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8th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Christopher Monkhouse

Entitled Cabinets for Collections: From Wunderkammern to the Athenaeum.

New Britain Museum of American Art announces new Director

Wheaton Alumna Min Jung Kim has been named as Director of the New Britain Museum of American Art.

Artist Talk by Johnny Adimando

Learn about the source of RISD faculty member Johnny Adimando’s current exhibition, titled “The Beast of Broken Sleep”.

Artist Talk by Shelley Reed

November 3, 2015 Boston-based painter Shelley Reed will shed light on her process of creating large-scale black-and-white paintings that draw from art history and will…

A Conversation on Race, Art, and Activism

Wheaton faculty Dolita Cathcart and Tripp Evans engage in a conversation with artist James Montford inspired by his exhibition “The Planetarium of Black Indian Constellations”.

Photography and Democracy: Artist Talk by Cedric Nunn

September 23, 2015 Cedric Nunn began to take photographs professionally in the early 1980s in South Africa and is well known for images taken during…

Voice of an Artist—Yuko Shimizu

October 20, 2015 Shimizu speaks about her career as an illustrator, including taking you backstage to show you her step-by-step process of creating an illustration…

From Stolen Art to Selling Art: Contemporary Challenges in Museum Ethics

October 1, 2015 Join anthropologist Sally Yerkovich and intellectual property lawyer Heather Hope Kuruvilla for a lecture and discussion on ethical and legal issues facing…

WIIH LEAPS presents The Art of Networking

April 20, 2015 Find your passion and be guided by Wheaton alums toward the job of your dreams in art history, arts administration, museum education,…

Creativity in Hard Times II: Student Performances of Music by WPA Composers

April 16, 2015 Wheaton pianists will present a concert with commentary as a companion to Visiting Artist Leslie Amper’s lecture/recital Creativity in Hard Times: The…

Call for Student Proposals: Eberhart Grant

Interested in going abroad for research-related travel this summer? The Patti Eberhart ‘68 Overseas Study and Travel Grant generously funds art and art history majors…

The Geographical Boundaries of Art History: Academia and the Museum

How do curatorial departments, art historical specialties, and the way collections are organized by geography shape the way we study art, and classify the world?