Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art, 1997

Series VII, Regional Records, consists of materials from local and community organizations, most specifically from Williamstown and Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Places, businesses, and other local committees make up much of the material in this series.

Subseries B, MASS MoCA, is comprised of records related to the Clark and MASS MoCA, established in 1999, including correspondence, notes, memos, space planning for MASS MoCA, job positions and descriptions, "Clark@MOCA" planning documents, information for the creation and staffing of Kidspace, MASS MoCA Trustee lists, and other committee and meeting minutes.

Subseries C, Town of Williamstown, includes records for Williamstown, the Williamstown Art Conservation Center, and Williams College. Files include materials from the Berkshire Visitors Bureau, Berkshire Business Roundtable, as well as 1Berkshire and Berkshire Conferences. Record types within this subseries include correspondence, meeting minutes, itineraries and plans, prospective programming, budgetary discussion memos, general memos, membership lists, details on a laptop initiative from 2003, local programming, ideas for a remodel of Williamstown's Spring Street, correspondence, by-laws, and zoning information, as well as environmental survey reports for the whole of Berkshire County.

The Williamstown Art Conservation Center (WACC) was founded in 1977 and was housed in the Service Building on the Clark Art Institute campus. The labs were relocated in 2008 to the newly-completed Lunder Center at Stone Hill. WACC provides expansive collections care to a multitude of partners with conservation needs. WACC is the largest regional conservation center in the country. Documents regarding WACC in this subseries are comprised of the Center's by-laws and internal governing policies, Trustee and members lists, Trustee meeting minutes, staff lists and contacts, financial reports, prospective partners, notes, memos, correspondence, as well as articles about WACC and conservation endeavors, as well as press releases. This material is currently closed to the public.

Records for Williams College include details on the Williams Art Grad Program which is strongly tied to the Clark and draws instructors from Williams college, as well as the Clarks curatorial department, and is run in partnership with the Clark's Research and Academic Program (RAP). Other records are comprised of memos, graduate student class lists, correspondence, applications and essays, information on the Williams College Museum of Art, Luce Professorship applications and interviews, general historical documents for the graduate program which cover the programs founding and first cohorts, as well as the general finances, program planning and student contacts.