Curatorial Close Looks

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Dates
7/22/21 - Ongoing
Location

This program series will take place virtually over Zoom. Registration is required for each event.

Curatorial Close Looks is a series of online conversations relating to current exhibitions that debuted in summer 2021.

On subsequent Thursdays (July 22, July 29, and August 5) at 12 p.m. ET, join us via Zoom to hear firsthand from curators about the making of three exhibitions that opened this summer: Art, Sport, and Propaganda: 1972 Munich Olympics; Remixing the Hall: WCMA’s Collection in Perpetual Transition; and Sweaty Concepts

The series continues in fall with Kameelah Janan Rasheed in Conversation at 12 p.m. ET on Thursday, November 11, and Curatorial Close Looks: Repro Japan, a conversation with the Repro Japan exhibition curators, at 12 p.m. ET on Monday, November 15.

Click on the individual events below for program descriptions and to register.

5/18/22
Curatorial Close Looks: Embodied Words

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.
5/4/22
Curatorial Close Looks: Remixing the Remix

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."
11/15/21
Curatorial Close Looks: Repro Japan

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.
11/11/21
Curatorial Close Looks: Kameelah Janan Rasheed in Conversation

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.
8/5/21
Curatorial Close Looks: Curatorial Care and Feminist Practice with Artist Amalia Mesa-Bains

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.
7/29/21
Curatorial Close Looks: Remixing WCMA’s 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. 
7/22/21
Installation view of exhibition showcasing posters and other graphic design from the 1972 Munich Olympic Games
Curatorial Close Looks: Graphic Design of the 1972 Munich Olympics 

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.