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WCMA Community Forum on New Museum Building Project

The forum will be held in the Williams Inn Ballroom

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WCMA Celebrates Fall With Weekend of Programs

Curators and artists will be visiting from near and far to join in the festivities, which will include refreshments, music, and more.

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Williamstown ZBA Passes Art Museum Project

The decision cleared the way for the college to break ground on the project in September with a planned opening in 2027.

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WCMA Awarded Grant To Support Energy Efficiency in New Building

With $14.1M Conferred to Date to Arts Organizations Across the Country in Support of Climate Action, Frankenthaler Climate Initiative Advances New Standards of Energy Efficiency, Sustainability, and Resiliency in the Arts

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Williamstown Planning Board Reduces Parking Lot for Art Museum

Williams College will be back before the Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday for a development plan review for the school's planned art museum at the Field Park rotary.

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Williamstown Zoning Board Considers Art Museum Plan

The Zoning Board of Appeals on Thursday began its review of the development plan for a new Williams College Museum of Art at the junction of Routes 2 and 7.

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WCMA Summer Program

Visitors can learn about the plans for the new WCMA, get a behind-the-scenes look at what the museum has in store for the new building, and offer their own thoughts about the future of WCMA.

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African American Genealogy Subject of WCMA Lecture

Field will touch upon the diversity of methods employed by historians and genealogists; descendants' often uneven access to the familial past—itself a legacy of American slavery; and the emergence of the recently launched 10 Million Names project.

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WCMA: 'Cracking the Code on Numerology'

The exhibit opened on March 22.

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Williams College Museum Envisions Natural Setting, Sustainability Focus

The new Williams College Museum of Art will be an airy cluster of programming spaces surrounding a central hub for gatherings.

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Frances Jones-Sneed to Speak at WCMA

The lecture will begin at 6 p.m. at WCMA; the galleries will remain open until 6 p.m. for those who want to visit the exhibition prior to the talk.

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WCMA to Host a Forum on New Museum Building Project

The forum, which will be held in the Williams Inn Ballroom, will serve to share the new museum designs and project logistics with the Williams and regional community and provide a platform for their thoughts and feedback as important stakeholders in the process of building WCMA's new home.

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Williams College Art Museum Debuts Emancipation Exhibit

Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation debuted at the museum on Friday and will be on display through July 14.

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'Emancipation' Opens at WCMA

Co-organized by WCMA and the Carter, the exhibition demonstrates how historical art collections can serve as a resource and inspiration for contemporary artistic practices

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Architect To Give WCMA's Plonsker Lecture

The presentation will include an historical overview of the museum's evolution as a building type, touching on the drivers that have changed our thinking and how to design a museum for the future.

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WCMA Celebrates Beatriz Cortez: The Portals Exhibition

The Portals is an exhibition in multiple locations in and around WCMA that explores alternative genealogies of Williams College.

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WCMA to Host Musicians as Part of Summer Series

In collaboration with museum staff, Andrea Belair, co-owner of Belltower Records in North Adams, Mass., has selected musicians who will each compose five- to 10-minute pieces inspired by an artwork in Remixing the Hall.

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WCMA to Host 'Art & Beer' Summer Program

Oregon-based artist and seasoned beer industry expert Eric Steen has invited three local brewers to interact with the art collection.

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WCMA Announces 'Construct Your Own Meaning' Summer Series

Each event will be two hours on Thursdays throughout the summer: a 5 to 6 p.m. presentation and a 6 to 7 p.m. reception with celebratory food and drinks.

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WCMA to Host Tattoo Session, Meditations With Tibetan Lama

Tashi Norbu will lead drop-in meditation sessions in the galleries from 5 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 25, and Wednesday, April 26.

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Williamstown Board of Health OKs Tattoo Demonstration at College Art Museum

The Board of Health on Monday gave a variance to the Williams College Museum of Art to allow a tattoo demonstration at the venue on April 27.

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WCMA: An Evening with Georges Dreyfus

The talk will last about 45 minutes with time for Q&A from the audience afterward.

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WCMA Hosts Annual Plonsker Lecture

The Plonsker Family Lecture Series in Contemporary Art, established in 1994 by Madeleine Plonsker, Harvey Plonsker '61 and their son, Ted Plonsker '86, examines current issues in contemporary art.