Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
On Tuesday, Nov. 15, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and the Lyons Legacy LLC — described by the Mount Holyoke website as “a community designed to support students as they explore and express their whole selves, including their gender identities and sexualities” — hosted a “Queer & Trans* Art” event, highlighting the work of artists Martine Gutierrez and Jes Fan, who use their work to explore questions of gender, race, identity, commodification and the body.
In cultivating “THE RAREST BLACK WOMAN ON THE PLANET EARTH,” artist and activist vanessa german set out to make something living. A branch of Skinner Museum 75 — Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s commemoration of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum’s 1946 bequest to the College — german’s exhibition explores decolonization by means of intellectual and spiritual emancipation.
Last Thursday, Sept. 22, the kickoff event for the annual Native American Indigenous Studies Association Northeast Gathering and Five College Native American Indigenous Studies Symposium was held at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. Attendees made up of Five College NAIS faculty, students and local NAIS academics ate Wampanoag cuisine from Sly Fox Den Restaurant & Bar and concentrated in the front gallery, where they examined one of the newest MHCAM exhibits, “Considering Indigeneity.”
