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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 students and alumni together, and through a program of review and mentorship foster a better future for the arts. We hope you’ll join us.

See recap videos of our Fall alumni-student art chats here and here.
The first exhibit will be January 24, 2026 at 6pm at the ‘62 Center in Williamstown.

Students have created mini-exhibits highlighting their studio or curatorial work, with alumni providing feedback. We have 17 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. 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

Tamar Byl - A Self Portrait in Fragments

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formtb14@williams.edu

Elizabeth Cheng - Art Exhibit

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formec22@williams.edu

Fior Daniela - Art Exhibit

fiordaniela@proton.mewww.fiordaniela.comJuror Response FormWACP 2026

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

Jess Huan Hu Art Exhibit

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP). Juror Response Formjesshuanhu@gmail.com

Jayden Jogwe - Towards

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response FormThis exhibit deals with the personal grief, acceptance, and hope that is necessary to move forward, both individually and systemically.jaydenjogwe@gmail.com

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

Emma Kim - Letters to Art

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Form esk5@williams.edu

Karolina Kotlarz - The Art of Change

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formkdk3@williams.edu

Katie Maier - Man/Made

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formkfm2@williams.edu

Xan Mckenna - A Current Beyond

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formxmm1@williams.edu

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

Mishal Powers - Almost as Sweet

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formmip2@williams.edu

Shriya Sharma - Fleeting Time

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Form ss67@williams.edu

Cate Stetson - Vacancies

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formces7@williams.edu

Thomas Tsekerides - Gods and Men

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP).Juror Response Formtnt1@williams.edu