STUDENT PROGRAMS
Welcome to Williams’ Passport to the Arts!

This program is designed to encourage students to experience the broad spectrum of arts—music, art, theater, and dance—happening at Williams. Your Passport will allow you to keep track of your travels and is redeemable for prizes!

Prizes will be awarded to the first four people submitting a completed Passport in one of the below categories. Once a Passport has been submitted for a prize, it cannot be used again. Passports will ONLY be stamped at the end of a performance or event.The House Manager will be in the lobby at the end of each performance to stamp Passports.

The Williams College Museum of Art's events are listed below.

For Theatre events, click here.
For Music events, click here.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS
All programs take place at the Williams College Museum of Art, 15 Lawrence Hall Drive, Suite 2, in Williamstown, Massachusetts unless otherwise noted.

Winter Season Premiere Party
Thursday, February 25
5:30 pm Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk: Landscape and Memory
Professors Bernie Rhie and Olga Shevchenko with Deputy Director John Stomberg and co-curators Betty Zimmerberg and Kathryn Price.
6:30 pm Reception
Celebrate the opening of Landscapes of the Mind, Remington’s Bronco Buster, and Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Juggernaut.
 
Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk: Models of the Mind
Tuesday, March 2
4:00 pm
Joseph Cruz, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Andrea Danyluk, Acting Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Computer Science; and Safa Zaki, Associate Professor of Psychology. In conjunction with the exhibition Landscapes of the Mind.

Remington’s Bronco Buster: A Roundup
Wednesday, March 3
4:00 pm
Karen Merrill, Dean of the College and Professor of History, with Vivian Patterson, Curator of the Collection, and co-curators/Williams students Jared Quinton ’10, Elizabeth Danhakl ’11, and Amanda Reid ’12.

STORYTIME IN THE GALLERIES
Friday, March 5
10:30–11:15 am
Join us on the first Friday of the month for Storytime in the Galleries! Find the connection between art on view and children’s stories. Enjoy readings, songs, performances, and art-making activities. Special thanks to the Williamstown Library for their assistance. Preschoolers and toddlers with adults welcome. No reservations required for families. Preschool classes are encouraged to book a group reservation for a Storytime tour.

Family Program: Art & the Brain
Saturday, March 6, 2010
1:00–4:00 pm
What would it feel like to be inside a brain? Find out in the exhibition, Landscapes of the Mind: Contemporary Artists Contemplate the Brain, where you can watch brightly colored neurons grow like tree branches. The invisible workings of the mind become visible in contemporary sculptures, installation, prints, and embroidery. This family program offers student-led tours of the exhibition, mind games, artmaking projects, and mind-blowing activities by Williams professors Betty Zimmerberg and Noah Sandstrom. Children of all ages welcome.

Landscapes of the Mind: A Symposium
Saturday, March 13
1:00–5:00 pm
This symposium brings together artists and neuroscientists for an afternoon of talks and discussions about creativity, visualizing the brain, and finding connections where art and science meet.
Speakers include:
• Artists Susan Aldworth and Katy Schimert
• Neuroscientists Sally Shaywitz, Bennett Shaywitz, and Bevil Conway
• Curators Betty Zimmerberg and Kathryn Price
 
Funded in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Williams College Lecture Committee. Special thanks to the Department of Psychology and the Program in Neuroscience for their support.

Interdisciplinary Gallery Talk: Oedipal Blind Spot
Tuesday, March 16
4:00 pm
Meredith Hoppin, Frank M. Gagliardi Professor of Classics; Lara Hutson, Assistant Professor of Biology; and Gail Newman, Harold J. Henry Professor of German. In conjunction with the exhibition Landscapes of the Mind.

KIDSPACE TURNS 10
See It, Experience It, Support It–Your Kidspace
This event takes place at Kidspace at MASS MoCA.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
11:00 am–4:00 pm

The Clark, Williams College Museum of Art, and MASS MoCA invite you to celebrate the 10th anniversary of KIDSPACE. Come experience Kidspace’s popular You Art What You Eat exhibition and make your own artful creations. View A Delectable Decade: Kidspace Retrospective in MASS MoCA’s Hunter Hallway, 2nd floor, featuring the work of 14 past Kidspace artists. In MASS MoCA’s Hunter Center, participate in a fun events including: Iron Artist, an art-making competition with world-renowned artists and auction of their work; Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too, a family cupcake-making challenge; and a performance by hybrid instrument-maker Ken Butler. 

Tickets are $5 per person in support of Kidspace’s school programs and can be purchased through MASS MoCA’s Box Office at (413) MoCA-111.

STORYTIME IN THE GALLERIES
Friday, April 2
10:30–11:15 am
Join us on the first Friday of the month for Storytime in the Galleries! Find the connection between art on view and children’s stories. Enjoy readings, songs, performances, and art-making activities. Special thanks to the Williamstown Library for their assistance. Preschoolers and toddlers with adults welcome. No reservations required for families. Preschool classes are encouraged to book a group reservation for a Storytime tour.

The Whiteness of the Whale: A Multidisciplinary Discussion of Moby Dick
Thursday, April 8
4:30 pm
Join faculty from across the disciplines at Williams and the Williams-Mystic Program for a discussion of Herman Melville’s epic novel and Tristin Lowe’s sculpture.

Participants include:
• Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut; Senior Lecturer in Literature of the Sea, Williams-Mystic Program, Mystic Seaport
• James T. Carlton, Professor of Marine Sciences, Williams College, and Director, Williams-Mystic, The Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport
• Peter Erickson, Visiting Professor of Humanities, Williams College
• Glenn Gordinier, Albion Maritime Historian, Williams-Mystic Program, Mystic Seaport; Co-Director, The Munson Institute, Mystic Seaport
• Richard J. King, Lecturer in Literature of the Sea, Williams-Mystic Program, Mystic Seaport
• Williams S. Lynn, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Williams College
• Shawn Rosenheim, Professor of English, Williams College

Fulkerson Fund for Leadership in the Arts
Inaugural Event
Going Rogue: Maverick Leadership in the Arts
Thursday, April 22
7:30 pm
Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College

Opening Remarks by Williams College President Adam Falk
Featuring:
• Mariët Westermann, Provost, New York University Abu Dhabi, and Vice President Designate, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Williams College Class of 1984
• Rick Lowe, artist/founder, Project Row Houses
• Susan Sollins, Executive Producer and Curator, art:21, PBS
• Joe Thompson, Director, MASS MoCA, and Williams College Class of 1981
• Paul Tucker, Professor of the History of Art, UMass Boston, WCMA Visiting Committee Member, and Williams College Class of 1972

The Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fund Lecture
Wednesday, May 5
5:30 pm

STORYTIME IN THE GALLERIES
Firday, May 7
10:30–11:15 am
Join us on the first Friday of the month for Storytime in the Galleries! Find the connection between art on view and children’s stories. Enjoy readings, songs, performances, and art-making activities. Special thanks to the Williamstown Library for their assistance. Preschoolers and toddlers with adults welcome. No reservations required for families. Preschool classes are encouraged to book a group reservation for a Storytime tour.

Spring Season Premiere Party
Friday, May 14
7:00 pm
Celebrate the opening of Mocha Dick, Tradition and Transition, Works as Progress/Works in Progress, and the annual Williams College Studio Art Senior Exhibition.