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http://museum.mcmaster.ca - The MMA is a public, non-profit, art gallery situated in the heart of McM Alll exhibitions are FREE & open to the public.

No advance booking is required.

05/29/2026

SUMMER HOURS:
Starting June 1, 2026, M(M)A is open from Tuesday to Friday, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. ✨

Free admission, as always. No registration required. See you in the museum!

Swipe to see some of our current exhibitions on view and self-guided tours ➡️

05/27/2026

🔍 Please note: the museum is closed today, Thursday, May 27, for maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The workshop “Raving Through Artworks in M(M)A” on Thursday, May 28, will still take place as planned at Togo Salmon Hall, Room 118.

05/05/2026

✨ We’re open this Saturday for May @ Mac Open House!

Join us at the McMaster Museum of Art (MMA) for drop-in tours of our current exhibitions, featuring artwork by the 4th-year graduating cohort of the Integrated Arts (iArts) program, alongside selections from the Museum’s permanent collection exploring the early beginnings of abstraction. Tours are approximately 15–20 minutes long. Tours provided from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Museum is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Click the link in our bio for an audio self-guided tour to learn more about sculpture and architecture across campus 🔗

Slides 2 and 3: installation photography by Joseph Hartman

Slide 4: Man Releasing Eagles sculpture by George Wallace, located at Arts Quad.

04/28/2026

Congratulations! to Christina Leslie on being named one of the two finalists for this year’s Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Artist Prize 2026. All the best to Christina in her continued success in the growth of her artist practice and curatorial work.
Christina Leslie is an artist living and working in the Toronto area. Her lens-based practice delves into Black presence and subjectivity, identity, migration, marginalization, and her West Indian heritage. Her contemporary photographic works explore the intersections of history, memory, and race to create thought-provoking visual narratives.

McMaster Museum of Art (M(M)A) has recently acquired the series Pinhole Remix, 2020 for the museum collection. Her most recent series titled Pinhole Parishes was inspired by familial stories of Jamaica’s post-independence era. The images, created through improvised photographic tools and long exposures, evoke memory and presence.

In 2023, Leslie participated in M(M)A’s BIPOC Curatorial Mentorship Program, which has supported early career Black and Indigenous artists and curators through hands-on museum experience and professional development. Supported by McMaster University and Canada Heritage through the MAP program aimed to build capacity for transformation in the cultural sector by amplifying diverse perspectives and accelerating pathways into arts professional employment.

In addition to her artistic practice, Christina is an independent curator. She recently curated The Great Unseen (2025) at M(M)A. The exhibition was based on a curatorial framework and methodology evolved from her personal Caribbean heritage and diasporic perspectives that concentrated on Black, Caribbean, and diasporic artists in the M(M)A Collection and three invited contemporary artists. This brought artistic inclusion of all these artists from communities that have historically been excluded from dominant art historical paradigms.

Leslie is represented by Stephen Bulger Gallery in Toronto.

Christina Leslie (Canadian, b. 1983)

Image Credits:

1&2) Pinhole Remix, 2020 (printed in 2025 except Stephanie, 2021)
Monique, Aundre, Caleb, Dad, Ro, Stephanie, Carol and Melissa
pigment prints on archival paper flush mounted to aluminum composite panels
21 x 16 inches each
Museum of Art Collection Trust, 2025

3) Pinhole 11 (2024) from Pinhole Parishes series by Christina Leslie

4) Artist photograph: Christina Leslie (2025) by Kwame Delfish.

04/22/2026

🔍 A Sculpture Made with Coat Hangers?

In this episode of Collection Highlight, MMA Educator (Campus & Community Engagement) Teresa Gregorio takes a look one of the museum’s most iconic sculptures, Scottish artist David Mach's Likeness Guaranteed, located in the museum stairwell!

Created after Mach’s 1996 visit to Hamilton, and informed by his research into the museum’s collection, the work draws on themes of Scottish immigration, the city’s steel industry, and its surrounding landscape—connecting local history with material and form. The sculpture takes inspiration from two works in the collection: George Reid’s The Call to Dinner (1886–1887) and an ancient Lucanian Kalyx-krater, bridging European traditions with a Canadian context. Through the use of metal coat hangers, Mach also introduces a subtle sense of humour while reflecting Hamilton’s industrial history.

Can you guess how many coat hangers are in this piece? 🤔

03/31/2026

PLEASE NOTE: M(M)A will be closed on Friday, April 3 in observance of Good Friday. Regular hours resume on Tuesday, April 7.

03/25/2026

We’re excited to welcome you back to the McMaster Museum of Art for our first spring exhibition — iARTS EXPO: 2026 Graduating Cohort. Join us this Saturday, March 28 to celebrate the opening reception and the incredible work of this year’s graduating class. No registration required.

In addition to the exhibition, iARTS EXPO will also feature theatre performances and film screenings from March 26 to 28, 2026. To view the full schedule and secure your tickets, visit the link here: https://sota.humanities.mcmaster.ca/iarts-expo/

03/17/2026

COMING SOON — iARTS EXPO: 2026 Graduating Cohort

Exhibition Dates: March 26, 2026 – June 26, 2026

Exhibition Reception: Saturday, March 28 1–3 p.m. (Museum will be open to the public from 12 to 4 p.m.)

Artists: Maia Nguyen & Vikaash Arunmozhi, Jacob Byck, Gemima Mukendi, ISSB, Kior Barrow, Megan Kolomeir, Miriam Georgis, Reese Nuttley, Riley Payne, Pocket Lint Collective (Amelia Doty & Charlie Saltzman), Sydni Soobratee, Pariwash Sundrani, Tahmia Thomas, Linsy Woolley, Luciel Zeng

This exhibition features the inaugural graduating class of McMaster University’s iArts (Integrated Arts) BFA program. Launched in 2022, this unique integrated arts degree fosters interdisciplinary skills in art, performance, art histories, theories and research modes. Emphasizing interdisciplinary creative practice as a collective mode of learning, students’ paths include acting, painting/drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, playwriting, dance, and film making. Grounded in social justice, iARTS is committed to equity and diversity in society and practices environmentally responsible studio practices.

This exhibition brings together the various capstone projects exploring identity, memory, the body, and culture through a wide range of media, including animation, film, gaming, photography, ceramics, sculpture, printmaking, and mixed‑media installations. Across these varied forms, the works transform personal experiences—of illness, queerness, migration, spirituality, and grief—into reflective acts of storytelling.

Image created by Miriam Georgis in consultation with the full cohort.

02/13/2026

Love is in the Art! 💘 Swipe to explore how love has been pictured, performed, and contemplated across centuries in selections from the collection.

Moving between the mythological and the moral, these selected works examine love as desire, virtue, companionship, and spectacle. Cupid interventions, hearts declare themselves, rendezvous unfold, and figures negotiate intimacy.

Wishing all art lovers a season filled with curiosity, connection, and a little romance. ❤️

1️⃣
Attributed to François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
Nymph and Cupid in a Glade, 18th century
Oil on canvas
B. M. Greene Bequest, 1963

2️⃣
Franz Lefler (Austrian, 1831–1898) Engraved by J. Blechinger (Austrian, active 1889)
Undecided, late 19th century
Heliogravure on paper
Gift of the Herman H. Levy Estate, 1990

3️⃣
François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)
Joseph Resisting Seduction by Potiphar’s Wife, c. 1728
Black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on paper
Levy Bequest Purchase, 1993

4️⃣
Unknown artist
Rendezvous, n.d.
Etching on paper
Gift of the Herman H. Levy Estate, 1990

5️⃣
William Hogarth (English, 1697-1764)
H***n and Cupid, 1740
Engraving on paper
On loan from Dundurn National Historic Site, 1965

6️⃣
Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)
Le coeur / The Heart, Plate VII from Jazz, 1947
Pouchoir on Arches paper
Levy Bequest Purchase, 1995

7️⃣
Christian Rohlfs (German, 1849-1938)
Paar / Couple, 1910-1911
Watercolour and charcoal on paper
Donald Murray Shepherd Trust Purchase, 2011

8️⃣
William Hogarth (English, 1697-1764)
Frontispiece to Joshua Kirby’s ‘Perspective of Architecture’, 1760
Engraving and etching on paper
On loan from Dundurn National Historic Site, 1965

01/14/2026

Sketching Thursdays are back! 🖌️✏️

Welcome back, McMaster community! Every Thursday from 4:30–6:30 p.m., swing by for some free-flow sketching. Materials are provided, admission is free, and no registration or experience is needed—just drop in anytime.

Open to everyone: students, staff, and members of the general public. Bring home your sketches and decorate your space.

✨ Free admission
✨ No experience needed
✨ Everyone’s an artist (yes, you!)

Check out some sketching tips from our student volunteers Jack and Alyssa, and stay tuned as they share more next week ✍️

🎶 Background music credit: massobeats – rose water

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Wednesday	12pm - 5pm
Thursday	12pm - 5pm
Friday	12pm - 5pm

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