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Hamilton students are heading back to campus with tales about their spring break adventures. But there’s no time for a post spring break letdown because college calendar is loaded with lectures, performances and events from now until the end of the semester.

The Secret Art Language of New York Playgrounds, a New York Times feature article that appeared in print on March 16, focused on the work of Julia Jacquette currently on exhibit at the Wellin Museum.

The Elmer Wellin Museum of Art will host a free Wellin Kids event on Friday, March 17, at 2 p.m., at the museum. The event is free and open to the public.

By the numbers, the Wellin Museum’s new exhibition, Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, has been a great success with more than 1,500 visitors in the first two weeks since its opening.

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art will host a free Wellin Kids event, inspired by the exhibition, Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, on Friday, Feb. 24, at 2 p.m., at the museum.

The Wellin Museum will host an opening reception for Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, oil paintings that explore our relationship with the media landscape and a graphic memoir based on the architecture of urban playgrounds in the 1970s, on Feb. 18.

Hamilton College charter trustee Linda E. Johnson, a 1980 graduate, has established the Johnson-Pote Museum Director Fund in support of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art director’s position.

The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art continues to offer students the opportunity to engage with professional artists in preparing site-specific artwork for their shows. Six students returned to campus two weeks early in January to work with Julia Jacquette on wall murals.

In celebration of the upcoming exhibition, Julia Jacquette: Unrequited and Acts of Play, opening at the Wellin Museum of Art on Feb. 18, Director Tracy Adler and New York-based artist Jacquette hosted a reception on this month in Manhattan.

The American Alliance of Museums published "It’s Time to Sell the Sizzle," an essay by the Wellin Museum’s Educator for School and Community Programs Amber Spadea, on its Center for the Future of Museums blog this month.