ART MUSEUM: Reopening 1/28/2025
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Get the MHCAM experience no matter where you are! Take a spin through the galleries past and present with our 3D Museum, tour the Skinner Museum, or discover our Sightlines Tours and virtual exhibitions created by students and faculty. Start exploring today and keep coming back as we add more content. Scroll down to see the full list of options.
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Social History and a Turkmen Wedding Camel Trapping
On this episode of Art And..., Mollie Wohlforth '19 discusses a Turkmen asmalyk (a camel trapping for a wedding) with UMass Professor of Art History Walter Denny and MHCAM Associate Curator of Education, Kendra Weisbin. Join them as they discuss what this carpet can tell us about Turkmen society, the lives of the women who made it, and its journey to MHCAM.
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The Sights and Sounds of Worship
In this episode of Art And..., Mollie Wohlforth '19 is joined in conversation by Assistant Professor of Music Adeline Mueller and Mackenzie Stratton '19 to discuss two 13th century Italian musical manuscript pages (“Iste Sanctus” and “Gaudeamus”). They consider how the music and the brilliant illumination together brought the experience of worship to life. Listen to the end to hear both pages performed in Mount Holyoke College's Abbey Chapel by members of the music department.
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Lorraine O'Grady and Black Female Joy in Art History
In this episode of Art And..., Mollie Wohlforth '19 is joined by Arts and Community Engagement Intern Relyn Myrthil '19 to discuss Dancer in Grass Skirt, a photograph from Lorraine O'Grady's Art Is series. Their conversation considers Lorraine O'Grady's experience of making this series and its illustration of black female joy within a fine arts context.
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