Beyond Boundaries: Seeing Art History from the Caribbean

• Anna Arabindan-Kesson (co-convener), assistant professor of African American and Black diasporic art Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
• Anthony Bogues, Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory; professor of Africana studies and history of art and architecture; director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
• Petrina Dacres, curator and head of art history, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts Kingston, Jamaica
• Aldeide Delgado, founder and director, Women Photographers International Archive (WOPHA) Miami 
• Andil Gosine, professor, environmental arts & justice coordinator York University, Toronto
• Yanique Hume, lecturer in cultural studies University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados
• Deborah Jack, artist, associate professor of art New Jersey City University, Jersey City Erica Moiah James, assistant professor of African, Black & Caribbean Art University of Miami
• patricia kaersenhout, artist Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Daniella Rose King, adjunct curator of Caribbean diasporic art Hyundai Tate Research Centre: Transnational, London
• Charl Landvreugd, artist Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Tessa Mars, artist and resident fellow (2020–2022)
• Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Wayne Modest (co-convener), head of research, National Museum of Worldcultures, and director of content, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands
• María Elena Ortiz, curator The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas Jerry Philogene, associate professor of American studie Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
• Marcel Pinas, artist Suriname
• Veerle Poupeye, independent curator Kingston, Jamaica 
• Adrienne Rooney, PhD candidate in art history Rice University, Houston
• Nicole Smythe-Johnson, independent curator, PhD candidate in art history The University of Texas at Austin
• David Scott, Ruth and William Lubic Professor of Anthropology Columbia University, New York City
• Andrea Chung, artist San Diego, California

Williamstown Volunteer of the Year Speaks for the Voiceless

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
07:48AM / Sunday, May 26, 2024

Andi Bryant was presented the annual Community Service Award. 

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Inclusion was a big topic at Thursday's annual town meeting — and not just because of arguments about the inclusivity of the Progress Pride flag.

 

The winner of this year's Scarborough-Salomon-Flynt Community Service Award had some thoughts about how exclusive the town has been and is.

 

"I want to talk about the financially downtrodden, the poor folk, the deprived, the indigent, the impoverished, the lower class," Andi Bryant said at the outset of the meeting. "I owe it to my mother to say something — a woman who taught me it was possible to make a meal out of almost nothing.

 

"I owe it to my dad to say something, a man who loved this town more than anyone I ever knew. A man who knew everyone, but almost no one knew what it was like for him. As he himself said, 'He didn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of.' "

 

Bryant was recognized by the Scarborough-Salomon-Flynt Committee as the organizer and manager of Remedy Hall, a new non-profit dedicated to providing daily necessities — everything from wheelchairs to plates to toothpaste — for those in need.

 

She started the non-profit in space at First Congregational Church where people can come and receive items, no questions asked, and learn about other services that are available in the community.

 

She told the town meeting members that people in difficult financial situations do, in fact, exist in Williamstown, despite the perceptions of many in and out of the town.