'The Art of the Opening' To Be Displayed In New WCMA Museum

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) is hosting a monthly program series this spring called "The Art of the Opening" that will offer audiences a glimpse into specific works of art that will be on display when the new museum building opens in the fall of 2027.

On Feb. 4, March 18, and April 1 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., curators from our curatorial engagement team will share an in-depth preview of a different object that will be on view in the inaugural installation, which aims to showcase WCMA’s global art collection guided by a liberal arts ethos. The audience will be invited to ask questions, and lunch will be provided for the first 12 people to register.

Kicking off the series on Feb. 4 will be Elizabeth Gallerani, our curator of Mellon Academic Programs, who will share information recently learned about a pichhwai (temple hanging) in the WCMA collection that depicts the Hindu god Krishna painted on a huge cotton cloth. Mellon Curatorial Fellow Rachael Nelson will present on March 18, and Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Dan Byers will present on April 1.

RSVPs are required here: https://airtable.com/appEgY2dFQZxVvJhJ/pagiusORQgIBjIM8k/form.

For more information, visit artmuseum.williams.edu.


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School Budget, Environment, Recreation Highlight Williamstown Town Meeting

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — This month's annual town meeting returns to a familiar venue.
 
What goes on in that building the rest of the year could be a major topic of discussion at the Tuesday, May 19, gathering.
 
After two years (2020 and '21) on Williams College's football field and four years ('22 through '25) at Mount Greylock Regional School, the town's legislative body will be back at Williamstown Elementary School for a 7 p.m. meeting to decide on municipal spending and other town business.
 
The largest segment of the municipal budget goes to the public schools, and the spending plan for PreK-12 education likely will see a floor amendment intended to add an additional $120,000 to fund a math interventionist at Williamstown Elementary School.
 
The elected seven-member School Committee that governs the Mount Greylock Regional School District has proposed a $30.9 million operating budget for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. The local share of that budget is meted out in assessments to the member towns of Lanesborough and Williamstown, which each vote whether to approve its assessment at town meeting.
 
Williamstown's share of the operating and capital expenditures for the regional school district is $16.8 million under the budget approved by the School Committee, an increase of a little more than $2 million, or 13.65 percent, from the budget for the current fiscal/school year.
 
A group of WES parents concerned about the mathematics instruction at the Grade prekindergarten-6 school plans to bring an amendment to town meeting to add the additional $120,000 — about 0.7 percent of the proposed assessment — to fund the interventionist position.
 
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