Willson Center’s 2024-25 annual report now available to read and share online

Dear friends,

This year, like every year, we have much to celebrate and be thankful for. We also have much to think about and reflect upon. The work of the critic, and of the creative, is the work of life: complicated, diverse, challenging and awake to the endless opportunities we have to experience the world as it is, and as we hope for it to be. Our account of the Willson Center this past year is a record of all your many accomplishments. Each of these is a way-marker in our life as a community of learning, exchange, and mutual support. I hope when you read it you will recognize the commitment and excellence of our students, faculty, staff and friends. I hope you will see too the outlines of the future, some of which will take full shape, and others not. To me, this is the foundation and security of our enterprise in the humanities and arts. I hope it gives you confidence and self-belief in the year to come.

And this year, as every year, we share a long list of awards, books, essays, grants, fellowships and installations. I’d especially like to thank all our colleagues in the Office of Research for their support, and our Board of Friends, who responded so generously to our new Director’s Fund. This will build a new endowment for the Willson Center’s future, and if you’d like to give please do. As you can see, we’ll put it to good use.

Thank you for another great year.

As always,