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Curators in Conversation: Wendy Watson and Emily Wood
Join us for a discussion about collecting and curating 17th century Dutch and Flemish Art with Assistant Curator Emily B. Wood and Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s first curator Wendy M. Watson. This event celebrates the Museum’s new exhibition Northern Exposure: Painting from the Low Countries in the Permanent Collection, curated by Emily Wood. Followed…
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Artist Harmonia Rosales in conversation with Stephanie Sparling Williams
Join us for a conversation between artist Harmonia Rosales and Dr. Stephanie Sparling Willams, Andrew W. Mellon Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum. This event celebrates the artist and her work, including the painting The Harvest, on view at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. Followed by a reception in the Hinchcliff Reception Hall.…
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Digital + Analog
Join us for this exciting virtual event celebrating Jane Hammond: Digital + Analog, an exhibition at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum honoring the 50th reunion of Jane Hammond (Class of 1972). The artist will be in conversation with curator and fellow distinguished Mount Holyoke alum Ingrid Schaffner ’83.
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East Meets West: The Art of Tseng Kwong Chi
Join us for an engaging public conversation between choreographer and dancer Muna Tseng and Associate Professor of English and Critical Social Thought Iyko Day focusing on the Museum’s new acquisition Lake Moraine, Canada (Canoe Mountain, Alberta), 1986 by Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-1990) within the larger context of his artistic practice. A photographer and performer internationally…
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Lenka Clayton: My Grandmother Lived To Be One Hundred Years Old
Join us for the 2021 Patricia and Edward Falkenberg Lecture with contemporary artist Lenka Clayton whose interdisciplinary work uncovers hidden truths about everyday life. Clayton will discuss her artistic practice and her new exhibition Comedy Plus Tragedy at MHCAM, mounted to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum bequest to Mount Holyoke…
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Let Us Vote: An Artist Intervention
What would voting look like if it were available and accessible to those who can’t legally vote? An estimated ninety-two million adults cannot vote in presidential elections because of citizenship status, felony disenfranchisement, or because they reside in a U.S. territory, while others are cut out of the process for reasons such as lack of…
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Buscando Futuro/Finding Future
Join us for an engaging public conversation between artist Hector Dionicio Mendoza and Associate Professor of Latina/o Studies David Hernandez focusing on two new acquisitions within the larger context of Mendoza’s artistic practice. Often incorporating recycled materials, Mendoza’s art explores themes of migration and the environment as well as the geographies of place, memory, identity,…
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Finding the Familiar: Art and the Everyday
Olivia Brandwein ’22Student Guide, Spring 2020 Everyday objects go far beyond their function, through both the beauty of their forms and the personal meanings we attach to them. Enjoy this colorful pop-up book tour exploring how everyday objects can be art, as well as how contemporary artists can transform utilitarian things into thought-provoking artworks. Janet FishKraft…
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Music and Art: Removing our Rose-Colored Glasses
Inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts, Arts and Community Engagement Intern Relyn Myrthil ’19 invites us to experience Walter Williams’s painting Southern Landscape in dialogue with Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E flat major, 2nd movement. This event integrates both visual and auditory analysis of the two works of art and will close…
