NIKKI A. GREENE IN CONVERSATION WITH MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST-CURATOR TSEDAYE MAKONNEN

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 5 PM
MICHAEL CONFORTI PAVILION

In this Research and Academic Program event, Futures Fellow Tsedaye Makonnen speaks with Nikki A. Greene, associate professor of art at Wellesley College, about how her multidisciplinary studio, curatorial, and research-based practice threads together her identity as a daughter of Ethiopian immigrants, a Black American woman, a doula, and a mother to explore feminism and the transhistorical forced migration of Black communities across the globe.

This event is free with a reception starting at 4:30 pm. 

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FILM AND ART: ZURBARÁN AND HIS TWELVE SONS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 6 PM
AUDITORIUM

This documentary (2020, 72 minutes) explores the meaning of Jacob and His Twelve Sons, a series of thirteen canvases painted by Spanish Baroque artist Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664). The film follows the journey of these paintings, probably commissioned for a cathedral in the Americas, that disappeared for a century. Discover how they came to hang in Auckland Castle, where they remain to this day.

Directed by Arantxa Aguirre, who won the Valladolid Internacional Film Festival “Espiga de Oro” prize in 2016 for her film Dancing Beethoven.  

Free. Screenwriter John Healey introduces the documentary.

CLASSICAL CONCERT: GABRIEL QUENNEVILLE-BÉLAIR

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2 PM
AUDITORIUM

Montreal-based pianist Gabriel Quenneville-Bélair performs a solo concert. The program includes nineteenth- and twentieth-century music selected from composers including Maurice Ravel, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Schubert, and Ludwig van Beethoven. Also premiering at this performance are three concert études composed by Williamstown resident Stephen Dankner.

Free. Click here to learn more.

PUMPKIN PAINTING

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1–4 PM

Embrace the spirit of Halloween and autumn by bringing a pumpkin to life. Pick up a pumpkin on the lawn by the Clark’s Fernández Terrace and use your imagination to decorate it. Pumpkins, paint, and other art materials will be provided for free use (while supplies last). All you need to bring is your own creativity.
 
Family programs are generously supported by Allen & Company.

IMPERIAL DATA: AN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 5:30 PM

In this Research and Academic Program talk, architectural historian Zeynep Çelik Alexander (Columbia University) presents material from her forthcoming book, which examines the architecture of nineteenth-century storehouses of information in the British Empire. Alexander notes that what people call a “database” today was, first and foremost, a political technology that, she argues, could be understood as a legacy of imperialism.

This event is free with a reception in the Manton Research Center Reading Room starting at 5 pm.

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