Clark Art Presents Lecture on Forthcoming Exhibition

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Tuesday, Oct. 8 at 5:30 pm in the Manton Research Center auditorium, the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program presents a free lecture by artist-scholar Andil Gosine (York University / Beinecke Fellow). 
 
In it he previews his bronze sculpture Ixora Coccinea from his forthcoming exhibition Nature's Wild at the Art Museum of the Americas (June 2025).
 
According to a press release:
 
Gosine considers contemporary and historical personal and sociopolitical catalysts for his sculpture. Ixora Coccinea is at once invested in contestation of anthropocentrism, observation and documentation of the historical significance of the labor system of Indentureship to the formation of Caribbean space and culture, and reckoning with traditions of public monument-making practices. Its propositions, particularly as a contemporary and future-looking eco-aesthetic strategy, emerge from and engage with?intersecting ruminations across these concerns. 
 
Andil Gosine is professor of environmental art and justice at York University in Toronto, and author of "Nature's Wild: Love, Sex and Law in the Caribbean" (Duke University Press, 2021). He is at work on a follow-up collection of essays about visual arts that weigh and elaborate his intersecting interests in animality, ecology and desire, particularly in relationship to the Caribbean. 
 
Free. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524. A reception at 5 pm in the Manton Research Center reading room precedes the event. 

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Williamstown Business Owner Calls for Action on Economic Development

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — A Spring Street business owner and former town official is sounding the alarm about the economic health of the Village Business District.
 
Amy Jeschawitz, who owns Nature's Closet and formerly served on the Planning Board, went to the Finance Committee last week to raise concerns about what she characterized as the lack of an "overall plan" for economic development in the town.
 
"Economic development, housing, new growth and business all go hand in hand," Jeschawitz said, alluding to the topic that dominated the Fin Comm's meeting before she addressed the body. "I know what a struggle it is for housing in this town."
 
Jeschawitz sent a letter to both the Fin Comm and the Select Board in which she called on town officials to take action.
 
"As a community we can no longer sit and pretend we are insulated because we live in Williamstown and have Williams College," Jeschawitz wrote. "We need growth, we need new homes, we need  jobs, we need better transportation options and we need to start filling the needs of the  tourism industry who come here from NYC and the Boston area.  
 
"We do not need to form a committee to study this – we have done that repeatedly over the  years to no action. Reports sitting on shelves. We need you, the Select Board and Finance  Committee to start taking actions."
 
Jeschawitz appearance before the Finance Committee on Oct. 29 was followed by a "Williamstown Business District Walking Tour" on Thursday afternoon that was posted as a public meeting for the Select Board to have what the Williamstown Chamber of Commerce billed as "a constructive conversation … to discuss ways to improve the economic development of Williamstown."
 
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