Internationally celebrated artist and MHC alumna Joan Jonas '58 was featured in a solo exhibition at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, "Promise of the Infinite: Joan Jonas and the Mirror," from July 17, 2018 to June 16, 2019.

In association with this exhibition, Joan Jonas delivered the 2018-2019 Leading Woman in the Arts lecture on October 18, 2018, and directed a reconfigured staging of her groundbreaking 1969 and 1970 performances, Mirror Piece I and Mirror Piece II, on January 31, 2019.