Clark Art Hosts Williams College Graduate Program Symposium
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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.
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