Seniors, parents and alumni are invited to join Arts@Wheaton and the Friends of Art to celebrate the class of 2026. Inside Watson, the Senior Design Capstone projects will be on display in the Haas Concourse & Lobby and the Galleries will be open to view the Senior Visual Art Exhibition, Taking Up Space. Light refreshments will be served.

Rain location: Haas Concourse & Lobby, Watson Fine Arts

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.