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Class of 2022 Symposium

We are pleased to announce that our class of 2022 Symposium will take place on Friday, June 3rd in The Clark Auditorium from 9am to 5pm. This event is free and open to the public, although it is recommended that you look to the Clark’s website for evolving COVID-19 protocols. Continue reading »

Announcing the Twenty-Sixth Annual Spring Symposium

The Graduate Program in the the History of Art is pleased to announce the Twenty-Sixth Annual Spring Symposium. Comprising fourteen talks by the Class of 2021, the symposium marks an opportunity for graduating students to showcase their recent research to the Williams community and beyond. A detailed press release, with… Continue reading »

Remembering Samuel Edgerton, Jr., Amos Lawrence Professor of Art, Emeritus

The Graduate Program in Art History at Williams College and the Clark Art Institute is saddened to announce the passing of Samuel Edgerton, Jr., Amos Lawrence Professor of Art, Emeritus, and former director of the Grad Art Program. A reflection on Professor Edgerton's life and work, written by fellow Grad Art Director Emeritus Mark Haxthausen, can be found here. The following was shared to the Williams Community by Williams President Maud Mandel. Continue reading »

Grad Art Announces Spring 2021 Contemporary Curatorial Workshop Guests

Each semester bi-weekly Contemporary Curatorial Workshops are available for students studying contemporary art and curatorial practice. Students present on-going curatorial projects, undertake studio and site visits, host local and visiting curators for presentations, and explore key topics in modern and contemporary art and curatorial practice. This spring’s guests include:… Continue reading »

Welcoming Meg Onli, Fall 2020 Visiting Professor

We welcome Meg Onli as the Visiting Professor for Fall 2020. She is currently the Andrea B. Laporte Associate Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia. She recently curated Colored People Time, a three-part exhibition at the ICA that investigates how “the history of… Continue reading »

Update on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Grad Art

We are undertaking this project in conversation and collaboration with our students. They are bringing great thoughtfulness and dedication to the process of helping us imagine how best to transform Grad Art to become more inclusive, more intellectually expansive, and better poised to foster and educate a new generation of critics,… Continue reading »

Grad Art Appoints Two Major Voices in Contemporary Art Criticism, Lynne Tillman and Hilton Als, to serve as Robert Sterling Clark Professors for Fall 2019 and Fall 2021

Lynne Tillman, Clark Professor for Fall 2019, writes novels, stories, criticism, and is Professor/Writer in residence at The University at Albany (SUNY). Her novels are Haunted Houses; Motion Sickness; Cast in Doubt; No Lease on Life, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award (1998); American Genius, a Comedy;… Continue reading »