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MHCAM Student Guides
Photo Credit: 

Laura Shea

Bisa Butler (American, b. 1975), Broom Jumpers (detail), 2019
Thursday
5
March
2020
4:30pm to 5:30pm

Gamble Auditorium

Lecture; Video Available

Learn about the Museum’s new acquisition Broom Jumpers (2019) before it joins a major traveling exhibition featuring Bisa Butler’s monumental, quilted portraits of African American life and cultural identity.

Martine Gutierrez (American, b. 1989), Line Up 5 (detail), 2014
Thursday
28
March
2019
5:30pm

Gamble Auditorium

Lecture
Curlee Raven Holton/Keith Hamilton Cobb
Friday
2
November
2018
4:30pm

Gamble Auditorium

Lecture; Video Available
Artist Curlee Raven Holton in conversation with actor and playwright Keith Hamilton Cobb

Moderated by Amy Rodgers, Associate Professor of English and Film Studies
The Museum will have extended hours following the event

Joan Jonas, 2012
Thursday
18
October
2018
5:30pm

Gamble Auditorium

Lecture; Video Available
2018-2019 Leading Woman in the Arts

Fall Opening Reception to follow

Mary Lee Bendolph and Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw
Wednesday
31
January
2018
5:30pm

Gamble Auditorium, Art Building

Lecture; Video Available
The Life and Creative Genius of Mary Lee Bendolph

Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw, Professor of Art History and Director/Curator of the University Museum, Texas Southern University
Opening reception to follow

Photographer Peter Muller
Thursday
30
March
2017
5:30pm

Gamble Auditorium, Art Building

Lecture
Photographer Pete Muller

In conversation with Jon Western, Dean of Faculty
Reception to follow
Please see more information below

Rebecca M. Valette '59, Professor Emeritus, Boston College
Thursday
4
February
2016
5:30pm

Gamble Auditorium, Art Building

Lecture
Spring opening lecture

Rebecca M. Valette '59, Professor Emeritus, Boston College

Mel Bochner (America, b. 1940), Asterisk Branch from Counting Alternatives: The Wittgenstein Illustrations (detail), 1991
Tuesday
6
October
2015
5:30pm

Gamble Auditorium, Art Building

Lecture

Artist Mel Bochner in conversation with Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy
Reception to follow 

Edward Hicks (American, 1780-1849), Peaceable Kingdom, oil on canvas, 1845-1847
Thursday
16
October
2014
5:30pm

Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College

Lecture

Panel discussion with book co-authors Leslie Anne Miller ('73) and Alexandra Kirtley, Montgomery-Garvan Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at Philadelphia
Museum of Art, and Paul Staiti, Professor of Fine Arts on the Alumnae Foundation