Clark Art Hosts Free Community Day

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Sunday, July 14, the Clark Art Institute opens its doors for Community Day.
 
There will be free admission all day (10 am–5 pm), and from 11 am to 4 pm, the Institute offers art-making activities, live entertainment, and more. 
 
Visitors can view the Clark's permanent collection galleries and special exhibitions, including Guillaume Lethière, Kathia St. Hilaire: Invisible Empires, Fragile Beauty: Treasures from the Corning Museum of Glass, Edgar Degas: Multi-Media Artist in the Age of Impressionism, and David-Jeremiah: I Drive Thee.
 
The Clark's 140-acre campus offers walking trails through its woodlands and meadows and provides views from atop Stone Hill. Community Day's schedule includes opportunities to learn about glass, printmaking, and collage through art-making activities and artist demonstrations. Artists of all ages and skill levels are welcome to drop in to drawing sessions to sketch the live model—a horse.
 
Community Day is free and open to the public. Refreshments and select activities are available for purchase. This event happens rain or shine. 
 
Family programs are supported by Allen & Company.

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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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