Stories and perspectives on objects in our collection
Basketry Is Sustenance
Basketry Is Sustenance
In October of 2020 Jesse Dutton-Kenny visited MCAM to research 39 baskets from Northern California Indigenous communities in the…
Conserving ‘The Hero’
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…
Search Terms: Looking for Phillip Linsday Mason
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…
Red Flag: A Contemplative Warning
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…
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
An MCAM staff member asks an art historian about one object in the MCAM Collection.
Beast
Beast
Jamie Harper, a Mills MFA candidate in Creative Writing, weaves a post-apocalyptic tale inspired by a painting in the MCAM collection.
Arte y escritura
Arte y escritura
Poems and reflections by students from Professor Carlota Caulfield’s Introduction to Hispanic Literatures Class, inspired by artworks from…