Devon Nowlin Joins WCMA As Deputy Director

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass.—Devon Nowlin has joined the team at the Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA) as Deputy Director for Operations and Art Services.

Nowlin came to Williams College in 2023 as the museum project manager of the new WCMA building, currently under construction and scheduled to open in the fall of 2027. Before that, she was Collection Manager and Museum Renovation Coordinator at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas.

Also an artist, Nowlin holds an MFA in painting from Texas Christian University and worked in the field of public art in Texas for 20 years as a commissioned artist and contract project manager to help realize the public works of other artists.

"It is such an honor to be joining WCMA in this historic moment as we are preparing to move into and operate this incredible new building by Solid Objectives Idenberg Liu," Nowlin said. "The WCMA team in this new building has the opportunity to reimagine a future of more sustainable museum operations and to teach the art leaders of tomorrow throughout the process."

This new role at WCMA brings together in one division, under Nowlin's leadership, the collections and exhibitions management team, operations, security and visitor services, and facilities and events.

"Devon Nowlin brings a unique combination of detailed knowledge of the new WCMA design and deep experience with the complex operations of art museums, and will be essential to realizing the full opportunity of our new state-of-the-art, purpose-built building," said Pamela Franks, the Class of 1956 Director of WCMA. "Every aspect of the museum building project advances WCMA’s teaching mission, and Devon is ideally positioned to translate that potential into practice."a

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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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