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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 |
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 |
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