Clark Art Free Day

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's First Sundays Free program continues on Sunday, Dec. 5 and admission to the galleries is free to all visitors for the entire day, but advance registration is strongly recommended.
 
Visitors are invited to explore the Clark, indoors and outdoors. Explore images of indoor and outdoor spaces in the galleries with a special self-guide, available at the Admissions desk. And stop by the Conforti Pavilion to make giftable keepsakes.
 
Indoors, explore twentieth-century printmaking movements through a wide selection of works from the Clark's collection of Japanese prints in "Competing Currents: 20th-Century Japanese Prints," on view in the Clark's Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper through Jan. 30, 2022. Visit Erin Shirreff: Remainders, on view in the Clark's Manton Research Center and in the lower level of the Clark Center, before it closes on January 2, 2022.
 
Outdoors, walk the trails to see Anne Thompson: Trail Signs, a rotating installation using the existing infrastructure of trail kiosks on and around the museum campus, on view through December 31. Every two weeks for the duration of the project, the artist will install new sets of posters onto the blank surfaces of seven freestanding wood structures, for a total of forty-eight prints. At 2:30 pm, join Thompson and exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger for a walk through her outdoor exhibition culminating with a campfire and treats on Stone Hill. The event is free but registration is required at clarkart.edu/events.
 
First Sundays Free is supported by the officers and employees of Allen & Company, Inc.
 

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Williamstown Select Board Awards ARPA Funds to Remedy Hall

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Select Board on Monday allocated $20,000 in COVID-19-era relief funds to help a non-profit born of the pandemic era that seeks to provide relief to residents in need.
 
On a unanimous vote, the board voted to grant the American Rescue Plan Act money to support Remedy Hall, a resource center that provides "basic life necessities" and emotional support to "individuals and families experiencing great hardship."
 
The board of the non-profit approached the Select Board with a request for $12,000 in ARPA Funds to help cover some of the relief agency's startup costs, including the purchase of a vehicle to pick up donations and deliver items to clients, storage rental space and insurance.
 
The board estimates that the cost of operating Remedy Hall in its second year — including some one-time expenses — at just north of $31,500. But as board members explained on Monday night, some sources of funding are not available to Remedy Hall now but will be in the future.
 
"With the [Williamstown] Community Chest, you have to be in existence four or five years before you can qualify for funding," Carolyn Greene told the Select Board. "The same goes for state agencies that would typically be the ones to fund social service agencies.
 
"ARPA made sense because [Remedy Hall] is very much post-COVID in terms of the needs of the town becoming more evident."
 
In a seven-page letter to the town requesting the funds, the Remedy Hall board wrote that, "need is ubiquitous and we are unveiling that truth daily."
 
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