Wheaton College Massachusetts

Gallery: 2023 Beard & Weil Galleries Artist Residency
2023-09-26 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-09-28 13:00 - 20:00, 2023-09-30 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-03 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-05 13:00 - 20:00, 2023-10-07 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-10 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-12 13:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) and 1 more date | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
For our inaugural 2023 Artist Residency, the Beard and Weil Galleries will be transformed into a studio workspace for two visiting artists, Bláithín Haddad and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves. Haddad, who graduated from Wheaton in 2019, is working in printmaking and glass sculpture on ideas around immigration, belonging, and parasites. Greaves’ interdisciplinary practice is guided by metaphysics, network science, ethnobotany, and the granular analytics of poetic inquiry. She will be working with poetry, linguistics, and LEGOS this fall.
Drop-In Artist Studio Hours | weekly on Wednesday, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Collaborative Workshop | October 12, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Closing Reception | October 13, 5:30–8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 1:00 pm–5:00 pm & Thursday 1:00 pm–8:00 pm

World Interaction Design Day
2023-09-26 17:30 - 18:45 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Wheaton alumni designers Michele L’Heureux and Boon Sheridan will be on campus September 26 for World Interaction Design Day, an annual global event by the Interaction Design Association to celebrate interaction design’s ability to improve the human condition.
Michele and Boon will share how interaction design shows up in their current professional work and discuss this year’s theme, Ethics, Equity and Responsibility, with professor of design practice Tania Schlatter.

Drop-in Artist Studio Hours
2023-10-04 11:00 - 13:00, 2023-10-11 11:00 - 13:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States

Five-Minute Play Festival
2023-10-28 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
Original five-minute plays written, directed, and performed by Wheaton students will be showcased in our biannual festival.

RENT
2023-11-09 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Book, Music & Lyrics by Jonathan Larson, directed by Stephanie Burlington Daniels

Premiering on Broadway in 1996, RENT garnered international acclaim and won several awards, including The Pulitzer Prize for Drama and The Tony Award for Best Musical, and is based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme. The play follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
Tickets may be purchased online via the Watson Box Office
$15 general, $10 seniors/faculty/staff, $5 students

November 18th Talkback
The November 18th performance of RENT will be followed by a talkback session entitled:
The Intersectionality of Identities: RENT and Our Wheaton Community with Luis F. Paredes, Associate Vice President for Institutional Equity and Belonging, Stephanie Burlington Daniels, Professor of Theatre, Izzi King ’22, Choreographer for RENT, and the cast.

RENT is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

RENT
2023-11-10 19:30, 2023-11-11 19:30, 2023-11-16 19:30, 2023-11-17 19:30, 2023-11-18 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Book, Music & Lyrics by Jonathan Larson, directed by Stephanie Burlington Daniels

Premiering on Broadway in 1996, RENT garnered international acclaim and won several awards, including The Pulitzer Prize for Drama and The Tony Award for Best Musical, and is based loosely on Puccini’s La Boheme. The play follows a year in the life of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS.
Tickets may be purchased online via the Watson Box Office
$15 general, $10 seniors/faculty/staff, $5 students
RENT is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International (MTI). All authorized performance materials are also supplied by MTI. www.mtishows.com

Student Recitals
2023-11-14 19:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Gifted student performers demonstrate mastery in voice, violin, cello, piano and other instruments.

World Music Ensemble
2023-11-29 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The ensemble, under the direction of Assistant Professor Sheila Falls, performs works including the Italian ballad “Il Pescatore”, as well as selections from Brazil, Ireland, and Argentina.

Southeastern Massachusetts Wind Symphony
2023-12-01 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Wheaton’s largest wind ensemble performs its winter concert under the direction of Associate Professor Earl Raney.
Suggested donation $5.

The Pillowman
2023-12-02 19:30, 2023-12-03 14:00 | Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts
Written by Martin McDonagh
Directed by John O’Meara ’26, Produced by Joey Del Santo ’25
Presented by Café Theatre and the Department of Theatre & Dance

With echoes of Stoppard, Kafka, and the Brothers Grimm, The Pillowman centers on a writer in an unnamed totalitarian state who is being interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a series of child murders. The result is an urgent work of theatrical bravura and an unflinching examination of the very nature and purpose of art.

This production is directed, produced, designed and performed by Wheaton students.

Seating is limited, tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Box Office on the lower level of Watson Fine Arts. The box office will open one hour prior to each performance. Tickets are free but donations are graciously accepted.

Holiday Vespers Concert
2023-12-03 19:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Wheaton’s choral tradition for the holidays celebrates music of varied cultures and time periods, and features the Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers under the direction of Assistant Professor Alexandra Lutkevich. This year’s program highlights the works of multiple female composers such as Margaret Bonds, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Rosephanye Powell, Elaine Hagenberg, and Flory Jagoda.
The concert is free to the public, but donations are gratefully accepted.

Wheaton College Jazz Band
2023-12-06 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The Band, under the direction of Associate Professor Will Mason, performs a mix of American music ranging from jazz to rhythm and blues to rock.

Student Recitals
2023-12-07 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States

Great Woods Symphony Orchestra
2023-12-10 14:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Comprised of Wheaton students, faculty, and members of the public, the GWSO presents a concert featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 as well as works by Claude Debussy, and John Philip Sousa.
Suggested donation $5.

Student Film Screening
2023-12-12 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
A curated selection of student work is showcased in this end-of-semester screening.
Weber Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, 7:00 p.m.

Gallery Opening Reception
2024-02-02 16:00 - 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Fragile Vessels—Contemporary Ceramics and the Body
Please join us for our opening reception. Works by artists Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Miguel Enrique Lastra, Rob Raphael, Maedah Tafvizi Zavareh, and objects selected by the artists’ from the Wheaton College Permanent Collection are featured.
