Video tour of Emancipation

Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation, which visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War today and beyond, has received many accolades since it opened in February. If you haven’t had a chance to visit yet, the exhibition runs through July 14.

Destinee Filmore, our former Mellon Curatorial Fellow who organized the WCMA presentation of Emancipation, offers a video tour now live on our YouTube page to offer a glimpse into the exhibition.

'Emancipation' on YouTube

Chapin Library’s oldest books discussed on April 23

WCMA is teaming up with the Chapin Library to present “All Around the World from London to MA: Repurposing the Oldest Books in Chapin Library at Williams College” at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 23, in the Chapin Library, located on the fourth floor of the Sawyer Library on the Williams College campus. 

This talk by Dr. Foy Scalf, Head of Research Archives at the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago, will focus on fragments of papyrus from the Chapin Library album that once belonged to a man named Padihor. Additional fragments of his papyrus now reside in the Morgan Library in New York and the Louvre in Paris. The Chapin Library fragments reveal an aspect that has yet to be reported; this sacred and expensive papyrus had previously belonged to a man named Amenemhat, whose name Padihor replaced with his own.

Dr. Foy Scalf