Wheaton College Massachusetts

Gallery Exhibition—The Tens: Friends of Art Alumni Collection 2011–2020
2022-05-05 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-04-28 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-04-21 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-04-14 13:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

@capacity: 2022 Senior Visual Art Majors' Exhibition
2022-05-05 13:00 - 17:00, 2022-05-03 13:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-30 13:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-29 13:00 - 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Senior Visual Art majors’ will present bodies of work in a variety of mediums including: illustration, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. This group exhibition is mounted under the supervision of Assistant Professor of Photography Leah Dyjak.
Gallery hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday 1-5 p.m.; Thursdays 1-8 p.m.
Please note: Wheaton currently requires guests to wear a mask indoors regardless of vaccination status.

Wheaton College Jazz Band
2022-05-04 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Experimental Theatre, Norton, 02766, United States
The band, under the direction of Assistant Professor Jeffrey Cashen perform a wide ranging selection of jazz arranged for the band by Cashen. Special guest PHAT Police will also perform.

Please note: Wheaton College requires masking for at all events, regardless of vaccination status. Seating is limited.

Campus Climate Survey Action Sessions
2022-05-04 12:30 - 13:30, 2022-05-03 12:30 - 13:30 | Emerson Dining Hall – Faculty Dining Room
Please join DEAL (Diversity, Equity, and Access Leadership) for Campus Climate Survey Action Sessions. These sessions will be interactive with an eye toward improving campus culture. We will be discussing the results of the Fall 2021 Campus Climate Survey. There will be two sessions available. Tuesday, May 3rd, and Wednesday, May 4th from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm in the Emerson Dining Faculty Dining Room. This event is open to all students, faculty, and staff. Please feel free to bring your own lunch. Dessert will be provided. A virtual option will be available. Please email deal@wheatoncollege.edu for the link or for more information.

Student Recitals
2022-05-03 17:00 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Gifted student performers demonstrate mastery in voice, violin, cello, piano and other instruments.

Arts@Wheaton Twilight Screening
2022-05-02 07:00 - 22:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Arts@Wheaton presents an interactive screening of Twilight. Audience members are welcome to yell out their favorite lines and come up with some hot takes for an informal talk back after the movie. We’ll provide the movie snacks, bring a friend and come enjoy some cheesy vampire romance.
This event is for the Wheaton Community only.

Wheaton Chorale & Chamber Singers
2022-05-01 19:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The Wheaton Chorale and Chamber Singers, under the direction of Professor Tim Harbold, present a varied spring concert, featuring Haydn’s “Insanae et Vanae Curae,” contemporary favorites from Whitacre, Lauridsen and Runestad, and a range of jazz and popular selections. We are eager to share our music with you!

Social Impact Conference
2022-04-29 09:00 - 15:00, 2022-04-28 12:00 - 20:00 | Diana Davis Spencer Discovery Center – Lobby
The Wheaton Social Impact Conference is an annual student-run conference at Wheaton College in Massachusetts. The conference 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 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.
This is a two-day event:
Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 12–8 p.m.
Friday, April 29, 2022 at 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
Register today

Gallery Opening— @capacity: 2022 Senior Visual Art Majors' Exhibition
2022-04-28 18:00 - 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Please join us for an opening reception celebrating our 2022 Senior Visual Art Majors’ Exhibition @capacity. Students will present bodies of work in a variety of mediums including: illustration, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture. This group exhibition is mounted under the supervision of Assistant Professor of Photography Leah Dyjak.

Student Recitals
2022-04-28 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States

Creative Writing Senior Reading
2022-04-26 17:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Woolley Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
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.

Please note: Wheaton College requires masking for at all events, regardless of vaccination status. Seating is limited.

Film Composer Ted Reichman
2022-04-26 15:30 - 17:00 | Virtual
Visiting Artist Ted Reichman will discuss his work scoring films, including his most recent work for the critically lauded documentary “Missing In Brooks County,” hailed as “one of the most nuanced and disturbing…films about the immigration crisis.” by the Boston Globe.
Join the event via Zoom here.

Passover Seder this Friday
2022-04-22 18:30 - 20:30 | Emerson Dining Hall – Faculty Dining Room
Dear Campus Community,
We would like to invite you to a Wheaton Passover Seder this Friday, April 22nd. Wheaton’s Hillel, the Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, the Center for Social Justice and Community Impact, the Office for Institutional Equity and Belonging, and the Office of the President are excited to extend this invitation.
The Jewish holiday of Passover celebrates the exodus of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. The Passover Seder and recounting of the exodus story fulfill the biblical commandment to pass this story of liberation down to the next generation.
Wheaton’s Seder will be held in Emerson Faculty Dining from 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. on Friday, April 22nd. Professor Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus and student leaders will read the Haggadah and a catered kosher meal will be provided. No registration is required.
This community Seder is open to all–you do not have to be Jewish to attend. Hillel and all staff offices involved are committed to creating welcoming and supportive spaces for students and all community members to practice their faith and respectfully learn about the rich traditions that exist at Wheaton and beyond.
This time of year features several major holidays in addition to Passover: Ostara, the Spring Equinox in Wiccan and Neo-Pagan practices; Easter in the Christian tradition; and this year the holy month of Ramadan in Islam spans from April 1 to May 1. For more information on how to connect with other students observing these holidays, or with any questions, feel free to reach out to Interfaith Engagement Coordinator Caleigh Grogan: grogan_caleigh@wheatoncollege.edu or 508-286-3372.
Sincerely,
Caleigh Grogan, Interfaith Engagement Coordinator
Katie Hodes and Chloe Geller, Hillel Co-Presidents
Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Professor of Religion
Lenny Breton, Director of the Centers for Social Justice and Community Impact and Religious and Spiritual Life
Shaya Gregory Poku, Associate Vice President for Institutional Equity and Belonging

Dance and Conversation with Tina Mullone: Umfundalai Dance Technique
2022-04-21 19:00 | Balfour-Hood – Ellison Dance Studio, Norton, 02766, United States
Visiting Artist Tina Mullone will give an interactive movement class on the Umfundalai technique and talk on African and African American contemporary dance forms—specifically, on the Black body as confined and shaped by space.

Tina Mullone (BA, MFA) is Assistant Professor of Dance at Bridgewater State University and a New England board member for the American College Dance Association. Tina’s current research interests are centered around African Diaspora dance, dance as a conduit for change, African-Americans and the spaces that define/confine, the presence of spirituality in dance, Black feminism in movement & visual art, Arts education, and movement-based therapy as a result of trauma.
Umfundalai is a contemporary African dance technique that comprises its movement vocabulary from dance traditions throughout the Diaspora. The literal word, Umfundalai, means “essential” in Kiswahili. Much like Katherine Dunham, the late Kariamu Welsh , D. Arts, Umfundalai’s progenitor, has designed a stylized movement practice that seeks to articulate an essence of African – oriented movement or as she has described, “an approach to movement that is wholistic, body centric and organic.”

World Music Ensemble
2022-04-20 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Wheaton’s World Music Ensemble, under the direction of Associate Professor of Music Sheila Falls Keohane, performs music and song from Brazil, Ukraine, Cuba and more.

Mivos Quartet
2022-04-19 19:00 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Hailed as “one of America’s most daring and ferocious new-music ensembles” (The Chicago Reader), the Mivos Quartet visits Wheaton to perform a concert of contemporary music, including world premieres by Wheaton student composers.

Student Film Screening
2022-04-14 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
The Film & New Media and Visual Art programs present a screening celebrating the work of last semester’s film and animation students. Please join us for the festivities, we will have food, drinks, and good vibes. Who knows, perhaps you might secretly be in one of the films. Feel free to bring friends and come support the amazing work made by the students here at Wheaton!

Gallery Exhibition—Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Perspectives on Mass Criminalization
2022-04-14 13:00 - 20:00, 2022-04-12 13:00 - 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
February 18–April 14, 2022
The exhibition title is borrowed from Angela Davis’s 2015 book and is focused on prison abolition. The work in the show centers on the perspectives of people who have been or are currently incarcerated. Each of the exhibited projects allows us to see the impact the carceral system has on individuals, offering the viewer a chance to reevaluate their perspective on the dehumanizing and harmful effects of incarceration. But each of these projects also offers solutions in the form of information, actions, ways to connect, and alternatives to incarceration.
Ultimately, through the drawings, video performances, photography, writing, and gardens, the exhibition encourages visitors to ask “What would a future without prisons look like? What would it take to get there?”
Masks are required in the galleries regardless of vaccination status.
Gallery hours:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, & Saturday 1-5:00 p.m.
Thursdays 1-8:00 p.m.

Western Music II recital
2022-04-13 19:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Students enrolled in MUSC311: Western Music II are joined by Professor of Music Ann Sears for a performance of selected works from their coursework this semester.

Dance Collaborative 2022: Revive the Legacy
2022-04-10 14:00 - 17:00, 2022-04-09 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Student-led dance groups Kaos, Parasio Latíno (PL), Tap Out Loud (TOL), and Trybe come together once again to perform for the Wheaton community this spring. You don’t want to miss it! This performance will showcase a variety of styles of dance, from contemporary tap to modern K-Pop hits.
Tickets: $5 for general admission, $2 for students
Purchase tickets here.
In support of our performing artists and aligning with other local arts organizations, all indoor Arts at Wheaton programming, the Beard & Weil Galleries, and all events taking place in Weber Theatre or the Kresge Experimental Theatre will require gallery visitors and audience members to wear a mask regardless of vaccination status.
