Friends of Art
About the Friends of Art
Members of the Wheaton College Friends of Art include alumnae/i, current students, faculty, and local residents with an interest in the visual arts. The Friends of Art and the Greater Boston Wheaton Alumnae/i Association co-sponsor an annual Fall event coordinated with the featured exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Friends of Art also sponsors bus trips to New York and other cities, and supports the Art Department and the Beard Gallery in a variety of ways. Contact Betsy Cronin for membership information.
A new newsletter highlighting art news from academic years 2005-2006, 2006-2007 will be published in early February.
Exhibitions and Lectures
February 4-April 10
Correspondences: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros brings thirty-three works from the internationally celebrated CPPC to Wheaton College's Beard and Weil Galleries. The exhibition provides an illuminating view of the range and sophistication of modern and contemporary Latin American art and demonstrates the various ways in which many artists, working in diverse mediums, have reinterpreted the act of drawing--as an emotional experience, a graphic representation of reality, a work in progress, or a conceptual strategy. Beard and Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts. Opening reception, February 4, 7:30 p.m. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 12:30-4:30 p.m. (The galleries will be closed for spring break from March 7-March 16.)
March 7-March 28
Faith Ringgold: Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky
Displayed in the Children's Art Gallery, Knapton lounge, this exhibition will showcase the illustrations of Faith Ringgold's children's book Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky. Open to the Henri A. Yelle Elementary School in Norton from 12-2 p.m. and the Wheaton Community from 2-5 p.m. on Fridays in the month of March. Opening reception, Friday March 7, 2 p.m. Knapton Hall, 2-5 p.m., Friday March 7, 21, 28. Closed for spring break Friday, March 14.
March 19
Voice of an Artist--Faith Ringgold
Ringgold, began her artistic career more than 35 years ago as a painter. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts--art that combines painting, quilted fabric and storytelling. She is in the permanent collection of many museums including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Her first book, Tar Beach was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. She has written and illustrated eleven children's books. She has received more than 75 awards, fellowships, citations and honors, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Fellowship for painting, two National Endowment for the Arts Awards and seventeen honorary doctorates. Sponsored by the Dale Rogers Marshall Visiting Artists Program Endowed Fund within the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program. Hindle Auditorium, Science Center, 7:30 p.m.
April 8
Voice of an Artist--Ursula von Rydingsvard
Von Rydingsvard is an abstract sculptor whose work has a distinctive style: folded, organic forms constructed from sawn and chiseled cedar beams, sometimes painted or blackened with graphite, frequently monumental in scale and exhibited outdoors. Her work has been exhibited widely, and is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Storm King Art Center, the University of Massachusetts public art collection, and other galleries. Sponsored by the Celeste Gottesman Bartos '35 Fund for the Visual Arts within the Evelyn Danzig Haas '39 Visiting Artists Program. Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts, 7:30 p.m.
April 16-May 16
The Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibition
Painting, printmaking, graphic design, drawing, sculpture, photography, textile and jewelry design, installation art and video are typically included in this annual show, advised this year by Professor of Art Andrew K. Howard. Opening reception, April 16, 7 p.m., Beard and Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts. Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday 12:30-4:30 p.m.
Stay tuned for details regarding upcoming events this spring.
Saturday, March 22
New York City Bus Trip
El Greco to Velázquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III
featuring a lecture by Professor Evelyn Lane and viewing of the exhibition
MFA, Boston
Betsy Cronin
Manager of Arts Events
Publicity/Editor, Friends of Art newsletter
phone (508) 286-3644
fax (508) 286-3565
email bcronin@wheatonma.edu