A Williams College Museum of Art / Clark Artist Symposium

March 1, 2008
9:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., The Clark, 225 South Street, Williamstown, MA; WCMA

This day-long symposium invites five acclaimed artists -- sculptor Willie Cole, multi-media artist Maria Magdalena Compos-Pons, British filmmaker Isaac Julien, photographer Hank Willis Thomas, and installation artist and MacArthur Fellow Fred Wilson -- to discuss the Black Atlantic aesthetic. Through transatlantic connections among Africa, Britain, the Caribbean, and the United States, Black intellectuals and literary figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Richard Wright fashioned a Black Atlantic culture that made a central contribution to the modernist aesthetic. Today this Black Atlantic aesthetic extends into the realm of the visual as international artists critically engage cross-Atlantic migration as a principal focus of their work.

Admission: $20 per person, $10 for members of the Williams College Museum of Art and The Clark, students. Free to Williams students, faculty.

For more information please visit www.wcma.org or www.clarkart.edu/research_and_academic This program has been organized by the Williams College Museum of Art and the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; it is presented in conjunction with related exhibitions at the Williams College Museum of Art.