Clark Art Hosts Williams College Graduate Program Symposium
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. —On Friday, June 6, 2025, from 9:30 am to 5 pm, the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art hosts its annual symposium at which graduating Masters students make presentations on their individual research activities.
The symposium is presented in the auditorium of the Clark Art Institute's Manton Research Center.
The Graduate Program in the History of Art, operated jointly by Williams and the Clark, is one of the most respected programs in its field, stated a press release. Alumni have gone on to become influential scholars and leaders of renowned museums and arts institutions, among other organizations. The graduate program is housed at the Clark, providing student classrooms, administrative offices, and individual research carrels or offices for each graduate student.
This year's presentations, timed in conjunction with Williams College's 2025 Commencement weekend, address a variety of topics in the history of art, ranging from the sonic dimensions of the seventeenth-century Japanese Hikone screen and the ethics of eighteenth-century taxidermy under French colonialism to the perceptual challenges of nineteenth-century Arctic photography and the relationship between weaving and mapping in the work of contemporary Latinx artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood. All presentations are free and open to the public
Presentations will be approximately twenty minutes each, delivered in thematic panels of two or three speakers that are followed by a moderated discussion.
Presenters include:
- Nora Høegh [London, England]
- Sidra Grace Michael [St. Paul, Minnesota]
- Julia Molin [Glen Ridge, New Jersey]
- William Satloff [Chevy Chase, Maryland]
- Eloise Cameron Schrier [San Francisco, California]
- Matthew Shorten [Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia]
- Maya Elisa Pérez Strohmeier [Berkeley, California]
- Luke David Williamson [Cedar Park, Texas]
- ??Riley Wei-Tung Yuen [New York, New York]
- Elia Longyu Zhang [Hefei, China]
At 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 7, the Clark hosts the graduate program's annual hooding ceremony, honoring the students' accomplishments.
The symposium and hooding ceremony both take place in the auditorium at the Clark Art Institute's Manton Research Center, 225 South St., Williamstown, Massachusetts.
For more information, visit gradart.williams.edu.
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