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Welcome to the ART DEPARTMENT!

To Declare a Major in Art History, Art Studio, or Art History & Studio, first choose a faculty advisor and make an appointment to discuss your courses for next semester. Next, fill out the departmental Major Declaration Form appropriate to your route to the major, Art History, Art Studio, or Art History & Studio before you meet with your advisor. With your advisor’s approval then fill out the Registrar’s Declare Major Form.

Making and Studying Art Go Hand in Hand

The Williams art department is unparalleled among liberal arts colleges for its size and course offerings, its remarkable local resources, and the long history and strength of its major program. Occupying two buildings and sharing premises with the Williams College Museum of Art, the art department is one of the largest at the college. The department offers much more than a rich array of courses in studio art and art history. Art professors engage with students in diverse spaces, from the classroom and the studio to museums in Williamstown and beyond. Students benefit from an array of opportunities—critiques, lectures, exhibitions, travel, and internships—as they progress through the program.

Majors take the helm when it comes to events in the art department.  Students nominated to participate in the 1960’s Scholars Program invite outside speakers to campus, creating some of the most anticipated and exciting arts programming at the College from the ground up. Students exhibit their own work throughout the year in the Wilde Gallery in the W. L. S. Spencer Studio Art Building and at the annual Senior Studio Art Exhibition at the Williams College Museum of Art. Opportunities to present research projects in a public setting, to study alongside graduate students, and to interact with renowned scholars in residence at the Clark further broaden the experiential scope of majoring in art at Williams.

Speaking of color, check out this amazing student piece by Elsa Martin, currently hanging in the first floor reception area of the Spencer Studio Art Building!

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Speaking of color, check out this amazing student piece by Elsa Martin, currently hanging in the first floor reception area of the Spencer Studio Art Building!

#williamscollegeart #williamsartdept #williamscollege #artstudents #artatwilliams
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Calling studio art majors, prospective studio art majors, and students taking studio art classes who might have questions or ideas that they want to talk about with the Chair of Studio Art, Laylah Ali.
We will be hosting a Q & A with Professor Ali with an array of delicious locally baked cookies.
Wednesday, March 13th at 7pm in the Spencer Studio Art Building Wilde Gallery.

#williamsartdept #williamscollege #artatwilliams #studioart

Calling studio art majors, prospective studio art majors, and students taking studio art classes who might have questions or ideas that they want to talk about with the Chair of Studio Art, Laylah Ali.
We will be hosting a Q & A with Professor Ali with an array of delicious locally baked cookies.
Wednesday, March 13th at 7pm in the Spencer Studio Art Building Wilde Gallery.

#williamsartdept #williamscollege #artatwilliams #studioart
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Meleko Mokgosi Artist Talk
Feb 29th 7-8:30pm
Lawrence Hall, room 231

Meleko Mokgosi (born in Francistown, Botswana; lives and works in Wellesley, MA) is an artist, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Yale School of Art, and the co-founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. Mokgosi received his BA from Williams College in 2007 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study program that same year. He then received his MFA from the Interdisciplinary Studio Program at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011. He participated in the Rauschenberg Residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL in 2015 and the Artist in Residence Program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY in 2012.

#williamsartdept #williamscollege #artatwilliams #1960sscholars

Meleko Mokgosi Artist Talk
Feb 29th 7-8:30pm
Lawrence Hall, room 231

Meleko Mokgosi (born in Francistown, Botswana; lives and works in Wellesley, MA) is an artist, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Yale School of Art, and the co-founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program. Mokgosi received his BA from Williams College in 2007 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study program that same year. He then received his MFA from the Interdisciplinary Studio Program at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2011. He participated in the Rauschenberg Residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, FL in 2015 and the Artist in Residence Program at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY in 2012.

#williamsartdept #williamscollege #artatwilliams #1960sscholars
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1960s Scholars presents Keller Easterling
Thurs. Feb 15th 7-8:30pm
Lawrence Hall L231
Keller Easterling is an architect, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. Her books include, Medium Design (Verso 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934-1960. Easterling lectures and exhibits internationally. Her research and writing was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling was a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design.
#williamsartdept #williamscollege #artatwilliams

1960s Scholars presents Keller Easterling
Thurs. Feb 15th 7-8:30pm
Lawrence Hall L231
Keller Easterling is an architect, writer, and the Enid Storm Dwyer Professor of Architecture at Yale. Her books include, Medium Design (Verso 2021), Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (Verso, 2014), Subtraction (Sternberg, 2014), Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and its Political Masquerades (MIT, 2005) and Organization Space: Landscapes, Highways and Houses in America (MIT, 1999). Easterling is also the co-author (with Richard Prelinger) of Call it Home, a laserdisc/DVD history of US suburbia from 1934-1960. Easterling lectures and exhibits internationally. Her research and writing was included in the 2014 and 2018 Venice Biennales. Easterling was a 2019 United States Artist in Architecture and Design.
#williamsartdept #williamscollege #artatwilliams
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The Forgotten Music of Pakistan: Screening and Discussion, Jawad Sharif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lodMNJ14swg

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The Forgotten Music of Pakistan: Screening and Discussion, Jawad Sharif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lodMNJ14swg

#williamsartdept #artatwilliams
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