Active Color Perception; name a color, blind the eye
2023-09-05 17:30 (America/New_York) | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
We have boxes of brightly colored pencils, marking pens, hex codes, and seasonal fashions. All of these give us access to color. But could it be that we are not seeing the whole picture in the color choices that are offered to us? The way many of us identify individual colors actually closes us off from the protean nature of color and from our abilities to interact with our color vision. Color is not a thing; it is a relationship between. 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. Her reserach includes a prototype of a digital tool she is developing, which allows users to intuitively build relational colors using a similar methodology to pigment mixing.

In Conversation with Andrea Pelkey ’02
2023-09-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join Andrea Pelkey ’02, a four-time National Emmy award-winning producer for ESPN, for a lively discussion on media, sports, and her days as a Wheaton student-athlete.
Beginning her career on SportsCenter and College GameDay, Andrea quickly excelled in covering breaking news in the field. She spent 14 years on the front-lines, covering some of the biggest news and features in the NFL, NBA, the Women’s Final Four, NASCAR, and events including 6 Super Bowls, the Wells Report, 11 NBA Finals, the NBA Bubble, and the Boston Marathon bombing. She is back in the studio as a Coordinating Producer of the network’s flagship program, the 11 p.m. SportsCenter.
At Wheaton, Andrea played field hockey and worked in the Sports Information Department. She holds a Masters in Broadcast Journalism from Emerson College.

Music Faculty Recital
2023-09-13 19:30 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The faculty members in the Department of Music perform as part of the Faculty and Friends Music Series.

Fresh, Fly, Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style
2023-09-18 19:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Over the last half century, hip hop has taken over the world. Its beginning is marked by Cindy and Clive Campbell’s (aka DJ Kool Herc) legendary back-to-school party held in the Bronx on August 11, 1973. Since that time, hip hop has spread around the globe, lending its influence to innumerable spaces. Style is one of the most pervasive and visible manifestations of the culture, and twenty- first century fashion, from luxury labels to everyday dress, owes a debt to hip hop. Join Associate Curator Elizabeth Way to discuss her recent exhibition celebrating hip hop style at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Ms. Way will also discuss her curatorial specializations, impactful Black designers in American fashion and the historical evolution of fashion systems rooted in American slavery.

Come Frunch with Us
2023-09-22 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-09-29 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-06 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-13 11:00 - 12:00, 2023-10-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Emerson Dining Hall – President’s Dining Room, Norton, 02766, United States
Come on Come All!
When: Fridays
Time: 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Who: Anyone wanting to practice their French is welcome
Where: Emerson Dining Hall (look for the French flag!)
Please contact Alexandra Place at place_alexandra@wheatoncolleg.edu with questions or comments

Gallery: 2023 Beard & Weil Galleries Artist Residency
2023-09-26 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-09-28 13:00 - 20:00, 2023-09-30 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-03 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-05 13:00 - 20:00, 2023-10-07 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-10 13:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-12 13:00 - 20:00 and 1 more date | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
For our inaugural 2023 Artist Residency, the Beard and Weil Galleries will be transformed into a studio workspace for two visiting artists, Bláithín Haddad and Adjua Gargi Nzinga Greaves. Haddad, who graduated from Wheaton in 2019, is working in printmaking and glass sculpture on ideas around immigration, belonging, and parasites. Greaves’ interdisciplinary practice is guided by metaphysics, network science, ethnobotany, and the granular analytics of poetic inquiry. She will be working with poetry, linguistics, and LEGOS this fall.
Drop-In Artist Studio Hours | weekly on Wednesday, 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Collaborative Workshop | October 12, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Closing Reception | October 13, 5:30–8:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday 1:00 pm–5:00 pm & Thursday 1:00 pm–8:00 pm

World Interaction Design Day
2023-09-26 17:30 - 18:45 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
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.
Michele and Boon will share how interaction design shows up in their current professional work and discuss this year’s theme, Ethics, Equity and Responsibility, with professor of design practice Tania Schlatter.

Welcome to Your City, Boston
2023-09-26 18:15 - 20:15 | Flight Club Boston, 60 Seaport Blvd, Suite 215, Boston, MA, 02210, United States
Join Wheaton young alums at Flight Club Boston in the Seaport District for fun with a side of networking on Tuesday, September 26, 2023.
Enjoy fast-paced dart games, bespoke cocktails, and delicious shareable bites! The cost is $10 per person and includes food, games, and one drink ticket.
Space is limited so reserve your spot quickly.
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Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month Keynote Speaker - Yvette Modestin
2023-09-29 14:30 - 15:30 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Please join us for our Hispanic and Latine Heritage Month Keynote Speaker – Yvette Modestin. Yvette is a local award-winning writer, poet, and activist from Colon, Panama, who focuses on shedding light on the Afro-descendant experience in Latin America.

Class of 1986 Mini Reunion in Stowe, VT
2023-09-30 | Stowe, Vt
The Class of 1986 is gathering for another mini reunion Saturday, September 30, 2023 in Stowe, VT!
While in Stowe, classmates will be able to enjoy hiking biking, the mountains, beautiful views, farm to table food as well as local wines, brews, and ciders.
1986 classmates interested in attending should reach out to Pam Litchfield at phlitchfield@gmail.com.

Faculty Research Talk
2023-10-02 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join Miranda Yaver , Assistant Professor of Political Science n for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Damages Denied: The Impact of ERISA’s Statutory Design on Patients’ Access to Health Care.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
Despite being written primarily as a pension law, the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) of 1974 has come to apply to the majority of employer-sponsored health plans in the United States. However, despite its health care salience, it has a key statutory design feature that limits patients’ ability to access their prescribed care: it precludes damages recovery for those who have been denied health coverage, an insurance practice that is pervasive and increasing. The absence of litigation incentives creates perverse incentives for insurers because it makes it all the more unlikely that patients will be able to obtain legal representation, such that insurers may deny with impunity. Drawing on extant literature on path dependence and on ERISA’s history and implementation, legislative history, and interviews with key congressional staffers, this paper evaluates this statutory design’s persistence across moments of health care reform including the Patients’ Bill of Rights and the Affordable Care Act, and the ways in which this can not only limit patients’ rights upon a coverage denial but exacerbates inequities in the American health care system and reduces health insurer accountability in a manner that can perpetuate the denials themselves.
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Drop-in Artist Studio Hours
2023-10-04 11:00 - 13:00, 2023-10-11 11:00 - 13:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States

Hispanic and Latine Heritage Series: A Taste of Columbia
2023-10-04 17:00 - 18:00 | Balfour-Hood – 1962 Game Room, Norton, 02766, United States
Join us to try Obleas and discover fun facts about the Columbia. This event is presented b Wheaton’s Columbian students.

Welcome to Your City, NYC
2023-10-11 18:00 - 20:00 | Creatures of All Kind, 160 N 12th Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11249, United States
Join Wheaton young alums at Creatures of All Kind rooftop in Brooklyn for a fun night with a side of networking on Wednesday, October 11, 2023.
Enjoy breathtaking sweeping views of the NYC skyline, cocktails and delicious shareable bites! Cost is $10 and includes food and one drink ticket.
Space is limited so reserve your spot quickly!
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Hispanic and Latine Fest
2023-10-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Balfour-Hood – Atrium, Norton, 02766, United States
Join us for Wheaton’s annual Hispanic and Latine Fest. Come and enjoy Country booths, sample food, performances and fun!

Many Voices, Many American Poetries Festival
2023-10-13 17:00 - 2023-10-14 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, United States
Join us for this two-day festival celebrating the many different representations in American poetry.
The event includes:

Round table discussions attended by poets who are traveling to Wheaton from across the country
A showcase including Wheaton alum and undergraduate students from the Boston area
A reading by a local arts organization

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Day 1 Schedule – October 13, 2023
Day 2 Schedule – October 14, 2023

Day 1 Schedule
Keynote Address
October 13, 2023 | 5:00 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre
Oliver de la Paz opens the festival with a keynote address, “Apologia for the Tumbleweed: Some Thoughts on Poetry, Deserts, and Diaspora.”

Oliver de la Paz is the Poet Laureate of Worcester, MA for 2023-2025. He is the author and editor of seven books: Names Above Houses, Furious Lullaby, Requiem for the Orchard, Post Subject: A Fable, and The Diaspora Sonnets, The Boy in the Labyrinth, a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry. Oliver serves as the co-chair of the Kundiman advisory board. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), the Artist’s Trust of Washington, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and has been awarded multiple Pushcart Prizes. He teaches at the College of the Holy Cross and in the Low-Residency MFA Program at PLU.
Boston-area Student Showcase
October 13, 2023 | 6:30 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Weber Theatre

Students from the Boston area paired with Wheaton alumni read from their original work.
Cheyenne Bates is an alumna of Wheaton College of Norton MA who graduated with the class of 2020. Cheyenne double majored in Creative Writing and Theatre. During her time at Wheaton, her playwriting was highlighted in the Every 28 Hours play Festival. Cheyenne also participated in The Martin Luther King Jr. Showcase where she won an award. She also was a participant in the 10-minute play festival hosted by Wheaton’s own playwright-in-residence Charlotte Meehan. Lastly, Cheyenne spent a semester studying Advanced Playwriting at The National Theater Institute located at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center where she received her certificate in Advanced Playwriting.
Isabella Cho (Harvard University) is a rising senior studying English at Harvard College. On campus, she is an editor for her undergraduate newspaper and conducts researc h on how technological and cultural forces are shaping employment opportunities in the United States. Her creative and critical writing have been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Asian American Journalists Association, Harvard Magazine, and YoungArts, among others. She is currently writing her undergraduate thesis, a collection of poems.
Olivia Lee Rui is a Chinese American poet from Reading, MA whose work primarily deals with adolescence, race, generational trauma, adoption, and other life experiences. She writes in a variety of prose, poetry, and playwriting—often all at once. Olivia is a ’23 Wheaton graduate still getting her bearings in the world, and wonderfully excited about everything in it.
Isaiah Lopez (Boston College) is a senior English major from the small costal town of Bay City, Texas. He is a first generation college student, as well as a first generation high school graduate. In his free time, he enjoys exploring the many parks of Boston and getting lost in the MFA’s many collections. His favorite authors include D.H. Lawrence and Raymond Carver.
Elizabeth Martinez (University of Massachusetts-Boston) is a Latinx poet who specializes in memoir-like poetry. She implements her experiences with mental health to showcase how important it is we take care of ourselves.
Viviana Infante (Brandeis University) is a Junior attending Brandeis University, though she calls her family back in New Jersey home. As a writer, she is often inspired by mythology, folklore and fables, and poems that involve clementines. She often loves to use poetry as a means to work through personal experiences, as well as expand on her understanding of the world and the many ways in which she can view it.
Sara Omar (University of Massachusetts-Lowell) is an English major at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She enjoys incorporating the beauty from travels into her writing as inspiration.

Day 2 Schedule
Conflicted Voices Roundtable
October 14, 2023 | 10:00 a.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture (Watson 102)
What does it mean to embody several voices or perspectives, which may be in conflict with each other? Poets on this roundtable openly consider the challenge of finding coherence in a voice, and whether doing so is a worthwhile goal. Poets Afua Ansong and Latasha N. Nevada Diggs field questions from the audience about their work.

Afua Ansong is an Assistant Professor in Africana Studies at the University of Rhode Island. She recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Mt. Holyoke College and received her Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing and MBA from the University of Rhode Island. She has three chapbooks, Black Ballad (Bull City Press, 2022), Try Kissing God (Akashic, 2020), and American Mercy (Finishing Line Press, 2019), and has published work in Prairie Schooner, Four Way Review, Maine Review, and other journals. More of her work is at afuansong.com .

Interdisciplinary poet and sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of Village (Coffee House Press 2023) and TwERK (Belladonna, 2013). She is also the author of three chapbooks, which include Ichi- Ban and Ni-Ban (MOH Press), Manuel is destroying my bathroom (Belladonna*), and the album Televisíon.
Pop-up Poetry
October 14, 2023 | 12:00 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries
Lunch is included for attendees

Denise Washington is so excited to be using the power of poetry to positively bring people together! She is the Founder, CEO and Curator of her #Pop-Up Poetry Series, A Denise Plays Hard Event Featuring Akili Jamal Haynes, Becoming Chibuzo, #Pop-Up Poetry’s Multi-disciplinary Artist!
For 6 years, poetry has been popping up around, adding voices and more beauty to gardens, parks, playgrounds and beaches in the City of Boston & beyond, on-line, virtually, and globally, (sailing up the Hapi River in Kemet and in Kingston, Jamaica!) healing and empowering communities one poem at a time! Most recently, in front of more than 600 principals and new teachers, #Pop-Up Poetry, with Akili Jamal Haynes-Becoming Chibuzo was an example of Equitable Literacy in Practice at Boston Public Schools’ Leadership Institute in August 2022 at Boston University. Also, in June 2022, she opened up for KRS-One at the Black Market, Buy Back Your Block in Nubian Square and her poem, “ A Quilt of Greatness” which was made into a short film, a collaboration with Akili Jamal Haynes, #Pop-Up Poetry Series’ Multi-Instrumentalist, was selected to have a screening in The 2022 Roxbury International Film Festival on June 25 2022 at Hibernian Hall.
Location, Origin and Diasporas Roundtable
October 14, 2023 | 1:00 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture (Watson 102)
A lot of writers and people in general have a complex relationship to “home” as a location of geographic/cultural origin. Poets on this roundtable have used poetry to further complicate the concept by home by exploring diasporic identities. Poets Anna Maria Hong and Basie Allen field questions from the audience about their work.

Anna Maria Hong is the author of the poetry collections Age of Glass, winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award and the Cleveland State University Poetry Center’s First Book Poetry Competition, and Fablesque, winner of Tupelo Press’s Berkshire Prize, and the novella H & G, winner of the A Room of Her Own Foundation’s Clarissa Dalloway Prize. Her writings appear recently in Guernica, Conduit, Notre Dame Review, FENCE, Poetry, The Hopkins Review, and The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays. A recipient of fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation, she is an Associate Professor at Mount Holyoke College.

Basie Allen is a poet and visual artist from New York City. His work carves parentheses in-between dirt and feeling. In 2020 he was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. In 2022 he was nominated for the National Book Award. He is currently working on a new series of paintings for an upcoming exhibition.
America is More Than the English Language Rountable
October 14, 2023 | 2:15 p.m.
Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture (Watson 102)

America is a home to many, and, likewise, its languages are many. Poets on this roundtable consider the poetic effects of juxtaposing English to another language. Poets Gabriel Dozal and Abigail Chabitnoy field questions from the audience about their work.

Gabriel Dozal is from El Paso, Texas. He received his MFA in poetry from the University of Arizona. His work appears in Poetry magazine, Guernica, Bomb Magazine, The Iowa Review, The Brooklyn Rail,and more. His first book of poetry The Border Simulator/El Simulador de Fronteras is available from One World/Random House.

Abigail Chabitnoy is the author of In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (Wesleyan 2022); How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2019), shortlisted for the 2020 International Griffin Prize for Poetry and winner of the 2020 Colorado Book Award; and the linocut illustrated chapbook Converging Lines of Light (Flower Press 2021). Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Boston Review, Tin House, Gulf Coast, LitHub, and Red Ink, among others. She currently teaches at the Institute of American Indian Arts low-residency MFA program and is an assistant professor at UMass Amherst. Abigail is a member of the Tangirnaq Native Village in Kodiak. Find her at salmonfisherpoet.com .
Poets Q&A
October 14, 2023 | 3:30 p.m
Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture (Watson 102)
All participants in the festival will be available to field questions from the audience.

Sponsored by the Celeste Gottesman Bartos ’35 Fund for the Visual Arts within the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program

Faculty Research Talk
2023-10-17 12:30 - 13:30 | Online
Join Leanna Lawter , Associate Professor of Business & Management for an upcoming Faculty Research Talk, Effectiveness of Flipped Classroom Format in Quantitative and Non-Quantitative Business Courses – A Meta-Analysis.
Presenters will begin by discussing their topic, and each session will close with a question and answer segment. All presentations are virtual and free and the Zoom link will be sent the day before this discussion.
The current meta-analysis investigates two student outcomes of the flipped or inverted classroom format in quantitative and non-quantitative business courses: knowledge acquisition and satisfaction. Data was collected through a search of nine databases to identify empirical studies which compared student outcomes in flipped classrooms to lecture classrooms. A total of 35 studies were identified for inclusion in the study. Results show that flipped format had a positive effect on knowledge acquisition for both quantitative and non-quantitative courses as compared to lecture courses. The impact in non-quantitative courses on knowledge acquisition was larger than the effect in quantitative courses, but was not statistically significant. Student satisfaction in flipped classrooms as compared to lecture classes was higher in quantitative courses, but not statistically significant. The implications for business education is to not use flipped classroom approach as a universal format for instruction but in courses where students benefit from self-directed learning and the increased workload for students merits the gains in learning.
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