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Clark University
Department of
Visual and Performing Arts
Faculty member talking to students in art museum

Creativity and Collaboration

From the ancient ruins of Turkey to the museums of Italy, and from the theater community of New York City to the concert halls of Europe, our faculty perform, collaborate, create, and conduct research across the world. Back in Worcester, they are tapped into a thriving arts community, connecting students to professional artists, musicians, screenwriters, filmmakers, actors, directors, and curators, through coursework and internships.

Artists at Work

A Sampling of Our Faculty’s Creativity and Research in Action

Student defending art thesis in gallery, with faculty listening
A studio art student defends her thesis to a panel of arts faculty members.
Artwork of rhinoceros
White Rhino, by Studio Art Professor Elli Crocker
Faculty member talking to film director
Studio Art Professor Toby Sisson speaks to visiting film director Damon Davis.
Abstract artwork of letters
Artwork by Studio Art Professor Toby Sisson
Professor sitting and talking to two students
Theatre Arts Professor Gino DiIorio meets with students on stage.
Faculty at a gallery opening
Faculty and students attend the opening of "Fear," an exhibit in Clark's Schiltkamp Gallery.
Studio Art Professor Elli Crocker discusses a student's self-portrait.
Studio Art Professor Elli Crocker discusses a student's self-portrait.
Landscape of rock at beach
Photography by Professor Stephen DiRado
Students and faculty in dark room
Students learn how to print photos in the darkroom with Professor Frank Armstrong.
Professor sitting at piano
Music Professor Benjamin Korstvedt leads a discussion with students.
Professor pointing at artwork
Photography Professor Stephen DiRado leads a discussion of student work.
Faculty and students shooting a film
Screen Studies Professor Soren Sorensen works with students on a film shoot.
Art History Professor John Garton speaks at the Worcester Art Museum
Art History Professor John Garton speaks at the Worcester Art Museum.
Midcentury Modern book cover
Art History Professor Kristina Wilson's 2021 book 'Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design'
Lesbian Potentiality book cover
Screen Studies Professor Rox Samer's 2022 book 'Lesbian Potentiality and Feminist Media in the 1970s'

Faculty Lectures

Kristina Wilson - Makers, Identity, and the Lives of Objects: A Triologue

Kristina Wilson – Makers, Identity, and the Lives of Objects: A Triologue. Higgins School of Humanities, Spring 2021.

Kristina Wilson - Makers, Identity, and the Lives of Objects: A Triologue

Kristina Wilson - Ebony & Life. Bates & Eames.

Kristina Wilson – Ebony & Life. Bates & Eames. AIGA Boston, Spring 2022.

Kristina Wilson - Ebony & Life. Bates & Eames.

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Contact Information

Visual and Performing Arts

Office Location

  • Traina Center for the Arts
    92 Downing Street
    Worcester, MA 01610

  • 1-508-793-7113
  • vpa[at]clarku[dot]edu
  • 1-508-793-8844 (fax)