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  • Curlee Raven Holton (American, b. 1951), Festival of Piazza San Marco; The man in the mask: in the midst of celebration, doubt (detail), 2012
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    To Live Without the Mask of the Past

    A Conversation with Curlee Raven Holton

    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. 

     

  • Installation view, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, fall 2017
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    Art in Translation

    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
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    Close Encounters with Frederic Leighton

    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
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    An Affinity for Southwestern Pottery

    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. 

  • Kymberly Newberry ’16, Kimberly Grenade ’16, Fatima Cadet-Diaby ’16, Aladrianne Young ’16, Chrislyn Laurore ’16, Tara Gabriel-Richards ’16, and Natalie Riquelmy ’16
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    Africana Studies at the Art Museum

    On April 20, 2016, MHCAM hosted “Africana Studies at the Art Museum,” an event organized by Aladrianne Young ’16. An Africana Studies major and a receptionist at the Museum for three years, Aladrianne became interested in representations of diversity in academia and the art world. She conceived of this brilliantly successful event in order to explore issues of racial and gender identity, oppression, and history through artworks drawn almost exclusively from the MHCAM collection. Aladrianne recruited six student presenters to share their research, poetry, and personal anecdotes about works by Faith Ringgold, Kehinde Wiley, Alison Saar, and Shirin Neshat.

  • Diné (Navajo), Rug with yei figures
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    People Will Know Our Names

    Relatively little is known about individual early 20th-century Navajo weavers and the creative and economic choices they made with their work. While the maker of MHCAM’s weaving with Yei figures remains unidentified, Lynda Teller Pete, a fifth-generation weaver from the Newcomb and Two Grey Hills areas of the Navajo Nation, shares her perspective on its origins, and the Navajo weaving tradition. 

  • Student dancers perform outside the Museum, Student dancers perform outside the Museum, Student dancers perform outside the Museum, Student dancers perform outside the Museum, Student dancers perform outside the Museum, Student dancers perform outside the Museum, Student dancers perform outside the Museum, Student dancers perform outside the Museum
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    Beautiful Cacophonies

    Professor Jim Coleman describes a recent student dance performance at the Museum inspired by the artworks of Judy Pfaff. Three art majors, three experienced dance improvisers, and 20 beginning dance students participated in the performance. 

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