Hampshire Professor and Sculptor Molly Morin’s New Fiber Exhibit Aligns with Coursework
Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts Molly Morin, whose sculpture is a commentary on technology and power, is displaying work in line with her teaching.
Morin, who is a sculptor and fiber artist, currently has a show up in the South Gallery of Greenfield Community College: Molly Morin: Made en Mass. Per the show’s description, “...[her] works gather the things she has in abundance: the cast-offs of mass production, the methods of cybernetics, and the detritus of global racialized capitalism. She re-assembles them to create works that are playful, critical and beautiful.”
Made en Mass dovetails nicely with Morin’s spring semester class, Textile Activism: History, Theory, and Practice of Politically Engaged Fiber Arts. Using examples such as Underground Railroad quilt codes, suffragist protest banners, the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and the practice of yarn bombing, Morin’s students are “studying fibers and textile projects that are engaged in political action, liberation, and social change while learning and practicing a range of fiber arts techniques.” Like so many Hampshire classes, it’s interdisciplinary, combining the fields of art, history, politics, and environmentalism as well as both theoretical and practical investigation and learning methods.
Morin will hold a gallery talk on Wednesday, April 8, at noon in the South Gallery. Her teaching assistant, Acadia Black F25, will co-present and discuss her own work as well as her experiences transferring from Greenfield Community College to Hampshire in the fall of 2025.
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