Join us for a tour of our current exhibition Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories Massachusetts INTO LIGHT Project currently on display in the Beard & Weil Galleries. This special tour is open to anyone.
In conjunction with Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories Massachusetts INTO LIGHT Project currently on display in the Beard & Weil Galleries, this special peer grief support group is open to anyone 18+ who has experienced the death of someone they care about due to substance use.
Rowan West Haber is an aesthetically minded Writer/Director. An MFA graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, they were a Sundance Momentum Fellow, a Sundance New Frontier Lab, and an Art of Practice Fellow. They were selected for the Universal Pictures Directing Lab, AFI’s Directing Workshop for Women, Film Independent’s Episodic Lab and Project Involve, Outfest’s Screenwriting Lab, and were a shadowing director on FX’s Pose. They were featured on The Alice Initiative’s 2018 list of directors ready to helm studio films, Indiewire’s 8 Best Trans Directors Working Today, and have been a fellow at Yaddo, MacDowell, and UCross Artist Residencies.
They won a Webby, New Orleans Film Festival, and LA Film Festival awards and were nominated for a GLAAD award for their series, New Deep South. Their series Braddock, PA (Topic) gained critical attention from The New York Times and The New Yorker. They directed Stonewall Forever for Stink Studios as well as Celestial for Tribeca Studios x Bulgari, and have done commercial work for Mercedes, Pepsi, Spotify, Facebook and Apretude to name a few.
Recently, they directed the finale for the FX x Killer Films Gotham and GLAAD Award-nominated series Pride. They are currently directing a feature documentary EPed by Lauren Greenfield and produced by Caryn Capotosto entitled We Are Pat about the 90s SNL cult figure It’s Pat. They are also attached to direct Amasia Entertainment’s (Green Hornet, Them That Follow) trans coming of age film, Handsome and their film Shell.ai, which is a modern feminist horror retelling of the Frankenstein story from the perspective of a female technologist, is being produced by Seaview (Slave Play, Reality). They are also attached to direct the feature adaptation of Brontez Purnell’s award-winning novel Since I Laid My Burden Down, which is being adapted to screen by Savannah Knoop and just won the 2021 SFFILM Rainin Grant. They were an advisor for Sundance’s first Trans Possibilities Lab and are currently a Sundance Humanities Sustainability Fellow. They are a member of the collective of artists, scientists and technologists called Talk to Me About Water.
They speak Spanish and Portuguese, and when they aren’t doing creative work, they are definitely on a mountain somewhere.
WEBSITES
Rowan Haber / Personal
https://www.rowanhaber.com/
Talk to Me About Water
https://www.talktomeaboutwater.com/
UX Practice & Designing Software that Enables Sustainable Building
UX strategist, designer and author Deborah A. Levinson graduated with a degree in Creative Writing and she will share her professional journey to UX. She will discuss what a work day looks like and how she helps one long-term client design software for architects and builders to select and specify the use of green building materials. A brief Q&A session will be included in this event. Light snacks will be provided during the presentation.
Join us for an evening-length live concert featuring John Hollenbeck, Sarah Rossy, Anna Webber, and Chiquita Magic as they combine experimental jazz, ambient electronics, synth pop music and more.
Join us as we explore the wide wide world of graphic design and its relationship to other design disciplines.
Doug Scott’s design work has won awards from the American Institute of Graphic Arts, Society of Typographic Arts, Boston Hatch Awards, New York Art Directors Club, Boston Art Directors Club, Broadcast Designers Association and Bookbuilders of Boston. He has been a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts since 1974 and served on its national board of directors from 1989–1992. He currently runs a design practice doing book and identity design, and is consulting Art Director of Davis Publications, an art education publisher in Worcester, Massachusetts. Scott teaches graphic design, exhibition design, typography and graphic design history at the RISD and teaches graphic design and design history at the Yale School of Art. He has also taught at UMASS/Dartmouth, Northeastern, RIC and Connecticut College.
Combining a mix of performance and conversation, Dr. Samantha Ege animates the soundworlds and stories of the women who inspire her research. Dr. Ege is a leading interpreter and scholar of the African-American composer Florence B. Price. Dr. Ege’s publications and performances shed an important light on composers from underrepresented backgrounds. In 2023, she won the Society for American Music’s Irving Lowens Article Award for Chicago, the ‘City We Love to Call Home!’: Intersectionality, Narrativity, and Locale in the Music of Florence Beatrice Price and Theodora Sturkow Ryder (American Music journal). Dr. Ege’s first book South Side Impresarios: How Race Women Transformed Chicago’s Classical Music Scene will be published with the University of Illinois Press in autumn 2024.
Free tickets via the Box Office.
Grammy-nominated Berklee Indian Ensemble (BIE) is a world-renowned collective known for its global Indian sound that honors regional South Asian musical traditions while boldly experimenting with a cross
pollination of genres, cultures, and multidisciplinary art forms from around the world. A diverse 8-piece ensemble that was born at the Berklee College of Music, the brilliant musicians of BIE provide an evening of
expansive, integrated musical explorations.
Free tickets via the Box Office.
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.