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Sites and Sensibilities: Walks in Rome and Environs
A Trip to the Eternal City awaits this October . . .
In celebration of
the recently concluded Museums10 initiative BookMarks, the
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and Cross-Culture
Journeys teamed up to present a ten-day trip to Rome scheduled
for early October 2008. The trip, "Sites and Sensibilities:
Walks in Rome and Environs," will be led by Professor John
Varriano of Mount Holyoke's art history department. The tour
will follow in the footsteps of authors and painters who wrote
in eleven different languages over a period of 2000 years, comparing
their responses to our own. A copy of Professor Varriano's Rome:
A Literary Companion - recently named by Travel & Leisure
magazine as the best guidebook for walking in the city - will
be provided to each tour participant. The itinerary also includes
visits to the charming towns of Tivoli and Frascati, as well
as the beautiful outlying area known as the Castelli Romani.
Select spaces are available to paying customers who want to
participate in this unique experience. For more information,
please contact Marianne Doezema, director of the Mount Holyoke
College Art Museum at 413.538.2245 or mdoezema@mtholyoke.edu.
Jane Hammond Catalogue Wins Prestigious Award
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The catalogue for the exhibition Jane Hammond: Paper Work was
recently awarded a prize for design excellence by the Association
of American University Presses. Published by the Mount Holyoke
College Art Museum in association with Penn State Press, the
158-page book is fully illustrated in color and contains essays
on the artist by Nancy Princenthal, Faye Hirsch, and Douglas
Dreishpoon. Museum director, Marianne Doezema, wrote the foreword.
Diane Jaroch Design, in Rockford, Illinois, was responsible for
the prize-winning design and layout. For more information about
the 2008 AAUP design competition, see http://aaupnet.org/programs/marketing/designshow/winners2008.html,
and for information about ordering a copy of the publication,
see http://www.mtholyoke.edu/offices/artmuseum/catalogues.html.
In the meantime, the Hammond show continues to travel across
the country, and is on view at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,
de Young, from 3 May through 31 August 2008.
Excavating
Egypt: The Installation
Want to see how we
did it?
Take
an inside look at the installation of Excavating Egypt
Fellowship
Opportunity (Applications
due 2/15/09)
The Art Advisory Board of the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
has developed an exciting, new, year-long
fellowship for a graduating
senior or recent alumna interested in pursuing a career in museum
administration. For details on job requirements and the application
process, go to student opportunities.
 Reproductions
Available for Purchase
In association
with LookClickPrint,
the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum is offering for sale reproductions
of several works of art, including the Bierstadt pictured here,
from the permanent collection. Produced with superb detail and
vivid color using archival inks and high-quality paper, these
images are available in a variety of sizes made especially for
you or in a "Ready to Hang" format. Visit the link
above for details on these beautiful images. For
a 10% discount enter code MHAMTA1 on LCP order page.
Activity
Book for Children
Based on our permanent collection, the scavenger hunt gives
children an opportunity to learn about art in a fun way that draws
their attention to the artists, titles, and details of a combination
of pieces. Each child who participates receives a free gift. |
