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ART FOR ALL: COMMUNITY DAY
July 16, 11 am–4 pm
Clark Campus
On this opening day for José Guadalupe Posada: Symbols, Skeletons, and Satire and Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander, take advantage of free admission to see all of our special exhibitions and the permanent collection galleries! Enjoy free art-making, entertainment, and more. Make a miniature figure sculpture, design a personalized calavera, watch amazing physical feats by acrobats from Nimble Arts, enjoy live music by Veronica Robles Mariachi, take a thoughtful meander to the Lunder Center, and as always...expect unexpected delights!
Free and open to the public. Snacks, select activities, and refreshments are available for purchase. Held rain or shine.
Family programs are generously supported by Allen & Company.
OPENING LECTURE: TAUBA AUERBACK AND YUJI AGEMATSU—MEANDER
July 30, 2 pm
Auditorium and On Zoom
Associate Curator of Contemporary Projects Robert Wiesenberger, presents the opening lecture for Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander. For Auerbach (b. 1981, San Francisco; lives and works in New York), this twisting, self-avoiding line traces global traditions of ornament as much as physical waveforms and space-filling curves in geometry. For Agematsu (b. 1956, Kanagawa, Japan, lives and works in New York) and his practice of walking, collecting, and archiving, meander implies drift, both his own paths through New York City and those of other people and things. Wiesenberger provides an overview of each artist’s practice and discusses the inspiration behind the concept of uniting the works of two artists under the concept of the meander.
Free. Presented live in the Clark's auditorium and broadcast simultaneously on Zoom. Advance registration for the Zoom transmission is required. Register at clarkart.edu/events.
MOONLIT MEANDER
August 12, 5–11 pm
Lunder Center at Stone Hill
Catch a special evening view of Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander (galleries open until 11 pm). Pack a picnic and enjoy on our grounds or on the Lunder Center's Moltz Terrace. At 9 pm, stroll under the full moon on Stone Hill and meet up with fellow art-lovers for s'mores and conversation around a moonlit campfire.
Free and open to the public. Galleries are rain-or-shine; outdoor activities are weather-dependent. Check clarkart.edu for updates. Please check back on event day in case of weather-related cancellation.
Family programs are generously supported by Allen & Company.
SUMMER BOOK CLUB: A FIELD GUIDE TO GETTING LOST BY REBECCA SOLNIT
Thursday, August 25, 7 pm
Manton Research Center Reading Room
The summer book club series concludes with Rebecca Solnit's A Field Guide to Getting Lost. Described by The New Yorker as “A meditation on the pleasures and terrors of getting lost,” Rebecca Solnit’s Field Guide to Getting Lost includes autobiographical and philosophical essays about losing and finding one’s self. In exploring how humans navigate the world, Solnit’s writings resonate with the meander, a motif and a way of moving explored by both Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu, whose recent works are on view at the Lunder Center at Stone Hill.
Free, but capacity is limited. Copies of all book club titles are available through the Museum Store, in-person or online. Register at clarkart.edu/events. Reservations open one month before each meeting.
MEANDER: BOOK LAUNCH WITH THE SERVING LIBRAY ANNUAL
September 9, 12 pm
On Zoom
The Serving Library Annual is an eclectic cultural journal whose 2022–3 issue is themed on the meander, or self-avoiding line—whether in terms of gaming, literature, math, or painting. This issue is co-produced by the Clark and appears in conjunction with the exhibition Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander. Join the editors of the journal, an international group of essay contributors, and exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger to discuss what's in the issue and to engage in some lively, participatory puzzling.
Free. Registration required. Register at clarkart.edu/events.
ARTWEEK BERKSHIRES AT THE CLARK
September 15–24
Clark Campus
Get outside and sketch the landscape or meander through the galleries drawing your favorite paintings! As part of ArtWeek Berkshires, the Clark is offering free colored pencils (pick up at the Clark Center Admissions desk while supplies last), in addition to our always available Drawing Pads and Looking Carefully Cards.
Free.
MEANDER: CLASSICAL CONCERT
September 24, 2pm
Fernández Terrace
Musicians from the Manhattan School of Music, Princeton University, and Williams College and dancers from the New Chamber Ballet from New York City present an outdoor performance of music and movement. At the center of this structured chaos is the piece “Sound: Moves: Us,” a compilation of over a dozen short works brought together by Reiko Fueting and choreographed by Miro Magloire. Physically meandering around this central performance on the terrace will be Williams College musicians of I/O Ensemble, directed by Matthew Gold. The saxophonist Travis Laplante will meander sonically, playing off the walls of the Clark.
Free.
FIRST SUNDAY FREE: MEANDERING
October 2
Special Activities 1–4 pm
Lunder Center at Stone Hill
Enjoy an afternoon celebrating our beloved summer exhibition Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander before it closes on October 16. Make a found-object sculpture based on Agematsu’s Zips, and practice calligraphic drawing, a tool used by Auerbach. Then, take a guided meditative walk, offered at 1:15 pm and 3:15 pm (meet at the Lunder Center Admissions desk). On lower campus, pick up a copy of our Pause and Reflect Self-Guide at the Clark Center Admissions desk for a different kind of look at the permanent collection. Don’t forget to spend time s l o w l y walking around the grounds and taking in all the sights, smells, and feelings of fall!
Free admission all day; special activities in the Clark Center lower lobby from 1–4 pm.
Family programs are generously supported by Allen & Company.
MEANDER ON FILM: TIMELESS
October 8, 6 pm
Auditorium
Timeless is a new film by poetic research unit Shanzhai Lyric, filmmaker Solveig Qu Suess, and artist Yi Xin Tong. “Shanzhai,” the Chinese term for counterfeit, also means “mountain hamlet.” Appearing in conjunction with the exhibition Meander, the film screens for the first time in the U.S. in the mountain hamlet of Williamstown and considers places from the scholar-recluses of China’s Mount Lu to the bootleg markets of New York’s Canal Street.
Free. The filmmakers will be present for a conversation with Meander exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger.
ARTIST’S TALK: TAUBA AUERBACH—PEANOPOEM
Sunday, October 9, 6 pm
Auditorium and On Zoom
Tauba Auerbach, who is featured in the Meander exhibition, shares stories from a winding path of research on the mathematician Giuseppe Peano. Born in 1858, Peano was an influential teacher who printed his own books, advocated for international languages, and was a committed feminist. He first articulated “space filling curves,” a type of fractal central to the artist’s work presented in the Meander exhibition.
Free. Presented live in the Clark's auditorium and broadcast simultaneously on Zoom. Advance registration for the Zoom transmission is required. Register at clarkart.edu/events.
AN EVENING WITH YUJI AGEMATSU
October 16, 5 pm
Lunder Center at Stone Hill Terrace
Artist Yuji Agematsu, featured in Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander, holds a conversation with exhibition curator Robert Wiesenberger to discuss the artist's long running practice of walking, collecting, and archiving. Enjoy refreshments, extended gallery hours, and a view of the sunset at this outdoor event, which marks the close of the exhibition.
Free.
