Events
Spring 2012
Exhibition Opening
Artists and the Noble Profession: The Mount Holyoke College 2012 Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
"Creative Work and the work of Creativity: How Colleges and Universities Can Prepare Graduates to Reinvent Our World"
Lecture by Steven J. Tepper, Associate Professor of Sociology, Associate Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
Steven Tepper's research and teaching focuses on creativity in education and work, conflict over art and culture, and cultural participation. He is a leading writer and speaker on U.S. cultural policy; his work has fostered national discussions around topics of cultural engagement, everyday creativity, and the transformative possibilities of a 21st century creative campus.
Reception to follow
When: Friday, 3 February, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Admission free and open to the public
With the generous support of the Louise R. Weiser Fund
Artists and the Noble Profession
Gallery Talk Series: Art, Artists, and Creativity on Campus
4:30 p.m.
Art Museum
Thursday, 9 February Joe Smith, Marion Miller, Nathan Margalit
Thursday, 16 February Rie Hachiyanagi, Tatiana Ginsberg
(starting at the Museum and walking to view installations at Talcott Greenhouse and the Williston Memorial Library Court)
Thursday, 23 February Nancy Campbell, Kane Stewart, Nancy Friese, Matt Phillips
Reconstructing Antiquity
"Dig In: Archaeological Field work for Students"
Panel discussion with Anthony Tuck, Associate Professor and Eric Poehler, Assistant Professor
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Classics Department and students of the Five Colleges
When: Thursday, 1 March, 5:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Admission: Free and open to the public
Informal conversation and dinner reception to follow
Reconstructing Antiquity
"Collection-building in the 21st Century"
Lecture by William Metcalf, Adjunct Professor of Classics, Yale University and
Ben Lee Damsky, Curator of Coins and Medals, Yale University Art Gallery
When: 29 March, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
Admission: Free
Reception to follow
Past Events
Reconstructing Antiquity
"Making Up A Woman In Ancient Greece"
Lecture by Ada Cohen, Professor of Art History
Dartmouth College
When: Tuesday, 15 November, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Who: General Public
Admission: Free
Co-sponsored by the Art History Program Amy M. Sacker Fund
Reconstructing Antiquity
"Sex, Lies, and Politics: Portraits of Rome's 'Bad Empresses"
Lecture by Eric Varner, Professor of Classics and Art History
Emory University
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, 27 October, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Who: General Public
Admission: Free
Angkor Wat
Daguerreotype, 2008
Courtesy of the artist, Haines Gallery, and Lisa Sette Gallery
Exhibition Opening
World Documents
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Panel Discussion
John Stomberg, Florence Finch Abbott Director
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum - Binh Danh, artist
- Jason Francisco, artist
- Anthony Lee, Exhibition Curator, Professor of Art History
Mount Holyoke College
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, September 15, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Gamble Auditorium
Who: General Public
Admission: Free
World Documents
Gallery Talk by artists Jason Francisco & Binh Danh
When: Wednesday, 14 September, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Harriet and Paul Weissman Gallery
Who: General Public
Admission: Free
Co-sponsored by the Art History Program Amy M. Sacker Fund
Marble figure of a woman, 1st century BCE-1st century, CE
Purchase with the Ruth Elizabeth White Fund and the Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., B.A. 1913 Fund
Reconstructing Antiquity
"No Way to Treat a Lady: Analysis and Conservation of a Roman Marble Statue"
Lecture by Carol Snow, Object Conservator
Yale University Art Gallery
Reception to follow
When: Wednesday, February 23, 2011, 4:30 p.m.
Where:Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
Admission: Free
Transported and Translated: Arts of the Ancient Americas
"Art and Ethics"
Lecture by Dorie Reents-Budet
Curator, Art of the Ancient Americas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, 3 March 2011, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
Admission: Free
Exhibition Opening
Wine and Spirit: Rituals, Remedies, and Revelry
"Wine and Philosophy"
Lecture by Fritz Allhoff, Professor of Philosophy
Western Michigan University
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, 16 September, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
Exhibition Opening
Reconstructing Antiquity
"Among Gods and Mortals: The Imagery of Greek Vases"
Lecture by Rebecca Sinos, Professor of Classics
Amherst College
Reception to follow
When: Wednesday, 29 September, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
Mondovino
Screening of the 2004 documentary film about the impact of globalization on the world's wine regions. Written and directed by American filmmaker Jonathan Nossiter, Mondovino was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and a César Award. 135 minutes.
When: Thursday, 30 September, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
Ariadne Discoverded by Dionysus, Asleep on the Island of Naxos
Ink and watercolor on paper, 2009
Collection of Hamady Architects, LLC
Wine Tasting
No beverage has a longer history or is credited with more widespread effects than the fruit of the vine. Join us at the Museum for an illuminating evening of wine tasting and an exploration of the impact of wine onWestern civilization as depicted in our special exhibition, Wine and Spirit: Rituals, Remedies, and Revelry.
Gallery tours will be led by guest curator, John Varriano, Professor Emeritus of art history at Mount Holyoke College.
$25.00 per person. Reservations are required (413.538.2245)
Sponsored by Table and Vine, West Springfield
When: Thursday, 14 October, 6-8 p.m.
Where: Hinchcliff Reception Hall, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
"Wine, Life, and Death"
Lecture by John Varriano, Professor Emeritus of art history,
Mount Holyoke College
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, 21 October 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
"Competitive in Spirit, Collaborative in Nature: Panel Painting in Early Renaissance Italy"
Exhibition Opening
Lecture by Katherine Smith Abbott, Visiting Professor
Department of Art and Architecture, Middlebury College
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, 11 February, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and Nicholas of Bari (detail)
Tempera and gold on panel, ca. 1410, Middlebury College Museum of Art (2005.056)
"The Mythical Triumph of Gothic Style in Early Renaissance Florence"
Lecture by Laurence Kanter, Lionel Goldfrank II Curator of European Art, Yale University Art Gallery
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, 25 February, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
"Art in the Making: Material and Techniques of Early Italian Painting"
Demonstration and Lecture by Anne O'Connor, painting conservator
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, 4 March, 4:30 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College
Who: General Public
"The Artist at Work in Renaissance Florence: Lorenzo Ghiberti"
Lecture by Wendy Watson, Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
When: Thursday, 25 March, 4:30 pm
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Who: General Public
"Early American Shape Note Singing"
Lecture and demonstration sing by Tim Eriksen, Musician and Ethnomusicologist
with local shape note singers
Co-sponsored by the American Studies Program
When: Thursday, 8 April, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, John and Norah Warbeke Gallery
Who: General Public
"Music of Devotion: Five College Collegium Concert"
Early 15th-Century Italian music, Giovanni Perluigi daPalestrina, and Justin Morgan with voices, Renaissance winds and strings
Conducted by Robert Eisenstein
Director, Five College Early Music Program
When: Thursday, 29 April, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, John and Norah Warbeke Gallery
Who: General Public
Senior Art Majors Thesis Exhibition (1 May-22 May 2010)
When: Sunday, 2 May, 3-5 p.mWhat: Exhibition Opening and Reception
Where: Hinchcliff Reception Hall, Mount Holyoke College
Fall 2009
“Capturing an Instant: Lisette Model and Her Successors”
Panel discussion with
Tony Lee, Professor of Art and Art History, MHCChristopher Benfey, Mellon Professor of English, MHC
Karen Koehler, Associate Professor of Architectural History, Hampshire College
Moderated by Marianne Doezema, Museum Director
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, 17 September, 5:00 pm
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Who: General Public
Tae Can Kick
C-Print, 2006
Collection of the Artists
"Hoodies or Heels: A Visual History of Women in Hip-Hop"
Illustrated lecture by Jennifer Weber, Visiting Artist in Dance, Mount Holyoke College, and Founder and Artistic Director of Decadancetheatre, an all-female, hip-hop dance theatre company based in Brooklyn
Reception to follow
When: Thursday, 1 October, 6:30 pm
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open to: General Public
Fifth Avenue
Silver gelatin print photograph, 1944
Courtesy Private Collection, New York, © 1983 The Lisette Model Foundation, Inc.
“Beyond Convention: Lisette Model and Her Successors”
Lecture by Jane Gronau, Education Coordinator
When: Thursday, 22 October, 5:00 pm
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open to: General Public
Spring 2009
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 2009
Photograph by Sadie Shilieto
"Weegee was a Clown, but no April Fool"
Gallery talk on three newly acquired works of the 1940s by documentary photographer Arthur Fellig “Weegee”, by Tony Lee, Associate Professor of Art, MHC
When: Wednesday, 1 April, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Hinchcliff Reception Hall, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open to: General Public
Mount Holyoke College, 2009
Photograph Laura Weston
Faith Ringgold: Works on Paper
Lecture by the artist: "Faith Ringgold More Than 50 Years"
Reception and booksigning with live jazz, featuring the Amherst College Reservoir Cats
When: Thursday, 5 March, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open To: General Public
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 2009
Photograph Jessica Lavallee
Family Day
Join us for a day at Tar Beach! In conjunction with our special exhibition of works by African-American artist Faith Ringgold and Black Heritage Month.
When: Saturday, February 28, 2009 from 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Where: Hinchcliff Reception Hall, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open to: General Public
ca. 1900-1910
Lynn Museum and Historical Society, Lynn, Massachusetts
Photograph Laura Weston
"How Do You Do It, Mabel? On $20 a Week: Women, Work, Wardrobe – And Popular Songs"
Lecture by Michael Lasser, Independent Scholar
When: Thursday, 26 February, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open to: General Public
Guest Curator
What Can a Woman Do? Installation
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 2009
Photgraph Laura Weston
What Can a Woman Do? Women, Work, and Wardrobe, 1865-1940
Panel Discussion: “Dressing for Work”
Lynne Zacek Bassett, Guest Curator and Independent Scholar
Mary Renda, Associate Professor of History & Gender Studies, MHC
Patricia Campbell Warner, Professor Emerita History of Dress, UMass
Moderated by Museum Director Marianne Doezema
When: Thursday, 12 February, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open To: General Public
Fall 2008
Northern China
Bronze, 2nd century BCE
Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York
Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands
Exhibition, Opening and Reception.
Lecture by exhibition curator, Trudy S. Kawami, Ph.D.
Director of Research, Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York
“Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands: Who Wore Them and Why?”
When: Thursday, 18 September, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open to: General Public
Mount Holyoke College, 2008
Photograph courtesy of the MHC Russian and Eurasian Studies Department
Yurt Construction and Talk
Mount Holyoke Professors Christopher Pyle, Stephen Jones, and Peter Scotto, together with students, will re-build a yurt, a tent-like structure, on Skinner Green in conjunction with our fall exhibition, Ancient Bronzes of the Asian Grasslands. A short talk and refreshments will follow construction.
When: Tuesday, 23 September, 4:00 p.m. (rain date 24 September, same time/location)
Where: Skinner Green
Open to: General Public
Northern China
Bronze, 2nd century BCE
Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, New York
Ancient Herders on the Steppe: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of their Lifestyle
Lecture by Sandra L. Olsen, Ph.D.
Curator of Anthropology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
When: Thursday, 2 October, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open to: General Public
American Avocet, Farmington Bay, Great Salt Lake, Farmington, Utah
Pigment print photograph, 2005
Purchase with the Henry Rox Memorial Fund for the Acquisition of Work by Contemporary Women Artists
Photograp
A Spectacle of Wings: Photographs by Rosalie Winard
Lecture by the artist: “An Itinerant Photographer of the Wetlands”
When: Thursday, 16 October, 5:00 p.m.
Where: Gamble Auditorium, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open to: General Public
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 2008
Photograph Laura Weston
Spa Night
The Society of Art Goddesses sponsors a relaxing evening of massage, yoga, facials, manicures, and more at the Museum. Exclusively for MHC students. Call 413.538.2245 for more info.
When: Thursday, 13 November, 4:00-10:00 p.m.
Where: Hinchcliff Reception Hall, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
Open to: MHC students
