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![Jennifer Villa ’21, "Upon my back" series overview (2021). Fabric on blazers. 26 x18 in. The backs of 3 decorated blazers hung side by side.](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/jen_villa_21_1.jpg?itok=RqP250wc)
Jennifer Villa '21 describes the artistic influences that shaped her senior project, Upon my Back, and the process of its creation.
![Barton Lidice Benes, AIDS (Reliquarium), 1999 Barton Lidice Benes, AIDS (Reliquarium), 1999](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/mh_1237_2019_1_v4_01-hpr_detail_975x850.jpg?itok=LiJ089t4)
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.
![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 McCarthy, Little Precious #1, 2004 Mary McCarthy, Little Precious #1, 2004](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/mh_1141_2017_36b_v5_01-hpr.jpg?itok=wBUnZEk5)
Curatorial Intern Juliana Cordero ’18 is a book lover. Her affinity for books is so strong, in fact, that she hopes to pursue a career as a book conservator. Here, she shares her favorite books from a collection of nearly 70 artists’ books by women recently gifted to MHCAM by Marjorie (Jerry) Cohn ’60. Cohn, a long-time conservator and curator at the Fogg Museum, amassed this wondrous collection over 25 years. Feminist themes abound in these books, through comedy, tragedy, and the commonplace. Read on…Cordero’s picks are laugh-out-loud funny!
![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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