GiveExhibitions
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Laura Shea
Current Exhibitions
Harriet L. and Paul M. Weissman Gallery
Celebrating Ten Years of Teaching with Art
September 2019 marks the tenth anniversary of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s renowned Teaching with Art program. This exhibition explores five broad themes considered by classes at the Museum from a range of disciplines.
Front Gallery and Gump Family Gallery
Joan Jonas and the Mirror
Once called the “Mother of all Performance Art,” Joan Jonas ’58 has used mirrors in her groundbreaking multimedia works since the late 1960s. From early performances captured on 16mm film, to recent installation pieces, Jonas uses the concept of the mirror to show us that images are not facts, but reflections of our individual imaginations and assumptions.
Anne Greer and Fredric B. Garonzik Family Gallery
African American painter and printmaker Curlee Raven Holton reinvents Shakespeare’s Othello in this series of ten etchings, created during an artist residency at the Venice Printmaking Studio in 2012. At once aesthetically decadent and psychologically raw, Holton’s sepia-toned prints explore the inner life and public persona of the Moor of Venice, bringing to his story contemporary ideas about race, identity, and love.
John and Norah Warbeke Gallery
Collection Spotlight
This spotlight features works by photographer and member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation, Zig Jackson (b. 1957) in conversation with early 20th-century photographs by Edward Curtis (1868-1952) and Adam Clark Vroman (1856-1914). In his work, Jackson challenges deeply ingrained popular concepts of Native Americans and encourages viewers to embrace the narratives that people tell us about themselves.
Curated by Mac Chambers ’19
