Wheaton College Massachusetts

Gallery Exhibition—The Tens: Friends of Art Alumni Collection 2011–2020
2022-08-11 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-18 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-08-25 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-01 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-08 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-15 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-22 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-29 13:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The Tens, highlights selected work from students who received the Friends of Art Purchase Prize from 2011-2020. These pieces are part of the Wheaton College Permanent Collection and range from photography to film to illustration. The talented alumni artists included in this exhibition are:
2011 Katharine Heyl, Emiko Kurokawa, Rosemary Liss
2012 Skye Landon, Emily Timm, Tim Oxton
2013 Caroline Isaacs, Walker Downey
2014 Soraya Matos
2015 Lindsey Gillis
2016 Cloë Ella Urbanczyk, Sienna Van Slooten
2017 Charlotte Hall
2018 Aleza Epstein
2019 Bhavika Dugar
2020 Elisa McClear
Exhibition runs February 16–March 27, 2021
Gallery Opening | Monday, February 22, 5:00 p.m. EST Register here
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Beard & Weil Galleries is only open to the on-campus community for the spring 2021 semester. We will make every effort to make our exhibitions available virtually during this time. We appreciate your patience as we navigate this global challenge and we look forward to welcoming you back to campus when we are able to resume normal operations.

Music Department Meet & Greet
2022-08-31 17:00 | Watson 222
Interested in getting involved in Music? Come out and meet the faculty and hear about opportunities for classes and performance.

Theatre & Dance Meet & Greet
2022-09-01 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Come out and meet the faculty and staff of the Department of Theatre and Dance and hear what’s planned for the coming year. Information about auditions for both theatre and dance will be provided as well as information about classes and the major.

Mainstage Auditions
2022-09-01 19:00 - 22:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Auditions for the fall mainstage production of ROE, written by Lisa Loomer and directed by Professor Stephanie Burlington Daniels, will take place on Thursday, September 1. Current students can sign up for an audition slot on the Theatre and Dance call board, located in the hallway outside of Watson office 126. A PDF of the script is available, please contact Professor Daniels for access. A cast list will be posted on call board by 7pm Friday night (September 2).
Updates about the production can be found on instagram @roeatwheatonma
Rehearsal schedule: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday night 7-10pm, and Friday afternoon from 2-4pm. Rehearsals begin on Tuesday night Sept. 6. The show opens on November 3 and runs until the 12th.

Wheaton Dance Company Auditions
2022-09-06 17:00 | Balfour-Hood – Ellison Dance Studio, Norton, 02766, United States
Are you interested in jazz, ballet, and modern dance? Current students are invited to audition for the Wheaton College Dance Company. There will be a warmup with our modern teacher then you will be taught a combination. Please wear clothes that you are able to dance in.
Find the company on Instagram @wheatondanceco

Anna Webber's Simple Trio
2022-09-08 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Award winning composer, saxophonist, and flutist Anna Webber performs with her band Simple Trio (Matt Mitchell, piano; John Hollenbeck, drums) blending strands from contemporary concert music and free improvisation. It is surprising, inventive, virtuosic, and engagingly problematizes entrenched notions about the genre of a jazz trio.

Faculty Recital
2022-09-14 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Faculty members in the Department of Music perform as part of the Faculty and Friends Music Series.

Gallery Opening
2022-09-15 15:30 - 17:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us for a reception celebrating the opening of our latest exhibition What Only You Can Make: The Art of the African Wrap Doll from the National Black Doll Museum. The exhibition will be on display from September 15–October 29, 2022.

What Only You Can Make: The Art of the African Wrap Doll
2022-09-17 13:00 - 17:00, 2022-09-20 13:00 - 17:00, 2022-09-22 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-09-24 13:00 - 17:00, 2022-09-27 13:00 - 17:00, 2022-09-29 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-10-01 13:00 - 17:00, 2022-10-04 13:00 - 17:00 and 2 more dates | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Beard and Weil Galleries have partnered with the National Black Doll Museum of History and Culture to present What Only You Can Make: The Art of the African Wrap Doll.
The National Black Doll Museum is based in Mansfield and is the country’s largest collection dedicated to the art, craft, history, and preservation of Black Dolls. The exhibition includes selections from the Museum’s collection of handmade African Wrap Dolls; the history and family lore that connect the Museum’s dollmaking to the past; the process and the materials used for making the dolls; and connections between the African Wrap doll and African and African American hair and clothing styles.

The exhibition is on display September 15–November 5, 2022. Visit our website for additional programming.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 1–5 p.m.; Thursday 1–8 p.m.

Readings by the Writer—Phuc Tran
2022-09-20 12:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
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.

Arts Quad Party
2022-09-23 16:00 - 18:00 | Hood Courtyard, 26 E. Main Street (between Watson & Mars Arts), Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us to kick off Family & Friends Weekend arts@wheaton style. Come get a taste of what the arts at Wheaton can offer, there will be live performances, food trucks, tie dye, galaxy glitter jars and more!

Medical History (Part One)
2022-09-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
A live performance by artist Dominic Quagliozzi
Dominic Quagliozzi merges his lived experience as a person with chronic illness and disability into art. By repurposing and re-coding medical materials in art making, he explores the emotional and psychological space in moments of vulnerability, anxiety, fragility, and resilience. Medical History (Part One) is a live performance set in a loosely interpreted Operating Theater. It shares Quagliozzi’s questioning of time, the believability of his body, anxiety, and the voyeuristic nature of the hospital environment. Through the use of special effects makeup, the artist’s body will appear whole and untouched, while under the surface years of medical intervention and health trauma is ruminating. This first and singular performance at Wheaton is part of a journey that has evolved, devolved and revolved back again to some form of stability. Conceived as a continuation to his 2014 performance Medical History (Part Two), which confronted his physical deterioration and meditated on upcoming invasive surgical procedures, Part One carries the radical embodiment of resilience and adaptation, seeking to bridge the gaps between the two.
The performance will be followed by a QA, led by RISD Museum curator Conor Moynihan, whose exhibition Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability on view through October 9, 2022 includes work by Quagliozzi.
Organized by the WIIIH, and sponsored by the Evelyn Danzig Haas Visiting Artist Program.

The Loser Concert Series presents Angélique Kidjo
2022-10-06 20:00 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo is one of the greatest artists in international music today, a creative force with fifteen albums to her name. Kidjo’s creative power is palpable through the beauty and strength of her voice, her music and movement, visual aesthetic, linguistic prowess and enormous advocacy work that serves so many. Kidjo has cross-pollinated the West African traditions of her childhood in Benin with elements of American R&B, funk and jazz, as well as influences from Europe and Latin America. Yet her love for collaboration inspires musical fusions and partnering with gifted musicians from across the globe. Angelique also advocates on behalf of children as a UNICEF and OXFAM Ambassador. She created her own charitable foundation, Batonga, dedicated to support the education of young girls in Africa.

Tickets are required, but are available free of charge via the Watson Box Office (limit 2 per person).

“I believe music is a language beyond the colour of skin, country or culture. I want to inspire people to work to help educate, nourish and protect our children.”
Angélique Kidjo, Benin
