Wheaton College Massachusetts

Postcards from the Pandemic
2020-11-12 13:00 - 17:00, 2020-11-11 13:00 - 17:00, 2020-11-10 13:00 - 17:00, 2020-11-07 13:00 - 17:00, 2020-11-06 13:00 - 17:00, 2020-11-05 13:00 - 20:00, 2020-11-05 13:00 - 17:00, 2020-11-04 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) and 9 more dates | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
This exhibition is an open call for postcard-sized responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. All submissions will be included in the exhibition and become part of the Wheaton College Permanent Collection. The exhibition is an effort to combat the social isolation this virus has forced on us. It is a chance to see, through the eyes of another, an expression of this experience. It is an opportunity to come together when we still have to remain physically apart. Submissions are being excepted u.nu/postcards.
October 20–November 24, 2020
Beard & Weil Galleries, Watson Fine Arts

You can view Postcards from the Pandemic virtually here.

Join us for studio visits with selected artists on Thursdays during the exhibition:
October 29, 2020 07:00 PM EST (US and Canada) via Zoom Register here
November 5, 2020 07:00 PM EST (US and Canada) via Zoom Register here
November 19, 2020 07:00 PM EST (US and Canada) via Zoom Register here
Gallery hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays 1–5 p.m.; Thursdays 1–8 p.m.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Beard & Weil Galleries is only open to the on-campus community for the fall 2020 semester. We will make every effort to make our exhibitions available virtually during this time. We appreciate your patience as we navigate this global challenge and we look forward to welcoming you back to campus when we are able to resume normal operations.

Virtual Fall Open House
2020-11-11 17:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
Get to know Wheaton during our live Virtual Preview Days and Fall Open Houses. Join us for faculty sessions where you’ll learn about academics and our new Compass curriculum and hear from current students about their experiences living and learning at Wheaton. Open Houses also offer the chance to connect with admission counselors, student financial services counselors and get a virtual look at campus, our arts and sciences buildings, residence halls and much more.
Register for this Virtual Fall Open House

Faculty Speaker Series - Dr. Francisco de Alba
2020-11-11 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
Join us for the fourth Faculty Speaker Series event, which celebrates the scholarly research and creative works of Wheaton’s faculty members.
Dr. Francisco de Alba will explore how Madrid’s collective sensibility changed in the last part of Franco’s dictatorship. Sex, drugs, and fashion were ways in which people engaged in new behaviours that made the authoritarian and Catholic outlook of the regime obsolete, creating the basis for the transition to democracy.
This hour-long talk and moderated Q&A is based Dr. de Alba’s recently published book, Sex, Drugs, and Fashion in 1970s Madrid.
Pre-registration is required for this virtual event, which will be held via Zoom.
If you require accommodations for this event, please contact Megan Brooks at brooks_megan@wheatoncollege.edu by November 4.

Reading by the Writer: Angie Mazakis
2020-11-10 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Angie Mazakis’s first book, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, describes the various experiences of a first-generation immigrant. Her work has been widely published, including in The New Republic and Boston Review.
Register on Zoom here .

Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
2020-11-09 17:00 | Virtual
Mark Johnson MD PhD, the Maroun Semaan Chair in Neurosurgery, and chair and professor of neurological surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, will speak at Wheaton College, Monday November 9, 2020 at 5pm, via Zoom. According to a recent interview on the Voices of UMass Med podcast, Dr. Johnson, grew up in Memphis, Tenn., and his early thoughts of becoming a race car driver gave way to medicine. “When I was a kid, I dreamed of doing something really significant.” Now a world-renowned neurosurgeon, Dr. Johnson said “I often say to people I’m a scientist in a neurosurgeon’s body,” and he adds “There are very few things that we do that are routine, mundane and inconsequential.”
Dr. Johnson has been a great supporter of Wheaton’s students in the past, having spoken about medicine and his personal career path with students in the Pre-Health Society before. Join students in Wheaton’s Pre-Health Society and BIO 324 Neurobiology course to hear Dr. Johnson deliver a talk entitled “Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus”. There will be time for question-and-answer about Dr. Johnson’s science and career as well.
Zoom link to be posted when available.

12th Annual Internship Showcase
2020-11-06 12:00 - 17:00 | MA
Please join us for the 12th annual (but first virtual!) Internship Showcase, launching at 12:00pm on Friday, November 6th! The event is asynchronous, so you may explore the Showcase at your leisure after noon.
You will hear from students who received funding to support their experiential learning last summer and academic year. The Internship Showcase will include a series of pre-recorded student panels and student blog posts. Please tune and to celebrate and learn from our students’ incredible accomplishments!

Postcards from the Pandemic—Studio Visits & Discussion
2020-11-05 19:00 | Virtual
Join us on Thursdays during Postcards from the Pandemic for virtual Q&As, conversations and reflection with exhibition participants.
Register here.

Community Conversation - 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: What Now?
2020-11-04 17:00 - 18:30 | MA
The Office of the Provost will host a discussion to explore and examine the potential outcomes and impacts of the 2020 United States national election. We hope the conversation will also serve as a catalyst for identifying strategies that will help us articulate and advance issues of concern for the Wheaton community. We will provide space for attendees to participate in a dialogue based on their individual and shared experiences. We hope you can join us for this important discussion.
Join the event using the following link: https://zoom.us/j/96899448706

Voice of an Artist—April Bey
2020-11-02 16:30 - 17:30 | Virtual
Join interdisciplinary visual artist April Bey as she shares how her practices and materials explore an introspective and social critique of American and Bahamian culture, contemporary pop culture, feminism, generational theory, social media, AfroFuturism, AfroSurrealism, post-colonialism and constructs of race within white supremacist systems. A brief Q&A will follow Bey’s talk. Registration is required for this Zoom event.
Register on Zoom here.

Postcards from the Pandemic—Studio Visits & Discussion
2020-10-29 19:00 | Virtual
Join us on Thursdays during Postcards from the Pandemic for virtual Q&As, conversations and reflection with author Maria Baker and artist Yikui (Coy) Gu exhibition participants.
Register here.

Representation And How To Get It, a new play commemorating 100 years of the 19th Amendment
2020-10-28 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual
Playwright Joyce Van Dyke, director Judy Braha, and actor Elaine Vaan Hogue talk about their collaboration on a new one-woman play featuring suffragist and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, who asks, “What does it do to your soul if you don’t have representation?” The play is a fever dream and a call to action by Howe, who was a playwright, poet, and founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association which supported voting rights for Black women as well as white women. The conversation will draw parallels between Howe’s mission and today’s election.
Register on Zoom here.

FabAcademy Info Session
2020-10-22 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual
Wheaton is offering a new course this semester called FabAcademy and will be holding an info session for students who would like to learn more. If you are interested in participating in FabAcademy this year or in the future, we recommend you attending. Students must be on campus next semester to take this course.
Sign up here.

“At the Fab Academy, you will learn how to envision, prototype and document your ideas through many hours of hands-on experience with digital fabrication tools.” Under the leadership of global instructor Neil Gershenfeld, Wheaton students will be exposed to innovative communities and ideas at a global level over the course of six months. Gershenfeld, MIT Professor and Director of the Center for Bits + Atoms, originally taught “How to Make Almost Anything” as an MIT course which grew into FabAcademy in 2009. Students who successfully complete FabAcademy will graduate with an extensive digital portfolio detailing their progress and final project. They will also gain the knowledge needed to take an idea from prototype to product. Wheaton will be the first college in New England to offer FabAcademy to its students. For more information, visit the website!
If you have any questions about this course, please email Madison at dunaway_madison@wheatoncollege.edu

Virtual Gallery Opening—Postcards from the Pandemic
2020-10-22 17:30 - 18:30 | Virtual
This exhibition is an open call for postcard-sized responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. All submissions will be included in the exhibition and become part of the Wheaton College Permanent Collection. The exhibition is an effort to combat the social isolation this virus has forced on us. It is a chance to see, through the eyes of another, an expression of this experience. It is an opportunity to come together when we still have to remain physically apart. Submissions are welcome through Oct. 10 at u.nu/postcards.
Register on Zoom here .
The exhibition will be on display October 20–November 24 2020.
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Beard & Weil Galleries will only be open to the on-campus Wheaton community during the fall 2020 semester. We will make every effort to make our exhibitions available virtually during this time. We appreciate your patience as we navigate this global challenge and we look forward to welcoming you back to campus when we are able to resume normal operations.

Readings by the Writer: Brandon Shimoda
2020-10-22 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Brandon Shimoda has been widely recognized for the imaginative spirit he projects in his poetry. His most recent book, The Desert, was published in 2018. He has been awarded the William Carlos Williams prize for his second book, Evening Oracle.
Register on Zoom here.
