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Clark Art Presents Lecture on European Prints

08:00AM / Thursday, October 12, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Oct. 15, the Clark Art Institute presents a lecture with art historian Alexander Nagel, who examines how prints set in motion a new way of thinking about images as media, continually bringing image-making back to its fundamentals: lines on surfaces. The free lecture takes place at 1 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in its Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Five centuries before photography, printmaking fundamentally transformed western art. Prints made images move like never before, launching new forms of fame, sparking viral memes, and building shared imaginaries. Prints reconfigured all other

08:00AM / Wednesday, October 11, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Clark Art Institute hosts a jazz concert in tribute to Art Blakey with musicians George Cables, David Schnitter, and Steve Davis. The concert takes place at 7 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in its Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Celebrate one of the founding fathers of modern jazz, legendary drummer, and bandleader Art Blakey. Blakey developed more great young musicians than anyone else from the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century with his group Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Alumni include Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis, Keith Jarrett, and Chuck

04:00PM / Monday, October 09, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Oct. 14, the Clark Art Institute hosts a conversation with exhibiting artist Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, featured in "Humane Ecology: Eight Positions," and exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger. They discuss Aparicio's sculptural practice and the complex interdependence of people and plants—specifically in Central America and in the Los Angeles neighborhoods where he grew up. This free talk takes place at 3:30 pm in the Lunder Center at Stone Hill. Aparicio received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2016 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bard College in 2012. He has appeared in

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Clark Art Screens 'Sankofa'

08:00AM / Thursday, October 05, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Thursday, Oct. 12, the Clark Art Institute concludes its four-part film series examining the L.A. Rebellion, presented in celebration and anticipation of the Clark's 2023 Conference, "The Fetish A(r)t Work: African Objects in the Making of European Art History, 1500–1900." The Clark shows "Sankofa" at 6 pm in its auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. According to a press release: Directed by Haile Gerima, "Sankofa" (1993; 2 hours, 4 minutes) was developed from twenty years of research into the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the experiences of African slaves in the New World.

02:00PM / Wednesday, October 04, 2023

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA) Theatre and Music departments announced the 2023-2024 season of performances with four productions including visiting performing artists, guest directors, and student directors in addition to two student concerts. The fall season opens on Nov. 3 with a MainStage production titled "Antigone by Sophocles" translated by Anne Carson and guest director Rudy Ramirez. The show is scheduled to run on Nov. 3-4, 10-11 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. in Venable Theatre. Rudy Ramirez, Benedetti Teaching Artist in Residence, is a director, writer, and teaching artist specializing in

08:00AM / Wednesday, October 04, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Wednesday, Oct. 11, the Clark Art Institute hosts a conversation with exhibiting artist Elizabeth Atterbury and Anna Hepler. The two discuss process, collaboration, the studio, and Atterbury's current installation, Oracle Bones, at 6 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. Atterbury and Hepler share a curiosity for how objects and images shift in form and scale between two and three dimensions and across materials. Both based in New England, they've recently completed their third collaborative public art commission. Tessarae (2023), a mural comprised of handmade ceramic titles, is installed at the

08:21AM / Monday, October 02, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Saturday, Oct. 7, the Clark Art Institute invites visitors to explore how sound, color, and emotions resonate in a textile dyeing demonstration and hands-on workshop. This free drop-in event begins at 2 pm on the Fernández Terrace. Artists Emily Carris-Duncan, Eugene Lew, and Imani Uzuri lead a demonstration and workshop exploring how feelings, colors, water, voices, and sound resonate. Immerse textiles in indigo and goldenrod dye baths in an attempt to capture the ephemerality of emotions and concentrated vibrations. Water will be drawn from the grounds to create the dye baths shimmering in time with the subaquatic circulation of

11:04AM / Thursday, September 28, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute and Berkshire Medical Center are teaming to provide a new mental health service aimed at providing assistance to trauma victims. The Clark currently offers a county-wide program, Rx for Wellbeing at the Clark, through local mental health practitioners as a means of encouraging engagement with art as part of a therapeutic treatment plan for those dealing with issues like depression, anxiety, and social isolation. The new initiative with Berkshire Medical Center, Access to Wellbeing at the Clark, extends the program to offer victims of trauma opportunities to engage with art as a part of their recovery efforts. To date, the Rx

03:50PM / Wednesday, September 27, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, Oct. 1, the Williamstown League of Women Voters in collaboration with the David and Joyce Milne Public Library and the Friends of the Milne Library are presenting Get Loud: A Celebration of Banned Books. A group of nine authors, performers, teachers, and local individuals will read aloud selections from books currently or previously banned in US libraries and schools. Introducing them will be authors Karen Shepard and Jim Shepard, both on the English faculty of Williams College. This performance was initiated by the Williamstown League of Women Voters with the goal of bringing together organizations and individuals with a strong interest

08:08AM / Wednesday, September 27, 2023

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.— On Tuesday, Oct. 3, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program hosts a talk by Elena Shtromberg (University of Utah / Clark Fellow), who examines how contemporary video works have confronted the persistence of colonial illustrations circulated in European travel narratives. The free lecture takes place at 5:30 pm in the Clark's auditorium, located in the Manton Research Center. In this talk, Shtromberg expands on media scholar Vilém Flusser's idea of posthistorical memory, wherein video functions as a new kind of memory. Works by artists José Alejandro Restrepo, Harun Farocki, and Tiago Sant'Ana employ

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