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MHC ART MAJOR SENIOR EXHIBITION

TITLE: this is my letter to the world

April 29- May 2
Reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7 pm



Contact:
Lisa Iglesias, Associate Professor, Art Studio, Mount Holyoke College, liglesia@mtholyoke.edu, 607-280-5319

10  Artists:
Sarah Chait
Emily Donahue
Ella Giordano
Paula Mascuch
AJ Methner
Hiba Nawaid
Embry Valentino O’Leary
Kinsey Ratzman
Zofia Topor
Fran Winterbottom


A.P.E. Gallery is pleased to announce this is my letter to the world, a group show of 10 solo exhibitions by Mount Holyoke College seniors in Northampton, on view from April 29 to May 2, 2022. The participating artists Sarah Chait, Emily Donahue, Ella Giordano, Paula Mascuch, AJ Methner, Hiba Nawaid, Embry Valentino O’Leary, Kinsey Ratzman, Zofia Topor, and Fran Winterbottom work across video, painting, book arts, sculpture, textiles, exhibiting genre blurring projects that resist strict categorization.

For the past 4 years, the artists participating in this is my letter to the world have been immersed in a liberal arts, interdisciplinary academic environment and have experienced a spectrum of pre-pandemic interactions, remote education, and a transition to in-person realities. In titling the show this is my letter to the world, the artists nod to the eponymous poem by Emily Dickinson, who attended Mount Holyoke Seminary (the College’s original name) from 1847 to 1848. In their senior exhibition, as Dickinson’s poem puts forward, the emerging artists’ works on view offer up communications to their community, reflecting upon isolation, identity, history,  and their reflections of the world around them.

this is my letter to the world features the creative research and artistic production of a group of studio majors from the Class of 2022 as well as mentorship by multiple individuals. The Studio Art Department is grateful for contributions by current and past faculty including Ligia Bouton, Lisa Iglesias, Gina Siepel, Amanda Maciuba, and Jacob Rhoads, as well as student TAs and members of 2022 thesis committees including MHC Professors Sarah Stefana Smith, Sabra Thorner, and Susanne Mrozik.

Located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Mount Holyoke College is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender diverse and the  oldest of the Seven Sister colleges.

Upper left image credit: Image Courtesy of Sarah Chait and Zofia Tpopr 


A.P.E.'s programming is made possible in part by sustained support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.