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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Mount Greylock Students in Argentina For Cultural Exchange Program

By Jack GuerinoiBerkshires Staff

This is the second trip for Mount Greylock students to La Cumbre. The school has a relationship with St. Paul's School there and hosted 36 Argentine students last year. 
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Fourteen Mount Greylock seniors boarded a flight for Argentina this past Friday, to immerse themselves in a transformative experience.
 
"So many kids who have taken this trip come back and they're transformed," said Spanish teacher Joe Johnson. "... I guess, the spoiler is, that what these students learn is that they are the same … even though they may be from opposite poles, literally, of the Earth, and grew up speaking different languages … So that's what we're really hoping for. Let's get them to just fall in love with each other, and learn about the world and the culture through those friendships."
 
Students took off on Friday, April 17. They will spend nine days in La Cumbre, a community the school has built a relationship with over the years.
 
Mount Greylock hosted 36 students from St. Paul's School in La Cumbre last year, and the exchange program has become a cornerstone of Mount Greylock's Spanish curriculum. Johnson said the AP Spanish course has become hyper-focused on Argentina in preparation for the trip.
 
"It is all about what can you understand? What can you communicate? And we cover a lot of daily life things as the years go by. What do you need to be able to say? or what do you need to be able to understand?" he said. "We have geared the AP curriculum to where it's very Argentina centered… so we'll just focus on that, and that way, they get used to the accents, they know what kinds of food to expect, what kind of social interactions to expect."
 
Students have been building these relationships throughout the year. Johnson noted that each Mount Greylock student is connected with a St. Paul's student, and they regularly exchange messages in both English and Spanish.
 
As for the town itself, Johnson said it is the perfect community for a cultural exchange and reminds him of Williamstown.
 
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