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Arts Stories

The arts are vital to the Williams experience, and their roots run deep in the intellectual and cultural life of the college and beyond. Below we share stories about the ways the arts have influenced—or been influenced by—the people of Williams.

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Assets for Artists

Art professor Mari Rodríguez Binnie partners with MASS MoCA to offer residencies to Puetro Rican artists.

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New Music

Student group Axxea String Quartet revels in performing new music and working with living composers.

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Faculty

A new museum collection helps professor Michelle Apostos illustrate shift in thinking about art from the African continent.

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Art in Dialogue

Two of the oldest objects in WCMA's collection are in conversation with full-size recreations by artist Michael Rakowitz.

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Faculty

Art professor C. Ondine Chavoya’s groundbreaking scholarship is the basis for a WCMA exhibition on queer Chicanx creative networks.

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Faculty

Art history professor Carol Ockman’s teaching on representation and the body is informed by her own performance in “Paramodernities.“

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Multi Media

A smart phone app by artist Nancy Baker Cahill ’92 allows users to experience her work anywhere in the world.

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Reflection

Each semester, math major Alex Semendinger ’18 found meaning looking at works of art that he borrowed from the college museum.

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