Recreational Facilities
These athletic facilities are available for guests of degree candidates during the weekend.
- Lasell Gym, Lasell Upper and Lower Fitness Centers & Simon Squash Center
Friday 6 am - 6 pm; Saturday, 10 am - 4 pm - Outdoor tennis courts
Friday and Saturday, 9 am - 7 pm
Chapin Library, Archives and Special Collections
During the renovation of Stetson Hall, the Chapin Library of Rare Books and the Williams College Archives are in the historic Southworth Schoolhouse, on the corner of School and Southworth streets.
- The Chapin collection of Founding Documents of the United States, as well as prints, photographs, and documents related to Abraham Lincoln from the Chapin Library and College Archives, are on display in the Williams College Museum of Art.
- Baseball at Williams: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary. In honor of the sesquicentennial of the first intercollegiate baseball game between Williams and Amherst, historic broadsides and photographs are on display on the main floor of Sawyer Library.
Friday 10 am - 5 pm; Saturday 9 am - 1 pm
Sawyer Library
- What Are They Thinking? Exhibit in Sawyer Library lobby features recent publications by Williams College Faculty.
- Senior Honors Theses. Submitted by the Class of 2009. Sawyer Library, reference area, main floor.
Friday 8 am - 5:30 pm; Saturday 9 am - 1 pm
Schow Science Library, Science Center
- Proven and Published: Research by Science Quad Professors. Exhibit featuring recent publications.
- Science Senior Honors Theses. Submitted by the Class of 2009. Schow Science Library, current periodical area.
Friday 8 am - 4:30 pm; Saturday 9 am - 1 pm
Williams College Museum of Art
The Williams College Museum of Art houses over 12,000 works that span the history of art. The museum’s principal mission is to encourage multidisciplinary teaching through encounters with art objects that traverse time periods and cultures. An active, collecting museum, its current strengths are in modern and contemporary art, photography, prints, and Indian painting. The museum is also noted for its stellar collection of American art from the late 18th century to the present. With the largest collection in the world of works by the brothers Charles and Maurice Prendergast, the museum is a primary center for study of these American artists in a transatlantic context of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, The Condé Nast Years, 1923-1927 features over 100 photographs by Edward Steichen. This is the first presentation to give serious consideration to the full range of Steichen’s fashion images. Organized by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, Minneapolis, the Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, and the International Center of Photography, New York.
- Lincoln to the Nth Degree explores how Lincoln’s image was constructed in modern media that inundated the public during the nineteenth century.
- The Class of 2009 Art Majors Exhibition highlights artwork by Williams Studio Art Majors.
- Visualizing Patriotism is an intervention of paintings and World War I posters in Manifestos. These works provide an opportunity to compare visual expression of American patriotism after World War I to the original declarations made by the Founding Fathers over a hundred years earlier. Organized by Eve Streicker, Class of 2009, and Emily Arensman, Graduate Student in the History of Art, Class of 2010.
Tuesday-Saturday, 10 am - 5 pm; Sunday 1-5 pm. Admission is free. www.wcma.org
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 225 South Street
The Clark is a dynamic institution set on 140 acres welcoming visitors to experience outstanding European and American art in the Berkshires. The collection is rich in French art, with paintings by Renoir, Monet, and Degas. It also contains European and American paintings and sculpture, master drawings, and works by Turner, Constable, and Gainsborough, as part of the Manton Collection. The Clark is one of the few major art museums that also serves as an international center for research with a fellowship program and conferences. The Clark collaborates with Williams College to sponsor one of the leading art history master’s degrees and encompasses one of the most comprehensive art history libraries in the world. Stone Hill Center, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando and opened to the public in June 2008, houses galleries, an outdoor café, and the Williamstown Art Conservation Center.
Graduate Program in the History of Art Spring Symposium. Friday, June 5, 9 am - 5:30 pm, The Clark Auditorium. Admission is free. The Class of 2009 in the Graduate Program in the History of Art will present scholarly papers. Admission to the symposium is free.
- Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence (June 7 through September 7). The life and work of Georgia O’Keeffe has fascinated critics, scholars, and art lovers since she burst onto the New York art scene in the early 1900s. This exhibition is the first to explore the role of the influential American modernist painter Arthur Dove as the key figure in O’Keeffe’s development of abstraction as a means of artistic expression. On June 6, the exhibition opens with a gala featuring a country dinner, music, and other delights. Tickets are $100 ($85 members); RSVP at clarkart.edu or 413-458-0524.
- Through the Seasons: Japanese Art in Nature (June 7 through October 18). This exhibition of screens and scrolls from the 17th through 19th centuries and contemporary ceramics emphasizes the role of nature in Japanese art.
Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am - 5 pm. Admission is $12.50 (members, students with valid ID, and 18 and under are free). www.clarkart.edu
Contact Information
If special accommodations are needed or information on access for people with disabilities, please contact the Office of the College Marshal.
Office of the College Marshal 413-597-2241
Office of Public Information 413-597-4277
Williams College Security Office 413-597-4444
e-mail: commencement@williams.edu
website: www.williams.edu/home/commencement
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