Murmurations, the 2023 MFA thesis exhibition, presents the work of graduating MFA candidates with concentrations in studio and book arts. This year's featured artists are Yaminah Abdur-Rahim, Nana Aforo, Courtney Griffith, Andrea Guskin, Thad Higa, Tianzong Jiang, Lyn Patterson, and Jordan Kaleonohe Siangco.

Presented as a group exhibition in Mills College Art Museum's historic main gallery, Murmurations showcases a final body of work from each graduate, curated by museum director Stephanie Hanor and distinguished studio art faculty. Commanding a range of strategies—painting, sculpture, installation, video, and more—these emerging artists venture into fresh conceptual and material terrain, inviting the viewer to contemplate mythology and the sacred, mourning and recovery, and our perception of reality.


Murmurations

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