Video tour of Emancipation Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation, which visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War today and beyond, has received many accolades since it opened in…

New WCMA design unveiled! We are excited to announce the unveiling of the design for the new Williams College Museum of Art, for the first time giving the museum its own freestanding, purpose-built home! Prominently located at the western…

Embodied Words closing soon The two-year run of Embodied Words: Reading in Medieval Christian Visual Culture is coming to a close. If you haven't had a chance to see it or would like to experience it one last time, you have two more weeks! In…

Emancipation opens Friday Conceived as a commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of…

WALLS Spring Pickup Day It’s hard to believe, but this is the 10th year of WALLS (Williams Art Loan for Living Spaces), our student art loan program! This semester, Pickup Day is Sunday, Feb. 4. Lineup starts at 6 a.m. at Goodrich Hall.…

Object Lab Spring 2024 Object Lab Spring 2024 is now open! This semester, nine different courses are using our hybrid gallery-classroom, which visualizes the Williams liberal arts curriculum through the museum collection. Students will be…

A new remix of Remixing the Hall We’re excited to announce that Remixing the Hall has been remixed again! WCMA curators collaboratively and regularly rotate the installation, “remixing” it—to borrow a term from DJ…

South Asian art assessment We were fortunate to host Daniel Ehnbom, a specialist in South Asian art history, here last week as part of our ongoing efforts to assess our collection in preparation for the new museum building. Ehnbom is professor…

Art meets curriculum We’ve passed the halfway point of the fall 2023 semester at Williams, and we are excited to report that we have had more than 1,000 student visits to the museum this fall along with 37 courses visiting in 56 class…

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Assessing the collection As we plan for the new museum project, WCMA staff are checking every object for condition, barcoding, making new housings, surfacing new research questions, and thinking about the inaugural installations in the new…

Celebrate Beatriz Cortez: The Portals Join us this Thursday, Sept. 21, for a celebration of Beatriz Cortez: The Portals, an exhibition that includes installations across campus and in the galleries of WCMA. Stitching together different voices that…

Summer interns on Bloomberg Connects It’s been a little quieter around here since the departure of our six Summer Arts & Museums Immersion Program interns. They had quite a busy and exciting nine-week stint, and they have left behind…

Summer series culminates with cake Our Construct Your Own Meaning summer series is going out on a sweet note this week! On Thursday, Aug. 17, four New York City-based bakers will showcase their cakes, designed and produced to interpret an artwork…

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WCMA Summer Series Summer is finally in the air, and we will be kicking off our summer series, Construct Your Own Meaning, on Thursday, July 6! This series of programs invites beer brewers, musicians, young people, and cake artists to interpret…

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The Portals opening this week Beatriz Cortez: The Portals is an installation in multiple locations that explores alternative genealogies of Williams College. Opening this Friday, May 26, and running through May 2024, The Portals stitches together…

Senior Studio Art Exhibition We look forward to celebrating the senior Studio Art students on Friday, May 12! Indoor Recess features the culminating projects of 14 Williams College Studio Art majors: Kristen Chou, Emmanuelle Copeland, Rachel Cruz,…

Lama Tashi Norbu at WCMA We are so excited to host artist and ordained monk Lama Tashi Norbu for a residency at WCMA this week. On Tuesday and Wednesday, April 25 and 26, come meet Lama Tashi during the afternoon, when he will be painting in the…

Students explore Embodied Words Join us at 5:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, for Chew on This! Books, Reading, and the Senses in the Middle Ages, an evening centered around unexpected and invigorating aspects of books and reading practices in the…

Mirrored Interiors: Films by Cecilia Aldarondo Mirrored Interiors is an exhibition featuring four films by the award-winning filmmaker Cecilia Aldarondo. The exhibition consists of five screenings presented over three weeks, starting with a special…

Come celebrate Across Shared Waters Join us for the opening celebration of Across Shared Waters: Contemporary Artists in Dialogue with Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection! The exhibition presents works by contemporary artists of Himalayan…

Now open: Object Lab Object Lab, our hybrid gallery-classroom that visualizes the Williams liberal arts curriculum through the museum collection, has opened for the spring semester. In Object Lab, faculty work with WCMA staff to select art that…

Less than two weeks until WALLS! Calling all Ephs: Live with art this spring! Williams College students can enliven their rooms with art from the WALLS (Williams Art Loan for Living Spaces) Collection, a special collection of 125 works of art…

A new mix in ‘Remixing the Hall’ Happy New Year! Our ongoing permanent collection exhibition Remixing the Hall has been remixed for 2023. Visitors will encounter several new additions to the Class of 1935 Gallery, including Sam…

Season's greetings Warmest WCMA wishes to you all! Click on the link below to read a year-end reflection and message of gratitude from Director Pamela Franks. WCMA is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Thursday, Dec. 22, our final day to…

We are delighted to share our 2021-22 Impact Report with members of the WCMA community! The Impact Report is a digital experience that showcases some of the amazing work that the museum has accomplished over the past fiscal year. Everything that…

Last tour of Mary Ann Unger exhibition Join us Friday, December 2, at 2 p.m., for the last tour of the Mary Ann Unger: To Shape a Moon from Bone exhibition. Eve Biddle, an artist and Unger's daughter, whose work is also featured in the show, will…

Take a deep dive into Object Lab Object Lab is in full swing this semester! Learn all about this hybrid gallery-classroom, which visualizes the Williams liberal arts curriculum through the museum collection, with a series of videos available on…

FILM AND ART: MUR MURS THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 7:30 PM AUDITORIUM After returning to Los Angeles from France in 1979, Agnès Varda created this kaleidoscopic documentary about the striking murals that decorate the city. Bursting with color…

Arthur Jafa to give Plonsker Lecture on Nov. 10 On Thursday, November 10, at 5:30 p.m., artist Arthur Jafa (b. 1960, Tupelo, Mississippi) discusses his dynamic practice comprising films, artifacts and happenings that reference and question the…

New WCMA mobile guide on Bloomberg Connects Williams College Museum of Art’s new digital guide is now available for download on the App Store or Google Play! The guide takes you behind the scenes with multimedia perspectives from artists,…

Heather Hart "Cuts Through Worlds" On Thursday, October 6, at 5:30 p.m., artist Heather Hart gives the opening keynote for the symposium Women Shaping Space: Feminism and Materiality. The talk, titled “She Cuts Through Worlds,” is…

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Student show closing soon The 2022 senior studio art major exhibition Searching for Sticky Voids closes Sunday, August 21. Come see the work of nineteen recent Williams graduates and emerging artists in this multimedia exhibition. Marjorie Kaye…

Kriyol Dance! Collective premieres Rasin San Bout On Thursday, August 4, at 5:30 p.m., Kriyol Dance! Collective (KDC) debuts a new, original work titled Rasin San Bout ("Endless Roots" in Haitian Creole) to conclude the Immersions: Summer Break…

Welcome, summer interns! The Williams Summer Arts & Museums Immersion Program has begun! Student interns are working at WCMA, Chesterwood, The Clark, MASS MoCA, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Preservation Office at Stockbridge Mission House.…

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…

Strict Beauty closes June 12 Visit the museum on Saturday, June 11, at 2:15 p.m., for a last chance tour of the Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints exhibition led by Lisa Dorin, WCMA's Deputy Director for Curatorial Engagement. Registration is not…

Searching for Sticky Voids Nineteen Williams artists in the Senior Studio Seminar have created a group exhibition that entraps and extends perception. The artworks presented enter into sticky voids: areas of inquiry that resist easy answers and…