The
Work/Study Program
One
of the distinctive features of the Graduate Program is the opportunities it
offers to students outside the classroom. Each student is guaranteed an eight-hour-per-week
work/study job in a museum (the Williams
College Museum of Art, the Clark,
or MASS MoCA) or the
Chapin
Rare Book Library, or a teaching assistantship for a course in the undergraduate
curriculum. There are also two research assistantships for the Clark's newly
launched Fellows Program, which brings between fifteen and twenty scholars
a year to the Clark.
The
Lenett Fellowship
A
special work/study
opportunity is provided by the Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellowship, which
is awarded to a second-year student with a demonstrated interest in American
art and conservation. The fellowship carries with it a work/study position
in the Williamstown
Art Conservation Center and a stipend of $6,000 for the academic year.
Toward the end of the academic year, the Lenett Memorial Fellow presents a
one-hour public lecture on the object or objects on which he or she has worked
during the tenure of the fellowship. The Lenett Fellowship exemplifies the
kind of integrated collaborative art history research that can be carried
out in the Graduate Program, where graduate students, in satisfying their
academic requirements, can work on original art objects, draw on the resources
of the Clark's outstanding art library, and receive training in conservation
in the Williamstown Art Conservation Center.
Many students, through
their work/study positions, are able to curate or co-curate exhibitions.
Recent examples include:
Summer Afternoon: American Watercolors from the Collection - Ellery Foutch '03 Williams College Museum of Art
Three Visions of Rural America: Recent Acquisitions of Works on Paper - Claire Rifelj '04, Linda Shearer, Williams College Museum of Art
Picturing the Cosmos:
Images from Genesis to String Theory - Matt Levy '05, MASSMoCA
Magic, Power, Intrigue: Images of Masks and Masquerade from the Permanent
Collection- Viktoria Villanyi '05, the Clark
David Rokeby: Taken- Cara Starke '05, with Lisa Dorin, Williams College Museum of Art
Trade Show-Rebecca Uchill '05, MASSMoCA
James McNeill Whistler-
Arrangements in Brown Paper-Miranda
Lash '06, the Clark
Creature Discomfort: Artists Using Animals, from the Permanent Collection-
Amanda Potter '06 with Marion Goethals, Williams College Museum of Art
Creature Discomfort: Hybrid Humans on Paper-Amanda Potter '06 with Marion Goethals, MASSMoCA
Paper
Trails: 100 Great Drawings, Prints, and Photographs from the Clark-Jacob
Lewis '06 with Jim Ganz, the Clark
Kamrooz
Aram: Realms and Reveries-Liza
Statton '06, Mass MoCA
A Visual Biography of an Artist's Book: Gunnar A. Kaldewey and His Press-Allison Perdue '06, Williams College Museum of Art
Designing the Natural World Through Dutch Eyes-Nadia Baadj '07, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Delacroix and the Horse-Nadia Baadj '07, the Clark
A Dutch Master: Two Portraits by Frans Hals Reunited-Nadia Baadj '07, the Clark
Gunnar Kaldewey's Artist Books for a Global World: Four Collaborations in Depth-Laura Fried '07, MASSMoCA
Adam Cvijanovic and Peter Garfield: Unhinged- Laura Fried '07, MASSMoCA
Sanguinary Vow-Amanda Hellman '07, Williams College Museum of Art
Printed Love-Julie Blake '08, the Clark
Kota Ezawa: Re-Animating History-Amanda Hellman '08, Williams College Museum of Art
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Placebo), 1991-Andrea Gyorody '09, Williams College Museum of Art
Critical Encounters: Collecting Contemporary Photography-Amanda Hellman '08, Williams College Museum of Art
Current exhibitions include:
Framing Colonial Albany-Katherine Alcauskas '08, the Clark
Special Installation: Pictorial Vision: American and European Photography-Sarah Hammond '08, the Clark
Model American Men-Layla Bermeo '09 and Rebecca Shaykin '09 with Nancy Mathews, Williams College Museum of Art
The Matter of Theology: A Conversation with the Collection-Amanda Hellman '08, Williams College Museum of Art
Being Here is Better than Wishing We'd Stayed: An Installation by the Miss Rockaway Armada-Jennifer Sichel '08, MASSMoCA
Upcoming exhibitions include:
Liu Zheng: The Chinese; Fiona Tan: Countenance; Captive Culture: Art and Ethnophotographics-Tianyue Jiang '08 with John Stomberg, Williams College Museum of Art
ANNUAL AND SPECIAL EVENTS
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