Curatorial Close Looks

A member of WCMA’s curatorial team will lead a guided tour exploring themes and topics in "Cracking the Cosmic Code: Numerology in Medieval Art."

Pamela Franks, WCMA's Class of 1956 Director, will lead a guided tour exploring themes and topics in "SO–IL \ WCMA: Building a New Museum." Come ready with all your questions!

Destinee Filmore (MA'23), Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and former WCMA Mellon Curatorial Fellow, will lead a guided tour exploring themes and topics in "Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation."

Join "Embodied Words" Curator Elizabeth Sandoval and Chapin Librarian Anne Peale to learn about the embodied nature of reading in Christian Europe from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries.

Join WCMA’s Mellon Curatorial Fellows Destinee Filmore (MA ’24), Jordan Horton (MA ’23), and Nicholas Liou (MA ’24) for a close look at the collaborative reinstallation of "Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition."

Learn about some of the ways Japanese visual culture has been reproduced and transformed across media and through time—from woodblock printing to 19th century photography to contemporary cosplay—with "Repro Japan" exhibition co-curators Christopher Bolton, Williams College Professor of Comparative and Japanese Literature; Eron Rauch, artist and critic; and Maggie Wu, MA '19, PhD candidate at the University of California, San Diego. The curators will look closely at some of the works on view while discussing their collaborative process and taking audience questions.

Join Kameelah Janan Rasheed, whose site-specific installation "Worshipping at the Altar of Certainty" is on view at the Williams College Museum of Art, for a conversation with exhibition co-curators Mallory Cohen MA '20, Nidhi Gandhi MA '20, and Elyse Mack MA '20. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the program.

Deputy Director of Curatorial Affairs Lisa Dorin joins artist, activist, and scholar Amalia Mesa-Bains in a conversation about "The Library of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz." This site-specific installation—which Mesa-Bains created for WCMA in 1994—re-imagines the library room of the 17th century Mexican poet, composer, and philosopher. As the museum prepares to restage part of the installation for the upcoming exhibition Sweaty Concepts, this conversation revisits the artwork's past and present, exploring questions of contemporary curatorial practice, site-specificity, and collections.

Join members of WCMA's curatorial team Horace Ballard, Kevin Murphy, and Elizabeth Sandoval in a conversation about their process and approach to the upcoming exhibition Remixing the Hall. This moderated dialogue will explore the curators' collaborative approach to this thematic re-hang of WCMA's global collections. 

Join Elissa Watters (MA '18), curator of the upcoming exhibition Art, Sport, and Propaganda: 1972 Munich Olympics, for a close look at a few of the posters included in the exhibition. This program will explore both the official graphic design scheme for the Munich Games and a few of the Olympic art posters commissioned from international artists, including Jacob Lawrence (American, 1917–2000) and Jan Lenica (Polish, 1928–2001). Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions throughout the program.