Wheaton College Massachusetts

Reclaiming History; Archives as Resistance
2025-02-27 13:00, 2025-03-01 13:00, 2025-03-04 13:00, 2025-03-06 13:00, 2025-03-08 13:00, 2025-03-11 13:00, 2025-03-13 13:00, 2025-03-15 13:00 (America/New_York) and 9 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.

TAK Ensemble
2025-03-03 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
One of the most prominent contemporary music ensembles at work today, TAK Ensemble presents a program of works by composers including Ashkan Behzadi, Tyshawn Sorey, Eric Wubbels, and Bethany Younge.

Tatreez Embroidery Workshop
2025-03-05 17:00 - 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us for an evening of creativity and exploration at the galleries as we dive into the intricate world of tatreez embroidery- a centuries old Palestinian art form that weaves together history, identity and storytelling through vibrant thread work. This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the fundamental stitches, patterns, and symbolism behind tatreez and invites both seasoned embroiderers as well as those picking up a needle for the first time!

How to Watch Weird Horror with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece
2025-03-06 17:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
For many scholars and journalists, cinema seems to be in its death throes, especially in terms of theatrical viewing. Yet horror movies top the box office, with studios like A24, Blumhouse, and Neon churning out a constant stream of terror amid excitement around so-called “elevated horror.” How can we explain this seeming contradiction? Please join us for a talk with Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece, Associate Professor, English and Film Studies, who will take listeners on a brief tour of the history of weird and eco horror film and touch on some of its most salient characteristics in order to theorize what it means to watch horror in the theater versus streaming and why we want to watch it today.

A Cabaret
2025-03-06 19:30 | Emerson Dining Room
Join Kresge Theatre Company and the Wheaton College Chorale and Chamber Singers for an evening of musical theatre scenes and songs.

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 | 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.
