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African American Genealogy Subject of WCMA Lecture| 11:19AM / Tuesday, April 09, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dr. Kendra Field will present a talk titled "The Stories We Tell: Understanding the Long History of African American Genealogy" at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 12, at the Williams College Museum of Art. The lecture, in conjunction with the current exhibition "Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation," will explore the long history of African American genealogy from the Middle Passage to the present, drawing upon stories and experiences within Field's own family history. Field will touch upon the diversity of methods employed by historians and genealogists; descendants' often uneven access to the familial >> Read More |
Community Contra Dance in Williamstown| 08:00AM / Tuesday, April 09, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — North Berkshire Community Dance will hold its monthly contra dance on Saturday, April 13, with live music by "Spare Parts", and calling (teaching) by Jonathan Greene. The dance will run 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. in the Community Hall of the First Congregational Church, 906 Main St., Williamstown. Admission is pay-as-you-can: $12 - $20 suggested, and barter is also welcome. According to a press release: Contra dancing is a living tradition in New England; for hundreds of years, neighbors and friends have made their own social entertainment in this easy and highly collaborative dance form. All are welcome. Come alone, >> Read More |
Clark Art Announces Research and Academic Fellowships | 04:00PM / Saturday, April 06, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program (RAP) announces the appointment of its 2024–2025 class of Fellows for summer 2024 and the upcoming academic year. The Clark 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 top international scholars 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 scholars united >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on Edgar Degas| 08:00AM / Friday, April 05, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, April 9 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a lecture by Michelle Foa (Tulane University/Florence Gould Foundation Fellow) in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Foa frames Edgar Degas as an artist who was committed, above all, to investigating the life of matter and the matter of art, and whose career-long fixation on materials informed his work, practices, and interests in remarkable and little-understood ways. Foa is the co-curator of the Clark's upcoming Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism exhibition, along >> Read More |
Clark Art First Sunday Free Program| 08:01AM / Wednesday, April 03, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's First Sundays Free program continues on Sunday, April 7. Offering free admission from 10 am–5 pm, the day also features a series of paper-themed special activities from 1–4 pm, including a tour of the Clark's "Paper Cities" exhibition at 2 pm. According to a press release: Engage with the limitless possibilities of paper in a variety of paper-play activities. Get three-dimensional with a single sheet of paper by making a pop-up book or take on woven paper activities and make a decorative object to take home. At 2 pm, Allison Marino, curatorial assistant for works on paper and curator of Paper >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on Social Inequality and Urban Planning | 08:00AM / Tuesday, April 02, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, April 7 at 11 am, the Clark Art Institute hosts a lecture by Giuseppina Forte, professor of architecture and environmental studies at Williams College, who discusses her new book project, "The Self-Built City: Material Politics and Ecologies of Difference in São Paulo," and questions how a built environment predicts social inequity. The free talk is presented in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Forte's book project chronicles the forces shaping urban ecologies, from self-built homes to infectious diseases, and how colonial structures solidify sites of difference. From her >> Read More |
Mount Greylock Regional School Talent Show | 10:37AM / Monday, April 01, 2024 | |
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Mount Greylock Regional School's Friends of the Arts are set to host the annual "Celebration of the Arts" talent and art show on Saturday, April 6, 2024, at 7 p.m. The event will take place at the school's auditorium located at 1781 Cold Spring Road in Williamstown, with an art show preview beginning at 6:30 p.m. The show features a lineup of students and faculty from Mount Greylock Regional School (MGRS), showcasing a diverse range of artistic abilities. Attendees can expect performances that cater to all ages. In addition to the onstage talent, the Friends of the Arts organization will present a collection of student >> Read More |
Clark Art Lecture on Compromised Art of Parasitical Resistance | 08:01AM / Monday, April 01, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, April 5 at 5:30 pm, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a lecture by Anna Watkins Fisher (University of Michigan) who examines artistic resistance in the twenty-first century, when disruption and dissent are co-opted and commodified in ways that reinforce powerful systems. The talk takes place in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release, this lecture weighs the gambit of artists who willfully abandon the radical scripts of opposition and refusal long identified with anticapitalism and feminism to embrace parasitism—tactics of complicity that effect >> Read More |
Clark Art Free Gallery Tours for Parents and Infants | 07:55AM / Friday, March 29, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, April 5 at 10:15 am, the Clark Art Institute hosts the next in its series of free tours of its permanent collection galleries designed specifically to meet the interests of new parents/caregivers and their infants. Participants should meet at the Clark’s main Admissions desk. The program is specially designed to provide new parents and caregivers with a stress-free experience that offers chances to socialize with others who are caring for young infants. The guided gallery tour offers an informal visit to the Clark’s permanent collection free from any concerns about short attention spans or fussy babies. Works by a >> Read More |
WCMA: 'Cracking the Code on Numerology'| 11:47AM / Thursday, March 28, 2024 | |
 WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) opens a new exhibition, "Cracking the Cosmic Code: Numerology in Medieval Art." The exhibit opened on March 22. According to a press release: The idea that numbers emanate sacred significance, and connect the past with the future, is prehistoric and global. Rooted in the Babylonian science of astrology, medieval Christian numerology taught that God created a well-ordered universe. Deciphering the universe's numerical patterns would reveal the Creator's grand plan for humanity, including individual fates. This unquestioned concept deeply pervaded European cultures >> Read More |
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