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Celebrating Visual Arts at Clark (Part III)

Throughout the 2021/22 academic year (in three consecutive exhibitions), the Schiltkamp Gallery/Traina Center for the Arts will showcase the work of the many innovative visual arts faculty at Clark, while […]

Career Exploration Weeks: Arts, Media, & Entertainment

Open to all majors and class years, this virtual event offers students the opportunity to explore career paths in arts, media, and entertainment. Meet employers, alumni & industry professionals, and […]

Sarah Kane Junior Recital

Join Clark Arts on Friday, April 1st at 8pm in Razzo Hall to celebrate the hard work and dedication of Music Program Performance Major, Sarah Kane! Sarah is a junior […]

Alumni & Friends Book Club: The Reading List: A Novel

Please join the Alumni & Friends Book Club for a discussion of The Reading List: A Novel by Sara Nisha Adams. “An unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance […]

Game Design for the End of the World

Screenshot of "Cloud Theory," a game (in development) by Colleen Macklin   Climate change, pandemics, political polarization, systemic racism, and capitalism run amok! If there’s anything that marks the 2020s, it’s a sense that life on the planet is increasingly under attack. Games –particularly video games – have explored these apocalyptic themes, often putting players […]

The Future of Video Games: Race, Play, and the Speculative Imagination

  In this talk, which is written as a love letter, Professor TreaAndrea M. Russworm (she/her) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst examines different modalities of Black cultural life—hip hop, Blaxploitation film, popular fiction, and simulation games—as spatial-speculative tools for playing in a broken world. What can Black speculative thinking teach us about navigating the […]

April 7 and 8, 2022: Animating Absence: Photographs in Liquid Time

Speakers: Marianne Hirsch (Professor of Comparative Literature and Gender Studies, Columbia University) Leo Spitzer (K. T. Vernon Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College) Workshop: Representing Absence: Refugees, Forced Migration, and Aftermath  Marianne […]