Special Pride Queering the Clark's Collection Tour (Williamstown, MA)

Sunday, 11:00am-12:15pm, followed by optional Lunch in Cafe
Museum Pavilion
Tour is FREE after paying Museum Admission:

Adults: $22
Seniors (65+): $20
Young Adults (18–25): $10
College Students*: $10
Children (under 18): FREE
Clark members always receive free admission, as do students of Williams College, MCLA, & Bennington College

Join this very popular docent-led exploration of great art & artists at the pre-eminent Clark Art Institute and their connections to queer history, themes, and/or homoerotiic or gender-bending representations. See familiar and important works with a queer-eye that helps you better understand the inspirations, relationships, and deeper meanings of those artists and their work. One of the many surprising things you'll learn duirng the tour:

The Grandfather of the Clark Dynasty, Alfred Clark (1844-1896), although married with four sons, had long led a double life, spending his summers in Europe with the love of his life, Norwegian tenor Lorentz Skougaard, from 1866 until Skougaard’s death in 1885 (Clark kept an apartment for Skougaard on West 22nd Street in Manhattan near the Clark Mansion). After Lorentz's death, a bereft Clark commissioned a memorial sculpture for Skougaard’s grave in Norway from the famous sculptor George Grey Barnard on whom Clark had an apparently unrequited crush. Clark’s biographer Nicolas Weber describes Barnard’s homoerotic “Brotherly Love” sculpture as “two muscular, athletic, naked men – in the vein of Michelangelo’s greatest slave figures.” A copy of that sculpture is prominently on display at the Clark Art Institute (the original is still on the grave of Lorentz Skougaard in Norway).

OPTIONAL AFTER-TOUR LUNCH: After the tour please have lunch with us in the delicious cafe downstairs in the new Clark building. This is a great opportunity to meet other queer art lovers from all over the region.

CARPOOLING/RIDE-SHARE: Carpooling is a great way to get to know other men, save money on gas, and help to reduce your carbon footprint and save the planet. If you need a ride or are open to carpooling, please indicate that when you are registering, & our ride coordinator will try to match you with people nearby who are interested in carpooling or offering rides.

OR : Please donate $10-$20 to help assure Q-MoB can continue to offer more than 20 activities & multiple resources & services to rural queer men all over the region. If you attend 2 or more Q-MoB events/month, please consider becoming a monthly sustaining donor member. By donating $25, $50, $75, or $100/month you can help to sustain the incredible variety of activities, services, and resources Q-MoB provides and assure all of these activities are accessible to men regardless of their age, income, or ability, and best of all you can avoid having to donate at each and every event you attend. Monthly Sustaining Members pay only once a month and then can attend all our activities with no further donation.

SEEK CO-HOSTS: Because this is a Clark offering, Q-MoB is looking for a couple of co-hosts to gather our Q-MoB group, offer people nametags, and gather the group for an optional lunch after the tour in the cafe downstairs. PLEASE if you'd like to be a co-host for this event.

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