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Students: Amherst College Art Museum Lacking Female Artists of Color

February 14, 2018

Amherst College “preaches diversity and inclusion,” said one junior, but the school’s Mead Art Museum “is lacking some female artists of color.”

Several students expressed support for art exploring “non-conforming gender expression” during a gathering at the museum of Amherst undergraduates who are taking a course called “Collecting 101: Acquiring Art of the Mead,” according to The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, the student newspaper of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.