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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.

In this inspiring and educational talk, Amelia Randolph Campbell teaches how to gain radical presence and authentic influence by way of experiential learning, to gain much more emotional flexibility, clarity, and magnetism in life and work. Lunch will be provided for attendees.

Hope Gallagher Ogletree ’75, Kristen Shea Bettencourt ’89, Adam Bart ’96, and Nicholas Cicchinelli ’14 discuss their personal philanthropic journeys, volunteerism and why Wheaton is so important to them.

Meghan Quigley Graham, Wheaton class of 2011, will share her experiences in the museum field as a student intern, administrative assistant, graduate student and museum educator as well as a pro-union organizer. She will explore both the ways in which inequality is reinforced by gendered labor and pay inequity and by the privileging of postgraduate degrees over hands-on experience and the ways in which emerging museum professionals, in particular, are organizing and collaborating to change the system.

Exhibition runs February 16–March 27, 2021

Gallery Opening | Monday, February 22, 5:00 p.m. EST Register here

Ross-Ma’u, Wheaton alumni from the class of 2008, provides a glimpse into his musically diverse background in a performance that explores collaborations with some of San Diego’s finest artists and showcases a taste of his original work.

Through their use of film, music, and various forms of digital media, award winning artist and alumni, Cliff Notez ’13 explores several themes of mental health (acknowledgement, processing and healing through the arts). Cliff also discusses their work in digital media, building their company, HipStory, and how they find work/life balance through a healthy practice of art therapy.

Two exhibitions celebrate Andrew K. Howard’s 43-year tenure as Professor of Art at Wheaton College. Howard’s landscape photographs of Alaska and the American Southwest are exhibited alongside the works of his former students—Robin Bowman, Liz Corman, Adam Ekberg, Rebecca Hale, Jenna Lee Mason, and Danielle Mourning—Wheaton alumni from class years 1982–2008.

These two exhibitions celebrate Andrew K. Howard’s 43-year tenure as Professor of Art at Wheaton College. Howard and six of his former students—Robin Bowman, Liz Corman, Adam Ekberg, Rebecca Hale, Jenna Lee Mason, and Danielle Mourning—will participate in a panel moderated by Gallery Director Elizabeth Hoy.