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Intern InsightsKeeping Track of the Past
Exhibition Files and Museum RecordsCuratorial Intern Lydia Holleck ’25 shares her experience working on a project to digitize the Museum’s exhibition records, ensuring that information from every exhibition dating 1931–2025 is accessible for Museum staff in the online database. In particular, she reflects on one exhibition, “Transformations in Hellenistic Art,” that stood out to her. -
UncategorizedTo Live Without the Mask of the Past
A Conversation with Curlee Raven HoltonCurlee 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.
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MultimediaI Keep Dreaming that Dream
The Life and Creative Genius of Mary Lee BendolphVideo recording of a lecture by Dr. Alvia J. Wardlaw, Professor of Art History and Director/Curator of the University Museum, Texas Southern University
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UncategorizedArt 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!
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UncategorizedClose 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.
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UncategorizedAn 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.
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Storage SegmentsThe Not So Lazy Days of Summer
This week MHCAM reopens to the public after almost three months of installations. Associate Curator Hannah Blunt provides a brief overview of what has been happening behind the scenes, and what visitors will discover in the re-installed galleries.