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A Selection of Coins from the Hendricks Bequest

Join me as I share some of my favorite coins from the Permanent Collection.

It’s Elemental: Earth

Third in a series of four biannual exhibitions curated by students enrolled in ARTH335: Exhibition Design, It’s Elemental: Earth considers how earth—in all of its…

Marriage and Sunder

Leah Niederstadt publishes on traditional African wedding paintings that serve as both art and wedding license. She has also contributed to a book, a case…

Alumna Artist Returns to Campus

Artist Carol Crump Bryner returned to Wheaton in May 2017 for her 50th Class Reunion.

Lear Family Visit

At the start of the Spring 2017 semester, Leah Niederstadt, Assistant Professor of Museum Studies & Curator of the Permanent Collection, purchased two boxes of…

Curating the Kilham Basket Collection

Alivia Cross, Class of 2019, has worked as a Collection Assistant since her first semester on campus. A Theater & Dance studies Major (Technical/Design Track) with…

Student-Curated Exhibition Opens in Beard Gallery

On Thursday, 1 December 2016, the student-curated exhibition It’s Elemental: Water opened in Wheaton’s Beard Gallery.

No Key Needed for This Campus Residence

In the spring of 2012, Lucky Dallo Eisner ‘53 and her husband, Trustee Emeritus Edgar Eisner, donated Key Angel to Wheaton’s Permanent Collection.

Researching Wheaton’s Japanese Print Collection

Mandy Prue, Class of 2016, was hired as a Collection Assistant at the very start of her Wheaton career.

Congratulations, Lindsay!

Lindsay Koso, Conservation Intern with the Permanent Collection, recently learned that she was one of two Wheaton seniors awarded a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship.

A Whaler’s Life for Me: Interning at the New Bedford Whaling Museum

Sarah Hartshorn Hilton, Class of 2016, spent the summer of 2013 as an Education Intern at the New Bedford Whaling Museum, supported by a Caroline…

African Art at Wheaton College

Wheaton’s Permanent Collection contains fewer than 100 objects that have been identified as African.