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This has unfortunately, been a long time coming.
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A large square painting shows two stylized women pressed close together against a dark, nearly black-blue background alive with looping, chalk-like lines in white, violet, blue, and green. In the foreground, a seated woman dominates the composition. Her body is rendered in hot reds and crimson-pinks, with outlined breasts, and one long arm holding her bent knees. Her skin is not naturalistic, but transformed into glowing red tones that make the body feel heated, theatrical, and emotionally charged. Her face is elongated, with dark shadowed eyes, red lips, and pale, tangled hair flaring upward and outward. Behind and beside her is a second woman in deep green, her lighter face framed by loose curls and a dramatic wide red hat. The figures seem enveloped by a haze of scribbled marks, as if smoke, energy, memory, or music were moving around them. The title “Girlfriends” turns closeness into the subject of the work. Russian artist Edouard Zelenine does not paint these women as calm portrait sitters. He makes them electric, unstable, glamorous, and slightly dreamlike. The intense red of the foreground figure suggests heat, desire, exposure, and vulnerability, while the second woman, partly veiled in green and shadow, feels like companion, witness, or intimate counterpart. The museum’s LGBTQ tagging is fitting here as the painting invites a reading of female intimacy that exceeds ordinary sociability and enters the territory of romance, erotic charge, and queer visibility. By 1984, Zelenine had long since left the Soviet Union and was living in France, and that biographical shift matters. This image feels shaped by exile as much as by performance. Identity is staged, but not fixed. Affection is visible, but not fully explained. The women become both real presences and emotional symbols of desire, companionship, artifice, and freedom.
“Girlfriends” by Эдуард Зеленин / Edouard Zelenine (Russian, active in France) - Oil on canvas / 1984 - Mead Art Museum at Amherst College (Amherst, Massachusetts) #WomenInArt #EdouardZelenine #ЭдуардЗеленин #Zelenine #MeadArtMuseum #AmherstCollege #arte #artText #artwork #RussianArtist #1980sArt
📚 "16 Months After My Justice Class" reflects on privilege and justice through an Inside-Out prison exchange. Read more: amherststudent.com/article/smonths-after-ju... #HigherEd #Justice #CriminalJusticeReform #StudentVoices #Opinion #AmherstCollege
Videos surface of Amherst College students simulating sex acts in a church during welcome week event
Link in bio or read the story at www.campusreform.org/article/vide...
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Graphic orientation shows spark talk — but what matters is real safety readiness. Use winter break to build awareness and simple self‑defense basics. 👊🧠
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Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 2025. #Photography #Art #TravelPhotography #Dog #DogArt #CarCampingChronicles #Explore #Mural #LinearArt #VanLife #StopLightPhotography #LocalArt #DriveByShooting #Amherst #AmherstCollege #StreetPhotography #Massachusetts
Amherst Mammoths blew a 16 pt 4th quarter lead and lost in OT…The Falcon is strong in these Mammoths
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Orr Rink, Amherst, MA - Home of the Amherst College Mammoths 🐘 🏒💜
Opened 1954; Renovated 1997
Capacity 2,500
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And, in 2023, #AmherstCollege awarded the Nobel peace laureate Ukrainian Oleksandra Matviichuk an honorary degree: www.amherst.edu/news/press-r... I have the pleasure of serving with Oleksandra on the International Academic Board of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE).
Cool list of honorary degree recipients at #AmherstCollege at commencement tomorrow including Vincent Cerf and our @townofamherst.bsky.social neighbor David Hixon www.amherst.edu/news/news_re... Congratulations to all the graduates, as well!
Congrats Class of 2025 🎓
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Beautiful Swedish folk singing at the Kungliga Musikhogskolan. Thanks for meeting the #AmherstCollege EdTrek students! #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni
Outside of the music conservatory.
Inside the music conservatory, with three balconies.
A woman speaking to the students.
A violin that is also an arrow pointing to the music school.
Arriving at the beautiful Kungliga Musikhögskolan in Stockholm, on the #AmherstCollege EdTrek. The students learned about music education in Sweden. #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
Tower.
Old Church.
Wooden, yellow house.
Wooden house window with yellow shutters.
More beautiful scenes from the #AmherstCollege EdTrek, at Skansen. #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
Beautiful day in Skansen during the #AmherstCollege EdTrek. #amherstloeb #AmherstAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
Beautiful day in Skansen during the #AmherstCollege EdTrek. I caught Gracie having a pensive moment. #amherstloeb #AmherstAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
Two bears.
An elk.
A pony.
Bison.
The animals of Skansen, spotted during the #AmherstCollege EdTrek. #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
Students inside a period house.
Students listening to the tour guide.
Scenes from the period house, fireplaces and a baby swing.
Bed and a potty from the period house.
The #AmherstCollege EdTrek students enjoyed their informative tour of Skansen. #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
A group of students and a tour guide.
A midsummer pole.
A chimney.
A wooden house.
The #AmherstCollege EdTrek students had a wonderful tour of Skansen. The tour guide was so knowledgeable and was a great example of an educational career outside of the classroom. #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
Not a bad seat anywhere, #bayfc at PayPal Park!
Out with the #Amherstcollege Alumni of Northern California.
View of the Skansen gate.
A group of students in the sun.
One student giving another a piggy back ride.
Two students joking around.
The #AmherstCollege EdTrek students kept bonding while we waited for our tour of Skansen in Stockholm. #amherstloeb #AmherstAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
Four people in Stockholm.
In Stockholm with Sarah, who joined the #AmherstCollege EdTrek from #mtholyoke, Daphne, a current student, future teacher, and #amherstloeb intern, Robert, who organised the EdTrek (and kindly invited me), and me, proudly wearing a hat as an Amherst College alumna. #education #ComparativeEducation
Two young women on a tram in Stockholm.
Two women on a tram in Stockholm.
On the tram with Brianne, Gracie, and Jackie. We had a beautiful afternoon in Stockholm with the #AmherstCollege EdTrek! #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni
Card games from RSFU, Swedish Association for Sexuality Education, to facilitate conversation and increase knowledge in a fun way. #AmherstCollege EdTrek students had a great experience in Stockholm! #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
Lobby area.
Old condom machine and lube.
Condoms in candy jars.
Another angle of the condom machine.
First images from the RSFU, Swedish Association for Sexuality Education. The #AmherstCollege EdTrek students had an engaging session in Stockholm! #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic #amherstloeb #AmherstAlumni
A view of the Stockholm skyline.
View of the water in Stockholm.
A young man posing for a picture.
Beautiful evening light in Stockholm. The #AmherstCollege EdTrek students got lucky with the weather! #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic #amherstloeb #AmherstAlumni
Elaborate doorway in Stockholm.
Side of a yellow building in Stockholm.
Window with violins inside.
Very narrow alleyway in Stockholm.
More beautiful scenes from the #AmherstCollege EdTrek in Stockholm. #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni
View of Stockholm.
Detail of a fountain.
Picture of a beautiful building.
Sculpture of a man and a horse.
The #AmherstCollege EdTrek students had a wonderful tour of Stockholm, on a very beautiful day. #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni
Three people in old town Stockholm.
What a pleasure to meet colleagues from #MountHolyokeCollege and #AmherstCollege on the Amherst College EdTrek! We enjoyed a beautiful afternoon in Gamla Stan. #amherstloeb #AmherstCollegeAlumni #edchat #education #ComparativeEducation #Nordic
