Clark Art Announces Ground/Work Outdoor Exhibition

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Clark Art Institute announces its second outdoor sculpture exhibition, Ground/work 2025, opening in summer 2025.

Set throughout the woodland trails and open meadows of the Clark's distinctive 140-acre campus, the exhibition includes newly commissioned, site-specific installations by six leading contemporary artists.

According to a press release:

Curated by independent art historian Glenn Adamson, Ground/work 2025 features a dynamic range of outdoor presentations by international artists, Y? Akiyama, Laura Ellen Bacon, Aboubakar Fofana, Hugh Hayden, Milena Naef, and Javier Senosiain that respond to the Clark's unique setting while expressing ideas core to each artist's individual practice. Like the inaugural Ground/work, which opened in summer 2020, the installations will remain on view for over one year allowing visitors to encounter the works day or night and throughout the seasons, experiencing them anew as the landscape and weather conditions change. Ground/work 2025 closes in October 2026.

"When we first considered doing our initial Ground/work exhibition, we always hoped that the public's response would inspire future iterations of the project," said Olivier Meslay, Hardymon Director of the Clark. "The enthusiastic embrace of this concept was immediate and intense when we opened the exhibition in 2020 and the public's interest in and enthusiasm for another Ground/work project has been constant. We eagerly await the opportunity to bring this new presentation to life and to experience our grounds through the eyes of this new cohort of artists. Glenn Adamson, our guest curator, has invited artists whose work will be particularly responsive to the natural setting here at the Clark and we are confident that our visitors will be delighted by the works of art that are planned."

Glenn Adamson is an American curator, author, and art historian whose work focuses on the intersections of contemporary art, design, and craft, which he defines as "skilled making, on a human scale."

"The monumentality of this project, and its global range of artists, definitely make it a milestone in the institutional presentation of craft," Adamson says. "At the same time, I love the radical accessibility of it—the fact that it can be seen by anyone, free of charge, at any time of the day. Imagine a group of kids walking through the woods and suddenly coming upon one of these huge sculptures, a strange and beautiful presence in a clearing, and then learning how was made. How magical is that?"

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Discrimination Against Muslim Americans Persists 25 Years After 9/11

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
07:00AM / Saturday, September 12, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Dozens of Muslim Americans were among people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Untold numbers of Muslim Americans have suffered countless acts of discrimination in their aftermath.

"Of course, you'll find several accounts of Muslims from all over the U.S. describing how they went from the unknown kids in the school to being stereotyped or ridiculed for their Muslim names," Sidra Mahmood recalled recently. "However, many Americans forget that the victims of 9/11 were also Muslim Americans.

"I can't forget the time when a classmate broke down in sobs when 9/11 came up in our classroom at the Islamic seminary I went to in Texas, because her father's best friend who was like an uncle to her, died on 9/11."

Today, Mahmood is a chaplain at Williams College. In 2001, she was growing up in Karachi, Pakistan, when terrorists forced two passenger jets into the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan and another plane into the Pentagon outside Washington, D.C. A third plane, which terrorists hoped to crash into a D.C. landmark, was brought down in western Pennsylvania after passengers and crew fought back against the hijackers.

The attacks, which ultimately claimed 2,976 lives, horrified people around the world, including in Mahmood's native land.

"I remember being aghast like anyone who witnessed the fall of the Twin Towers in real time," she said. "However, even as a child, fear gripped me about the possibility of war, especially once we learned that Afghanistan, right adjacent to Pakistan, would be attacked by the U.S. My mother had told me about the 1971 war between India and Pakistan when she remembered hiding in the dark after bomb sirens would go off in Punjab after intentional blackouts.

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