Rebecca Szantyr, former curatorial assistant in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, presents an overview of On the Horizon: Art and Atmosphere in the Nineteenth Century. Szantyr looks at the exhibition's major themes and moments and discusses how artists integrated scientific developments with pictorial invention as they depicted atmospheric effects.
Clark-Getty Paper Project Curatorial Fellow Sarah Grandin presents an overview of Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Grandin shares the rich history of the national library of France’s collections, and how that shaped the selection of works included in the Clark’s exhibition. The drawings on view reveal the medium’s new status as an autonomous and democratic instrument of creation and documentation in France in the eighteenth century.
In this Research and Academic Program event, Futures Fellow Tsedaye Makonnen speaks with Nikki A. Greene (associate professor of art at Wellesley College) about how her multidisciplinary studio, curatorial, and research-based practice threads together her identity as a daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, a Black American woman, doula, and a mother to explore feminist and the transhistorical forced migration of Black communities across the globe.
In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Olivier Bonfait (Université de Bourgogne / Clark Fellow) traces the evolution of large-format painting.
When James Fenimore Cooper wrote “Last of the Mohicans” he created a narrative that has lasted centuries. But it was a false narrative. The Mohican Nation is alive and well today with a rich history that spans before colonization – the land that today we call Williamstown is part of their ancestral homelands. Join Heather Bruegl, Director of Education at Forge Project, to learn about who the Stockbridge-Munsee Community is and how they are not the Last of the Mohicans.
