Mills College Art Museum (MCAM) invites pitches for Glass Cube, MCAM’s archive and collections blog. Mills College Art Museum (MCAM) invites pitches for Glass Cube, MCAM’s archive and collections blog hosted by Medium. Glass Cube publishes original research-based content — essays, stories, poems, audio/video, listicles, etc. — inspired by and…

Exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art celebrates 1951 Mills College alumna, Katherine Choy By Mel Buchanan, RosaMary Curator of Decorative Arts & Design, New Orleans Museum of Art An innovative artist in a number of mediums, Mills College graduate Katherine Choy (American, b. China, 1927–1958) developed ceramic work…

By Jesse Dutton-Kenny In October of 2020 Jesse Dutton-Kenny visited the Mills College Art Museum to research 39 baskets from Northern California Indigenous communities in the collection. This research project was sparked after Jesse saw a Pomo basket from the collection on display in the Slide Space 123 gallery in…

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 artworks on the same theme, which were thereafter donated to the museum by Mrs. M. C. Sloss.

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. …

Essay by Chloe Champion from the exhibition catalog for You’re Seeing Less Than Half the Picture which featured works from MCAM’s permanent collection curated by students from Mills College’s Museum Studies workshop. The exhibition was on view from Decmber 2017-May 2018. Transgressive, in your face, and controversial — there’s no…

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. MCAM: First of all, why did…

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…