaz and Adrienne Edwards will reflect on their ongoing collaboration and dialogue on modes of reframing time that centers Black and Indigenous practices of language, art, and exhibition-making.

AFTERWORDS: entanglement - Emma Bigé, mayfield brooks, Katie Brewer Ball
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 12:00pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 12:00pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery
The sixth event in the AFTERWORDS: entanglement series of public programs will feature Emma Bigé, 2025–2026 CFA Artist in Residence mayfield brooks, and Katie Brewer Ball, Associate Professor and Chair of the Theater Department, Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Faculty Coordinator of Sustainability and Environmental Justice Initiatives, who will explore queer and trans approaches to art making as a practice of environmental justice.





