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  • Film Screening: The Arc of Oblivion

    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    From executive producer Werner Herzog (Cave of Forgotten Dreams; Grizzly Man) and director Ian Cheney (King Corn), The Arc of Oblivion is an unexpectedly playful search for an answer to a deeply existential question. Set against the backdrop of the filmmaker’s quixotic quest to build an ark in a field in Maine, the film heads far afield—to salt mines in the Alps, fjords in the Arctic, and ancient libraries in the Sahara—to illuminate the strange world of archives, record-keeping, and memory.

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  • Author and Illustrator Mike Curato

    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    Join us for a presentation by Mike Curato, author of the graphic novel Flamer which received several honors including the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Young Adult, the 2021 Massachusetts Book Award for Young Adult, and was listed as one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020. Flamer also has the distinction of being one of the top 10 banned books of 2024, and Mike has become a fierce advocate of free speech.

  • Screening of “Secret Mall Apartment” with artist Michael Townsend

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    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    Jeremy Workman's 2025 documentary "Secret Mall Apartment" tells the story of eight Rhode Island artists who created a secret apartment inside the Providence Place Mall, living undetected for four years. Far more than a prank, the secret apartment became a deeply meaningful place for all involved—both a creative protest against gentrification and a compelling examination […]

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  • Joan Scheckel & The Technique™

    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    Joan Scheckel is an internationally renowned creator of The Technique™, a highly influential approach to writing, directing, and filmmaking craft in Hollywood.

    Free

  • Children of the Stone: The Power of Music

    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    Musician, composer, and creator & musical director the ensemble Dal'Ouna, Ramzi Aburedwan presents a talk on his unlikely upbringing as a young musician with an insatiable dream: to bring people together, across cultures and world views, through music.

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  • An Evening with Artist Finnegan Shannon

    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    Finnegan Shannon is a multidisciplinary artist whose work experiments with access and ableist assumptions.

  • World Interaction Design Day

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    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    Wheaton alumni designers Michele L’Heureux and Boon Sheridan will be on campus September 26 for World Interaction Design Day, an annual global event by the Interaction Design Association to celebrate interaction design's ability to improve the human condition.

  • Active Color Perception; name a color, blind the eye

    Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

    In this talk, artist Rosy Lamb shares her research into color as a responsive language we all can learn to speak by listening, and by attending to what our eyes see all around us.

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