University of Chicago Assistant Professor of Art Seth Estrin is a historian of the art, archaeology, and visual cultures of ancient Greece. His research explores the making and viewing of art as a form of social practice in the ancient world, and engages with current theoretical discourses in art history… Continue reading »
Vincent Valdez is most recognized for his monumental portrayal of the contemporary figure. His drawn and painted subjects remark on a universal struggle within various sociopolitical arenas and eras. “My aim is to incite public remembrance and to impede distorted realities that I witness, like the social amnesia that surrounds… Continue reading »
Professor Bergdoll’s broad interests center on modern architectural history, with a particular emphasis on France and Germany since 1750. Trained in art history rather than architecture, he has an approach most closely allied with cultural history and the history and sociology of professions. He has studied questions of the politics… Continue reading »
Aruna D’Souza writes about modern and contemporary art; intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics; and how museums shape our views of each other and the world. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board, and has been published as well in… Continue reading »
On Friday, May 11, the art department welcomes you to join the opening reception of It’s Not Nothing: The Senior Studio Art Exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA). The exhibition features the work of nine Williams College studio art majors: Hudson Bohr, Julia Cancio,… Continue reading »
Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture & Design at the Lebanese American University, will discuss the breadth and depth in Hilmi al-Tuni’s illustrations and Abdulkader Arnaout’s typographic work. She will first highlight Arnaout’s contribution to the development of a rich repertoire of Arabic typographic styles, and… Continue reading »
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the lecture “Minds Over Matter.” Thursday, May 3 5:30pm Location: Lawrence 231… Continue reading »
Internationally recognized documentary photographer, Joseph Rodriguez, will speak about his life-long passion for recording the stories of people whose lives are often ignored by mainstream narratives. A recipient of the “Pictures of the Year Award” by the National Press Photographers Association, Mr. Rodriquez is the author… Continue reading »
No Agenda is a misnomer, a swipe at embodying the improvisational nature of a rapidly assembled site-specific exhibition. There is a goal; it’s to show work by Williams College Visiting Studio Art Faculty in Town Hall along a six-week timeline, and encourage unplanned pairings of work and site. Previously… Continue reading »
Lynette Wallworth is an Australian artist known for her immersive multimedia installations, which focus on the interactivity between humans and the natural world. Her most recent work is Collisions, a virtual reality investigation into the first contact between an indigenous Australian tribe and the momentous impact of Western expansion. Wallworth’s… Continue reading »
Amy Podmore, Professor of Art will present “Finding Elsa.” Faculty Lecture Series Thursday, March 9 at 4:15pm Thompson Chemistry, Wege Auditorium 47 Lab Campus Dr. Continue reading »
Public lecture by artist Tomashi Jackson, sponsored by the Art Department. Jackson will speak about her new work, The Subliminal is Now, in which she utilizes painting, photography, video, and fibers in order to investigate and visualize the relationships between the Supreme Court Case Brown V. Board of Education, Josef… Continue reading »
“Medieval Matters: Curating the Middle Ages at the Metropolitan Museum of Art” lecture given by Griffith Mann, the Michel David-Weill Curator in Charge, Medieval Art and the Cloisters, at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Tuesday, December 6 at 7:00pm Lawrence Hall, L231 15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Williams… Continue reading »
This talk comes from Smith’s book in progress, Photographic Returns, which examines contemporary photographers who look back to moments in U.S. history that also became important in the history of photography. Shawn Smith is both a leading photography scholar and herself a photo-based artist, and in both guises much… Continue reading »
Art Department Faculty Colloquium Christopher Heuer, Acting Director, Research and Academic Program, Clark Art Institute presents “The Savage Episteme.” In 1566 two Inuit captured in Greenland, clad in sealskin and tattoos, were put on public display in the Netherlands. An illustrated broadsheet was published in Augsburg to advertise… Continue reading »
Amy Podmore, Professor of Art, presents “Finding Elsa- Recent Sculpture and Video projects.” Wednesday, April 18th Wilde Gallery, Spencer Art Building – 4:15 & Faculty Studio, 54 Heating Plant Drive – 4:45… Continue reading »
Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art, presents Art Department Faculty Colloquium “Beethoven’s Farewell”: The Creative Genius “in the Claws of the Secession.” This talk is drawn from a larger research project that examines a transformation in conventions for posing human figures in European… Continue reading »
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History Brynn Hatton presents “Global Vietnam: Transnational protest Art and Conceptualism’s Identity Crisis.” Tuesday, May 2 4:00pm Lawrence 3… Continue reading »
Professor of Art Ed Epping presents “CORRECTIONS: imaging mass incarceration in the USA” November 30 4:15pm Studio–Lower level end of Grundy Building behind Water Street Bookstore… Continue reading »
Laure de Margerie, Director, French Sculpture Census, presents “frenchsculpture.org, an online resource.” Wednesday, Nov. 2, 4:15pm Lawrence 3… Continue reading »
Elena Shtromberg is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah. Drawn from her book, Art Systems: Brazil and the 1970s (University of Texas, 2016), this presentation will focus on a series of works with banknotes by the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles. Continue reading »
Visiting Assistant Professor Catherine Girard’s talk is entitled “Ref(l)ection: Hunters, Paintings, and Mirrors in Eighteenth-Century French Interiors.” Wednesday October 26th 4:15pm Lawrence 3… Continue reading »
Professor of Art E.J. Johnson will discuss “Jousts on the Floor and Gods on the Stage and Ceiling: The Teatro Farnese at Parma.” Wednesday, October 5th 4:15 pm Lawrence 3… Continue reading »
Professor of Art Mike Glier will present “The Forests of Antarctica: New Drawings and Paintings.” Wednesday, September 28th at 4:15 Faculty Studios, 32B, 26 Water Street. Continue reading »
Lecture by Sharon Rotbard, Israeli architect, author, and publisher. The history of Tel Aviv, presented for a moment as an architectural history, can be seen as a part of a wider process in which the physical shaping of Tel Aviv and its political and cultural construction are intertwined, and plays… Continue reading »
Vitaly Komar, conceptual artist, will talk about his artistic path, his works and his evolving concept of artistic collaboration. His talk is entitled “Word and Image: My experience of being an artist in Soviet Russia and in the West.” Thursday, March 10 4:15pm to 5:30pm Lawrence Hall, Rm. 231… Continue reading »
Get acquainted with the art of Nick Cave as he shares his vision of how objects can provoke vital exchanges about class, race, and identity. This discussion will offer a preview of Cave’s most ambitious installation to date: Until, an exhibition and performance space scheduled to open at MASS MoCA in October 2016. Nick Cave… Continue reading »
Professor of Art, Laylah Ali, will deliver a talk titled “Relieving the Tedium: On my Attempts to Overthrow a Small Government and More Reflections from my Time as an Artist.” Reception in Schow Atrium to follow. Thursday, March 3 at 4:15pm to 5:30pm Thompson Chemistry, 123 (Wege Auditorium)… Continue reading »
Painting the Town Jain: Re-imagining Sacred Space in Nineteenth-century India The city of Banaras is best known as an ancient Hindu pilgrimage center, praised for its holy temples built along the Ganges River. This talk, however, will explore an extensive mural painting that complicates the popular notion of Banaras as… Continue reading »
There will be a screening of the 2015 docudrama Jason and Shirley by Stephen Winter. His film critically reimagines the 12-hour-long making of the 1967 documentary Portrait of Jason, in which the black, gay hustler and cabaret artist Jason Holliday narrates his life stories of racism, homophobia, and prostitution… Continue reading »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
In her 2011 film, Natalia Almada creates a striking and moving portrayal of the violence of drug trafficking and its effects on Mexican society. September 24th, 7pm, Paresky Center, Auditorium… Continue reading »
“Paul Klee’s Fictive Genres” Wednesday, September 16th, 4:15 pm, Lawrence 3… Continue reading »
Friday, May 1 at 7:00pm to 8:15pm Lawrence Hall, 231 15 Lawrence Hall Dr, Williamstown, MA 01267 Patrick Dougherty, a sculptor who specializes in site specific installations, will be coming to campus on Friday, May 1. Dougherty combines his carpentry skills with his love of nature as a… Continue reading »
An Art Department faculty colloquium by Guy Hedreen Wednesday, March 4, 2015, 4:15pm Lawrence 3… Continue reading »
