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Williams Art Community Project

October 2025

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Nick Garlid ’25 is the founder of The Art Seen, and majored in Art History and English while at Williams. He is passionate about fostering community in the arts, and creating opportunities for students to share their work. He is from Seattle, WA.

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MJ Getman ‘26

MJ Getman ‘26 is an Art History and Math major at Williams College. MJ is interested in curation and organizing space to share a message, following class projects and experiences working at an architecture firm and art gallery in NYC.

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Chris Rodriguez ‘26

Chris Rodriguez ‘26 is an Art Studio and Psychology major at Williams. Chris is a multidisciplinary artist from New York and Miami who explores his queer and Latinx identities through fine art. Chris has previously worked and sold work through the Art Seen in 2024.

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Chris Hughes ‘28

Chris Hughes ‘28 was a 2025 summer intern for Pixeum. He is an editor and writer with The Williams Record, a partner in the student consulting organization at Williams and participates in improv at Williams.

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Tom Paper ‘84

Tom Paper ‘84 is the Founder of Pixeum, a website that helps people tell stories with art. He is also the Founding Partner of Webster Pacific, a consulting firm, and the President of Lewis Bolt & Nut Company.

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Our objective is to grow the Williams College arts community, informally known as the Williams “art mafia.”

Specifically, we want to build up the community between:

Williams College student artists AND
Williams College student curators AND
William College alums who work in or are patrons of the arts.

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To accomplish our objective, we plan to do four things:

First, we will organize an open call show in the first semester of 2025, in which one or more student artists collaborate with a student curator, likely an art history major, to create an online exhibit on Pixeum of the artist’s work. The exhibits will be evaluated by jurors, Williams alums presently in the art world.
Second, we will host an in-person show in Williamstown in January 2026 at which the top three teams will display their exhibits.
Third, we will host an online show in February/March 2026 of the top three teams.
Four, we will organize a pop-up exhibit in Manhattan in April 2026 of the top three teams. We intend to use a large u-haul truck as the gallery, hopefully assisted by good weather!

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https://pixeum.org/exhibits/716/unseen-nick-garlid-riku-nakano-coco-rhum-ellie-iorio-elsa-martin

Example Exhibit on Pixeum

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Examples of Mobile Art Galleries

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We are seeking Williams alums, who are presently curators, administrators, patrons, or artists, to be jurors of this open call show. We think the benefit of being a juror offers an opportunity to connect and inspire the next generation of Williams students entering the art world.

The responsibilities of jurors will be two-fold:

First, to spend 1 to 2 hours, in December or early January, evaluating the exhibits made by the student artist-curator teams. Each exhibit will be hosted on Pixeum and will run no more than five minutes.
Second, to attend one of the two online shows, to be hosted in February/March, when the top student artist-curator teams will present their exhibits.

Jurors will also be invited to the opening show in Williamstown in January 2026, as well as the pop-up show in Manhattan in April 2026.

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If are interested in participating as a juror, please reach out to Nick or Tom.
Nick is at 206-930-6549 or nickgarlid@gmail.com.
Tom is at 415-699-5330 or tom@pixeum.org.

This project is independent of Williams College.

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https://pixeum.org/exhibits/723/example-of-artist-curator-profiles-the-art-seen

Example Exhibit on Pixeum

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https://pixeum.org/exhibits/689/mila-at-mission-bowling-june-24-2025

Example Exhibit on Pixeum

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https://pixeum.org/exhibits/706/san-francisco-open-studios-2025-by-artspan

Example Exhibit on Pixeum

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Thank you for your consideration.

We hope you will join us in this project to energize the Williams art community!

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Williams Art Community Project

October 2025

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Nick Garlid ’25 majored in Art History and English and is the founder of The Art Seen. He is passionate about fostering community in the arts, and creating opportunities for students to share their work. He is originally from Seattle, WA.

Chris Hughes ‘28 was a 2025 summer intern for Pixeum. He is an editor and writer with The Williams Record, a partner in the student consulting organization at Williams and participates in improv at Williams.

Tom Paper ‘84 is the Founder of Pixeum, a website that helps people tell stories with art. He is also the Founding Partner of Webster Pacific, a consulting firm, and the President of Lewis Bolt & Nut Company.

Chris Rodriguez ‘26 is an Art Studio and Psychology major at Williams. Chris is a multidisciplinary artist from New York and Miami who explores his queer and Latinx identities through fine art. Chris has previously worked and sold work through the Art Seen in 2024.

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Objective: to energize the Williams College arts community and help students to pursue careers in the arts.
Open Call Show: student submissions, created on Pixeum, 3 to 5 minutes, 1 to 10 images. Students can work in teams or individually. Artists can present their art; curators can present any art. Commonality is telling stories with art.
Jurors are alums who work in the arts, as curators or administrators or artists, or are collectors. Jurors will provide feedback and some guidance and mentorship.
Everyone who submits, provided a basic level of effort or quality, will have one piece (and their exhibit) featured in the in-person shows.
Showings: Williamstown (Jan), online (Feb/Mar) & Manhattan (Apr)
Additional possibilities: Zoom with a Juror, Exhibition Book, travel to Manhattan

Williams Art Community Project

10/21/2025