The Clark Art Institute opened Competing Currents: 20th-century Japanese Prints on Nov. 7. The exhibition was curated by Oliver Ruhl, who graduated from the College’s master’s program in art history in 2021. 

Art has a long history in social protest, and Friday morning’s gray clouds and rainy weather cleared up just in time for students to cover Paresky Center’s wet steps with vibrant chalk drawings and posters calling on the College to publicly divest from fossil fuels.