Wheaton College Massachusetts

Reclaiming History; Archives as Resistance
2025-03-13 13:00, 2025-03-15 13:00, 2025-03-18 13:00, 2025-03-20 13:00, 2025-03-22 13:00, 2025-03-25 13:00, 2025-03-27 13:00, 2025-03-29 13:00 (America/New_York) and 3 more dates | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
We may think of archives as passive repositories but the projects in this exhibition explore how archives can rewrite history, activating counter-narratives. The projects range from artist books from the Women’s Studio Workshop; materials documenting Wheaton’s history from the Gebbie Archives and Special Collections; Tirazain, a digital archive of Palestinian tatreez embroidery designs; the Rhode Island-based Binch Press/Queer.Archive.Work‘s Community Supported Art (CSA) project, and the nonprofit Internet Archive. These varied examples show how archives celebrate non-dominant and non-linear stories and show us that history is not static.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Thursdays 1:00 p.m.—8:00 p.m. Please note: the galleries will be closed March 9—17 for spring break.

Chloé Arnold's Syncopated Ladies presented by the Mary Bloor Loser '42 Concert Series
2025-03-17 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Syncopated Ladies is a female Tap Dance Band from Los Angeles created by Emmy Award-Nominated tap dancer and choreographer, Chloé Arnold. Tap dance is extraordinary in its most traditional forms; these women take tap to a whole new level with their energy, precision and creative interpretations of popular music genres. The rhythms they bring to the floor are complex and layered, adding depth to the music that accompanies them. Please join us for a remarkable opportunity—they will amaze and inspire us. Tickets: free for current students & employees, $15 alumni, $25 general admission (limit 2).
Reserve/Purchase tickets via the Watson Box Office.

17th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture—Dakar As Art World City
2025-03-24 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – 102, Norton, MA, 02766
Wheaton’s 17th Annual Mary L. Heuser guest speaker, Joanna Grabski, Dean & Foundation Professor, College of Integrative Sciences and Arts (CISA) at Arizona State University, presents Dakar As Art World City. Dr. Grabski’s talk focuses on contemporary art and artists in Dakar, Senegal, a famously thriving “art world city”; highlighting how and why artists produce and exhibit their work and how they created an art scene by interacting with art world figures from near and far. She shows us that Dakar-based artists have local resonance in their city just as they have global reach.

Everybody
2025-03-27 19:30, 2025-03-28 19:30, 2025-03-29 19:30 | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
Adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Presented by Kresge Theatre Company

This modern riff on the 15th century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amongst the cast by lottery at each performance) as they journey through life’s greatest mystery—the meaning of living. This student-led production, directed by Colin Bourget ’26 and produced by Joey Del Santo ’25, is sure to be an innovative, interactive and immersive theatrical experience.
Tickets: Pay What You Can via the Watson Box Office
Produced in special arrangement with Broadway Licensing, LLC, servicing the Dramatists Play Service collection. (www.dramatists.com)

Reading by Donna Stonecipher
2025-04-02 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The poet, Donna Stonecipher, is a translator, living in Berlin. She is the author of six books of poetry, most recently The Ruins of Nostalgia. This particular book is a series of prose poems remarking on her different nostalgic views on Seattle, her hometown. And juxtaposing that to what nostalgia might mean to Berlin. Germany has a complicated history. And Berlin, in particular, where rebuilding has to account for its very recent history as a divided city.

5 Minute Play Festival
2025-04-05 21:00 - 22:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Original five-minute plays—written, directed, and performed by Wheaton students—are showcased in our biannual festival.

The Wheaton College Dance Company Presents Under Pressure
2025-04-10 19:30, 2025-04-11 19:30, 2025-04-12 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The ensemble performs under the direction of Artistic Director Andrea Taylor.
Tickets: $15 general, $10 faculty/staff & seniors, $5 students. Purchase tickets here.

Arneis Quartet World Premieres
2025-04-15 19:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us for a performance by Arneis Quartet as they perform world premieres by Wheaton student composers written during the spring 2025 semester.

Opening Reception: ephemera: Senior Art Exhibition
2025-04-17 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
ephemera: Senior Art Exhibition 2025
April 17–May 17, 2025
Opening Reception Thursday, April 17 5–8pm
ephemera highlights the work of our graduating visual art majors: Quinn Antle, Isabel Cahill, Morgan Calverley, Nat Coughlin, Willow Covendecker, Avery Forman-Walsh, Lia Gatta, Rachel Pool, Philip Pope, Emily Redler, Rebekah Roth, Armani Santana, Nicholas Santana, and Jack Wehrle. The exhibition features painting, sculpture, printmaking, work on paper, textiles, photography, drawing, and a graphic novel. The exhibition runs April 17–May 17, 2024 (hours may vary May 10–17).
More information at bwgalleries.org

Opening Reception for Senior Design Capstone Posters 2025
2025-04-17 17:00 - 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Haas Concourse & Lobby, Norton, 02766, United States
Exhibit dates: April 17–May 17, 2025
The design capstone is a chance for senior design majors to apply their knowledge and skills to a topic and situation of their choice.
Posters show and explain what students investigated and why, steps they took to add depth to their understanding and how they responded with design concepts through sketches, diagrams, prototypes and mockups.
Design Capstone 2025 will feature work by: Alicia Chang, Sofia Collina, Lucia Flaumenhaft, Louise Groover, Colton LaBrecque, Bobbie Lester, Reka Moscarelli, Taly Nudelman, Rebekah Roth, Jill Ryan, Reese Staples, Hailey Tice, Alison Tremblay, Ahaan Verma, Samzok Wangdi and Pear Wongwatanawisut.

Design Capstone 2025
2025-04-22 09:00, 2025-04-24 09:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Haas Concourse & Lobby, Norton, 02766, United States
The design capstone is a chance for senior design majors to apply their knowledge and skills to a topic and situation of their choice. Posters show and explain what students investigated and why, steps they took to add depth to their understanding and how they responded with design concepts through sketches, diagrams, prototypes and mockups.
It features work by: Alicia Chang, Sofia Collina, Lucia Flaumenhaft, Louise Groover, Colton LaBrecque, Bobbie Lester, Reka Moscarelli, Taly Nudelman, Rebekah Roth, Jill Ryan, Reese Staples, Hailey Tice, Alison Tremblay, Ahaan Verma, Samzok Wangdi and Pear Wongwatanawisut.
Please note: the capstone is on display and viewable when the Watson Fine Arts Building is open.

ephemera: Senior Art Exhibition 2025
2025-04-22 13:00, 2025-04-24 13:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
ephemera highlights the work of our graduating visual art majors: Quinn Antle, Isabel Cahill, Morgan Calverley, Nat Coughlin, Willow Covendecker, Avery Forman-Walsh, Lia Gatta, Rachel Pool, Philip Pope, Emily Redler, Rebekah Roth, Armani Santana, Nicholas Santana, and Jack Wehrle. The exhibition features painting, sculpture, printmaking, work on paper, textiles, photography, drawing, and a graphic novel. The exhibition runs April 17–May 17.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., Thursdays 1:00 p.m.—8:00 p.m. Please note: gallery hours may very May 3-17th

2025 Senior Creative Writing Majors' Reading
2025-04-22 17:00 - 18:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Seniors graduating with a degree in Creative Writing and Literature showcase original works of poetry, fiction and dramatic writing. The 2025 Senior Creative Writing Majors’ Reading features readings by: Quinn Antle, Sam Ferland, Emma Keamy, Gaby Reiser, Julia Thompson, Anson Wang, Emily Zielinski.

Becoming Katharine Graham with Director George Kunhardt '09
2025-04-23 19:00 - 20:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Today, The Washington Post is a household name in journalism, but that wasn’t always the case. The documentary Becoming Katharine Graham examines Graham’s leadership and journey as owner and publisher of a nationally syndicated newspaper that set the standards for investigative journalism and underscored the importance of a free press. The film will be followed by a Q&A with the director George Kunhardt ’09.
