SO-IL architects will design new building for WCMA

On June 1, 2022, Williams College President Maud S. Mandel announced that SO-IL architects will develop the conceptual design for a new building for the Williams College Museum of Art. The project would provide the first stand-alone facility for WCMA, whose collection has been housed in Lawrence Hall—the College’s first library building— since the museum’s founding nearly a century ago. The new facility for teaching, collections, exhibitions and programs will be designed to transform WCMA’s engagement with the campus, the Williamstown community, and the Berkshires cultural region.

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Getty grant supports Teddy Sandoval research

Congratulations to independent curator David Evans Frantz on his award of a grant from the Getty Foundation’s The Paper Project. The award will support Frantz’s research for the upcoming exhibition and publication about artist Teddy Sandoval (1949–1995), a central figure in intersecting queer and Chicanx artistic circles in Los Angeles. Together with co-curator C. Ondine Chavoya—his partner for the award-winning touring exhibition Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A.—Frantz is organizing the first museum retrospective dedicated to Sandoval’s work, to be presented at WCMA and the Vincent Price Museum of Art at East Los Angeles College in 2023–24.

The Paper Project: Prints and Drawings Curatorship in the 21st Century is an initiative begun in 2018 to strengthen curatorial practice in the graphic arts field internationally. Use the link below to learn more about the 2022 grant recipients.

The Paper Project 2022 Grant Recipients

Wendy Red Star’s No Good Dirt Plateau

No Good Dirt Plateau (Wild Horse Ridge) (2021) is part of Red Star’s series Brings Good Horses. Each drawing is a portrait of a horse, with unique color and pattern, size, position, and gait. Each horse is a reference to ledger drawings from archives and collections such as the Hood Museum of Art, the Warnock Collection, and the Indian Peoples of the Northern Great Plains Collection. The series serves as a reclaiming and regathering of Indigenous ancestral history.

This work is one of several new acquisitions on view in the current iteration of the collection exhibition Remixing the Hall.

Wendy Red Star