Mills College Art Museum

01/07/2026

Professor ’s observational drawing students completed master studies of artworks from the MCAM collection! Featuring Magritte, Dalí, Anne Bremer, Ruth Bernhard, Kawase Hasui, Nathan Olivera, Roi Partridge, and Tsukioka Yosh*toshi.

See the students' master studies and then come visit the Masters in 100 Years of Creative Visions!
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Professor Yulia Pinkusevich’s Fall 2025 Observational Drawing class completed master studies of artworks from the Mills College Art…

12/18/2025

Throwback Thursday! 📸
Mills College students selling their ceramic works, 1948.
Support your local arts economy this holiday season – artist-made ceramics make wonderful gifts! 🎁

12/03/2025

For our final centennial reflection, Program Director Christa Cesario writes about MCAM’s history of hosting artists-in-residence, as well as its new collaborative fellowship with the Mills Institute.

Essay by Christa Cesario, Program Director, Mills College Art Museum, reflecting upon the Museum’s 100-year history.

11/20/2025

Throwback Thursday! 📸
MCAM curator Carl Belz and Class of ‘63 alum Ariel Eaton pose in the gallery amongst the more than 200 artworks in the Second Invitational Mills Alumnae Art National in 1965. ..

Photo: Martin J. Cooney, 1965

11/06/2025

New Acquisition! 🌟
We're so excited that Sarah Klein has donated her piece “A Way Planted” to MCAM!

“A Way Planted” refers to the journey of an artist’s life and the process of growth and development.

Sarah Klein is a San Francisco-based visual artist working in animation, glass and printmaking. Informed by a decade of working in stop-motion, she continues to expand on the language of movement within print-based works. Klein earned her MFA from Mills College in Oakland. ..
Image 1: Sarah Klein, “A Way Planted”, 2025, Glass powder on handcut sheet glass, 30 in. x 9 in. Gift of the Artist

Image 2: Artist Sarah Klein

10/31/2025

Director Stephanie Hanor reflects upon MCAM’s history of prioritizing the work of living artists to build the collection and demonstrate the myriad ways artists represent and reflect our communities.
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Essay by Stephanie Hanor, Director, Mills College Art Museum, reflecting upon the Museum’s 100-year history.

10/29/2025

New Acquisition! 💫
We're thrilled that artist Freddy Chandra has donated his piece "Sway" to MCAM!

Freddy Chandra creates site-specific installations and multi-panel wall compositions. Each installation is an immersive environment constructed as a place that encourages sensory understanding of physical space and temporal duration. His compositions suggest a contingency in the rhythmic act of marking space and shifts that occur in our experience of time. Chandra is an Indonesian American visual artist living and working in Massachusetts. He has a BFA in Architecture and Art Practice from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Studio Art from Mills College...
Image 1: Sway, 2011, Airbrushed acrylic pigments and UV-resistant resin on cast acrylic panels with urethane coating, 11 in. x 36 in. x 1.375 in. Gift of the Artist

Image 2: Artist Freddy Chandra standing next to his piece Fluttermark (2016) (right)

10/21/2025

NEW ACQUISITION! 🎉

Thank you our wonderful colleague Yulia Pinkusevich for donating your stunning “Accelerated Systems” to Mills College Art Museum!

Yulia Pinkusevich creates projects and large-scale environments that consider our ecological and social systems. Her work observes land and environment critically, focusing on the psychology of spaces while exploring environments sentient beings inhabit. Using art as a vehicle to merge physical and psychological parallels, she creates art that asks how the structures that surround us define and influence our actions, paths and thoughts.

Yulia Pinkusevich is an artist and educator born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (USSR). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, her family fled the eastern bloc as refugees, immigrating to New York City. She holds an MFA from Stanford University and a BA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Yulia has exhibited nationally and internationally including site-specific projects executed in Paris, France and Buenos Aires, Argentina and London, UK. Yulia is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art in the College of Art, Media & Design, and Mills College of Northeastern University..

Image 1: Yulia Pinkusevich, Accelerated Systems, 2024, Acrylic, ink, charcoal, and mineral pigments and mirrors on canvas, 65 x 82 in., Gift of the Artist.

Image 2: Yulia Pinkusevich with a collage of her own paintings and historic photos. 📸 Ruby Wallau for Northeastern University

10/09/2025

Throwback Thursday! 📸
"Car of the Future," from the 1971 Mills College Senior Thesis Exhibition, was a full-sized painted steel rod contour of a Volkswagen Beetle by student Caryn Gregg (C '72). It even made it into the Oakland Tribune edition on May 29, 1971!

Thank you, Caryn, for sharing your wonderful photos with us!

10/01/2025

Read MCAM Director Stephanie Hanor’s essay about one of the Mills College Art Museum’s great strengths—its large collection of prints, drawings, and watercolors dating from the 15th century to the present.

Essay by Stephanie Hanor, Director, Mills College Art Museum, reflecting upon the Museum’s 100-year history.

09/02/2025

For our September feature, MCAM Director Stephanie Hanor reflects upon the museum’s early and deep engagement with Mexican and Latin American modernist artists.

Essay by Stephanie Hanor, Director, Mills College Art Museum, reflecting upon the Museum’s 100-year history.

08/25/2025

NU freshman William Cao’s visit to “Kija Lucas: Hidden Histories” in Professor Kathryn Reiss’ Spring 2025 First Year Writing class inspired a series of poems that won the Oakland Art & Writing Contest.

The Oakland Art & Writing Contest:
Each semester, First-Year Writing students visit MCAM with their class; complete a writing assignment related to the artwork on view; and at the end of the semester, submit their work to the Oakland Art & Writing Contest, with winners published in Glass Cube, MCAM's Medium.com blog.

Poems by William Cao, winning submission written for the First-Year Writing Oakland Art & Writing Contest, Spring 2025