Wheaton College Massachusetts

Gallery Exhibition—Domestic State
2021-11-09 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-11-06 13:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
As we have all been required to spend concentrated time in our homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, domestic spaces have developed new contexts and significance. Through humor, tragedy, the magical and the mundane, the artists in Domestic State explore the meaning and narrative of domestic spaces and objects. Han Seok You photographs himself in the US and Korea, in an effort to define what “home” means. Manal Abu Shaheen’s series Julian follows the experiences of her brother, a Lebanese-American single father, raising his family on a Pennsylvania farm. Elizabeth Duffy’s installations and objects allude to the apparent comforts of home while revealing its contradictions. Shabnam Janessari’s saturated paintings depict spaces that empower the complex realities of Iranian female identity. In addition to work by contemporary artists, pieces from Wheaton’s Permanent Collection offer a contrast between past and present.

Featured artists include: Manal Abu Shaheen, Maria G. Baker, Elizabeth Duffy, Shabnam Janessari, Andrew Raftery, and Han Seok You.

Run with Roary Virtual 5k
2021-11-07 - 2021-11-13 | Virtual
November 7 – 13, 2021
Join the Wheaton community from all around the world for our second Run with Roary Virtual 5k! Participants can walk, run or bike, all at their own pace, on their own time and in their current locations. This year, it’s a battle between two teams; Team Cowduck and Team Bruce the Goose. Choose which team you want to be a part of and complete a 5k (3.1 miles) or more between November 7-13, 2021. Let’s see which team completes 1,834 miles first!
Fees:
Alumni, Parents & Family, Friends, Faculty and Staff: $30
Wheaton Student: $15
Youth (12 and under): $15
*Fees include Wheaton swag containing a custom running arm band, sticker and bib.
Register today!

In Conversation with "LOVING: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s-1950s" authors Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell
2021-11-05 18:30 - 20:00 | Mary Lyon Hall – Holman Room, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The Center for Social Justice and Community Impact, in partnership with Safe Zone at Wheaton, invites you to join Hugh Nini and Neal Treadwell, authors of the book “LOVING: A Photographic History of Men in Love, 1850s-1950s” in a discussion and Q&A-style program.
In-person seating is first come, first served. Register on Engage here. You can register for the live Zoom here!
“In the late 1990’s Neal & Hugh started collecting photographs purely by accident. The first photograph came from an antique store in Dallas. The photograph was of two men in a loving embrace mixed within random photos of a Dallas neighborhood from the 1920s. [Their] collection of over 2800 vintage photos of romantic couples spanning the 100 years between the 1850s and 1950s is the basis for [their] book.
LOVING: A Photographic History shines a new light on the most written about, dramatized, or filmed emotions — love. The pages of our book portray love, but also courage — the courage that it took to memorialize that unmistakable look that occurs between two people in love. LOVING: A Photographic History celebrates a loving past. A past that points towards the future. It’s message is for everyone. It’s universal.”
Feel free to send questions, comments, or accessibility concerns to pratt_mike@wheatoncollege.edu.

Puerto Rican Poetic Resistance(s) to Continued Colonialism: Interactive workshop with Dr. Melinda González
2021-11-04 17:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Ellison Lecture Hall, Norton, MA, 02766
Poetry-based art movements have functioned as an important locus of community organizing and political discourse across both Puerto Rico and the U.S. since at least the 1930s. In this interactive workshop, scholar-activist-poet Dr. Melinda González will perform poems, facilitate a poetry writing workshop, and discuss the role of poetry spaces in disaster recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria across the Puerto Rican diaspora.

This workshop is sponsored by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program, the Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning, WorldFest, and the Departments of English and Anthropology.

Gallery Exhibition—The Tens: Friends of Art Alumni Collection 2011–2020
2021-11-04 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-28 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-21 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-14 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-07 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-09-30 13:00 - 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
The Tens, highlights selected work from students who received the Friends of Art Purchase Prize from 2011-2020. These pieces are part of the Wheaton College Permanent Collection and range from photography to film to illustration. The talented alumni artists included in this exhibition are:
2011 Katharine Heyl, Emiko Kurokawa, Rosemary Liss
2012 Skye Landon, Emily Timm, Tim Oxton
2013 Caroline Isaacs, Walker Downey
2014 Soraya Matos
2015 Lindsey Gillis
2016 Cloë Ella Urbanczyk, Sienna Van Slooten
2017 Charlotte Hall
2018 Aleza Epstein
2019 Bhavika Dugar
2020 Elisa McClear
Exhibition runs February 16–March 27, 2021
Gallery Opening | Monday, February 22, 5:00 p.m. EST Register here
Due to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Beard & Weil Galleries is only open to the on-campus community for the spring 2021 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.

Halloween on Howard
2021-10-29 17:00 - 18:30 | Howard Street, Howard St., Norton, MA, 02766, United States
In celebration of Halloween, the Davis International House and the Center for Global Education would like to invite you to participate in Halloween on Howard!
This family friendly event invites you to bring the kids to trick or treat on Howard street with participation from many of the Theme Houses, President Hanno and Mrs. Sue Hanno, a few departments and residents at Shepard’s Court.
Get candy, show off your costumes, play games and see the decorated houses!
Visitors to campus should park in Lot 1 .
Sponsored by SGA with collaboration from:
Reni House, Davis House, Ohm House, Mad Haus, Safe Haus, Emerson Haus, First-Gen House, Art Haus, Hungry Lyons, President’s House, Educaton Club, CIVIC, Marshall Center

Schooling for Critical Consciousness: Engaging Black and Latinx Youth in Analyzing, Navigating, and Challenging Racial Injustice. A lecture by Scott Seider and Daren Graves.
2021-10-28 19:00 - 20:30 | Virtual
Schooling for Critical Consciousness addresses how schools can help Black and Latinx youth resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes. Scott Seider and Daren Graves draw on a four-year longitudinal study examining how five different mission-driven urban high schools foster critical consciousness among their students. The book presents vivid portraits of the schools as they implement various programs and practices, and traces the impact of these approaches on the students themselves.
Guests must register (anytime in advance) using this link in order to receive a Zoom invite:
Register on Zoom
Hosted by the Consortium for Excellence in Teacher Education, Education Department, SGA and the The Marshall Center.

Pass the Mic! Create. Curate. Care.
2021-10-23 10:30 - 14:00, 2021-10-22 14:00 - 17:30 | Virtual
Pass the Mic! Create. Curate. Care.
Artists, curators, scholars, and art facilitators recognize that cultural initiatives must respond with more agility and alacrity to the realities of inequity, in all of its forms. How those responses are effectively enacted is a more complex set of questions. This conference will focus on the political potentials of care and compassion as practiced in the arts. Participants will reflect on the differences between hearing and actively listening, and between speaking with and speaking to, in a variety of art-centered exchanges.

How can we amplify inclusive, polyphonic narratives based on lived experiences, instead of the perceived authority of academic or fine arts expertise? How might art workers conceive of their role as facilitation for collaborations and conversations about justice taking place outside cultural institutions? Over two online sessions, we will explore creative, curatorial and activist projects focused on toppling hierarchies, empowering BIPOC voices, reimagining history, and centering the voices of historically marginalized authors and creators. Hear more about cultural initiatives locally and internationally—making change now.
Information on conference program and participants.
This event is being presented virtually via Zoom.
Registration for Friday, 10/22
Registration for Saturday, 10/23
Please note: there are separate registration links for each day of the conference.
This event is sponsored by the Evelyn Danzig Haas ’39 Visiting Artists Program.

Gallery Exhibition: To Scatter or Sow—Diaspora in Contemporary Art
2021-10-21 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-19 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-10-14 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-12 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-10-07 13:00 - 20:00, 2021-10-05 13:00 - 17:00, 2021-09-30 13:00 - 20:00 | Watson Fine Arts – Beard and Weil Galleries, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
To Scatter or Sow: Diaspora in Contemporary Art serves as a central event for Wheaton’s campus-wide initiative to consider Diasporas: Economies, Boundaries, and Kinship. The title of the show is taken from the Greek root of the word, and evokes not only the dispersal inherent in diaspora but also the potential for rich growth. Framing the multi-faceted idea of diasporas through the work of eight contemporary artists, the exhibition includes video, photography, painting, ceramics and text-based work. The exhibition will be presented both virtually and on the Wheaton campus.
The exhibition includes work by the following artists: Alina Bliumis, Chinatown Pretty: Andria Lo & Valerie Luu, Isabella Cruz-Chong, Patricia Encarnación, Michael Gac Levin, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, and Crys Yin.

Gallery Hours
1:00–5:00 p.m., Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
1:00–8:00 p.m., Thursday
The galleries are closed Sunday, Monday, and during college breaks.
Please note: due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic the galleries are only open to the Wheaton campus community. All of our programing will be provided virtually as well.

Hearing is Believing
2021-10-20 19:00 | Online
Academy Award-winning sound designer and voice actor Ben Burtt, whose credits include the Star Wars and Indiana Jones series, ET: The Extra-terrestrial and Wall-E, will discuss how sound completes the illusion in motion pictures and the artistry involved in sound design.
Register via Zoom
Sponsored by the Film and New Media Studies and the French Studies departments.

To Scatter or Sow: Artists' Talk
2021-10-18 17:00 | Virtual
Patricia Encarnación and Crys Yin will share their artwork and discuss how their art practice connects with their activist work. Yin’s paintings, drawings and sculptures deal with cultural misconnections and embrace the comedic side of personal experiences. Encarnación is an Afro-Dominican artist who explores perceptions of being Caribbean through quotidian objects, landscapes, and the aesthetics she was exposed to growing up in her homeland, the Dominican Republic. Both artists have work currently on display in To Scatter or Sow: Diaspora in Contemporary Art in the Beard and Weil Galleries. Join us on zoom for the virtual presentation and conversation.
Register here .

Printmaking for Social Change
2021-10-15 15:00 - 17:00 | Chapel Field, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Screenprint social impact driven designs onto shirts! Students in Professor Fieo’s Printmaking for Social Change class will be on hand to help you print their t-shirt designs created in collaboration with student organizations. Learn about a variety of organizations on campus who are trying to make a difference. Participating groups include TWAP, ECCO, Emerson House, Model UN, First Gen, SHAG, and Safe Haus. Bring your own shirt or use one of ours! And don’t forget to swing by the food truck while you’re waiting for your shirt to dry.

Understanding Race, Racialization, and Systemic Oppression in Higher Education
2021-10-14 16:00 | Online
A panel discussion exploring the ways that racism manifests itself in college campuses and what members of the Wheaton community can do to help Wheaton be an anti-racist institution.
Panelists

Raquel M. Rall, Ph.D., assistant professor at the School of Education, University of California, Riverside
Cheryl D. Ching, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston

Commentator

Richard Chait, Ph.D., professor emeritus of higher education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Register via Zoom
Sponsored by the Office for Institutional Equity and Belonging and Diversity, Equity & Access Leadership (DEAL)
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact Shaya Gregory Poku at poku_shaya@wheatoncollege.edu by October 13.

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies: A Lunchtime MAP Day Reading and Conversation with Deesha Philyaw
2021-10-14 12:30 - 13:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
African American author, columnist, and public speaker Deesha Philyaw will read from her debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, which won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in fiction.
This event will also be available virtually via Zoom, register here.

MAP Day!
2021-10-14 09:00 - 14:00 | All Campus, 26 E. Main St., Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Join us for MAP Day, October 14, 2021! Classes are canceled between 9 a.m–2 p.m. to allow time to step back and reflect on your Wheaton journey.
MAP Day provides time for students to see all that Wheaton has to offer, from study abroad, career planning, honors & scholars programs, LEAPS, majors, financial planning, and much more. First and second year students will meet with MAP Advisors and peers in morning cohort meetings to reflect and plan.
Attend an author reading and Q&A with Deesha Philyaw, author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. This collection of short stories won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize and the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. A Q&A session will follow.
Wheaton’s Diversity, Equity and Access Leadership will host a discussion entitled Progress Towards Equity: A Community Discussion, to bring the Wheaton community together for this important discussion.
Don’t miss cider & donuts on the Dimple and in the Pine Courtyard from 10-11 a.m.
Learn about all of the many opportunities available to you as you plan your Wheaton career and your life after Wheaton! All events, including descriptions, preregistration information, and meeting links are available on Inside Wheaton -> Academics -> MAP Day.

Forward Whea Go: Philanthropy and Volunteerism at Wheaton
2021-10-01 16:00 - 17:00
Hope Gallagher Ogletree ’75, Kristen Shea Bettencourt ’89, Adam Bart ’96, and Nicholas Cicchinelli ’14 discuss their personal philanthropic journeys, volunteerism and why Wheaton is so important to them.

Ariana Reines: Ancient Evenings
2021-09-30 19:30 - 20:30 | Cole Memorial Chapel, Norton, MA, 02766, United States
Part seance, part collective automatic writing, part investigation of philosophical texts, Ancient Evenings will be a collective spiritual awakening in our own Cole Memorial Chapel. Come and explore the Western Canon through your own subversive and politically aware writing. Discover how you creatively think about rational thinking. Participants should bring a pad of paper and a writing implement. Light refreshments will be served before the event outside the Chapel.
