Ariana Maki, curator of "Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection," leads a conversation between two artists who have artwork in the show, Marie-Dolma Chophel and Palden Weinreb.
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.
