Clark Art Hosts Free Community Day

11:12AM / Thursday, July 11, 2024Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, July 14, the Clark Art Institute opens its doors for Community Day.

There will be free admission all day (10 am–5 pm), and from 11 am to 4 pm, the Institute offers art-making activities, live entertainment, and more.

Visitors can view the Clark's permanent collection galleries and special exhibitions, including Guillaume Lethière, Kathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires, Fragile Beauty: Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass, Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism, and David-Jeremiah: I Drive Thee.

The Clark's 140-acre campus offers walking trails through its woodlands and meadows and provides views from atop Stone Hill. Community Day's schedule includes opportunities to learn about glass, printmaking, and collage through art-making activities and artist demonstrations. Artists of all ages and skill levels are welcome to drop in to drawing sessions to sketch the live model—a horse.

Community Day is free and open to the public. Refreshments and select activities are available for purchase. This event happens rain or shine.

Family programs are supported by Allen & Company.

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WilliNet Facing Dane's Retirement, Uncertain Fiscal Future

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:39AM / Thursday, January 15, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The face of and driving force behind the town's community access television station will retire this summer.

At Monday's Select Board meeting, the president of the board of WilliNet announced that longtime Executive Director Debby Dane will leave the non-profit on June 30 and move to California, "following her 5-month-old granddaughter."

"The search committee has begun its work to find a replacement hire," Mary Strout told the Select Board. "Deb will be hard to replace, however the board is confident we will find an individual well suited to move the organization forward."

"Now, I'm speechless," Chair Stephanie Boyd replied on hearing of Dane's departure.

Earlier, before Strout made news, Boyd praised the town's Public, Educational and Governmental (PEG) Access station, founded in 1994.

"As everybody knows, WilliNet holds our community together, gets our town meetings and committee meetings online as well as all of the work in the town," Boyd said. "I know, after looking at so many towns' public TV stations over the last month that we're very close to the best. Maybe we even are the best.

"I can't say enough good things about WilliNet, the website, the programming, the professionalism. It's really, really incredible. We should all be very grateful for the hard work of Deb [Dane] and Jack [Criddle] and the rest of the team."

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