arts@wheaton Archives

Brush Coat Cover, juried by contemporary art dealer Cade Tompkins, is the fourth biennial at Wheaton. The 2019 exhibition focuses on work that challenges, explores, and celebrates the definition and history of painting, collectively evoking an open-ended conversation on the medium.

“After twenty-eight years of desire and determination, I have visited Africa, the land of my forefathers.” So wrote Lida Clanton Broner, an African-American resident of Newark, New Jersey, on her return from a South African journey, funded by savings from a lifetime of work as a domestic and hairstylist. Broner’s trip was motivated by a sense of ancestral heritage, but also her anti-colonialist activism. Her collection was subsequently exhibited in the US in the 1940s, against the broader backdrop of pan-Africanist ideology and the emerging civil rights movement. Dr. Clarke will share her groundbreaking research on Broner’s extraordinary story, which animates the experiences of both South Africans and African Americans during a time of struggle and oppression.

Wheaton’s World Music Ensemble, directed by Sheila Falls Keohane, assistant professor of music, performs a variety of world music drawing on traditions from India, Ireland, France, Brazil and more.

This exhibition features the work of Wheaton’s senior studio art majors. The exhibition runs April 24–May 11, 2019.

This exhibition features the work of Wheaton’s senior studio art majors.

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.

The ensemble performs under the direction of Artistic Director Andrea Taylor-Blenis. Tickets: $10 general, $5 faculty/staff & seniors, $2 students. To reserve tickets please contact the Watson Box Office at 508-286-3575 or at [email protected].

book & lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty, directed by Clinton O’Dell, music director Tim Harbold
This Tony Award winning musical is the story of Ti Moune, a young woman searching for her life’s purpose, defying even the most impossible circumstances simply by choosing faith, forgiveness, and love.Tickets: $10 general, $5 with a Wheaton ID & seniors. For information and reservations, contact the Watson Box Office.

Seniors graduating with a degree in creative writing and literature showcase original works of poetry, fiction and dramatic writing.