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Orchesis, Wilson’s dance company, will host an outdoor community dance concert Friday, April 22, at 6 p.m., featuring amateur and professional dancers from the College and the region. The show is free and open to the public and will take place on the Mistick Quad (rain date Sat., April 23, at 6 p.m.). According to dance professor Megan Mizanty, M.F.A., this is “a celebration of dance throughout the region and the resilience of these dance studios over the past two years.”

The College welcomed Tanya I. Garcia, Ph.D., the deputy secretary of the Office of Postsecondary and Higher Education at the Pennsylvania Department of Education, to campus Friday, April 1. Garcia was accompanied by her colleague Kimberly McCurdy, Ph.D., the Bureau of Postsecondary and Adult Education director.

Wilson will hold a reception at 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 23, to mark the opening of the Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition. The exhibition, presented by the Department of Fine Arts and Dance, will continue through April 20 in the Bogigian Gallery on the second floor of Lortz Hall.

The show is an opportunity for students to share their work with the community. The exhibition will feature drawings, paintings, prints, graphic design, ceramics, photographs, and mixed-media artwork with a wide array of subject matter and content.

The Foundry, at 100 South Main Street in downtown Chambersburg, will host an exhibition of artwork by Wilson studio art and graphic design students. The show will open on Feb. 25 and continue through March 20, 2022. The event is free and open to the public.

The College will host a lecture series exploring Wilson women and their contributions to our community. All lectures are free and open to the public. The first two can be attended in person or via Zoom. The third will be available via Zoom only. You can register to receive the Zoom links at https://www.wilson.edu/WHM

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The Bogigian Gallery will host an exhibition of artwork by students from Hagerstown Community College (HCC) from Feb. 2 through Feb. 28.

“Voices from the Wine Dark Sea,” an exhibition at the Hankey Center, showcases the diversity of perspectives in the ancient world ringing the Mediterranean Sea. On show are artifacts from the Wilson College Antiquities Collection accompanied by primary source texts telling the stories of individuals and groups from centuries ago.

Open to aspiring or established writers

If you’re 14 years or older and interested in creative writing, you’re invited to our 2022 Creative Writing Colloquium on Saturday, March 5, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Brooks Science Center auditorium. You can take lessons on writing technique, ask questions about the publishing process, and hobnob with published authors.

The Class of 1955 Spring Research Stipend has been awarded to Joshua Legg, MFA, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and MFA Program Director. The $2,000 stipend will help fund a catalog for two upcoming exhibitions curated by Legg at Wilson’s Cooley Gallery. The first will present the work of Adam DelMarcelle, a visiting assistant professor of graphic design at Wilson. The second will feature works by artists committed to bearing witness to the times they live in and their experiences and challenging the status quo.