Celebrating the First Anniversary of the CMA’s Community Arts Center — By Stefanie Taub, Director of Community Arts In step with the start of summer is the one-year anniversary of opening the CMA’s Community Arts Center. …

Finding Peace and Power through Connection — By Clovis Westlund, Student and LGBTQ+ Youth Advocate LGBTQ and racialized people have long been excluded from spaces that foster connection. With casual and repeated socialization, the mechanisms of othering and isolation take an immeasurable psychological toll on those deemed unfit for these spaces. Such trauma has cost many queer…

By Darnell-Jamal Lisby, CMA Assistant Curator Fashion is an art form that has an uncanny ability to emotionally connect with us because of its…

By Sooa McCormick, CMA Curator of Korean Art This year, in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, the museum recognizes the array of diversity within the myriad AAPI identities and cultures. The recently opened Korean art rotation Creating Urgency: Modern…

The Impact of African Arts, Anthropology, and Photography on the Works of Alberto Giacometti — By Kristen Windmuller-Luna, Curator of African Arts Sometimes when I walk through the CMA’s galleries, I see someone with a sketchbook drawing a sculpture. What is lost — and what is gained — as they translate its three dimensions into two, moving the work from…

By Amanda Mikolic, Curatorial Assistant New in gallery 231 is Devil Fish, a stonecut print by Alec (Peter) Aliknak Banksland (1928–1998); Aliknak, who preferred to be called by his Inuit name, spent most of his life in Ulukhaktok (previously Holman), a village north of the Arctic Circle in Canada’s Northwest…

A Close Reading of a Japanese Painting — By Sinéad Vilbar, CMA Curator of Japanese Art Literature was a major component of entertainment in Japan’s Edo period (1615–1868). In the new rotation of the CMA’s Japanese art galleries, many of the works relate to poetry, novels, and theatrical performances. Literature provided people with…

Unearthing Natural Pigments in the CMA’s Collection — By Katie Rovito, third Year Graduate Intern in Paintings Conservation, and Elena Mars, Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Objects Conservation at the CMA Throughout history, artists have used earth’s natural resources to create works of art. These can come from a variety of sources including rocks, minerals, clays, and even…

By Susan Bergh, Curator of Pre-Columbian and Native North American Art and Amanda Mikolic, Curatorial Assistant In 2012, Dr. Paúl Velazco, a Peruvian mammologist who serves as a visiting assistant professor at Arcadia University and research associate at New York’s American Museum of Natural History, collected two bats of a…