Our friends at the De Young Museum on conserving The Hero on loan from MCAM for the Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power… — Our friends at the De Young Museum on conserving The Hero on loan from MCAM for the Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power: 1963–1983 The Hero cuts a striking figure in it’s own right. It just needed a little freshening up. The painting, by enigmatic…

Finalist for an essay contest held in conjunction with Mother and Child in the Fine Arts (1940), an exhibition featuring a collection of… — Finalist for an essay contest held in conjunction with Mother and Child in the Fine Arts (1940), an exhibition featuring a collection of artworks on the same theme, which were thereafter donated to the museum by Mrs. M. C. Sloss.

Over the Summer of 2019, MFA candidate and MCAM publicity assistant, Yetunde Olabgaju, took over MCAM’s Instagram to try and find… — Over Summer 2019, MFA candidate and MCAM’s publicity assistant, Yetunde Olabgaju, took over the museum’s Instagram to solicit information on the whereabouts of Phillip Lindsay Mason, an Oakland-based artist, prolific in the 70s, whose work is currently receiving a resurgence of attention. The following is a reposting of Olabgaju’s effort.

We invited our student Collections Assistants to produce an exhibition from our archive for Museum Records & Research, a site for inquiry… — We invited our student Collections Assistants to produce an exhibition from our archive for Museum Records & Research, a site for inquiry and file-storage. Gray Paper, Evil Faxes presented photos, notes, and leftover artifacts found deep within MCAM’s archives that would normally be disregarded.

Tim Kopra combines archival materials and environmental samples from Mills College campus in order to discover fresh applications for… — Tim Kopra combines archival materials and environmental samples from Mills College campus in order to discover fresh applications for physical and historical data. We consume information in a variety of ways, pushing through the constant encroachment of media and compartmentalizing the ubiquitous digital channels we monitor daily. For his residency…

An MCAM staff member asks an art historian about one object in the MCAM Collection. — For Tell Me About It, an MCAM staff member asks an art historian about one item in the Collection they want to know more about. In this edition, program director Jayna Swartzman-Brosky, asked Professor Emerita of Asian Art History, Carver Professor in East Asian Studies, Mary-Ann Milford about Tsukioka Yoshitoshi’s…

Jamie Harper, a Mills MFA candidate in Creative Writing, weaves a post-apocalyptic tale inspired by a painting in the MCAM collection. — Jamie Harper “There’s something out there you know.” The little group sat huddled tight around a pitiful fire lit inside a shallow tin can. The wind howled, whipping through the slanted glass shards of the windows and the gaping cracks that spiderwebbed through plaster and brown-shingle walls. The once vibrant…

A Museum Records & Research Project by Ellis Martin. — A Museum Records & Research Project by Ellis Martin. CONTACT? looks at the threshold of the archive. Both the archive in its concept and Mills College Art Museum’s. Museum Records + Research becomes the site of this installation. It is an installation with archival images and conceptual graves (plexi, pink…