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Almost 70 years after graduating, the artist returns to her alma mater with a career survey as expansive as her mindset

Boston-born artist Lorraine O'Grady graduated from Wellesley College in 1955. Now, a museum survey at her alma mater take visitors through decades of her work.

Decades after graduating Wellesley College as the only Black student in her class in the 1950s, the groundbreaking artist has a career survey set to open at the Davis Museum.

The eighty-eight-year-old artist and critic, whose profile has risen in the past decade, examines her role in the art world then and now.

Lorraine O’Grady outpaced the culture for years. In Brooklyn, it finally catches up By Murray Whyte Globe Staff,Updated March 17, 2021, 12:59 p.m. Email to a Friend A photograph from Lorraine O'Grady's 1983 "Art Is..." performance.Lorraine O’Grady/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York BROOKLYN — Coming to art as a later-in-life fourth or fifth act, Lorraine O’Grady has joked that she “only had time for masterpieces,” which doesn’t surprise. Now 86, she’s only ever made the most of her time. She was an intelligence analyst for the US State Department (d...