Wheaton College Massachusetts

I am Made of Stories
2023-05-12 19:30 (America/New_York) | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
written & directed by Morgaine Kmen
This senior thesis performance centered around a collection of moments from her life pieces together her personal story. This original work explores the importance of storytelling through art and beyond and an ensemble of actors, music, dance, and visual art to tell her story through theatrical performance. Free tickets via the Box Office. Kresge Experimental Theatre, Watson Fine Arts, 7:30 p.m.

2023 Senior Art Exhibition—(dis)connect: a moment in time
2023-05-13 13:00 - 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This annual capstone exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s senior visual art and design majors.

Active Color Perception; name a color, blind the eye
2023-09-05 17:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
We have boxes of brightly colored pencils, marking pens, hex codes, and seasonal fashions. All of these give us access to color. But could it be that we are not seeing the whole picture in the color choices that are offered to us? The way many of us identify individual colors actually closes us off from the protean nature of color and from our abilities to interact with our color vision. Color is not a thing; it is a relationship between. In this talk, artist Rosy Lamb shares her research into color as a responsive language we all can learn to speak by listening, and by attending to what our eyes see all around us. Her reserach includes a prototype of a digital tool she is developing, which allows users to intuitively build relational colors using a similar methodology to pigment mixing.

Fresh, Fly, Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style
2023-09-18 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Over the last half century, hip hop has taken over the world. Its beginning is marked by Cindy and Clive Campbell’s (aka DJ Kool Herc) legendary back-to-school party held in the Bronx on August 11, 1973. Since that time, hip hop has spread around the globe, lending its influence to innumerable spaces. Style is one of the most pervasive and visible manifestations of the culture, and twenty- first century fashion, from luxury labels to everyday dress, owes a debt to hip hop. Join Associate Curator Elizabeth Way to discuss her recent exhibition celebrating hip hop style at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Ms. Way will also discuss her curatorial specializations, impactful Black designers in American fashion and the historical evolution of fashion systems rooted in American slavery.

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 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.
