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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!

  • Archival Photograph of Visitors at the Exhibition in 1983
    Intern Insights

    Keeping Track of the Past: Exhibition Files and Museum Records

    Curatorial Intern Lydia Holleck ’25 shares her experience working on a project to digitize the Museum’s exhibition records, ensuring that information from every exhibition dating 1931–2025 is accessible for Museum staff in the online database. In particular, she reflects on one exhibition, “Transformations in Hellenistic Art,” that stood out to her.
  • Unknown (Chinese), Shoes (detail), 19th century
    Intern Insights

    Lotus Shoes: The Stories of Chinese Women and American Women Missionaries

    The Almara History in Museums and Stomberg Curatorial intern Keyang Zhao ’25 explores the history of footbinding and missionaries in China by looking into lotus shoes at the art museum.

  • Intern Insights, Objects of Our Affection

    Poetry with Mercury and Argus

    Engagement Intern Darwin Michener-Rutledge ’24 looks at the painting “Landscape with Mercury and Argus” through the eyes of a writer and poet. She discovers a moment that connects with her own life and turns the experience of observing art into another form of art.

  • Engagement Intern Charlotte Smith ’24 looking at two photographs by Lynsey Addario.
    Intern Insights, Teaching with Art

    Global Migration Through A Photographer’s Lens

    Engagement Intern Charlotte Smith ’24 reflects on her class visit to the Art Museum as part of Professor Serin Houston’s Fall 2022 geography course “Global Movements.” She describes close-looking activities in the Museum galleries and shares her newfound connections within the disciplines of art history and geography.

  • The backs of 3 decorated blazers hung side by side.
    Intern Insights

    My Senior Project in the Making

    Jennifer Villa ’21 describes the artistic influences that shaped her senior project, Upon my Back, and the process of its creation.

  • Nicole Lara Granados and Jennifer Villa
    Teaching with Art

    Inaugural Mariposa Prize Winners

    Thanks to the generosity of artist Hector Dionico Mendoza, an exciting new student award was established in spring 2021. The Mariposa Prize represents a collaboration between the Department of Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies and the Museum, and offers a new opportunity to celebrate the creative and inspiring work of Latinx students at the College.

  • Barton Lidice Benes, AIDS Museum (Reliquarium) (detail), 1999
    Teaching with Art

    Looking Closely, Thinking Textually: A Museum Session with "Poetry and Image"

    In February 2020, students enrolled in Visiting Lecturer Sam Ace’s “Poetry and Image” course had the opportunity to look closely and think analytically about Barton Lidice Benes’s AIDS Museum (Reliquarium) at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.

  • MHCAM interns Izzy Chen '21 and Erin Hancock '20
    Intern Insights

    MHCAM Interns – Summer 2019

    During the summer of 2019, the Museum was a hub of activity thanks to four Mount Holyoke undergraduate interns whose many contributions ranged from object research to exhibition preparation and installation. This post highlights the summer work experiences of Izzy Chen ’21, Verity O’Connell ’20, Bran Kroc ’20, and Erin Hancock ’20.

  • Unknown (Roman), Bowl, 1-50 CE
    Intern Insights

    A Baker’s Dozen: A Journey Through Food History with Museum Objects

    In summer 2018, Clarissa Adan FP ’19 conducted research on objects from the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum as part of her Lynk internship, which evolved into a culminating project focusing on the history of food. During her study of art and artifacts related to foodways, Clarissa discovered the fascinating history behind many under-researched objects in both the Skinner and Art Museum collections, revealing important insights into how different cultures interacted with this key aspect of human experience.

  • Curlee Raven Holton, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Amy Rogers and students, Nov 2 2018
    Teaching with Art

    Re-Examining Shakespeare's Othello: An Artistic Collaboration

    In fall 2018, students enrolled in Associate Professor of English Amy Rodgers’ “Activist Shakespeare” class had the opportunity to work with Curlee Raven Holton’s Othello Re-Imagined in Sepia print series, exhibited at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. Students engaged with real-world examples of the activism-oriented Shakespeare adaptations discussed in their class.

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