Curatorial Assistant for Works on Paper Allison Marino introduces the 2024 exhibition Paper Cities, examining how artists transformed cities from objective subjects into creative expressions within their work. The lecture focuses on well-known European and American cities depicted in works on paper from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth century.
Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Anne Leonard introduces the pair of exhibitions "50 Years and Forward: Works on Paper Acquisitions" and "50 Years and Forward: British Prints and Drawings Acquisitions."
To commence the symposium British Art 1750–1919: Reflections and Futures, Olivier Meslay (Hardymon Director of the Clark) and Caroline Fowler (Starr Director, Research and Academic Program) discussed Meslay’s experience curating British art, and how the field of British art has changed since Meslay mounted one of the first exhibitions dedicated to British art at the Louvre Museum, Paris, in 1994, "British Art in French Collections." Eight contemporary artists who consider the intertwined natural and social dimensions of ecological relationships has included sculpture, sound installation, video, and plantings. Each artist represents a distinct approach and place, or “position,” and the complex dynamics between living things and their environments is essential to their thinking. Through their work, these artists illuminate patterns of cultivation and care, migration and adaptation, extraction, and exploitation that span historical, geographical, and species lines. Humane Ecology is presented in outdoor and indoor spaces at the Clark, including both the Clark Center and Lunder Center at Stone Hill.
As part of the Construct Your Own Meaning summer series, cake artists from the region designed and produced a cake that interprets an artwork in "Remixing the Hall" for a public program on August 17, 2023, at the Williams College Museum of Art. Featured artists: Edward Cabral, Cakes For No Occasion, Magnet, and Alli Gelles of cakes4sport, all from New York City.
As part of the Construct Your Own Meaning summer series, a set of regional musicians from a range of musical backgrounds each composed a five- to 10-minute piece inspired by an artwork in the Williams College Museum of Art collection installation Remixing the Hall
