Contemporary Curatorial Workshop (Graduate Student class)
Meets Monday February 18th with artist and curator Tiona Nekkia McClodden in WCMA’s Rose Study Gallery 4-6pm. All current grad students invited to attend. Continue reading »
Events for Grad Students
Visiting Artist Lecture: Kenny Rivero
Kenny Rivero will present a lecture on his work. He is an artist who works across mediums, including painting, drawing, and sculpture, to explore his personal narrative and the convoluted histories of New York City and the Dominican Republic. Sponsored by the Art Department. Wednesday, November 18, 6:30pm to… Continue reading »
Elle Perez–Art Department Faculty Colloquium
Excerpts and discussion of “Genesis,” a short film in which the title character attempts desperately to connect to her body and to the body of her girlfriend. The film is shot in black and white with interjections of digital color—blending both the characters’ computer screen and her physical world. (Currently… Continue reading »
Art Department Colloquium: Michael Holly
Michael’s talk is entitled “At the Still Point of the Painted World,” and reflects on the paths the history of art might have taken, but didn’t. Wednesday, October 28th at 4:15pm, in Lawrence 3. Continue reading »
Visiting artist: Sarah Tortora
Sarah’s recent artist statement describes her current work as consisting of fabricated sculptures and structures that are in-between. Opening reception Monday evening, Oct. 19th, 7:30-9 pm Wilde Gallery, Spencer Art Building, Williams College 35 Driscoll Hall Dr … Continue reading »
Jack Whitten: Beyond Abstraction
Jack Whitten will present a lecture on his work entitled, “Jack Whitten: beyond Abstraction.” Jack Whitten (b. 1939) began his earliest experiments in painting during the 1960s by creating dynamic works inspired by Abstract Expressionism. His work of this period manifests emotionally complex meditations on sociopolitical events that shaped… Continue reading »
Joanna Smith lecture: Buried, Layered, Lasting, and Lost: Bronze Age Perspectives on the History of Art”
Clark Fellow Joanna Smith presents “Buried, Layered, Lasting, and Lost: Bronze Age Perspectives on the History of Art. Tuesday, December 1 5:30pm Hunter Studio, Lunder Center at Stone Hill, 225 South Street… Continue reading »
Spyros Papapetros lecture: “The Prearchitectonic Condition: Architecture Before Architecture”
Clark Fellow Spyros Papapetros presents “The Prearchitectonic Condition: Architecture Before Architecture.” Tuesday, December 8 5:30pm Hunter Studio, Lunder Center at Stone Hill 225 South St… Continue reading »
Maureen Shanahan lecture: “The Orientalist and the Asylum: Gaëtan Gatain de Clérambault’s Veiled Photography”
Clark Fellow Maureen Shanahan presents a lecture: “The Orientalist and the Asylum: Gaëtan Gatain de Clérambault’s Veiled Photography.” Tuesday, November 10 5:30pm Hunter Studio, Lunder Center at Stone Hill, 225 South Street… Continue reading »
Sol LeWitt: On the Wall Student Panel and Celebration
Hear from some of the students in Mark Haxthausen’s class Sol LeWitt: On the Wall talk about the new installation of LeWitt’s #1089. Thursday, Nov 12 5 pm WCMA… Continue reading »
WCMA at Night: Artist Mark Parsons
Mark Parsons turns publicly authored content into collaboratively executed wall drawings. And At WCMA at Night, he invites you to draw it on the wall. Thursday, Oct 8 5–8 pm WCMA… Continue reading »
Curator’s Insights: Faculty Off the Cuff-Labeltalk 2015
Walk through the exhibition with Elizabeth Gallerani, Curator of Mellon Academic Programs. Tuesday, November 10th Noon WCMA… Continue reading »
Art Department Colloquium: E.J. Johnson
The talk will be on Teatro Tordinona, Queen Christina of Sweden and Carlo Fontana Wednesday, October 7 at 4:15pm Lawrence Hall, L3 … Continue reading »
Jeff Speck: “Walkable City” Annual Whitney Stoddard Memorial Lecture
Speck, a graduate of Williams College, is a city planner and urban designer who advocates internationally for more walkable cities. He served as director of design at the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 through 2007. “Walkable City” was the best-selling city planning book of 2013-14. Lecture:… Continue reading »
Envisioning Curatorial Practice with Forrest Nash, founder of Contemporary Art Daily
Nash’s talk will focus on choosing artists and curating in a space without walls or objects. Tuesday, September 29 at 7:00pm Williams College Museum of Art, Lawrence Auditorium (L231)… Continue reading »
Object Workshop with Kevin Murphy
Students meet at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill at 4 pm, then move to WCMA to view Kevin’s show of Whistler prints. Plan to bike or car-pool from Lunder Center to WCMA for the second part of the workshop, which ends at 6pm. Continue reading »
Clark Lecture: Mary Roberts, Transcultural Objects: Islamic Art and Artist-Collector Networks
Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor Mary Roberts presents a lecture, “Transcultural Objects: Islamic Art and Artist-collector Networks, 1860–1890.” It will take place at 5:30pm Tuesday, October 27th in the Hunter Studio of the Lunder Center, Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street. Continue reading »
Clark Lecture: Christopher Heuer, Arctic Aesthetics 1578/1969
Associate RAP Director Christopher Heuer will deliver a lecture at 5:30pm on Tuesday, September 29th in the Hunter Studio at the Lunder Center. Continue reading »
RAP Film Screening
The Clark’s Research and Academic program will be screening Madame B. at 5:30pm, Wednesday, September 23rd in the Hunter Studio at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Directed by Clark Fellow Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker, the film explores the role of women in a society driven by masculine impulses. Continue reading »