Celebrating 25 Years in the Research and Academic Program
June 25–28, 2025
In June 2025, the Research and Academic Program (RAP) gathered to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the program. Past fellows, former conference conveners and participants, previous RAP and Clark staff, and a host of other invited scholars, curators, and practitioners, convened for lectures, roundtable conversations, seminars, film screenings, special tours, and object sessions.
RAP 25 came together under a theme, Writing Art History, thinking together over four days about the ways in which writing art history is changing rapidly. This was not your typical art history conference. No stacked sessions of twenty-minute papers. No keynote lectures. More hikes, s’mores, swag, and enjoying the beauty of the Clark grounds, drinking wine and sampling our beloved Berkshires cheeses.
These events were free and open to the public.
Proceedings were not livestreamed or recorded.