Annual Wanda Hollensteiner Lecture Series

This annual series brings a prominent academic to the Wright Museum of Art each year to deliver a lecture on a recently conserved artwork from the museum's permanent collection.  Wanda Hollensteiner '54 also provided a gift to renovate the museum's main gallery and she has established an endowed conservation fund for the cleaning and restoration of artworks.

This Year's Lecture: 

• February 8, 2012, 7:00pm, "Toulouse-Lautrec: Modernist as Populist" by Stephen Eisenman, Professor of Art History, Northwestern University.  Reception will precede the lecture at 6:30 pm in the Courtyard Gallery.

Past Lectures:

• February 9, 2011, "Rembrandt: Past and Present" by Dennis Weller, Curator of Northern European Art, North Carolina Museum of Art.  

• February 4, 2010, “Albrecht Dürer’s St. Jerome as Vanishing Point of the Renaissance” by David Hotchkiss Price, Professor of Religious Studies, History, and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Victor E. Ferrall Artists-in-Residence Program

Named for Beloit's ninth president, the annual Ferrall Artists-in-Residence Program brings artists to campus to work with students in art and music. The program began in the 1997-98 academic year with the residency of artist Jeanne Silverthorne.

Ferrall Artists-in-Residence at the Wright Museum:

• 1998, Jeanne Silverthorne
• Spring 2007, Leighton Pierce
• Fall 2007, Marie Watt

Museum Studies

As a teaching museum, the Wright Museum provides many opportunities for Beloit College undergraduates to learn and work in a professional environment. Students are involved in every facet of the complex operations, including researching collections, planning and implementing exhibits, and educational programming.

Students may elect to complete a minor in Museum Studies to supplement their major concentration in any other department of instruction. Class work is combined with hands-on experience at the Wright Museum of Art or Logan Museum of Anthropology. Through the Museum Studies program, students are given an opportunity to build both a theoretical and experiential basis, leading to a variety of museum related careers and a solid background for graduate training programs.

Friends of the Wright and Art League of Beloit

Friends of the Wright is a community oriented support group for the museum and has recently merged with Art League of Beloit. Members receive invitations to all events, a newsletter, notification of lectures, symposia, and other special programs, discounts at the museum store, and other benefits.  This group sponsors the annual Beloit and Vicinity exhibition, a juried show that presents works in various media from artists in the area. For membership information write to:

Wright Museum of Art
Beloit College
700 College Street
Beloit, WI 53511

Or send an e-mail to: wright@beloit.edu.