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

Sami Milloshi, an American citizen born in Albania, has been working for Wheaton College since 2016 in the Building Service Department. He is an author of five poetry books, including Albanian Tattoo, published in Bloomington, Indiana. Last month he published his sixth book with short stories.

This is his first debut in painting. He started painting a year ago while he was writing his short stories. Milloshi says, “I like to paint because I think painting makes me able to express what has been silenced at my poetry and prose…”

Milloshi’s art exhibition opening is October 16th in the Balfour-Hood Café from 6 to 7:30pm with light refreshments.

Please join us to celebrate the opening reception for our first two gallery exhibitions of the academic year. Fiber/Paper/Love and Simile + Metaphor: Red Necklace, curated by Elizabeth Keithline, explore and interpret fiber’s use and forms in innovative ways. Haas Visiting Artist Barbara Owen will give an artist talk at 5 p.m. in Ellison Lecture, preceding the reception. The exhibitions will be on display through November 3.

Artist Ross MacDonald will talk about his career as a prop maker for Boardwalk Empire, National Treasure, Hateful Eight, Joy and John Wick among others.

The Center for Social Justice and Community Impact, in collaboration with Alumni Relations and Academic Affairs, will be hosting Wheaton’s first ever Focus on First-Gen Week. This week of campus events will celebrate the first-generation college student community, an identity shared by nearly 20% of Wheaties! Events include:

On Tuesday (2/6) in Balfour Atrium at 12:30 pm, the Focus on First-Gen Week Kickoff Event. Student, staff, and alumni speakers will make brief remarks on what it means to be first-gen, followed by time to get to know your first-gen peers, network with fellow first-gen faculty and staff members, and enjoy gourmet snacks.

The Center for Social Justice and Community Impact, in collaboration with Alumni Relations and Academic Affairs, will be hosting Wheaton’s first ever Focus on First-Gen Week. This week of campus events will celebrate the first-generation college student community, an identity shared by nearly 20% of Wheaties! Events include:

On Tuesday (2/6) in Balfour Atrium at 12:30 pm, the Focus on First-Gen Week Kickoff Event. Student, staff, and alumni speakers will make brief remarks on what it means to be first-gen, followed by time to get to know your first-gen peers, network with fellow first-gen faculty and staff members, and enjoy gourmet snacks.

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

Please join us for the opening reception celebrating two exciting new exhibitions in the Beard & Weil Galleries. Props & Fine Art from Movies, Television & Theatre and Working Objects: Props by Ross MacDonald will be on display through April 13, 2018. Haas Visiting Artist Ross MacDonald will give an artist lecture at 5 p.m. in Ellison Lecture. The galleries are open Monday-Saturday 12:30-4:30 p.m., the galleries will be closed for spring break March 10-18.

On & On: Art without End
On & On features works that have no beginning, no middle and no end. On & On artists make work about time as it moves on, but also the ‘electrical on’, in other words, ‘turned on’. The show is deliberately staged as a loopy, pulsing, loudly colored response to the short days of winter”. Beard Gallery, Watson Fine Arts

WORK/PLAY: Color-ism
WORK/PLAY, aka Danielle and Kevin McCoy, work in graphic design, printmaking, textiles, teaching, curating, and activism. Weil Gallery, Watson Fine Arts

 

Related Events:
Artist Talk with WORK/PLAY
: January 25, 5:00 p.m.
Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts

Resonance Dance Party featuring DJ Elementary:
February 22, 8:00 p.m.
Resonance is a color + music public art project conceived of by artist Lynne Harlow.  It explores the intersection of color and sound with an emphasis on our personal, deeply subjective associations with songs and colors. Beard & Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts

Drawn Threads
While contemporary culture has continued to use thread for utilitarian and decorative purposes, artists have explored its use and representation as a conceptual and expressive means for decades. These six artists rely on thread as both inspiration and drawing tool, creating works that span sculpture, installation, photography, painting and more. Participating artists include J Carpenter, Marjorie Forté, Leslie Schomp, Jodi Stevens, Antoinette Winters and Melissa Zexter. Beard Gallery, Watson Fine Arts

Taleen Batalian: Graft

Trained in fashion design and painting, Providence-based artist Taleen Batalian creates a site-specific installation that explores the boundaries between garment and sculpture, between form and function and between the beautiful and the grotesque.
Weil Gallery, Watson Fine Arts

September 5–October 21, 2017
Beard and Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts