Summer Series: Construct Your Own Meaning
at Williams College Museum of Art

organized by Roz Crews

“This series of programs invites community members to interpret Remixing the Hall from their unique perspectives. Each participant will make a creative response to an on view work from the collection, and they will present it in the museum as part of this series.

Cake artists from the region will design and produce a cake that interprets an artwork in Remixing the Hall. Featured artists: Edward Cabral (NYC), Cakes For No Occasion, Magnet, and Alli Gelles of cakes4sport (NYC).”

Aug 14-17, 2023

Using the Sarcophagus Fragment of a Seated Hercules, Triumph of Dionysus from the collection of Williams College Museum of Art, I created a cake meant to represent the original complete sarcophagus which then crumbled as it was cut into.

The cake was a Honey-Soaked Stoneground Flour Cake filled with White Fig Jam and Toasted Walnuts frosted in Cinnamon American BC, with edible 'stone' panels of Puffed Barley and Spelt, Bay Leaf, and Cinnamon Royal Icing for decoration. The Triumph of Dionysus decorates the outer panels, with Dio seated on a jaguar at the front. The cake flavors are pulled from desserts of antiquity.