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Current
MILLS PUBLIC ART INITIATIVE CONVERGING FLORA
CRISTINE BLANCO AND Yétúndé OLAGBAJU Converging Flora is the shared creative work of 2020 MFA graduates Cristine Blanco and Yétúndé Olagbaju. The mural serves as a commemoration for Black lives lost that invites reflection on the ways in which national conversations about racial justice find roots in the Oakland landscape. More
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SEP 14-NOV 24, 2024
RESHAPING THE NARRATIVE: CALIFORNIA PERSPECTIVES
Reshaping the Narrative: California Perspectives surveys the myriad ways artists represent and reflect our local communities. The featured artists offer unique and local perspectives on themes that resonate during this presidential election year, such as immigration, civil rights, labor activism, feminism, and cultural identity.
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Upcoming
JAN 11-APR 27, 2025
KIJA LUCAS: HIDDEN HISTORIES
Kija Lucas uses photography to explore home, heritage, and memory. Through the seemingly neutral lens of scientific photography, Lucas emphasizes the beauty of her botanical subjects to speak to the embedded layers of history and meaning that impact our understanding of society.
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JAN 11-MAR 23, 2025
PHOTOGRAPHY & THE SPECIMEN
Inspired by Kija Lucas’s use of botanical specimens to reveal hidden histories, this selection of photographs from the Mills College Art Museum’s collection explores various modes of the photographic specimen and their operations as forms of knowledge.