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.

bwgalleries.org

This annual exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s 21 graduating visual art and design majors.  It features animation, painting, sculpture, app design, architecture, apparel design, photography, drawing, and textiles.

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.

Celebrate the opening of the 2023 Senior Art Exhibition—(dis)connect: a moment in time. This annual capstone exhibition highlights the work of Wheaton’s senior visual art and design majors.

Curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, Embodied Labor: Care and Control uses archival, collection, and loan objects to explore myriad forms of human labor.

Join us for a reception celebrating the opening of our latest exhibition What Only You Can Make: The Art of the African Wrap Doll from the National Black Doll Museum. The exhibition will be on display from September 15–October 29, 2022.

Join us for a mid-day reception celebrating the opening of our latest gallery exhibition, Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Perspectives on Mass Criminalization. Take a break, explore the exhibit, and enjoy a Knead Doughnut.

Freedom is a Constant Struggle is on display February 18–April 14, 2022. Masks are required in the galleries regardless of vaccination status.

Join us to celebrate the opening of our latest gallery exhibition Domestic State. This mid-day opening reception will feature doughnuts from KNEAD Doughnuts.

As we have all been required to spend concentrated time in our homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic spaces have developed new contexts and significance. Through humor, tragedy, the magical and the mundane, the artists in Domestic State explore the meaning and narrative of domestic spaces and objects. Han Seok You photographs himself in the US and Korea, in an effort to define what “home” means. Manal Abu Shaheen’s series Julian follows the experiences of her brother, a Lebanese-American single father, raising his family on a Pennsylvania farm. Elizabeth Duffy’s installations and objects allude to the apparent comforts of home while revealing its contradictions. Shabnam Janessari’s saturated paintings depict spaces that empower the complex realities of Iranian female identity. In addition to work by contemporary artists, pieces from Wheaton’s Permanent Collection offer a contrast between past and present. Artists featured in the exhibition include: Manal Abu Shaheen, Maria G. Baker, Elizabeth Duffy, Shabnam Janessari, Andrew Raftery, and Han Seok You.

Join us for an opening reception for our first exhibition of the academic year. To Scatter or Sow: Diaspora in Contemporary Art serves as a central event for Wheaton’s campus-wide initiative to consider Diasporas: Economies, Boundaries, and Kinship. The title of the show is taken from the Greek root of the word, and evokes not only the dispersal inherent in diaspora but also the potential for rich growth. Framing the multi-faceted idea of diasporas through the work of eight contemporary artists, the exhibition includes video, photography, painting, ceramics and text-based work. The exhibition will be presented both virtually and on the Wheaton campus.

The exhibition includes work by the following artists: Alina Bliumis, Chinatown Pretty: Andria Lo & Valerie Luu, Isabella Cruz-Chong, Patricia Encarnación, Michael Gac Levin, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, and Crys Yin

Please note: this opening event is open to the on-campus Wheaton Community only