Mariel Capanna (b. 1988) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions […]
In 2020 the Clark opened Ground/work, a one-year exhibition of monumental sculpture by six artists that was situated in the landscape surrounding the museum. Ground/work 2025 once again features specially commissioned works located across the Clark’s campus. This sequel exhibition focuses on global conceptions of craft, defined as the physical process by which artists transform the world around […]
A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 features paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts made by twenty-five professional women artists in Great Britain who were, in fact, answering Virginia Woolf’s call during her lifetime. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which furthered their […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, History and Heritage
Paginations is a series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library's extensive holdings and presented in the Manton Research Center’s reading room. Bold by Design: Mid-century Modern Graphic Art brings together visually striking book covers, illustrations, and advertisements to showcase the clean lines and bright colors of the mid-century modern design aesthetic in print. […]
Mariel Capanna (b. 1988) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions […]
In 2020 the Clark opened Ground/work, a one-year exhibition of monumental sculpture by six artists that was situated in the landscape surrounding the museum. Ground/work 2025 once again features specially commissioned works located across the Clark’s campus. This sequel exhibition focuses on global conceptions of craft, defined as the physical process by which artists transform the world around […]
A Room of Her Own: Women Artist-Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 features paintings, drawings, prints, stained glass, embroidery, and other decorative arts made by twenty-five professional women artists in Great Britain who were, in fact, answering Virginia Woolf’s call during her lifetime. The exhibition explores the spaces these women claimed as their own and which furthered their […]
Arts and Culture, Exhibits, History and Heritage
Paginations is a series of year-round public installations featuring works drawn from the Clark library's extensive holdings and presented in the Manton Research Center’s reading room. Bold by Design: Mid-century Modern Graphic Art brings together visually striking book covers, illustrations, and advertisements to showcase the clean lines and bright colors of the mid-century modern design aesthetic in print. […]
The Clark Art Institute presents a five-part outdoor concert series with thematic connections to its Ground/work 2025 exhibition. These free concerts take place every Wednesday in July at 6 pm on the Reflecting Pool Lawn, with the exception of July 23’s concert, which takes place on the Fernández Terrace. 07/02: Balla Kouyate 07/09: Gaby Moreno 07/16: Chinobay […]
Outdoor Event, Performing Arts & Entertainment
Mariel Capanna (b. 1988) plays what she calls “games of remembering” as a way of reckoning with loss. Working from home videos and family slideshows, whose runtime is her constraint, the artist races to record fleeting memory images in oil paint. She scatters these flat, pastel forms like confetti across deep, atmospheric surfaces, creating compositions […]