Student Performances & Exhibitions

Mount Holyoke students have many opportunities to perform and display their work. Located at the heart of the campus, the Blanchard Campus Center houses a gallery for student work. Each spring, the Senior Art Majors’ Exhibition is one of the most popular end-of-semester events.

Music, dance, and theatre performances fill the MHC calendar of events. Dancers present their own choreography. Singers and instrumentalists perform everything from klezmer music to a cappella jams to concertos and symphonies. Actors, directors, set designers, and crew members work day and night on theatre productions, some of which are written and directed by students.

Verbosity, the annual student-run literary magazine sponsored by the English department, publishes some of the best student work at Mount Holyoke, not only in writing but also in art and photography.

One of our longest-standing traditions is the Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Competition, held for a weekend in April every year. Three nationally known poets serve as judges of a contest in which a Mount Holyoke student competes against students from five other colleges from around the country. Winners in the nearly 80-year history of the contest have included such major poets as Sylvia Plath and James Merrill. More about the Glascock Competiton...