Clark Art Hosts Williams College Graduate Program Symposium

This year's presentations, timed in conjunction with Williams College's 2026 Commencement weekend, address a variety of topics in the history of art, including the artistic tradition of ancestral Peruvian textiles, the implications of depicting beheadings in seventeenth-century Seville, the relationship between print and sound technologies in the late nineteenth century, efforts to shape the public perception of color through photography during the Nazi period, and the interplay of painting and phenomenology in the late twentieth century. All presentations are free and open to the public.

Presentations will be approximately twenty minutes each, delivered in thematic panels of two or three speakers that are followed by a moderated discussion. 

Presenters include:

Chioma Agbaraji [Prince George's County, Maryland]

Maximillion A. Alegria [Baker, Florida] 

Hannah Tsung-Ling Chew [Menlo Park, California]

Cristine Elizabeth Escudero [Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey] 

Natalie Ginsberg [Newark, Delaware] 

Alexis Kelly [Irvine, California]

Charlie Qing Xu Kong [Shanghai, China, and Vancouver, Canada]

Elizabeth Levie [San Francisco, California] 

Andrew Lu [Beijing, China]

Cèlia Pardillo-Lopez [West Lafayette, Indiana, and Barcelona, Spain]

Emma Poveda [Los Angeles, California] 

At 4:30 pm on Saturday, June 6, the Clark hosts the graduate program's annual hooding ceremony, honoring the students' accomplishments. 

The symposium and hooding ceremony both take place in the auditorium at the Clark Art Institute's Manton Research Center, 225 South Street, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

For more information, visit gradart.williams.edu.

Reminder to Lanesborough, Williamstown Voters: Mount Greylock School Committee a 'Write-In' Election

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
10:03AM / Friday, October 30, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Politicians and pundits in recent years have been preaching patience when it comes to getting election night results.

 

That usually means places like California, where vote-counting can be complicated or Michigan, where razor thin margins are anticipated.

 

Add Williamstown and Lanesborough to that list.

 

It is not a matter of pre-election polling suggesting particularly tight races; there is no such polling. Rather, it is a question of how voters will be making their selections in the race for the Mount Greylock Regional School District Committee.

 

None of the six candidates who qualified for four seats up for grabs on the panel appear on the ballots that have been mailed out, used in early voting or will be distributed at the polls on Nov. 3.

 

That means that all votes will be cast as write-ins, and that means it will take significantly longer for election workers to tally up votes in the local election once the polls close at 8 p.m. at Lanesborough Town Hall and Williamstown Elementary School.

 

As always, voters in both towns vote for all four seats on the ballot: two seats for Lanesborough residents and two for Williamstown residents in this year’s balloting.