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  • Nicole Lara Granados and Jennifer Villa
    Teaching with Art

    Inaugural Mariposa Prize Winners

    Thanks to the generosity of artist Hector Dionico Mendoza, an exciting new student award was established in spring 2021. The Mariposa Prize represents a collaboration between the Department of Spanish, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies and the Museum, and offers a new opportunity to celebrate the creative and inspiring work of Latinx students at the College.

  • Barton Lidice Benes, AIDS Museum (Reliquarium) (detail), 1999
    Teaching with Art

    Looking Closely, Thinking Textually

    A Museum Session with "Poetry and Image"

    In February 2020, students enrolled in Visiting Lecturer Sam Ace’s “Poetry and Image” course had the opportunity to look closely and think analytically about Barton Lidice Benes’s AIDS Museum (Reliquarium) at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.

  • Jon Western and Pete Muller
    Multimedia

    A Tale of Two Wolves

    Video recording of a conversation between photographer Pete Muller and Dean of Faculty Jon Western

  • Coins on display in the Carson Teaching Gallery
    Teaching with Art

    Methoughts the Shilling: Teaching History with Money

    Money doesn’t just talk. It’s also good to think with. Assistant Professor of History Desmond Fitz-Gibbon describes some of the intriguing stories told by coins and other money-related objects in the MHCAM collection: a Spanish real with layers of history, a gold solidus with a disturbing omission, and an assignat, France’s first paper currency. Taught bienially in the spring semester, Professor Fitz-Gibbon’s History of Money course explores the meaning of money from the distant past to the present day. 

  • Rosamond Wolff Purcell (American, b. 1942), Passenger Pigeon (detail), 2008 capture; 2013 print
    Objects of Our Affection

    Passenger Pigeon

    In 2008, Boston-based photographer Rosamond Wolff Purcell made a series of images of natural history specimens at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology in California. In the newest installment of the mhcameo series Objects of Our Affection, Professor of English Elizabeth Young discusses one photograph from that series, Purcell’s beautiful, beguiling Passenger Pigeon. Young describes her recent immersion in the mysterious world of taxidermy, and recounts the fascinating history of the now-extinct passenger pigeon. 

  • Teaching with Art

    Art on the Brain: A Conversation with Professor Sue Barry

    This fall, Mount Holyoke Professor of Biological Sciences Sue Barry taught her groundbreaking course “Art, Music, and the Brain” in the Museum for the last time before her retirement from teaching. Her students—along with the entire MHCAM staff—will miss having an art-savvy neurobiologist in our midst. 

  • Multimedia

    Thinking Through Images

    Video recording of artist Mel Bochner in conversation with Thomas E. Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy

  • Jerome Liebling (American, 1924-2011), Emily Dickinson's White Dress, The Homestead, 1989
    Objects of Our Affection

    Emily Dickinson's White Dress, The Homestead, 1989

    Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella has provided the first post for the mhcameo column Objects of Our Affection, a series of personal reflections about works of art in the MHCAM collection. Here, President Pasquerella meditates over a photograph by Jerome Liebling (American, 1924-2011) of poet and Mount Holyoke alumna Emily Dickinson’s ethereal white dress.

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    Beautiful Cacophonies

    Professor Jim Coleman describes a recent student dance performance at the Museum inspired by the artworks of Judy Pfaff. Three art majors, three experienced dance improvisers, and 20 beginning dance students participated in the performance. 

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