Lectures and special events from the Williams College campus in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Artist Arthur Jafa discusses his dynamic practice comprising films, artifacts and happenings that reference and question the universal and specific articulations of Black being in the Plonsker Family Lecture Series in Contemporary Art on November 10, 2022.
Heather Hart states: "I’m interested in how we inhabit the world. I’m interested in how we take up space. Audacity. How we feel entitled to it. How that space affects us, effects our navigation, and the way we move through our lives, and how it influences our identity, our sense of self, our interactions with others, or vision of our future. Who is the author of these spaces, might the author change? What is my territory? What is yours? Do they overlap?"
The Cornelius Eady Trio performs selections set to the poetry of Sterling Brown. The Life and Lore of Sterling A. Brown, a Symposium hosted by Williams College, October 21, 2022.
Annual Geosciences environmental seminar with Dr. Robin McDowell, University of Washington, St. Louis; Dr. Priscilla McCutcheon, University of Kentucky; Dr. Brittany Meché, Williams College; and Dr. Allison Guess, Williams College. "Witnessing Lands, Witnessing Possession" is a wide-ranging discussion on the geographies of colonialism and rebellion, food sovereignty movements across the African diaspora, and global environmental futures. Co-sponsored by the W. Ford Schumann '50 Program in Democratic Studies.
Organized in conjunction with the exhibition "Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone," this series of talks and discussions looks outward from the work of pioneering artist Mary Ann Unger to the contemporary landscape of curators and femme artists working at the intersections of large-scale sculpture, public art, material experimentation, and feminist practice.
