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 8 p.m. 

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

Feel the flow this Second Friday and come create abstract paintings inspired by the artist Amanda Williams’ painting,Typographical Lapse in Territorial Judgement. Williams worked with scientists to recreate George Washington Carver’s patent for blue pigment using soil in Alabama. She used the developed paint to create and map out ideas of place, memory, and Black culture using methods of abstraction on the canvas.

Now, we invite you to come to the museum to experiment with natural pigments. Take home a palette of watercolors created with natural pigments created by artist and SCMA Assistant Museum Educator Lilly Watson. If you need a place to start, pick up a set of questions inspired by Amanda Williams’ work to guide your art making. 

Aprons will be provided. Plan on wearing clothes you don’t mind getting stained.

At 5:30pm 
Join a gallery Talk with Curator Danielle Carrabino

SCMA Curator of Painting and Sculpture Danielle Carrabino will take us on a journey through the color blue. This program is presented in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Revolution in Massachusetts. 

From 4–8 p.m.  Enjoy four floors of art.