Wheaton College Massachusetts

Faculty Retirement Celebration
2021-05-18 16:00 - 17:30 (America/New_York) | Online
President Dennis M. Hanno and Provost Renée T. White cordially invite you to a virtual celebration honoring the careers of the following esteemed faculty:

Matthew Allen, Music
Kirk Anderson, French Studies
Vicki Bartolini, Education
Bev Clark, English (posthumously )
Sam Coale, English
Mary Lee Griffin, Education
Donna Kerner, Anthropology
Shelly Leibowitz, Mathematics
Bianca Cody Murphy, Psychology
Patty Stone, Visual Art

Advance registration is required. We hope you can join us for this special event!
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2021 Senior Visual Art Majors’ Exhibition: (personal) space
2021-05-18 14:00 - 16:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This exhibition celebrates the achievements of the sixteen 2021 senior Visual Art majors, who present their thesis exhibition, (personal) space, the culmination of a year-long capstone experience in the Visual Art program at Wheaton College. The exhibition is currently on view in the Beard and Weil Galleries in Watson Fine Art. The physical gallery is open to the Wheaton community Tuesday-Saturday 1-5pm. The exhibition is also displayed virtually at the galleries’ website.

John Billings
Maggie Chen
Maggie Daly
Julia Dwinell
Lillian Etlinger
Yuexi (Bella) Guo
Martín Hanley
Marissa James
Nicholas Kambanis
Julia Kaplan
Lea Moore
Amanda Mundy
Allison Rogers
Mariela Saver
Caitlin F. Shields
Lucy Williams

2021 Wheaton Social Impact Conference – Day 2
2021-05-18 09:00 - 15:00 | Online
This is a unique event, planned to coincide with Senior Week, which brings together students, professionals, members of the local community, and the other interested individuals to think about the role of organizations in creating social impact. Participants will be able to learn from distinguished practitioners and scholars working on the issue of social impact, as well as from students and community members who are working to make the world a better place, including participants in Wheaton’s Social Entrepreneurship Launch Program.
Our opening session will include Mike Brady, an inspiring speaker who is the President of Sheltersuit USA and the former CEO of the noted Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY. We will also feature several panels on different aspects of social entrepreneurship and social impact, including an alumni panel with three graduates who are creating significant impact in their respective fields. Finally, we will we awarding for the first time the Aumna in Social Impact Award to Indira Henard ’03, Executive Director of the DC Rape Crisis Center.
The links below include a mini-schedule for each day so that you can get an idea of the different conference events, feel free to join any that you might find interesting:
Social Impact Conference, Day 1 registration
Social Impact Conference, Day 2 registration

2021 Wheaton Social Impact Conference – Day 1
2021-05-17 16:00 - 19:00 | Online
This is a unique event, planned to coincide with Senior Week, which brings together students, professionals, members of the local community, and other interested individuals to think about the role of organizations in creating social impact. Participants will be able to learn from distinguished practitioners and scholars working on the issue of social impact, as well as from students and community members who are working to make the world a better place, including participants in Wheaton’s Social Entrepreneurship Launch Program.
Our opening session will include Mike Brady, an inspiring speaker who is the President of Sheltersuit USA and the former CEO of the noted Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY. We will also feature several panels on different aspects of social entrepreneurship and social impact, including an alumni panel with three graduates who are creating significant impact in their respective fields. Finally, we will we awarding for the first time the Social Impact Award for alumni to Indira Henard ’03, Executive Director of the DC Rape Crisis Center.
The links below include a mini-schedule for each day so that you can get an idea of the different conference events, feel free to join any that you might find interesting:
Social Impact Conference, Day 1 registration
Social Impact Conference, Day 2 registration

Gallery Exhibition—2021 Wheaton Biennial_final_final_FINAL
2021-05-17, 2021-05-10, 2021-05-03, 2021-04-26, 2021-04-19 | 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

Wheaton Chorale & Chamber Singers
2021-05-16 19:30 | Virtual
The Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers present their virtual spring concert, joined by Time Out Vocal Jazz, the Oure Pleasure Singers and visiting artists Elise Groves, Emily Bergmann, Connor Vigeant, and Craig Juricka.
YouTube premiere begins at 7:30 p.m.
All are welcome at a virtual reception via Zoom immediately following the YouTube premiere. Register here.

2021 Senior Visual Art Majors’ Exhibition: (personal) space
2021-05-14 13:00 - 2021-05-17 17:00, 2021-05-13 13:00 - 2021-05-16 17:00, 2021-05-12 13:00 - 2021-05-15 17:00

Gallery Exhibition—The Tens: Friends of Art Alumni Collection 2011–2020
2021-05-13 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-05-06 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-29 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-22 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.

Sweet Treats with Sarcastic Sweets
2021-05-06 13:30 - 17:00
Join us for some sweet treats to celebrate the end of the semester! Providence-based dessert truck Sarcastic Sweets will be on campus with cupcake and cookie options. Participants must pre-register up for a time slot, have a green status in Co-Verified and have their event pass scanned. This event is open to the on-campus Wheaton community only.
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Celebrating Dale Rogers Marshall
2021-05-01 14:00 - 15:30 | Virtual
Join President Dennis M. Hanno, members of the faculty, and alumni leaders for a memorial program celebrating the life and Wheaton legacy of Dale Rogers Marshall , who served as President of the college from 1992 – 2004.
Her Wheaton presidency was defined by a strong commitment to the liberal arts, diversity, and social justice. She led recruitment efforts for a diverse and exceptional group of scholars to join the Wheaton faculty, and she instituted new programs aimed at increasing diversity on campus. In April 2005, the college named the Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning in recognition of her.
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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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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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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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Virtual President's Reception
2021-04-27 17:00 - 18:00 | Online
It’s time to celebrate a little. Take the opportunity to meet your future classmates, ask any final questions you might have about enrolling and have a chat with President Hanno during this casual online event.
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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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Making the Market: Jemuel Stephenson
2021-04-21 18:30 - 20:00 | Virtual
“Jemuel Stephenson is a Boston-based designer and entrepreneur specializing in digital fabrication for creative business.”
Join us on April 21st from 6:30PM to 8ish. Meet Jemuel and learn about how to start a small scale business rooted in laser cutting and digital fabrication. You’ll also learn about the tools you have access to on your own campus. Sign up here!
We will send zoom info or in person info closer to event date.

Chemistry at Wheaton Through the Years
2021-04-20 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
Join us for a panel discussion by alumnae with Elita Pastra-Landis ’69, Emerita Professor of Chemistry at Wheaton; Hilary Magruder Gaudet ’09, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry; and Carina Rose Sclafani ’20, IRTA Fellow at The National Institutes of Health.
The discussion will cover topics ranging from their shared appreciation of science, the benefits of studying and learning from and with one another, to the long standing tradition of mentoring and creating a collaborative environment within the Wheaton laboratories.
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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.

Life of a Lyon
2021-04-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Online
Want a sneak peek at what life is like at Wheaton and have some fun while you’re at it? This event is what you’re looking for. You’ll meet a cohort of other accepted and enrolled students as well as a current Lyon, hear from our students about their transition to Wheaton, and play a little WINGO—think Bingo, but with a Wheaton spin—where you’ll have the chance to win some great prizes!
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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
Register Here—April 9

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.
