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Liliana Porter: Two Realities
12:00 AM - 5:00 PM
5th Annual Black Art Matters Festival: Student Visual Art Showcase
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Studio Honors Show 2022
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Alumni in the Arts Reception
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Jazz Faculty Concert
7:00 PM
M@A Presents: Aizuri Quartet
8:00 PM
Amherst Arts in the News
The Mead Generation
September 10, 2019 - July 26, 2020
Curator David Little explains why contemporary art matters to today’s students—and talks up the museum’s new show of new art. [Read the story]
“To See Her is a Picture”: Amherst Unveils Johnson Chapel Paintings of Emily Dickinson
Professor Robert Sweeney honored poet Emily Dickinson with two portraits, now hanging in Johnson Chapel.
170 Works of Contemporary Art Gifted to Mead Art Museum
A selection of works from this anonymous gift and other recent acquisitions will go on view in September
Amherst Magazine: Imagined Worlds
Out of outrage, she started teaching poetry to children in her home state of Montana. Now they write 24,000 poems a year.
Amherst Magazine: The Same View
An exhibition in Frost featured work by scientific illustrator Orra White Hitchcock and Senior Resident Artist David Gloman that depict the same landscapes roughly 175 years apart.
Emily Dickinson Museum Announces Significant Upgrade and Expansion
The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Mass., today announced a major upgrade and expansion made possible by a $300,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant, which will protect historic collections at the existing museum, and the purchase of an adjacent property that will eventually open even more of the poet’s Homestead to visitors.
The Common Receives $50,000 Gift to Support its Literary Publishing Internship
The Common, the award-winning literary journal based at Amherst College, has received a $50,000 gift from Sally Wood, whose daughter and late husband attended Amherst. The gift supports student interns who show exceptional editorial promise and leadership skills.
The Art of Science
Orra White Hitchcock made beautiful drawings that helped Amherst students learn geology. Two centuries later, that work is finally getting the recognition it deserves.
Mead Art Museum Exhibition Inspires Faculty Conversation about Migration
An art exhibition serves as a jumping off point for faculty members in various fields—art history, political science, economics and sociology—to explore and discuss immigration and diversity.
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Jason Moran “The Sound Will Tell You”
February 18, 2021
The 2021 Rapaport Lecture featured Jazz pianist, composer, and artist Jason Moran, the Artistic Director for Jazz at The Kennedy Center. The event was hosted by Professor of Art and the History of Art, Sonya Clark.
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