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Click the link below to explore this exhibition virtually! View art up close, read wall labels, listen to audio recordings, and watch video clips from Embodied Taste. The exhibition was organized collaboratively by student curators enrolled in “Eat! An Exhibition Seminar at the Mead,” led by Amy Cox Hall (visiting assistant professor of anthropology, Amherst College) and Emily Potter-Ndiaye (Dwight and Kirsten Poler and Andrew W. Mellon Head of Education and Curator of Academic Programs, Mead Art Museum).
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Join students in a conversation on food, culture, art, and power, culminating in an exhibition at the Mead Art Museum. On view through July 26, 2020.
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Featuring over fifty artworks across media made from 1967 to 2019. On view through July 26, 2020.
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This exhibition celebrates the ten years of student acquisitions made possible by the Trinkett Clark Memorial Fund. On view through July 26, 2020.
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Contemporary artist Christopher Myers responds to the Mead's Rotherwas Room in new installation. On view through May 31, 2020.
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This exhibition centers on one of the formative collections of the Mead Art Museum: the gift of more than 2,000 prints to the museum by Edward C. Crossett (Class of 1905) in 1951.
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Featuring works by David Hockney, Mona Hatoum, Cindy Sherman, Mark Bradford, and Christian Marclay. Read more about this exciting gift in The Boston Globe!
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