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Clark Art Foraging Walks Series| 08:07AM / Thursday, April 17, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's popular series of foraging walks returns this April. On the fourth Tuesday of the month from April through October, naturalist and wild edibles enthusiast Arianna Alexsandra Collins of the Hoosic River Watershed Association and Offerings for Community Building guides visitors across the Clark's 140-acre campus in a one-hour talk. Each walkabout begins on the Fernández Terrace by the Clark's Reflecting Pool. During each foraging walk, Collins discusses characteristics for proper identification of flora and fungi, as well as meal and medicinal preparation. Trailside nibbling throughout the walkabout >> Read More |
Clark Art Invites People With Dementia and Caregivers for Gallery Talk | 08:12AM / Wednesday, April 16, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Monday, April 21 at 1 pm in the permanent collection galleries, the Clark Art Institute presents Meet Me at the Clark. This free gallery talk program is designed specifically for people living with dementia and their care partners. On select Mondays, when the museum is closed to the general public, specially trained educators guide open-ended conversations about art and how it celebrates our shared humanity. Free. Advance registration required; capacity is limited. To register, call the Education Department Coordinator at 413 458 0563; accompanying care-partners must also register. >> Read More |
Artist Stephanie Syjuco To Give Plonsker Lecture| 11:01AM / Monday, April 14, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Artist Stephanie Syjuco will be the featured speaker at the Williams College Museum of Art's annual Plonsker Family Lecture in Contemporary Art on Thursday, April 17, at 6 p.m. at the Williams Inn Ballroom. The lecture will be preceded by a reception at the Williams Inn from 5 to 6 p.m. According to a press release: Stephanie Syjuco will discuss her dynamic practice spanning work in photography, sculpture, and installation, moving from handmade and craft-inspired mediums to digital editing and the excavation of archives. She has focused on how photography, in particular image-based archives, is implicated in the construction >> Read More |
Clark Art Presents Gallery Tours With Emerging Art Historians | 07:45AM / Monday, April 14, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, April 18 at noon, the Clark Art Institute presents a special tour as part of its Fresh Takes series. Enjoy a new look at old favorites in the Clark's permanent collection as a Williams College graduate student shares their take on an object with the perspective of new scholarship. Tours begin in the Museum Pavilion. Free; no registration is required. >> Read More |
Clark Art Announces Research and Academic Program Fellowships| 04:07PM / Sunday, April 13, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program (RAP) announces the appointment of its 2025–2026 class of Fellows for summer 2025 and the upcoming academic year. The Clark Art Institute is one of a small number of institutions globally that is both an art museum and a center for research, critical discussion, and higher education in the visual arts. Through RAP, the Clark hosts a residential fellowship program that welcomes leading scholars from around the world for periods ranging from two to nine months. To date, the community of Clark Fellows numbers more than 430 individuals hailing from thirty countries, forming a global network of >> Read More |
Images Cinema to Screen Antarctic DocumentaryBy Stephen Dravis, iBerkshires Staff
05:15PM / Saturday, April 12, 2025 | |
Sunrise over the Antarctic during southern winter from 'Antarctic Voyage.' WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Plenty of artists suffer for their work. Not many have to go under the knife for it. Documentary filmmaker Kevin Schreck screens his documentary "Antarctic Voyage" on Monday evening at Images Cinema. The film follows environmental scientist Samantha Monier on a research expedition to the remote South Atlantic island of South Georgia. It was a project years in the making and one for which Schreck had to go above and beyond. "I had to endure surgery to qualify for this [voyage,]," Schreck said in a recent telephone >> Read More |
Clark Art Reflections Gallery Talk | 07:53AM / Thursday, April 10, 2025 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, April 15 at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute presents Reflections, a monthly gallery experience during which visitors are invited to look contemplatively as they engage with works of art from the Clark's collection. Participants meet in the Museum Pavilion. With a gentle tone that encourages investigation and audience participation, the group explores one or two artworks with the help of a Clark educator, working together to explore its meaning, find understanding, and raise questions. Distinct from a conventional gallery tour, Reflections provides an opportunity for close looking and introspection. Free. Advance registration required; >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on Colonialism, Image-Making, and Image-Reading | 07:47AM / Wednesday, April 09, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, April 15, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a talk by Inês Beleza-Barreiros (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal / Michael Ann Holly Fellow) on "Thinking Visually: Reparation, Gesture, Reparation." This free event takes place at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Beleza-Barreiros explores how colonialism inaugurated an epistemological tradition molded by image-making and image reading that remains operational to this day. Images neither illustrate arguments; they are themselves the (colonial) argument. Nor are they documents >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on History of Arcadia | 10:43AM / Tuesday, April 08, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, April 12 at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute presents "A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature," a talk by Paul Holberton. This free lecture is given in conjunction with the Clark's exhibition Pastoral on Paper and takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium. According to a press release: Dr. Holberton, author of the acclaimed two-volume book A History of Arcadia in Art and Literature (2021), examines how idyllic landscapes and rustic scenes have been portrayed from antiquity through the Renaissance and into the eighteenth century. Responding to leading early modern literary and artistic >> Read More |
Clark Art, Morgan Library, the Mount Present Discussion on Belle Da Costa Greene| 10:55AM / Monday, April 07, 2025 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, April 13 at 2 pm, the Clark Art Institute, the Morgan Library and Museum, and The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home, present "Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy," an examination of the inspiring life and career of the Morgan Library's first librarian and director Belle da Costa Greene. This free event takes place in the Clark's Manton Research Center auditorium. Philip S. Palmer and Erica Ciallela, co-curators of the Morgan Library's centennial exhibition Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian's Legacy, discuss their favorite objects in the show; examine Greene's life against the backdrop of >> Read More |
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