This annual exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s 21 graduating visual art and design majors.  It features animation, painting, sculpture, app design, architecture, apparel design, photography, drawing, and textiles.

Fragile Vessels—Contemporary Ceramics and the Body

Please join us for our opening reception. Works by artists Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Miguel Enrique Lastra, Rob Raphael, Maedah Tafvizi Zavareh, and objects selected by the artists’ from the Wheaton College Permanent Collection are featured.

We have boxes of brightly colored pencils, marking pens, hex codes, and seasonal fashions.  All of these give us access to color. But could it be that we are not seeing the whole picture in the color choices that are offered to us? The way many of us identify individual colors actually closes us off from the protean nature of color and from our abilities to interact with our color vision.  Color is not a thing; it is a relationship between. In this talk, artist Rosy Lamb shares her research into color as a responsive language we all can learn to speak by listening, and by attending to what our eyes see all around us.  Her reserach includes a prototype of a digital tool she is developing, which allows users to intuitively build relational colors using a similar methodology to pigment mixing.

Writer, teacher, and tattoo artist, Phuc Tran, reads from his humorous and introspective memoir, “Sigh, Gone. A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In”, about his family’s escape from Vietnam, displacement in America, and his struggle to fit in during high school.  A brief Q&A will follow this lunchtime event.

Symposium Keynote Talk Celebrating the Memory of Professor Beverly Lyon Clark

Nicole Tadgell ’91, is an award-winning illustrator of more than thirty picture books, including Annie Astronaut, Follow Me Down to Nicodemus Town and Real Sisters Pretend. Luminous watercolors, tender families, and a wide range of expressive faces characterize her illustrations. Nicole holds a BA degree in Studio Art from Wheaton College. She lives in Chesapeake, VA. Visit her online at nicoletadgell.art.

The Symposium is also being made available virtually via Zoom, register here.

Join the Opening Reception in Hubs

5-7pm EST

The 2021 Wheaton Biennial is an open-call exhibition focused on new media and juried by author and curator, Legacy Russell. Presented virtually, this exhibition includes artists whose work challenges and celebrates new media. As with past Biennials, our definition is boundary-pushing and inclusive, seeking a diverse range of experimental work. View the exhibition at the Beard and Weil Galleries website.

In keeping with the new media focus of this exhibition, please join us for the opening reception in Mozilla Hubs. After choosing an avatar, you will be able to move around the space, view the artwork, and talk with other visitors. Instructions for interacting in Hubs will be at the entrance to the virtual gallery.

The Counseling Center is once again excited to sponsor Spring Into Wellness the week of March 8-12, 2021. Spring Into Wellness is a week full of co-sponsored (virtual and in-person) events surrounding your physical, mental, and emotional health. This week culminates with a campus-wide scavenger hunt.

A remote scavenger hunt is also available for students who are remote, live off-campus, or in quarantine/ isolation: Follow WheatonMA.Counseling on Instagram for the remote scavenger hunt details!

Sign up, find links and descriptions on Engage!

Schedule of Events

Vote for your favorite window! Voting begins 3/8 until 11 am on 3/12.

Monday 3/8

12:00 pm: Virtual H.I.I.T with Rebecca hosted by Wheaton Rec (Virtual)
3:00 pm: Jamboard affirmations hosted by Reslife and the Counseling Center (Virtual)
5:30 pm: Meditation with Caleigh hosted by The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life (Virtual)
6:30 pm: Hybrid Yoga with Dory hosted by Wheaton Rec (In-Person Location: Chapel Base)
7:15 pm: Trybe Dance Workshop hosted by Trybe (Virtual)

Tuesday 3/9

8:30 am: Meditation with Caleigh hosted by The Center for Religious and Spiritual Life (Virtual)
11:30 am: Thrive Group: Using art for self-care hosted by The Counseling Center Interns (Virtual)
5:30 pm: Game Night with Active Minds and President Hanno (Virtual)

Wednesday 3/10

10:00 am: Wheaton Community Relaxation Practice with Filene Center, Counseling Center, and Religious and Spiritual life (Virtual)
1:00 pm: Paint Around the World hosted by Global Education (In Person: Take and go Location: Global Ed building)
1:00 pm: Sexual Citizens Book Talk hosted by SMART (Virtual)
2:00 pm: Visiting Artist Program with Comic Artist Yumi Sakugawa sponsored by the Master Class in the Visual Arts Fund, given by a Wheaton alumna within the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program (Virtual)
7:00 pm: Pathways of Light: Mental health awareness event hosted by BGWEEKS QUAD (In-Person: Beard Hall Green)
7:30 pm: Disability and Mental Health Kahoot hosted by SGA Accessibility board (Virtual)

Thursday 3/11

ALL DAY LONG: Recreation Day Hosted by Wheaton Rec (Hybrid)
8:00 am: Hybrid Yoga with Dory hosted by Wheaton Rec ( In-person Location: Dance Studio)
1:00 pm: Paint Around the World hosted by Global Education (In Person: Take and go Location: Global Ed building)
8:00 pm: Prohibition Escape Room with BAC (Virtual)

Friday 3/12

12:30-2:30 pm: Campus Scavenger hunt & Remote scavenger option (for remote/off-campus students) on Instagram. Organized by the Counseling Center. “First come first serve” (Location destinations across campus)
12:00 to 1:30: Dimple dining- Street Food Swipe Grilled Cheese “Truck” hosted by Dining Services (In-person: The dimple)
4:00 pm: Window Decorating Contest winner announcement on IG

Download the Spring into Wellness Week Flyer (pdf)

Brought to you by The Counseling Center in collaboration with Wellness @ Wheaton, student groups, and departments.

Inspired by her Appalachian family history and the tradition of quilting circles, Jenkins brings people together to sit, talk, and sew.