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November 06, 2025

3:15–4:45pm
Smith College Museum of Art

Celebrating Cromwell Day

Crafting your Image: Drop-in photo studio experience

Thursday, November 6, 3:15–4:45pm, Smith College Museum of Art

Stop by the Smith College Museum of Art to see photographs made by Cameroonian portrait photographer Michel Kameni in the current exhibition Michel Kameni: Portraits of an Independent Africa, and create your own individual or group pictures in the Kameni-inspired photo studio. SCMA Educators will be on hand to help photograph and print personal polaroids to take with you. Highlight and capture your identity, creativity, and community. Open to all Smith College students, faculty, and staff.

November 07, 2025

11am–3:30pm
Pop-Up: French Prints of the 17th-century: Art Nature, and Politics
Smith College Museum of Art

The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies 44th Annual International Conference present a pop-up exhibition that includes a selection of prints at the Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Smith College Museum of Art.

Co-sponsored by Smith College, the Five Colleges and Villa Albertine-Consulat Général de France a Boston. 

9:30–11:30am
Smith College Museum of Art

Register here: bit.ly/45Fz1R4

Artful adventures in and around the museum for 2–5 year-olds and their caregivers!  Explore a different theme in each session on selected Fridays throughout the year. 

Registered families can join us in the Atrium of the Smith College Museum of Art for open play and art experiences from 9:30–11:30am. Upon arrival, sign up for a museum tour slot for 9:45, 10:15, or 10:45 am. Museum educator Gina Hall will lead these interactive experiences in the galleries for up to ten children and their caregivers. Families can connect, play, and create in the Atrium with NPS early childhood educator, Ashley Miller, when not in the museum. Please feel free to join us anytime between 9:30–11:30 am.

Participation will be capped at 30 children.

November 14, 2025

4–8pm
Smith College Museum of Art

SCMA is free and open to all!
Join us from 4–8pm for an evening of art, making, and community at the Smith College Museum of Art.  Galleries are open until 8pm.

From 4–7pm Drop in for hands-on art making in the museum’s atrium and build your own mini-gallery! All ages welcome.

November 22, 2025

November 22–23, 2025
Museum Shop at the Smith College Museum of Art

Bag Day weekend is coming up! We’ve got art bags, zipper bags, tote bags, and maybe even a bag for your bag. Shop local, shop art, and get 20% off all weekend! In-store + online with Holidays20 at checkout.

December 12, 2025

4–8pm
Smith College Museum of Art

Join us from 4–8pm for an evening of art, making, and community at the Smith College Museum of Art.  Galleries are open until 8pm. SCMA is free and open to all!

  • From 4–7pm Drop in for hands-on art making in the Museum’s atrium! 
    All ages welcome.

    Fold paper stars inspired by Younes Rahmoun’s sculpture Markhaba (2016/2024), and create a twinkling garland to hang in your home for the holiday season.

    For one night only, step inside and experience the sculpture Markhaba from the inside. Staff will be on hand to assist and guide you through the experience. Markhaba by Younes Rahmoun is currently on view in the lower level gallery. Please note that entry into the sculpture may require careful crouching and ducking.
     

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