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 in which they are engaging in fieldwork at local sites in combination with workshops, discussions and research at SCMA. Guided by Professor Steven Moga and SCMA educator Charlene Shang Miller, students explore cultural landscapes, topography and land forms, abandonment and decay, and sense of place. In this pop-up, they consider photographs as documentation and as art, as well as inspiration for their own photographic work.
SCMA friends receive a 20% discount in the SCMA Shop.