Working in rural Idaho, James Castle practiced a kind of sorcery: appropriating the print ephemera that flooded the village post office his mother ran, he alchemized a mixture of soot and saliva, painting with a matchstick. Far from the aegis of Pop Art, Castle was replicating and remixing mass media, his Untitled, n.d. a brilliantly… Continue reading Review – Memory Palaces: The Collection of Audrey B. Heckler at The Folk Art Museum
Category: Art History
Artsy – How Knitting Became Entwined with Protest Art
Senior Thesis
Completed in Spring 2019 for an honors degree in Art History at Williams College. Advised by Professors Murad K. Mumtaz and Carol Ockman
Williams Record – Rewind Cantata
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up to help deal with the violence and human rights abuses that happened under apartheid, a system of enforced segregation in South Africa between 1948 and 1994. It was at a TRC meeting in Cape Town that Eunice Miya testified about how she had come to know… Continue reading Williams Record – Rewind Cantata
Williams Record – Pope Talks Campus Controversies
First published in The Williams Record, which inexplicably lost its entire online archives. Republished here on the website for Monique Meloche gallery, which represents Cheryl Pope. Cheryl Pope, a sculpture, installation, and performance artist, came to WCMA on March 2nd for a talk on issues of power, inequality, and gender on this campus. More specifically, she… Continue reading Williams Record – Pope Talks Campus Controversies
Williams Record – A Delacroix at the Clark Art Institute Forces a Reconsideration of History
Art history as a discipline often seems static, frozen. We think of it in terms of eras and those eras in terms of names—from the Renaissance we have Michelangelo, da Vinci; from Impressionism, Monet. There is a canon, and that canon is inviolable, codified in textbooks and lecture halls. But that’s not exactly how it… Continue reading Williams Record – A Delacroix at the Clark Art Institute Forces a Reconsideration of History
The Williams Record – Who Are Museums For? Claiming Williams 2016
“Claiming Williams invites the community to acknowledge and understand the uncomfortable reality that not all students, staff, and faculty can equally ‘claim’ Williams.” So goes the mission statement of Claiming Williams Day, held this year on February 4 th . Began in 2009, this day functions as an official attempt to induce change in an… Continue reading The Williams Record – Who Are Museums For? Claiming Williams 2016