Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Anne Leonard introduces the pair of exhibitions "50 Years and Forward: Works on Paper Acquisitions" and "50 Years and Forward: British Prints and Drawings Acquisitions."
To commence the symposium British Art 1750–1919: Reflections and Futures, Olivier Meslay (Hardymon Director of the Clark) and Caroline Fowler (Starr Director, Research and Academic Program) discussed Meslay’s experience curating British art, and how the field of British art has changed since Meslay mounted one of the first exhibitions dedicated to British art at the Louvre Museum, Paris, in 1994, "British Art in French Collections." Eight contemporary artists who consider the intertwined natural and social dimensions of ecological relationships has included sculpture, sound installation, video, and plantings. Each artist represents a distinct approach and place, or “position,” and the complex dynamics between living things and their environments is essential to their thinking. Through their work, these artists illuminate patterns of cultivation and care, migration and adaptation, extraction, and exploitation that span historical, geographical, and species lines. Humane Ecology is presented in outdoor and indoor spaces at the Clark, including both the Clark Center and Lunder Center at Stone Hill.
As part of the Construct Your Own Meaning summer series, cake artists from the region designed and produced a cake that interprets an artwork in "Remixing the Hall" for a public program on August 17, 2023, at the Williams College Museum of Art. Featured artists: Edward Cabral, Cakes For No Occasion, Magnet, and Alli Gelles of cakes4sport, all from New York City.
As part of the Construct Your Own Meaning summer series, a set of regional musicians from a range of musical backgrounds each composed a five- to 10-minute piece inspired by an artwork in the Williams College Museum of Art collection installation Remixing the Hall
In conjunction with the opening of 'Printed Renaissance', the Clark Art Institute has hosted a lecture by guest curator Yuefeng Wu. The lecture was presented in the Clark’s auditorium on July 29, 2023. How do we remember the arts of the Italian Renaissance? Why have we become intimately familiar with the names and works of such creative figures as Raphael and Michelangelo? Since the late 1400s, the new medium of printmaking fundamentally changed the way artistic images multiplied and circulated in European society. Prints that copy famous paintings were repeatedly made, sold, and collected through the centuries. Yuefeng Wu, graduate student curator of Printed Renaissance, shows how the practice of print reproduction shaped and created the history of Renaissance painting in this opening lecture.
