April Second Friday

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

From 4-6 p.m. Visit Hillyer Art Library to enjoy an installation of children's art from The Smith College Center for Early Childhood Education at Fort Hill. This program is presented as part of Northampton's Week of the Young Child Celebration.
 

From 5:30–6 p.m. Gallery Talk with artist Gina Siepel: One Half Log, Divided into a Chair and Scraps, and To Understand a Tree
Targan Gallery, Lower Level

Gina Siepel will discuss the process and concepts informing One Half Log, Divided into a Chair and Scraps, currently on view at SCMA, in the context of their long-term project To Understand a Tree, made as an artist-in-residence at the MacLeish Field Station between 2019-2024.

From 4–7 p.m. Drop in for hands-on art making in the Boeckman Sculpture Court (Museum Atrium).  All ages welcome.

Gather, assemble, balance, and hang–make your own nature mobile from found natural materials inspired by the artist Gina Siepel and their installation One Half Log Divided into a Chair and Scraps, Found Highland Park, Greenfield, 2022, on view on the Lower Level of the museum. Explore a sensory table of touch materials with special guests, the Smith College Botanic Garden Student Educators (BoGSEs).  

From 4–8 p.m. Enjoy four floors of art, plus experience a one-night-only pop-up to view works in the Cunningham Center.

Ways of Seeing: Landscape and Photography Pop-Up in the Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs

Curated by students in the Landscape Studies course Place Frames: Photography as Research Method, guided by Professor Steven Moga and SCMA educator Charlene Shang Miller. Through fieldwork, workshops, and research at SCMA, students explore cultural landscapes, topography, abandonment, and sense of place, examining photographs as both documentation and art to inspire their own work.

SCMA friends receive a 20% discount in the Museum Shop.

Photos by Grace Sincair