Distinguished Artist at Mount Holyoke College
The Distinguished Artist series is a collaboration between the Weissman Center for Leadership and the InterArts Council. This engaging program reflects the center's support of public presentations by scholars, artists, writers, and practitioners that engage the academic work of the college with the public sphere.
Recent visiting artists in the series
Invited guest artists are featured in public campus discussions about the interconnections between creative expression of all forms and cultural transformations.
2025: J. Meejin Yoon
Architect, designer and educator J. Meejin Yoon, AIA, FAAR, talked about designing for the public realm as part of Mount Holyoke College’s biennial Distinguished Artist series.
2022: Okwui Okpokwasili
Okpokwasili is an American artist, choreographer and writer. Her multidisciplinary performances draw upon her training in theater, and she describes her work as being at “the intersection of theater, dance and the installation.”
2018–19: Joan Jonas ’58
Jonas is a sculptor, video and performance artist and has exhibited and performed her work at museums and large scale group exhibitions internationally.
2017–18: Claudia Rankine
Rankine is the author of the 2017 Common Read “Citizen: An American Lyric” and “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely”.
2016–17: Patrizia von Brandenstein
von Brandenstein worked as both a scenic artist and costume designer, with credits including “Between the Lines” and “Saturday Night Fever”.
Happening at Mount Holyoke
News from Distinguished Artists at Mount Holyoke
Architect J. Meejin Yoon to speak at Mount Holyoke College
Yoon, a renowned architect, will speak at Mount Holyoke as part of the Distinguished Artist series on campus.
Crafting a full life in the arts
Mount Holyoke’s event Crafting a Life in the Arts shows students that the COVID-19 pandemic shouldn’t deter a sustaining life in the arts.