The Collection of WACP Exhibits
Williams Art Community Project 2025-2026
Welcome to the Williams Art Community Project! Our goal is to energize the Williams arts community by bringing alums and students together, and help students to pursue careers in the arts. We hope you’ll join us!
Students have created mini-exhibits highlighting their studio or curatorial work. We have 16 finished Exhibit Stories available here, and final group exhibitions will be hosted in-person in January in Williamstown, online in February, and in-person in Manhattan in April. Feel free to explore finished exhibits below, and if something speaks to you be sure to leave a like or a comment on the exhibit! See latest Google Slide deck.
- Nick Garlid ’25, Tom Paper ’84, Chris Hughes ’28
Collector: Williams Art Community Project (@wacp2526)
The Collection of WACP Exhibits
Eliza Ault - This Girl Bends
This Girl Bends: : Women Modern and Contemporary Artists' Representations of The Female BodyJuror Response FormThis exhibition positions a young girl at the center of a world she looks up at–a world in which women artists have long explored and reinterpreted the female body. By surrounding Kerry Stewart’s sculpture with works by Alina Szapocznikow, Kiki Smith, Francesca Woodman, Louise Bourgeois, Katy Schimert, and Pipilotti Rist, the exhibition creates a dynamic in which the girl encounters a range of possibilities for understanding herself and sees how women artists have taken back control over how their bodies are depicted.Women artists have often approached the body as something changeable, imperfect, and emotionally expressive. Their works challenge traditional artistic conventions that idealized or objectified women. Instead, these artists create bodies that bend, or distort, or glow.In conversation with Stewart’s sculpture, the surrounding artworks become the images the girl looks toward. Together, these works form a broad survey of female bodies and invite viewers to consider how women artists have reshaped the terms of their own representation throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.The images are situated within a blueprint for one of the galleries in the new WCMA building.Curated by Eliza Aultewa2@williams.edu
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Tamar Byl - A Self Portrait in Fragments
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formtb14@williams.edu
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Elizabeth Cheng - Art Exhibit
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formec22@williams.edu
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Fior Daniela - Art Exhibit
fiordaniela@proton.mewww.fiordaniela.comJuror Response FormWACP 2026
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Yasmine Faigle - Trauma and the Body
Trauma and the Body: Exploring Mental Health through Figural RepresentationJuror Response FormFor the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).yf3@williams.edu
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Christopher Góngora - Art Exhibit
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).car6@williams.edu
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Jess Huan Hu Art Exhibit
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP). Juror Response Formjesshuanhu@gmail.com
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Jayden Jogwe - Towards
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).This exhibit deals with the personal grief, acceptance, and hope that is necessary to move forward, both individually and systemically.jaydenjogwe@gmail.com
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Julia Karp - On Seeing and Being Seen in the Natural World
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response FormMy exhibition explores the losses that can come with being highly perceived, and being highly reliant on others’ perceptions of oneself throughout life. Inspired by the 19th century French concept of a flâneur—an urban wanderer and observer—I aim to draw attention to the zero-sum relationship between seeing and being seen. When we invest effort into how we are seen, less may remain for presence, attention, and energy to observe the world around us. The term “flâneur” was originally a descriptor for men, since French urban women in the 19th century faced stricter social expectations in public and had less access to public spaces. Thus, it was difficult for them to become fully absorbed in their surroundings. My work explores the unattainability of being an American flâneuse—a female flâneur—in the modern day due to the persisting scrutiny women experience in society. Through natural subjects and landscapes, depict how social pressures change women's ability to observe and notice details in the natural world. I hope to provoke consideration of how perception shapes not just how women are seen, but what they are able to see in return. jnk3@williams.edu
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Emma Kim - Letters to Art
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Form esk5@williams.edu
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Karolina Kotlarz - The Art of Change
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formkdk3@williams.edu
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Katie Maier - Man/Made
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formkfm2@williams.edu
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Xan Mckenna - A Current Beyond
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formxmm1@williams.edu
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Josie Overbeck - The Weight of Touch
Juror Response FormThis exhibition brings together works that consider the body as a site where intimacy, care, and violence converge. Through drawing, painting, and sculptural abstraction, touch becomes a central language—one that resists clarity and refuses to resolve into tenderness or harm alone. Hands recur as agents of contact and pressure, while bodies are fragmented, withheld, or abstracted, emphasizing sensation over narrative.Across the exhibition, intimacy is shaped by containment. The body holds, protects, endures, and tests its own limits, whether through internal strain, self-directed touch, or contact with another. Domestic and private spaces surface not as sites of safety, but as environments where power, routine, and vulnerability intersect. The female body, often subject to eroticized viewing, is reoriented toward vigilance and self-preservation, asserting agency through restraint rather than exposure.Rather than offering singular emotional readings, the works remain unresolved. Touch oscillates between care and threat, closeness and distance, desire and defense. In this instability, the exhibition proposes the body as a form of knowledge—one shaped by pressure, memory, and endurance—where meaning emerges through sensation long before it can be named.For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).jo9@williams.edu Josie Overbeck Art
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Mishal Powers - Almost as Sweet
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formmip2@williams.edu
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Shriya Sharma - Fleeting Time
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Form ss67@williams.edu
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Cate Stetson - Vacancies
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formces7@williams.edu
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Thomas Tsekerides - Gods and Men
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formtnt1@williams.edu
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Shiwa Yangzom - Art Exhibit
For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).sy8@williams.edu
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