Wheaton College Massachusetts

Gallery Exhbition—Patty Stone: Time and the River's Edge
2021-03-26 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-03-27 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Time and the River’s Edge presents 25 years of Patty Stone’s creative work and celebrates her tenure teaching at Wheaton. The exhibition will be displayed on campus as well as virtually and includes paintings and prints spanning the mid-1990s through 2020. Stone’s work explores the tension between nature and the built environment through mapping, collage, and the fluidity and texture of her chosen mediums.
Exhibition runs February 16–March 27, 2021
Gallery Opening | Monday, February 22, 5:00 p.m. EST Register here
Artist Talk | Friday, March 26, 12:00 p.m. EST
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.

Gallery Exhibition—The Tens: Friends of Art Alumni Collection 2011–2020
2021-03-26 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-03-27 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-04-01 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-08 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-15 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-22 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-29 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-05-06 13:00 - 20:00 | 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.

Gallery Exhibition—2021 Wheaton Biennial_final_final_FINAL
2021-03-29, 2021-04-05, 2021-04-12, 2021-04-19, 2021-04-26, 2021-05-03 | Virtual
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, collectively evoking an open-ended conversation.
Virtual Exhibition

Voice of an Artist—Jon Henry
2021-03-30 17:00 | Virtual
New York–based contemporary photographer Jon Henry discusses his career and work. Re-composed with Afro-American mothers and sons, Henry’s photographs from his project Stranger Fruit uniquely reference Michelangelo’s Pietà. This project responds to the frighteningly regular deaths of African American men through police violence. Via Zoom, registration required.
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Ritual of Remembrance
2021-04-01 19:30 | Virtual
Writer, performer, musician Jillian Walker will work with playwriting students to create a performance ritual drawing from her training as a dramaturg and fromBlack spiritual wisdom and liberation healing practices. Jillian’s own plays and sacred texts for the theatre include SKiNFoLK: an American Show, Sarah’s Salt, and Songs of Speculation. This will be a journey in facing collective truths and building community empathy. Via Zoom, registration required.
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Wheaton X Series—2020 and Beyond: Our Reflections. Our Responses.
2021-04-08 19:30, 2021-04-09 19:30 | Virtual
The X Series (xperimental/xperiential/xpression) celebrates Wheaton’s creativity in a multidisciplinary virtual event composed of ‘acts’ created by our community. Spanning dance, song, and film to visual art and theatrical performance, each project responds to the prompt: 2020 and Beyond: Our Reflections. Our Responses. Over the course of this two-night live premiere, we gather to share our creative processes and to present the culmination of that work. Via Zoom, registration required.
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Register Here—April 15 (Behind the Scenes)

Lakou Sanblé featuring Eïa! live from Martinique
2021-04-09 14:00 | Virtual
The phrase Lakou Sanblé connotes a gathering among friends and neighbors. During this live concert the band Eïa!: Christophe Césaire (composer, keyboard, guitar), Christel Coïta (singer), Carole Rosine (piano), and Jacques Bajal (bèlè drum) with special guest Mano Césaire (founder of Malavoi, violin) will perform traditional songs from Martinique, Guaudeloupe and French Guyane.
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Living Together: Intentional Communities and the Architectural Imagination—13th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring William Richards ‘04
2021-04-13 17:00 | Virtual
The architectural response to the concept of community has always been much broader than shelter. But, as we’ve learned to live with each other lately in new ways at the intersection of political upheaval and a post-pandemic malaise, can architecture adequately respond? This is a talk about “intentional communities” and why the choices we make in living together can enrich the values of the communities we choose. Via Zoom, registration required.
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Kevin Huizenga and his Comics
2021-04-14 17:00 | Virtual
Kevin Huizenga presents a history of his work in comics and graphic novels including his Ignatz Award winning series Ganges. Huizenga discusses his experiences working on a serialized comic and the ins and outs of big and small publishing as well self promotion for artists. Via Zoom, registration required.
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Lecture with American labor activist Ai-jen Poo
2021-04-15 17:00 | Online
Gender and Inequalities: Caregiving Labor During the Pandemic
An International Women’s Day Celebration
Join us for this 90-minute lecture with facilitated Q&A with American labor activist Ai-jen Poo.
Ai-jen Poo is an award-winning organizer, author, and a leading voice in the women’s movement. She is the Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance , Director of Caring Across Generations , Co-Founder of Super Majority , Co-Host of Sunstorm podcast, MacArthur Fellow, and a Trustee of the Ford Foundation. Ai-jen is a nationally recognized expert on elder and family care, the future of work, and what’s at stake for women of color. She is the author of the celebrated book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America . Follow her on Twitter at @aijenpoo.
Sponsored in cooperation with DEAL (Diversity, Equity and Access Leadership), Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning, Center for Social Justice and Community Impact, Center for Global Education, Women and Gender Studies, Office of the Provost, Office for Institutional Equity and Belonging, and SAIL (Student Activities, Involvement and Leadership).
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Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact daniels_stephanie@wheatoncollege.edu by Wednesday, April 14.

Wheaton X Series—Behind the Scenes
2021-04-15 19:00 | Virtual
Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the X Series. Explore the process of building this initiative, which was conceived by the Department of Theatre and Dance in response to the challenges of our times. Student participants will be joined by members of the production team to provide an insider’s view into the making of this exciting virtual project. Via Zoom, registration required.
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Premiere event registration links:
Register Here—April 8
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2021 Wheaton Biennial Artist Talk: Jessica Fuquay, Kara Güt, and jazsalyn
2021-04-19 19:00 | Virtual
Join us for a conversation with artists Jessica Fuquay , Kara Güt , and jazsalyn from the 2021 Wheaton Biennial , 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, collectively evoking an open-ended conversation.
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Jessica Fuquay is a Colombian American interdisciplinary artist, composer, and DJ currently based in Pittsburgh, PA. She makes videos, performances, and sound compositions that activate the embedded histories of specific sites and events through sustained observation, listening, and sometimes intervention. She is currently a second-year MFA Candidate at Carnegie Mellon School of Art in Pittsburgh, PA and has participated in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, ME and Project Row Houses in Houston, TX.
Kara Güt‘s work investigates the new shape of human intimacy formed by internet lifestyle, constructed detachment from reality, and the power dynamics of the virtual. Using image and screen-based media, she questions ownership of digital spaces and how they mirror or perpetuate oppressive systems. The resulting pieces are subversions of power: at times manifesting as imperfect relics attempting to perform a hidden and ineffable magic, or long-form video essays haunting the devices they inhabit. Employing tropes of absurdist humor mixed with existential dread, her work pokes at the underpinnings of internet culture by appropriating the subgenres of the post-digital patriarchal industrial complex.
jazsalyn (she/her), work begins where fiction and reality collide. As an anti-disciplinary artist, she weaves together new media and activism as methodology to decolonize and re-indigenize the future of art, design, and social practices.
As the Creative Director of black beyond, a radical platform for artists and activists to define alternate realities for Blackness, jazsalyn collaborates with BIPOC and non-BIPOC co-liberators to reconstruct, reclaim and reimagine Black (Indigineous) narratives.
Her work has been featured in publications such as CULTURED Magazine, Vogue.com, The New Yorker, and Huffington Post. Exhibitions and panels such as TEDx Durham and Textiles as a Second Skin at MoogFest.

Readings by the Writer—Rebecca Long
2021-04-22 17:00 | Virtual
A freelance writer and editor, Rebecca Long reports on a wide range of topics, including politics, TV, film, literature, and environmental justice. Her writing has been featured in VICE, Bitch Media, Bust Magazine, and Electric Literature. Long’s essay about Stranger Things’ Jim Hopper was Bitch Media’s most-read article of 2019. She currently works as the Digital Content Editor at a women’s non-profit organization and previously held full-time editorial roles at National Geographic Learning and SAGE Publications. Via Zoom, registration required.
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Gallery Opening—2021 Senior Visual Art Majors' Exhibition: (personal) space
2021-04-27 19:00 | Virtual
Join us as we celebrate the opening of our annual senior visual art major’s exhibition presented in the Beard and Weil Galleries and virtually on the gallery website .

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Creative Writing Senior Reading
2021-04-28 17:00 | Virtual
Graduating seniors from the Creative Writing program read from their original work. The program features all genres. Join us in congratulating these students on their outstanding writing. Via Zoom, registration required.
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Voice of an Artist—Adraint Bereal
2021-04-29 17:00 | Virtual
Contemporary photographer Adraint Bereal, the artist behind the nationally recognized project The Black Yearbook. Bereal’s multimedia collection and physical book speak to the experiences of Black students at the University of Texas at Austin, a predominantly white campus. Via Zoom, registration required.
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