Pollock Symposium this weekend at Williams College filling up

Submitted by: Williamstown Chamber of Commerce

Jackson Pollock: Beneath the Surface, A Tribute to Kirk Varnedoe ’67

If you haven't already RSVP'd for the Pollock Symposium on Saturday, May 13, please do so today! The response has been overwhelming and we are starting to reach our maximum capacity. Please call or
email Judy Pellerin at jpellerin@williams.edu, 597-2037.

Please also NOTE: the location HAS BEEN CHANGED!!!
The event will take place at the '62 Center for Theatre and Dance at Williams College

Jackson Pollock: Beneath the Surface, A Tribute to Kirk Varnedoe '67
Saturday, May 13, 2006
11:00 am Williams College Museum of Art, Kroh-McClelland Gallery
Jason Vrooman ’06, Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellow and Graduate Student in the History of Art will be available in the gallery for questions.

2:00-6:00 pm
‘62 Center for Theatre and Dance
Welcome: Morton Owen Schapiro, President of Williams College

Introduction: Lisa Graziose Corrin, Director, Williams College Museum of Art and co-curator of the exhibition Jackson Pollock at Williams College

Opening remarks: Adam Gopnik, Essayist-at-large for The New Yorker

Guest speakers:
Pepe Karmel, Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Arts, New York University

Helen Harrison, Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center

Tom Branchick, Director, Williamstown Art Conservation Center and co-curator of the exhibition Jackson Pollock at Williams College

Jason Vrooman ’06, Judith M. Lenett Memorial Fellow and Graduate Student in the History of Art

Ellen G. Landau, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities, Department of Art History and Art, Case Western Reserve University

S. Lane Faison, Jr., ’29, Director Emeritus, Williams College Museum of Art in conversation with Steve Gordon ’55, former teacher and artist