In this episode of Art And..., the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's student-run podcast, Mollie Wohlforth ‘19 is joined by Arts and Community Engagement Intern Relyn Myrthil ‘19 to discuss Dancer in Grass Skirt, a photograph from Lorraine O'Grady's Art Is series. Their conversation considers Lorraine O'Grady's experience of making this series and its illustration of black female joy within a fine arts context.

See this work of art here: https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/object/art-isdancer-grass-skirt

In this episode of Art And..., the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's student-run podcast, Mollie Wohlforth is joined in conversation by Student Guides Anya Nandkeolyar '19 and Joliet Morrill '21 about a photograph from Lynsey Addario's Women at War series, previously on view in the "Conflicts and Commemoration" section of Major Themes: Celebrating Ten Years of Teaching with Art. Their conversation considers the history of war photography, the ethics of photojournalism, and how the museum setting affects how we view images of conflict.

See this work of art here: https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/object/september-15-2010-united-states-marine-cpl-christina-oliver-25-left-and-lance-cpl-stephanie

See Addario's photograph here: tinyurl.com/y5vbopar

On this episode of Art And..., the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's student-run podcast, join Mollie Wohlforth '19 as she sits down with Professor Desmond Fitz-Gibbon to discuss his course, Histories of Money, and the exhibition Money Matters: Meaning, Power, and Change in the History of Currency. Additionally, they discuss the universality of money in human history, the interconnection of image and the power of currency, and the genesis of the exhibition.

See this work of art here: https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/object/geronimos-cadillac

In this episode of Art And..., the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's student-run podcast, join Mollie Wohlforth '19 as she and fellow student guide Anya Nandkeolyar '19 discuss a 10th-century statue of Ganesha from Madhya Pradesh. Listen as they discuss the experience of seeing the sculpture within its original context versus a 21st-century gallery space, and the debate surrounding the placement of non-Western religious objects within Western museum contexts.

See the work of art here: https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/object/dancing-ganesha

On the first episode of Art And..., the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's student-run podcast, Mollie Wohlforth '19 sits down in the galleries with student guides Prokriti Shyamolima '19 and Hailey Simmons '19 to discuss a pair of six-fold screens with scenes from the Tale of Genji (screen 1 and screen 2). Listen as they analyze the narrative and the visual techniques employed by the artist, Kano Masamitsu.

See the work of art here: https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/object/six-fold-screen-scenes-tale-genji

On this episode of Art And..., the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's student-run podcast, Mollie Wohlforth '19 discusses a Turkmen asmalyk (a camel trapping for a wedding) with UMass Professor of Art History Walter Denny and MHCAM Associate Curator of Education, Kendra Weisbin. Join them as they discuss what this carpet can tell us about Turkmen society, the lives of the women who made it, and its journey to MHCAM.

See this work of art here: https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/object/asmalyk-camel-trapping

In this episode of Art And..., the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum's student-run podcast, Mollie Wohlforth ‘19 is joined in conversation by Assistant Professor of Music Adeline Mueller and Mackenzie Stratton '19 to discuss two 13th century Italian musical manuscript pages (“Iste Sanctus” and “Gaudeamus”). They consider how the s music and the brilliant illumination together brought the experience of worship to life. Listen to the end to hear both pages performed in Mount Holyoke College's Abbey Chapel by members of the music department.

See the Iste Sanctus Page here: https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/object/illuminated-manuscript-page

See the Gaudeamus Page here: https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/object/folios-xlv-and-xlvi-liturgical-book-illuminated-initial-assumption-virgin

Recording Credits:

Singers:

Hanna Danziger '19

Adeline Mueller (Assistant Professor of Music)

Relyn Myrthil '19

Mackenzie Stratton '19

Madison Walters '19

Recorded by: Robert Eisenstein (Director of Five College Early Music Program and Five College Senior Lecturer in Music)