Learning about an important acquisition We are deep into a multi-year assessment of the WCMA collection as we prepare for our new home, set to open in 2027. Recently members of the curatorial team looked at an exciting new acquisition of…

Come bid farewell to WCMA’s Upper Galleries Have you heard the news? After nearly a century in Lawrence Hall, multiple renovations and building additions, and hundreds of inspiring exhibitions, our upper galleries are closing starting…

Learn about new WCMA building The second of our series of SO-IL Midday Office Hours will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct. 23, from 2 to 3 p.m. These events offer visitors the chance to join members of the committee spearheading the construction…

Pallavi Sen invites us into an imagined domestic interior, each quadrant of which corresponds to a different but interconnected part of a home. Through partnerships with writers, students, and other artists, the project reflects the key tenets of…

Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art is the first museum retrospective dedicated to the inventive though overlooked artist Teddy Sandoval (1949-1995). A central figure in Los Angeles’s queer and Chicanx artistic circles, Sandoval…

SO–IL \ WCMA: Building a New Museum opens Friday After years of thoughtful planning, we have partnered with SO–IL, an internationally-recognized architecture and design firm based in Brooklyn, New York, to create a new, state-of-the-art…

Video tour of Emancipation Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation, which visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War today and beyond, has received many accolades since it opened in…

New WCMA design unveiled! We are excited to announce the unveiling of the design for the new Williams College Museum of Art, for the first time giving the museum its own freestanding, purpose-built home! Prominently located at the western…

Embodied Words closing soon The two-year run of Embodied Words: Reading in Medieval Christian Visual Culture is coming to a close. If you haven't had a chance to see it or would like to experience it one last time, you have two more weeks! In…

Emancipation opens Friday Conceived as a commemoration of the 160th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of…

WALLS Spring Pickup Day It’s hard to believe, but this is the 10th year of WALLS (Williams Art Loan for Living Spaces), our student art loan program! This semester, Pickup Day is Sunday, Feb. 4. Lineup starts at 6 a.m. at Goodrich Hall.…

Object Lab Spring 2024 Object Lab Spring 2024 is now open! This semester, nine different courses are using our hybrid gallery-classroom, which visualizes the Williams liberal arts curriculum through the museum collection. Students will be…

A new remix of Remixing the Hall We’re excited to announce that Remixing the Hall has been remixed again! WCMA curators collaboratively and regularly rotate the installation, “remixing” it—to borrow a term from DJ…