Object Lab Spring 2024

Object Lab Spring 2024 is now open!

This semester, nine different courses are using our hybrid gallery-classroom, which visualizes the Williams liberal arts curriculum through the museum collection. Students will be analyzing symmetry, doing exercises in color theory, painting compositions inspired by specific works of art, and pairing art with poetry in a range of classes from art history to science and technology studies.

We welcome all museum visitors to experience the diverse mix of objects and to engage with the interdisciplinary ideas brought forth in this active, experimental space.

Object Lab

Winter Study at WCMA

January at Williams is Winter Study, a welcome change of pace between semesters. Students choose from an eclectic array of courses and almost always stretch beyond their major course of study. Here at WCMA, we are delighted to be hosting several Winter Study classes!

WCMA’s Program and Event Coordinator Anne Kennedy is teaching her own Winter Study course: Clothes that Hang on Art: Survey of Artists Who Use Clothes to Make Art and Related Workshops. In this class, which will visit the museum, students examine a group of artists who use clothing as their medium for creating works of art, whether it be as raw material, subject, or object.

In addition, Alison Gruseke is reprising her history course that focuses on the Neo-Assyrian Empire, including our two bas-reliefs and cuneiform tablets. Two classes—Ben Brody’s anthropology class, Photography and Personal Vision, and Lauren Levato Coyne’s geosciences class, Drawing Science—met in Object Lab on its opening day. And the Rose Study Gallery will be busy hosting the German Sustaining Program; The Arts in Pre-War Paris; Glass and Glassblowing; and Transforming Landscape Photography.

Winter Study

WCMA in the World

A work of art from our collection is going on display in a new exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, MI, beginning Jan. 21.

Mario Moore’s 2022 drawing Sojourner Truth will be part of the solo exhibition Revolutionary Times, which draws from three bodies of work by Moore: paintings, silverpoint drawings, and works on paper that focus on American history and current connections to the past. The series are tied together by the hard work, labor, liberation and ingenuity of Black citizens that have revolutionized those time periods in comparison to contemporary problems the United States faces as a nation. The artist himself will speak at a community gala celebrating the exhibition on Jan. 20 at 6 p.m.

Sojourner Truth was purchased by the museum in 2022 using funds from the Wachenheim Family Fund.

Sojourner Truth