The Wheaton College Jazz Band perform under the direction of Diamond Centofanti. The Ensemble will perform works by Horance Silver, Benny Goodman, Luiz Bonfa, Duke Ellington and more.
Taking Up Space: Stories of Being
2026 Senior Visual Art Exhibition
Join us as we celebrate our 2026 Senior Visual Art majors. This exhibition highlights the work of our graduating Visual Art majors. It features animation, illustration, painting, photography, and sculpture. Featuring work by: Claire Berman, Charlie Black, Shaye Cox, Cali Griffin, Anjonelys Grullon, Tessa Hammond, Ben Massouda, and Olivia Price.
Exhibition runs: April 21–May 9, 2026
Commencement/Reunion Weekend: May 15 & 16
Original five-minute plays—written, directed, and performed by Wheaton students—are showcased in our biannual festival.
A concert celebrating the rich and varied tapestry of American music, including classical, jazz, ragtime, hip-hop, and more. Featuring music by Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Scott Joplin, Florence Price, George Gershwin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, a world-premiere by Kyle Ducharme ’28, and solo performances by Ben Lyon ’26, Zach Rakotomaniraka ’27, and Carolyn Stevenson ’28. The Great Woods Symphony Orchestra performs under the direction of Professor Delvyn Case.
Pay-what-you-can tickets are available via the Watson Box Office
The ensemble performs under the direction of Artistic Director Andrea Taylor-Blenis.
Pay-what-you-can tickets may be purchased via the Watson Box Office.
Seniors graduating with a major in Creative Writing and Literature read from their original work. Students will present readings over two evenings April 14 & 21, 2026.
written by Peter Shaffer
directed by John O’Meara
Amadeus, produced by the Kresge Theatre Company, tells a compelling story of intrigue, deceit, and obsession. Salieri, a successful composer in the court of the Austrian Emperor Joseph must reckon with his faith, passion, and personal identity when he is confronted by the young Wolfgang Mozart, a genius composer who puts his life’s work to shame with ease.
Tickets can be purchased via the Watson Box Office.
“Amadeus” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Kate Colby reads from her work including Paradoxx, her new collection of essays. “In Paradoxx, Colby applies her humor and exacting intelligence to teasing out tangles in relationships between memory, signification, and human perception. A one-hundred-day chronicle of a dark period in the author’s life, this tightly-wound lyric essay is also a memoir of growing up in the late 20th century and stumbling into the 21st.” (Essay Press) Colby was a founding board member of the Gloucester Writers Center in Massachusetts, where she now serves on the advisory board. She grew up in Massachusetts and currently lives in Providence, where she teaches at UPenn.
The Wheaton College Friends of Art proudly present the 18th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture in Art History featuring Camran Mani. Throughout his artistic career, Henri Matisse tried to be the teacher he had never had as an unhappy art student in late 19th-century Paris. In his talk, Camran Mani will explore the evolution of ideas about how to educate young people for careers in art by looking at a few of Matisse’s experimental teaching efforts from 1908-1948, including the art academy he briefly operated in Paris, his mural for an educational foundation in Pennsylvania, and the book Jazz.