Elaine Mehalakes

Elaine Mehalakes is a writer and curator working with prints, drawings, and new media art. She is the Kemper Curator of Academic Programs at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, where she has organized a range of contemporary exhibitions featuring installation, video, sound art, and performances by emerging and established artists from the U.S. and abroad. Her publications explore such topics as drawings by Fred Tomaselli, experimental prints by John Cage, and the impact of foreign travel on American artists. She was the curator and editor of American Identities: Twentieth-Century Prints from the Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection. She has a particular interest in the relationship between the literary and visual arts, and curates the Davis Museum Literary Series, commissioning artists and poets to create limited-edition, letterpress poetry broadsides.