ART MUSEUM: Closed until further notice
GiveVirtual Engagement
While the Museum is physically closed, there is still a world of wonder to discover online, with new virtual content being added each week. Enjoy a spin through the galleries with our 3D Museum (to the right), tour the Skinner Museum, or check out virtual exhibitions curated by students and faculty. Scroll down to see the full list of options.
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Money Matters: A Tour with Desmond Fitz-Gibbon
Exhibition tour with Associate Professor of History Desmond Fitz-Gibbon, co-curator of "Money Matters: Meaning, Power, and Change in the History of Currency," conceived with students in his course “History 252: History of Money and Finance,” Spring 2019.
Filmed by Zach Matys and edited by Meridith Richter
Finding the Familiar: Art and the Everyday
Olivia Brandwein '22
Student 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.
Idols and Icons
Maggie Kamb '21
Student Guide, Spring 2020
How do we depict deities and idols? What qualities do we associate with them, and how are these qualities represented visually? Crossing geographic boundaries and various mediums, this tour will examine art from the Renaissance to the contemporary, looking at how figures are glorified and worshipped through the visual arts.
Seeking Freedom Through Art
Maryam Ware '22
Student Guide, Spring 2020
On this tour, visitors will explore how the theme of freedom is expressed through art. We will consider how freedom affects people on an individual as well as collective level, leading to an appreciation of different artists’ perspectives and perceptions of what it means to be free.
Living Memory: Art as a Search for the Past
Phoebe Pugh '22
Student Guide, Spring 2020
Memory comes in many forms. It is woven into our identities, our histories, our religions, and our personal lives. Visitors on this tour will explore art from multiple time periods and places, considering how as we examine individual visions of the past, we are also creating shared memories in the present.
Ghost Tour: Afterlives in Art
Sarah Dauer '20
Student Guide, Spring 2020
The objects on this tour, from different time periods and using different mediums, have “lived” like bodies, born as something outside the context of a museum. We will explore how the idea of afterlives can be manifested in five different objects, considering how we are surrounded by “ghosts” of the past.
Counter Stories: Art Reframed
A'mara Braynen '22
Student Guide, Spring 2020
“History continues into the present and implicates persons still alive.” -Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory (Third Edition)
Anthropology in/of Museums: A Selection of Object-Based Research Projects
Virtual exhibition created with Sabra Thorner, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, and students in her course "Anthropology 316/Art History 316: Anthropology in/of Museums," Spring 2020
In collaboration with Kendra Weisbin
Designed by Nina Frank
Broom Jumpers: A Conversation with Bisa Butler
Conversation with artist Bisa Butler about MHCAM's recent acquisition Broom Jumpers (2019)
Featuring Stephanie Sparling Williams and filmed by Laura Shea
Collection & Connection: Responsive Portraiture
Virtual exhibition created by students in "Art Studio 220: Drawing II: The Human Figure and Other Natural Forms” taught by Gina Siepel, Lecturer in Studio Art Foundations, Spring 2020
In collaboration with Ellen Alvord
Designed by Nina Frank
Celebrating Sacred Moments
Virtual exhibition created by students in "Religion 112: Introduction to Judaism" taught by Mara Benjamin, Irene Kaplan Leiwant Professor of Jewish Studies, Spring 2020
In collaboration with Kendra Weisbin
Designed by Nina Frank
Introductory video edited by Meridith Richter
Poetry and the Image: Formations of Identity
Virtual exhibition created by students in "English 361: Poetry & The Image: Formations of Identity" taught by Samuel Ace, Visiting Lecturer in English, Spring 2020
In collaboration with Ellen Alvord and Kendra Weisbin
Designed by Nina Frank
Cyberpunk in Asia: Reflections on Dystopia in a Time of Coronavirus
Virtual exhibition created by the students in "English 217: Cyberpunk in Asia" taught by Jerrine Tan, Visiting Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature, Spring 2020
In collaboration with Ellen Alvord
Designed and edited by Nina Frank
Tour the Skinner Museum
Introductory tour of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum
Filmed by Meridith Richter with narration by Aaron F. Miller
The Passenger Pigeon at the Skinner Museum
Created for Professor Mark McMenamin's "Geology 133: Mass Extinction, Dinosaurs and Ecological Recovery," Spring 2020
Produced by Meridith Richter with photography by Laura Shea and narration by Aaron F. Miller
Joan Jonas '58, Mirror Piece I & II: Reconfigured (1969/2018-2019)
Restaging of two groundbreaking performances (1969 and 1970) by artist Joan Jonas '58, performed by Mount Holyoke students
January 31, 2019
Talkback after Mirror Piece I & II: Reconfigured (1969/2018-2019) by Joan Jonas '58
Talkback session with artist Joan Jonas '58 about her restaging of two groundbreaking performances (1969 and 1970), performed by Mount Holyoke students
January 31, 2019
A Conversation with Joan Jonas '58
Brief video featuring artist Joan Jonas '58 discussing her inspirations, groundbreaking career, and advice for those starting out
Joan Jonas '58: 60 Years Later
Lecture by Joan Jonas ’58, MHC’s 2018-19 Leading Woman in the Arts, sponsored by the Weissman Center for Leadership in collaboration with the InterArts Council
October 18, 2018
Jonas '58 with MHC President Sonya Stephens and Harriet L. ('58) and Paul M. Weissman
Virtual Art Museum
3D tour of MHCAM galleries featuring current exhibitions
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