Acclaimed furniture designer Jomo Tariku discusses his design process and his relationship to the history of design, including the use of drawings like those by eighteenth-century designers, like those seen in the Promenades on Paper: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Bibliothèque nationale de France exhibition, on view through March 12, 2023.
In this Research and Academic Program lecture, Jonathan Flatley (Wayne State University / Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow) discusses liking trees. He argues that liking (as distinct from love) is a feeling capable of motivating collective opposition to the ongoing, massive, catastrophic destruction of forests. It makes that case through an examination of two distinct projects: Richard Powers’ novel The Overstory (2018) and Zoe Leonard’s photographs of trees that have grown into, around, or through fences.
The I/O New Music Ensemble, directed by Matthew Gold, Artist in Residence in Percussion and Contemporary Music Performance at Williams College, performed at WCMA as part of I/O Festival 2023 on January 13, 2013.
Jeremy Melius (Oxford University), the Michael Ann Holly Fellow in the Clark Art Institute's Research and Academic Program, explores the aesthetic and ethical parameters of John Ruskin's watercolor practice.
Rebecca Szantyr, former curatorial assistant in the Manton Study Center for Works on Paper, presents an overview of On the Horizon: Art and Atmosphere in the Nineteenth Century. Szantyr looks at the exhibition's major themes and moments and discusses how artists integrated scientific developments with pictorial invention as they depicted atmospheric effects.
