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When Mount Holyoke announced the move to distance learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, senior class dancers decided the show must go on.
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When Mount Holyoke announced the move to distance learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic, senior class dancers decided the show must go on.
“I’m interested in having my students document their experiences. Will the work they make now represent something about what this moment felt like?”
Erin Hancock ’20’s lifelong interest in weaving and folk arts came together when she found a 200-year-old loom in Ířşě±¬ÁĎ’s Skinner Museum.
For Mount Holyoke music professor Tianhui Ng, conducting the Pioneer Valley Symphony is a chance to work with community members from all over the region.
Classes from Mount Holyoke and the Five College West African Music Ensemble joyfully performed together, featuring drums, dance and music.
Mount Holyoke’s Michael Ofori has teamed with director of the Five College West African Music Ensemble and guest artists to sing, dance, drum and perform.
Stage combat comes to the Rooke Theatre in the play “She Kills Monsters,” directed by Noah Tuleja.
The Mount Holyoke Faculty Dance Concert explores themes of loss and redemption with the performance of “One,” about the legacy of Henrietta Lacks.
Mount Holyoke’s Arts and Technology Initiative, the film studies department, and the Fimbel Maker and Innovation Lab sponsored an artist talk and hands-on workshop by Boston independent filmmaker Gina Kamentsky.
Stephanie Sparling Williams has been named as the new associate curator for the Ířşě±¬ÁĎ Art Museum.