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.
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.
Shelter is vital. It’s required for us to survive but also to thrive. Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Shelter interrogates the spaces in which we live, play, work, and worship, the objects found in such spaces, and the concept of “shelter”, broadly defined.
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 November 27—December 1 for November break and December 11, 2022–January 20, 2025 for winter break.
Shelter is vital. It’s required for us to survive but also to thrive. Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Shelter interrogates the spaces in which we live, play, work, and worship, the objects found in such spaces, and the concept of “shelter”, broadly defined.
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 November 27—December 1 for November break and December 11, 2022–January 20, 2025 for winter break.
Shelter is vital. It’s required for us to survive but also to thrive. Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Shelter interrogates the spaces in which we live, play, work, and worship, the objects found in such spaces, and the concept of “shelter”, broadly defined.
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 November 27—December 1 for November break and December 11, 2022–January 21, 2025 for winter break.
Fragile Vessels—Contemporary Ceramics and the Body
Please join us for our opening reception. Works by artists Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Miguel Enrique Lastra, Rob Raphael, Maedah Tafvizi Zavareh, and objects selected by the artists’ from the Wheaton College Permanent Collection are featured.
In the Weeds: Art and the Natural World showcases six artists who are examining the complicated relationship between humans and the environment. Many of these artists bridge art and science to bring to life processes that may otherwise elude the general public. Through seed collecting, camouflage, performance, video, and artists’ books, artists Kwang Choi, Rachel Frank, Jenny Kendler, Next Epoch Seed Library (a collaboration between Ellie Irons and Anne Percoco), and Tammy Nguyen consider issues of rewilding and human influence on the natural world.
The exhibition runs October 23—December 12, 2019
Image: Rachel Frank
Come check out what arts@wheaton is all about, including how you can get involved. There will be live performances, music, tie-dye, paper flower making, screen printing and more. Oh yeah, and food trucks!
The architectural response to the concept of community has always been much broader than shelter. But, as we’ve learned to live with each other lately in new ways at the intersection of political upheaval and a post-pandemic malaise, can architecture adequately respond? This is a talk about “intentional communities” and why the choices we make in living together can enrich the values of the communities we choose. Via Zoom, registration required.
Olga Livshin will discuss how culture, translation, history, current events and her own biography intermingle in her 2019 book of poems, A Life Replaced, which reflects on the experience of living as an immigrant under the Trump administration and with Putin’s war on Ukraine looming. Raised in Odessa and Moscow, Livshin writes witness poetry about xenophobia, war, and strongmen at the helm on both sides of the world. The book braids original poetry in English with translations from Anna Akhmatova, the great poet of 20th-century Russia, and Vladimir Gandelsman, fellow immigrant and winner of the Moscow Reckoning, Russia’s highest prize for poetry. Livshin’s poems, translations, and essays appear in The Kenyon Review and Poetry International, and are widely published. She holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature, and taught at the university level for a number of years before focusing on writing and translation.
Please join us in the May Room for a reception immediately following the lecture.
Sponsored by the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University and by the Russian Department at Wheaton College.