Graduating Masters students in the Williams College/Clark Graduate Program in the History of Art culminate their studies by making public presentations on a wide variety of topics based on their research. The presentations, timed in conjunction with Williams’ 2025 Commencement Weekend, address important topics in the history of art.

Each graduating student speaks on their topic for approximately twenty minutes, with a discussion following each set of two or three presentations. The symposium is the capstone event of the two-year graduate program, which is widely considered one of the nation’s leading art history programs. Its alumni have gone on to become influential scholars and leaders of renowned museums and arts institutions, among other organizations.

Learn more about the graduate program. 

Free and open to the public. Accessible seats available; for information, call 413 458 0524.

Image: Meghan Considine, MA Class of 2023, presenting at the 2023 Graduate Symposium. Slide caption: Unattributed and undated photograph of Mohamed Melehi working in his studio with African Rhythms Club poster and Composition (1970). Printed in Melehi: Recent Paintings, (New York: Bronx Museum of Art, 1984): 11. Photo by Tucker Bair