Welcome to the SMCMoA! The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday 11 to 4:30 from September 18 through December 18. The Museum will be closed the week of November 20 through 27 for the Thanksgiving holiday. We are located within Saint Mary's College directly behind the Saint Mary's Chapel as part of the Brother Cornelius Art Center. Our driving address is 1928 Saint Mary's College Road. Our mailing address is PMB 5110 Moraga, California 94556. Feel free to call us with questions at 925-631-4379.
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Instagael
Instagram has changed the art world. Now Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art examines this recent force with Instagael, a student Instagram exhibition. Instagael displays the best photographs the student community has to offer, but also provokes fundamental discussions about the identity of art.
Instagram boasts 60 million photos shared each day from a community of 300 million members. These photos, and this forum, represent the art world of the future. Indeed, since 2013, “Instagram” is searched more often in the search engine Google than “art” itself. Instagram is a uniquely democratizing force in the art world. Now, anyone can post their photographs and receive near immediate feedback. Likewise, anyone with an internet connection now has a gallery of billions of photographs at their fingertips.
David Maxim
One point of view may be vastly different from another, but all are part of human experience. David
Maxim has spent his career pondering the stages and struggles of human life, and the eternal mysteries of metaphorical meaning and ambiguity. His art is informed by his own point of view, enriched through his engagement with history, art history and theatre. Through this selection of small sculptures paired with watercolor studies, David Maxim provides the viewer with insight into his creative process, while recognizing that viewers may respond in an entirely different manner.
Malcolm Lubliner: The Automotive Landscape
Malcolm Lubliner: The Automotive Landscape presents 25 photographs, some black and white as well as color, from the portfolio Cars. Some viewers may recognize such exotic cars as the Rambler, Chalmers, Dino and Airflow, but most will remember their own experiences with the familiar Dodge, Chevy, Pontiac, Mercury, Lincoln or El Dorado, not to mention the ever popular VW van. The earliest image in the portfolio was shot in 1968, and Lubliner has continued to add images to the portfolio as recently as 2011.
In 1959, Lubliner bought a copy of Robert Frank’s iconic book of photographs, The Americans, and was captivated by one of the images, titled “Covered Car, Long Beach.” It was a photograph of a then recent model Cadillac, covered with a parachute and parked between two palm trees. That photograph became Lubliner’s muse, and over the ensuing years helped clarify his vision and expanded his hunt for images. Lubliner says, “Cars in the landscape strike me as comical. They seem almost like alien creatures, mechanical clowns dressed in an array of costumes. They have their own world and talk to each other in parking lots but never quite relate to the arena in which they perform or to the humans who inhabit them. Cars and we humans share a strained interdependence but I’m pretty sure cars are vain and enjoy being photographed.”
Lubliner received an MFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles. He has exhibited extensively since the 1970s and is currently represented by the Craig Krull Gallery in Santa Monica. His work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian Institution, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Oakland Museum of California, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Crocker Art Museum, and the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, among others.
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Free Passes for Contra Costa Library Cardholders
The Contra Costa County Library announces Discover & Go, an exciting new service providing library cardholders residing in Contra Costa County with free passes to local museums, including Saint Mary's College of California. Library cardholders can reserve up to two passes at one time. Learn more at http://ccclib.org/discovergo/
Saint Mary's College Museum of Art is honored to be a Blue Star Museum
SMCMoA is among 1,300 museums across the country offering free admission to military personnel and their families.