Clark Art First Sunday Free Program

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute's First Sundays Free program continues on Sunday, April 7. Offering free admission from 10 am–5 pm, the day also features a series of paper-themed special activities from 1–4 pm, including a tour of the Clark's "Paper Cities" exhibition at 2 pm.
 
According to a press release:
 
Engage with the limitless possibilities of paper in a variety of paper-play activities. Get three-dimensional with a single sheet of paper by making a pop-up book or take on woven paper activities and make a decorative object to take home. At 2 pm, Allison Marino, curatorial assistant for works on paper and curator of Paper Cities, leads a tour of the exhibition, diving deeper into the details of prints and photographs depicting cities. Throughout the afternoon, multidisciplinary artist Sunny Allis welcomes visitors to co-create an immersive, large-scale paper city installation in the lower level of the Clark Center.
 
On view in the Eugene V. Thaw Gallery for Works on Paper, located in the Manton Research Center, "Paper Cities" examines representations of cities in works on paper created from the late fifteenth to the early twentieth century. The exhibition asks the following questions: Which cities or sections of cities are these artists presenting? Are they emphasizing specific architectural or social elements, and if so, what motivates these choices? What roles do the cities play in advancing the narratives of the overall artworks?
 
In addition to "Paper Cities," visitors can view the Clark's fifth public spaces installation, "David-Jeremiah: I Drive Thee, in the Clark Center and Manton Research Center. The installation is free and open to the public and represents an overview of and conclusion to the artist's cycle of large circular reliefs, or tondos.
 
Free admission all day. 

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Williamstown Government Presents Communication Plan

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Williamstown is working to improve communications with residents.
 
The town manager told the Select Board last week that the town obtained a Community Compact Best Practices grant from the state's Division of Local Services to fund a consultant from the University of Massachusetts at Boston's Collins Center for Public Management to develop a communications strategy.
 
Improved communications is a growing concern for small towns like Williamstown, Town Manager Robert Menicocci told the board.
 
"The world has changed with social media," Menicocci said. "The expectations of what a community communicates to its citizens — the game has been upped.
 
"I think this was a new area for government and many communities are looking at a need to staff up to address communications, where, in the past, maybe a big city would have a communications director. Now that has trickled down to almost all small communities."
 
To that end, the town has completely revamped its website and hired its first communications director — both steps that were included in the November 2025 Collins Center report, "Roadmap for Inclusive and Accessible Municipal Communications in Williamstown, Mass."
 
Brianna Sunryd, a public services manager at the Collins Center, presented her group's findings to the Select Board.
 
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