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Williams College Art Museum Will Be a Lab for SustainabilityBy Tammy Daniels , iBerkshires Staff
05:47AM / Tuesday, April 29, 2025 | |
Michael Evans and Tanja Srebotnjak of the Zhilka Center for the Environment get into details about green standards. WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The sustainable aspects of the new $175 million Williams College Museum of Art will influence the next generation of arts leaders. "Really building a learning laboratory for sustainable art museums for the future," said Pamela Franks, museum director, at Monday night's community forum. "One of the really distinctive features of the Williams College Museum of Art is its long tradition and contribution to the field of arts leadership. So a student who's leading a tour today may be the >> Read More |
Clark Art Concludes Music in the Manton Series with Pianist Benjamin Hochman| 07:22AM / Monday, April 28, 2025 | |
 Williamstown, Massachusetts—The Clark Art Institute concludes its three-part Music in the Manton concert series with pianist Benjamin Hochman on Friday, May 2 at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Hochman presents a solo piano recital centered around brilliant American composer Matthew Aucoin's The tracks have vanished, a work inspired by Aucoin's forthcoming opera Demons, itself based on Dostoyevsky's eponymous novel. The recital program draws on an intricate web of interconnected themes, including nihilism and life under Russian totalitarianism (Ustvolskaya's Preludes) and the genre of opera transcriptions, >> Read More |
Clark Art Hosts Free Evening For Educators| 07:37AM / Thursday, April 24, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, May 1, the Clark Art Institute hosts a free creative professional development event for educators from across the region. Participants will explore ways to strengthen their students' social and emotional learning through the arts. Evening for Educators is recommended for Pre-K through Grade 12 educators, including school counselors and administrators. Educators can earn professional development points through participation. The program runs from 5 pm to 8:15 pm. The evening commences with a keynote address by Käthe Swaback, the Massachusetts Cultural Council's program officer for creative youth development and health. >> Read More |
Pianist Umi Garrett Performs at Clark Art Institute| 01:54PM / Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will present pianist Umi Garrett in concert on Sunday, April 27, at 2 p.m. in the Manton Research Center auditorium, as part of its Music in the Manton series. Garrett will perform works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Prokofiev, J.S. Bach, Frédéric Chopin, Florence Price, Gabriel Kahane, and Stephen Dankner. Garrett has released a chamber album of Ludwig van Beethoven’s "Five Sonatas for Piano and Cello" with Emily Mantone. She is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Juilliard School and is a Collaborative Piano Fellow at the Yale School of Music. She also serves as a staff collaborative pianist at
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WCMA to Hold Community Forum on New Museum Building's Sustainability Goals| 08:13AM / Wednesday, April 23, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) will host a community forum regarding its new museum building project on Monday, April 28, at 6:00 p.m. The event will be held at the Williams Inn Ballroom. The forum will focus on the sustainability objectives of the new building, featuring presentations on the Williams College Sustainable Project Policy and the planned sustainable design features of the new WCMA. These features include the aim to meet the Living Building Challenge of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) and the use of mass timber for the building's structural components. The event will also provide general >> Read More |
Clark Art Poetry Readings | 07:59AM / Monday, April 21, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. On Friday, April 25 at 6 pm, the Clark Art Institute presents a dual poetry reading by Christine Kelly and Tan Lin in celebration of Kelly's debut collection of poems, "Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid" (PRROBLEM, 2025). This free event takes place in the Clark’s Manton Research Center auditorium. Poet and artist Christine Kelly is the author of "Allow Me to Slip on Something a Little More Hypocycloid" (PRROBLEM, 2025) and the chapbooks "Food Gas Lodging Liquid Solid" (Creative Writing Department, 2023), "Dopamine Agonist Destiny Forest" (Theme Can Print Editions, 2018), and >> Read More |
Clark Art Screens Free Pastoral on Paper Film Series | 04:00PM / Saturday, April 19, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — This April and May, the Clark Art Institute hosts a series of films celebrating the Pastoral on Paper exhibition, with films that introduce some kind of conflict into peaceful landscapes in the rural United States, France, and Ireland. All films are free and screened in the Manton Research Center auditorium on select Thursdays at 6 pm.
Days of Heaven (1978)
After accidentally killing his foreman at a steelworks in Chicago, laborer Bill, (Richard Gere) goes westward to the Texas plains with his girlfriend, Abby (Brooke Adams), and younger sister (Linda Manz). Posing as siblings, the trio find work in the wheat fields. To escape their life of toil,
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Clark Art Institute to Air "Figaro" Broadcast| 11:51AM / Friday, April 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will present a broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s production of "Figaro" on Saturday, April 26, at 1 p.m. in the Manton Research Center auditorium. The broadcast is part of "The Met: Live in HD" series and will feature the full opera performance, including backstage interviews and commentary. Joana Mallwitz will conduct the ensemble cast, which includes Michael Sumuel, Olga Kulchynska, Joshua Hopkins, Federica Lombardi, and Sun-Ly Pierce. Prior to the broadcast, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper will host a display of prints, drawings, and photographs related to the theme of
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Clark Art Screens 'Days of Heaven'| 08:10AM / Friday, April 18, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, April 24, the Clark Art Institute opens its Pastoral on Paper film series with a screening of "Days of Heaven" (1978) at 6 pm in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: After accidentally killing his foreman at a steelworks in Chicago, laborer Bill, (Richard Gere) goes westward to the Texas plains with his girlfriend, Abby (Brooke Adams), and younger sister (Linda Manz). Posing as siblings, the trio find work in the wheat fields. To escape their life of toil, Bill convinces Abby to marry a wealthy but dying farmer (Sam Shepard). The ensuing love triangle binds the three together as they circle around the >> Read More |
Clark Art Institute Offers School Vacation Week Activities| 11:06AM / Thursday, April 17, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute will host activities for children and families during the Massachusetts public school system’s April vacation week. From Tuesday, April 22, through Thursday, April 24, landscape drawing stations will be available throughout the museum, featuring various drawing mediums. Free drawing pads and colored pencils will also be provided for outdoor use. At 2 PM each day, Williamstown Rural Lands will lead nature-related hikes and activities. On Thursday, April 24, from 11 AM to 2 PM, a drop-in activity will allow visitors to sculpt miniature cows. The exhibition "Pastoral on Paper," on view through June >> Read More |
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