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Welcome to mhcameo, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum blog. Here we post about unique happenings, including behind-the-scenes looks at our exhibitions, close examinations of objects from the collection, and art-related chats with alumnae, faculty, and students. Sign-up below for blog alerts and take a regular peek at mhcameo!
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![Curlee Raven Holton (American, b. 1951), To Live Without the Mask of the Past (Stripping layers, baring the body, forgetting race) (detail), 2012](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/mh_2016_2_13_1_12_v14_01-hpr.jpg?itok=QFUVUK6v)
Curlee Raven Holton is a painter and printmaker whose work addresses significant personal, political, and cultural events. On view at MHCAM from July 17–December 16, 2018, Holton's print portfolio Othello Re-imagined in Sepia explores the humanity and emotional complexity of William Shakespeare’s tragic character. Associate Curator Hannah W. Blunt spoke with Holton about the research and inspiration behind the project, and how it connects to his larger creative journey—a journey about restoring humanity, showing our vulnerabilities, and removing our deceptive masks.
![Mary Lee Bendolph and Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw Mary Lee Bendolph and Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/event_2018sp_lecture_jan31_v0141-lpr.jpg?itok=Kc8vbVbG)
Video recording of a lecture by Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw, Professor of Art History and Director/Curator of the University Museum, Texas Southern University
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On December 7, the Museum hosted a poetry reading and open mic in the Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Gallery. Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the event saw marvelous readings by students and faculty alike. Several students presented poems and prose written in response to exhibitions and works of art on view at MHCAM. Thank you to Becca Mullen ‘18, Ben Sambrook ‘18, Anisha Pai ‘19, and Henna Joshi ‘18 for sharing those poems with us for the first blog post of 2018. Happy reading!
![Frederic Leighton's study, Leighton House Museum, London Frederic Leighton's study, Leighton House Museum, London](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/leighton_study_with_sluggard.jpg?itok=APEU2ysE)
For Curator Emerita Wendy Watson, a visit to the exhibition A Very Long Engagement: Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives conjures memories of her many encounters with Frederic Leighton's 1890 sculpture The Sluggard. Watson, who facilitated the acquisition of a small bronze cast of The Sluggard for MHCAM in 1985, takes us from the Museum's galleries to an exhibition in Paris to Leighton's elaborate house and studio in London.
![Lucy M. Lewis, Jar (olla), ca. 1953 Lucy M. Lewis, Jar (olla), ca. 1953](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/mh_2016_11_6_v2_01-hpr.jpg?itok=VGkLX3kX)
Associate Curator of Visual and Material Culture Aaron Miller interviews Juli Shea Towell '55 about her amazing collection of artworks from the Pueblo communities of the American Southwest. Towell recently donated nine ceramics and one watercolor to MHCAM, works that are currently on view in the exhibition 140 Unlimited: Recent Acquisitions in Honor of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's 140th Anniversary.
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