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January at SCMA: Museums and Meditation at MacLeish

Anna Ziegler is a senior Art History major and works at the Cunningham Center at SCMA.

The Guerrilla Girls

Far from being irrelevant, this 1995 print made me feel that my disappointment in the lack of diversity in museums was validated.
grey subway tokens scattered over white sheet, black text with numbers alternating between left side of sheet and center of sheet: TOP TEN WAYS TO TELL IF YOU'RE AN / ART WORLD TOKEN followed by list

Something wicked this way comes

With the approach of Halloween, and the days getting shorter and darker, I got inspired to investigate the story behind one of the more grotesque and interesting Italian prints in our collection.
two men run away into the woods

El Muro (The Wall)

Hernández Santos’s project strives to represent, in his words “the inner essence of a people who struggle to define and defend their right to be themselves, to have a space of their own.”
brick wall with indentation and applied text: 'LA MALDITA / CIRCUNSTANCIA DEL AGUA / POR TODAS PARTES".

Odd Couples: Venus vs. Eve

The correlation between Adam and Eve and Venus and Adonis is not as farfetched as it may seem at first glance.
Adam and Eve, side by side, heads turned toward each other; next to trees and animals

Student Picks: Who Is She, Really?

I decided to center my show on “questions”: questions the artists ask, questions I posed, and questions the viewer might ask.
black woman seated on bed wearing white dress and holding a cigarette, legs spread open, text between her legs: "Portrait of a woman who has / fallen from grace and into / the hands of evil."
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