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Spring Programs at the Williams College Museum of Art - December 17, 2007
Below please find a list of Spring (and a few winter!) programs for the Williams College Museum of Art. Most events take place at the museum, but please call to confirm time and location.
Teachers'Program: Art & Writing Series
Exploring Art Through Writing
Friday, January 18, 2008
9:00 am–4:00 pm
Gallery Talk
Frank Jackson: Echo
Wednesday, February 6
12:10 pm
Artist Frank Jackson will discuss his new exhibition
Gallery Talk
Be Mine: The Return of St. Anthony Abbot
Thursday, February 14
12:10 pm
Mia Michelson-Bartlett, Class of 2008
Teachers' Program: Art & Writing Series
Exploring Writing Through Art
Friday, February 15, 2008
9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Reservations required. Lunch provided.
Teachers from all disciplines and grade levels are invited to explore ways to make both writing and art more accessible to students. The first workshop will present innovative writing exercises to respond to selected artworks in the museum. The second workshop uses active experiences in art to explore texts and jumpstart the writing process. We will also consider the visual aspects of writing and the relation between textual documents and visual art. Teachers are welcome to attend one or both workshops.
Storytime In The Galleries
Fridays, 10:30 – 11:15 am
February 15 – May 9, 2008
Preschoolers, toddlers, and infants with adults welcome. No reservations required for families. Preschool classes must call in advance.
It’s storytime in WCMA’s galleries! Join us for a reading of contemporary and classic children’s books—selected especially to connect to artwork on view. Look at artwork, enjoy readings, and learn about stories and art together. Each week has a different theme.
Special thanks to the Williamstown Library for their assistance. Storytime in the Galleries offers a special program for teen parents. Call for information. Special thanks to the Williams College Office of Community Engagement for their assistance.
Lecture by Nancy Spector: "Felix Gonzalez-Torres:The Generosity of Meaning"
Wednesday, February 20
4:00 pm
Nancy Spector, Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, will lecture on the impact of Gonzalez-Torres’s work. A world-renowned curator and expert of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Spector organized a major retrospective of the artist in 1995, and most recently served as commissioner for the United States pavilion at the 2007 Venice Bienniale, where she exhibited a broad survey of the artist’s work, including a previously unrealized public sculpture.
Season Premiere Party
Wednesday, February 20
5:30 pm
Celebrate the museum's new spring exhibitions with a reception following Nancy Spector's lecture.
Symposium: Artistic Crossings of the Black Atlantic:
The Migratory Aesthetic in Contemporary Art
A Williams College Museum of Art / Clark Artist Symposium
Saturday, March 1
9:30 am – 6:00 pm: Registration and Symposium at the Clark, 225 South Street, Williamstown
6:00–8:00 pm: Reception at the Williams College Museum of Art
This day-long symposium invites five acclaimed artists—sculptor Willie Cole, multi-media artist Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, British filmmaker Isaac Julien, photographer Hank Willis Thomas, and installation artist and MacArthur Fellow Fred Wilson—to discuss the Black Atlantic aesthetic. Through transatlantic connections among Africa, Britain, the Caribbean, and the United States, Black intellectuals and literary figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Richard Wright fashioned a Black Atlantic culture that made a central contribution to the modernist aesthetic. Today this Black Atlantic aesthetic extends into the realm of the visual as international artists critically engage cross-Atlantic migration as a principal focus of their work.
Admission: $20 per person, $10 for members of the Williams College Museum of Art and the Clark, students. Free to Williams students, faculty. For more information please visit www.wcma.org or www.clarkart.edu/research_and_academic
This program has been organized by the Williams College Museum of Art and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; it is presented in conjunction with related exhibitions at the Williams College Museum of Art.
New Teen Workshop
Making a Mark in the World
Thursdays, 4:00–6:00 pm
March 6 – 27, 2008
Reservations required. Ages 13 – 18.
Fee: $45 for WCMA and NCBA members; $55 for nonmembers
Teens are invited to explore the art and technique of printmaking, using the exhibition of prints by renowned South African artist William Kentridge as inspiration. This hands-on workshop is held in collaboration with Northern Berkshire Creative Arts. Call NBCA 413.663.8338 to register.
Storytime Extravaganza: Reading Rocks!
Sunday, March 9, 2008
2:00–4:00 pm
Reservations required. Children of all ages welcome.
It’s a Storytime Extravaganza—an explosion of visual, musical, literary, and tasty delights from our Storytime program. Enjoy a special performance by the Philadelphia-based children’s rock band, The Cat’s Pajamas! Find the poetry of candy—in Felix Gonzalez Torres’s installation made out of silver-wrapped chocolates, which you can eat! Have some hot cocoa, listen to Storytime readings, and create artwork of your own.
Gallery Talk
Monument and Memory in Ancient Rome
Thursday, April 3
12:10 pm
Joanne Thompson, Visiting Assistant Professor of Art
Lecture: (Un) Civil Engineering: William Kentridge's Allegorical Landscapes
Okwui Enwezor, Dean of Academic Affairs at San Francisco Art Institute, Adjunct Curator at International Center of Photography, New York, and Artistic Director of Documenta 11.
Saturday, April 12
2:00 pm
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College
In this lecture, Okwui Enwezor will discuss the role of landscape as an archival structure of memory and narrative in the drawings, films, and tapestries within the context of post-apartheid culture. In addition Kentridge's work will be discussed in relation to his contemporaries, influences, and reaction to modes of work that seek to disremember the troubled relationship between cultures in South Africa.
Concert
Musical Legacies: Freddie Bryant
Sunday, April 13
2:00 pm
In response to the exhibition, Unchained Legacies, guitarist Freddie Bryant will perform new compositions and improvisations that explore the musical legacies of the African diaspora. From spirituals, blues, and jazz to Brazilian and Afro-Caribbean styles, his music will celebrate the cultural richness that has survived the Middle Passage and slavery as each generation rejoices in musical legacies—unchained and influencing the world. He will be playing acoustic/nylon, electric, and 12-string guitars, as well as various percussion instruments. Part of the Williamstown Jazz Festival.
Artist's Talk: Julie Mehretu on City Sitings
Thursday, April 24
6:00 pm
Introduced and moderated by Clark Fellow Chika Okeke-Agulu.
A reception with MacArthur Fellow Julie Mehretu follows.
Snap to It!
Saturday, April 26, 2008
2:00–4:00 pm
Reservations required. Children of all ages welcome.
The dazzling, abstract paintings of artist Julie Mehretu offer inspiration for ways to express our thoughts about our lives, hopes, and the world around us. Find the hidden maps, secret codes, and rhythmic patterns in Mehretu’s large-scale paintings. Express yourself through artmaking, music, and dance!
The Williams College Museum of Art is located on Main Street in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am-5 pm and Sunday from 1-5 pm. The museum is wheelchair accessible and open to the public. Admission is FREE. For more information, contact the museum at 413-597-2429. |
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