Art and art history
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Students contribute research to Worcester Art Museum’s historic photo exhibition
Rediscovering the story of a community with photos
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Clark, Worcester Art Museum revive an underexposed history
For several months last spring, students in a Problems of Practice history seminar at Clark University painstakingly dug through genealogical records and worked with descendants to unlock the mysteries behind turn-of-the-century photographs of African-Americans and Native Americans in Worcester. This fall, their research culminated in an exhibition at the Worcester Art Museum: “Rediscovering an American Community of…
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Alex Hayes ’16 helps give POW! WOW! Worcester its punch
For the next week or so, you’ll find Alex Hayes ’16 surrounded by that which he loves – art and the Worcester community. “Art is a part of my life,” he says, peering up at a three-story brick wall at Elm Park Community School that artist Kristin Farr is transforming for POW! WOW! Worcester. The mural festival, in…
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Professor Kristina Wilson receives excellence award from Association of Art Museum Curators
Kristina Wilson, associate professor of art history and chair of the Department of Visual and Performing Arts at Clark University, received a prestigious Award for Excellence in recognition of her groundbreaking new scholarship as co-curator of “Cyanotypes: Photography’s Blue Period,” a unique and popular exhibition mounted at the Worcester Art Museum (WAM) in 2016. Read more: Clark reframes an artistic partnership. Wilson (pictured above, center) and…
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Architect John Johansen recalls Goddard Library’s opening chapter
John M. Johansen considered the audience seated before him inside the Robert Hutchings Goddard Library’s Rare Book Room, and offered a humble assessment of the building he designed 43 years ago. “Architects think of their most recent work as being their best,” he said. “But they can come back to earlier work and they…