Wheaton College Massachusetts

Hearing is Believing
2021-10-20 19:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Academy Award-winning sound designer and voice actor Ben Burtt, whose credits include the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series, ET: The Extra-terrestrial and Wall-E, will discuss how sound completes the illusion in motion pictures and the artistry involved in sound design.
Register via Zoom
Sponsored by the Film and New Media Studies and the French Studies departments.

Gallery Exhibition—The Tens: Friends of Art Alumni Collection 2011–2020
2021-10-21 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-28 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-04 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-11 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-18 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-25 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-12-02 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: To Scatter or Sow—Diaspora in Contemporary Art
2021-10-21 13:00 - 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
To Scatter or Sow: Diaspora in Contemporary Art serves as a central event for Wheaton’s campus-wide initiative to consider Diasporas: Economies, Boundaries, and Kinship. The title of the show is taken from the Greek root of the word, and evokes not only the dispersal inherent in diaspora but also the potential for rich growth. Framing the multi-faceted idea of diasporas through the work of eight contemporary artists, the exhibition includes video, photography, painting, ceramics and text-based work. The exhibition will be presented both virtually and on the Wheaton campus.
The exhibition includes work by the following artists: Alina Bliumis, Chinatown Pretty: Andria Lo & Valerie Luu, Isabella Cruz-Chong, Patricia Encarnación, Michael Gac Levin, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, and Crys Yin.

Gallery Hours
1:00–5:00 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
1:00–8:00 p.m., Thursday
The galleries are closed Sunday, Monday, and during college breaks.
Please note: due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the galleries are only open to the Wheaton campus community. All of our programing will be provided virtually as well.

Pass the Mic! Create. Curate. Care.
2021-10-22 14:00 - 17:30, 2021-10-23 10:30 - 14:00 | Virtual
Pass the Mic! Create. Curate. Care.
Artists, curators, scholars, and art facilitators recognize that cultural initiatives must respond with more agility and alacrity to the realities of inequity, in all of its forms. How those responses are effectively enacted is a more complex set of questions. This conference will focus on the political potentials of care and compassion as practiced in the arts. Participants will reflect on the differences between hearing and actively listening, and between speaking with and speaking to, in a variety of art-centered exchanges.

How can we amplify inclusive, polyphonic narratives based on lived experiences, instead of the perceived authority of academic or fine arts expertise? How might art workers conceive of their role as facilitation for collaborations and conversations about justice taking place outside cultural institutions? Over two online sessions, we will explore creative, curatorial and activist projects focused on toppling hierarchies, empowering BIPOC voices, reimagining history, and centering the voices of historically marginalized authors and creators. Hear more about cultural initiatives locally and internationally—making change now.
Information on conference program and participants.
This event is being presented virtually via Zoom.
Registration for Friday, 10/22
Registration for Saturday, 10/23
Please note: there are separate registration links for each day of the conference.
This event is sponsored by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

Puerto Rican Poetic Resistance(s) to Continued Colonialism: Interactive workshop with Dr. Melinda González
2021-11-04 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Poetry-based art movements have functioned as an important locus of community organizing and political discourse across both Puerto Rico and the U.S. since at least the 1930s. In this interactive workshop, scholar-activist-poet Dr. Melinda González will perform poems, facilitate a poetry writing workshop, and discuss the role of poetry spaces in disaster recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria across the Puerto Rican diaspora.

This workshop is sponsored by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program, the Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning, WorldFest, and the Departments of English and Anthropology.

In Conversation with "LOVING: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s-1950s" authors Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell
2021-11-05 18:30 - 20:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The Center for Social Justice and Community Impact, in partnership with Safe Zone at Wheaton, invites you to join Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, authors of the book “LOVING: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s-1950s” in a discussion and Q&A-style program.
In-person seating is first come, first served. Register on Engage here. You can register for the live Zoom here!
“In the late 1990’s Neal & Hugh started collecting photographs purely by accident. The first photograph came from an antique store in Dallas. The photograph was of two men in a loving embrace mixed within random photos of a Dallas neighborhood from the 1920s. [Their] collection of over 2800 vintage photos of romantic couples spanning the 100 years between the 1850s and 1950s is the basis for [their] book.
LOVING: A Photographic History shines a new light on the most written about, dramatized, or filmed emotions — love. The pages of our book portray love, but also courage — the courage that it took to memorialize that unmistakable look that occurs between two people in love. LOVING: A Photographic History celebrates a loving past. A past that points towards the future. It’s message is for everyone. It’s universal.”
Feel free to send questions, comments, or accessibility concerns to pratt_mike@wheatoncollege.edu.

Gallery Exhibition—Domestic State
2021-11-06 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-11-09 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-11-11 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-13 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-11-16 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-11-18 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-11-20 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-11-23 13:00 - 17:00 and 3 more dates | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
As we have all been required to spend concentrated time in our homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic spaces have developed new contexts and significance. Through humor, tragedy, the magical and the mundane, the artists in Domestic State explore the meaning and narrative of domestic spaces and objects. Han Seok You photographs himself in the US and Korea, in an effort to define what “home” means. Manal Abu Shaheen’s series Julian follows the experiences of her brother, a Lebanese-American single father, raising his family on a Pennsylvania farm. Elizabeth Duffy’s installations and objects allude to the apparent comforts of home while revealing its contradictions. Shabnam Janessari’s saturated paintings depict spaces that empower the complex realities of Iranian female identity. In addition to work by contemporary artists, pieces from Wheaton’s Permanent Collection offer a contrast between past and present.

Featured artists include: Manal Abu Shaheen, Maria G. Baker, Elizabeth Duffy, Shabnam Janessari, Andrew Raftery, and Han Seok You.

Gallery Opening—Domestic State
2021-11-11 11:00 - 14:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us to celebrate the opening of our latest gallery exhibition Domestic State. This mid-day opening reception will feature doughnuts from KNEAD Doughnuts.
As we have all been required to spend concentrated time in our homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic spaces have developed new contexts and significance. Through humor, tragedy, the magical and the mundane, the artists in Domestic State explore the meaning and narrative of domestic spaces and objects. Han Seok You photographs himself in the US and Korea, in an effort to define what “home” means. Manal Abu Shaheen’s series Julian follows the experiences of her brother, a Lebanese-American single father, raising his family on a Pennsylvania farm. Elizabeth Duffy’s installations and objects allude to the apparent comforts of home while revealing its contradictions. Shabnam Janessari’s saturated paintings depict spaces that empower the complex realities of Iranian female identity. In addition to work by contemporary artists, pieces from Wheaton’s Permanent Collection offer a contrast between past and present. Artists featured in the exhibition include: Manal Abu Shaheen, Maria G. Baker, Elizabeth Duffy, Shabnam Janessari, Andrew Raftery, and Han Seok You.

Reading by the Writer—Kent Shaw
2021-11-16 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – May Room, Norton, MA, 02766
Kent Shaw, Assistant Professor of English, will read from his second book, Too Numerous, and a selection of newer work.

Student Recitals
2021-11-16 17:00 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Gifted student performers demonstrate mastery in voice, violin, cello, piano and other instruments.
Please note: Wheaton College requires masking for at all events, regardless of vaccination status. Guests will be required to complete a registration form for contract tracing upon arrival.

Voice of an Artist—Zibby Jahns
2021-11-18 19:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Mourning in the abandoned industrial landscape, holding space in the detritus of capitalism: how can we turn symbols of death into the practice of life? Public Art at Wheaton (PAAW) invites you to hear from the artist behind its most recent addition. Zibby Jahns will introduce their work Reckoning Place, which was just installed in Everett Courtyard, and talk about their artistic practice.

World Music Ensemble
2021-12-01 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The ensemble, under the direction of Assistant Professor Sheila Falls, performs music from a variety of genres from around the world, including the Catalonian song, ‘La dama d’ Aragó’ (The lady of Aragon) and more.
Please note: Wheaton College requires masking for at all events, regardless of vaccination status. Guests will be required to complete a registration form for contract tracing upon arrival.

Holiday Vespers Concert
2021-12-05 19:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
After a year of singing virtually, the Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers return to Cole Chapel to present the Holiday Vespers Concert. A long-time Wheaton tradition for the holidays, the Vespers Concert features festive secular and sacred music from a variety of time periods and cultures. Donations gratefully accepted.
Please note: Wheaton College requires masking for at all events, regardless of vaccination status.
In-person seating is SOLD OUT
Virtual Registration via Zoom, register here.
