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Published in Glass Cube

·Jan 15, 2021

Basketry Is Sustenance

In October of 2020 Jesse Dutton-Kenny visited MCAM to research 39 baskets from Northern California Indigenous communities in the… — 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…

Museums

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Basketry Is Sustenance
Basketry Is Sustenance

Published in Glass Cube

·Nov 19, 2019

Conserving ‘The Hero’

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…

Art

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Conserving ‘The Hero’
Conserving ‘The Hero’

Published in Glass Cube

·Nov 19, 2019

Hindsight: Two Girls and a Pigeon

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.

Art

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Hindsight: Two Girls and a Pigeon
Hindsight: Two Girls and a Pigeon

Published in Glass Cube

·Nov 16, 2019

Search Terms: Looking for Phillip Linsday Mason

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.

Art

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Search Terms: Looking for Phillip Linsday Mason
Search Terms: Looking for Phillip Linsday Mason

Published in Glass Cube

·Nov 15, 2019

Red Flag: A Contemplative Warning

Essay by Chloe Champion from the exhibition catalog for You’re Seeing Less Than Half the Picture which featured works from MCAM’s… — 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.

Feminism

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Red Flag: A Contemplative Warning
Red Flag: A Contemplative Warning

Published in Glass Cube

·Apr 9, 2019

On Gray Paper, Evil Faxes

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.

Art

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ON GRAY PAPER, EVIL FAXES
ON GRAY PAPER, EVIL FAXES

Published in Glass Cube

·Mar 18, 2019

REINCARNATE, RECYCLE, REUSE

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…

Essential Oils

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RECYCLE, REUSE, REINCARNATE
RECYCLE, REUSE, REINCARNATE

Published in Glass Cube

·Oct 31, 2018

100 Aspects Of The Moon, The Midnight Moon At Mt. Yoshino: Iga No Tsubone

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…

Art

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Tell Me About It: 100 Aspects Of The Moon, The Midnight Moon At Mt. Yoshino: Iga No Tsubone
Tell Me About It: 100 Aspects Of The Moon, The Midnight Moon At Mt. Yoshino: Iga No Tsubone

Published in Glass Cube

·Oct 30, 2018

Beast

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…

Fiction

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Beast
Beast

Published in Glass Cube

·May 8, 2018

Contact?

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…

Art

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