Student Curated Exhibitions
Gallery Exhibitions
Beard and Weil Galleries
November 29, 2018-February 2, 2019
It’s Elemental: Fire curated by students in Professor Leah Niederstadt’s Exhibition Design class fall 2018
December 1, 2016-February 22, 2017
It’s Elemental: Water curated by students in Professor Leah Niederstadt’s Exhibition Design class fall 2016
December 2, 2012-February 15, 2013
100 Years, 100 Objects curated by students in Professor Leah Niederstadt’s Exhibition Design class fall 2012
December 5, 2010-April 1, 2011
Turning the Page: The Evolution of the Artists’ Book curated by students in Professor Leah Niederstadt’s Exhibition Design class fall 2010
March 7-April 16, 2010
Christina Beecher: A Retrospective curated by Carrie Peabody ’10
Collection/Reflection: A History of Wheaton’s Permanent Collection curated by Kayla Malouin ’10
March 18-April 16, 2009
Making It Modern: Wheaton College and the International Style
October 18-December 11, 2009
Collecting in the Peace Corps: Tangible Memories of the Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love curated by Mollie Denhard ’10
September 8-October 6, 2005
Faces: Selected prints from the Wheaton College Collection curated by students in Professor Evelyn Staudinger Lane’s class “The Art of the Print,” Spring 2005
March 2-April 9, 2005
The Realist Impulse: Painting and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection 1830-1940
March/April 2003
The Power of the Print: Durer, Rembrandt and Goya curated by the students in Professor Evelyn Staudinger Lane’s class “The Art of the Print,” Spring 2003
Watson Gallery
March 9-April 14, 2000
Impressions: The Art of the Print Selections from the Wheaton College Collection curated by students in Professor Evelyn Lane’s senior history of art seminar, with catalogue edited by Evelyn S. Lane, preface by Ann H. Murray.
February 3-28, 1999
An American Composer Looks at Egypt: Ruth Lynda Deyo and The Diadem of Stars, co-curated with Ann Sears (Music Department), Zephorine Stickney (College Archivist and Curator of Special Collections), and Kelly Dann (Class of 2000)
December 1-20, 1997
Curator’s Choice Highlights from the Wheaton College Collection curated by Jennie Crimmins ’98, researched by Alice Bever ’01, Cathy Brady ’99, Michael Hickey ’98 and Liza Statton ’98
March 10-April 10, 1997
The Art of Drawing: Selections from the Wheaton College Collection
February 1-27, 1994
Prized Possessions: Sculpture, Artifacts, Textiles and Decorative Arts from the Permanent Art Collection curated by Sarah Austin ’94, supervised by Ann Murray
Mini Exhibitions
2009-2010
The Textile Art of Ann Clarke: Hats from the Collection of Associate Provost Evelyn Staudinger—Brittany Whynot (Class of 2012)
2008-2009
Circus Explored—Mell Scalzi (Class of 2009) and Jen Valentino (Class of 2009)
New Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection—Jessie Landau (Class of 2009) and Jen Valentino (Class of 2009
Antiquities from Egypt and Rome—Felicia Bartosiewicz (Class of 2009) and Lauren Salois (Class of 2010)
2007-2008
Cabinets of Curiosity: Wheaton Faculty and Staff Collections—Kayla Malouin (Class of 2010) and Lauren Salois (Class of 2010)
May Room, Mary Lyon Hall—Felicia Bartosiewicz (Class of 2009) and Carrie Peabody (Class of 2010)
Fantastic Birds of a (Symbolic) Feather: The Phoenix Collection of Professor David Wulff—Emily Murgia (Class of 2008)