Clark Art Hosts Williams College Graduate Program Symposium

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — On Friday, June 5, 2026, from 9:15 am to 5 pm, the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art holds its annual symposium at which graduating Masters students deliver presentations on their individual research activities.

The symposium is presented in the auditorium of the Clark Art Institute's Manton Research Center.

This year's presentations, timed in conjunction with Williams College's 2026 Commencement weekend, address a variety of topics in the history of art, including the artistic tradition of ancestral Peruvian textiles, the implications of depicting beheadings in seventeenth-century Seville, the relationship between print and sound technologies in the late nineteenth century, efforts to shape the public perception of color through photography during the Nazi period, and the interplay of painting and phenomenology in the late twentieth century. 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:

Chioma Agbaraji [Prince George's County, Maryland]

Maximillion A. Alegria [Baker, Florida]

Hannah Tsung-Ling Chew [Menlo Park, California]

Cristine Elizabeth Escudero [Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey]

Natalie Ginsberg [Newark, Delaware]

Alexis Kelly [Irvine, California]

Charlie Qing Xu Kong [Shanghai, China, and Vancouver, Canada]

Elizabeth Levie [San Francisco, California]

Andrew Lu [Beijing, China]

Cèlia Pardillo-Lopez [West Lafayette, Indiana, and Barcelona, Spain]

Emma Poveda [Los Angeles, California]

At 4:30 pm on Saturday, June 6, 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 Street, Williamstown, Massachusetts.

For more information, visit gradart.williams.edu.

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Firefighters Make Progress Against Wildfire on New York/Massachusetts Border

Staff Reports02:24PM / Tuesday, October 27, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — New York officials Tuesday morning reported significant progress overnight in battling a wildfire on the Massachusetts state line, with hopes of total containment as early as tonight.

"Containment right now is about 70 percent contained," N.Y. Department of Environmental Conservation Lt. Eric Stratton said during a news conference telecast by Springfield, Mass., television station WWLP. "We do anticipate by the end of the day shift today … we should be between 90 and 100 percent contained if all goes according to plan."

Stratton and Rensselaer County (N.Y.) Director of Public Safety Jay Wilson met with the media and fielded questions about the fire, which currently affects 251 acres and has spread over the state line into Williamstown.

"We had a night crew working all night long, and they were able to do a lot of good work," Stratton said. "The [relative humidities] recovered nicely, so that decreased fire behavior.

"We reinforced some [fire] line, put in a new line. We are now at 251 acres."

Stratton explained that the strategy for battling the fire involves establishing a control line around the blaze and setting fire between the control line and the wildfire to consume fuel the wildfire would need to spread.

Stratton said that as of mid-morning Tuesday, 119 fire personnel from New York and Massachusetts were involved with the effort to extinguish the blaze.

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