Selected by eight Smith College faculty members, these 35 Japanese woodblock prints invite viewers to consider how works of art can speak across disciplines. Faculty participants came from art history, East Asian studies, History, and Chemistry. Their choices reflect a wide range of personal, scholarly, and teaching perspectives.
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Register by October 1. SCMA is a registered PD Provider for the state of Massachusetts.
What can plants and artworks teach us about ourselves and our communities? How do artists play a role in helping us to understand the natural world and our place in it?
Data Consciousness and Luminous Abstraction
Public reception to follow.
This lecture brings W.E.B. Du Bois's pioneering data visualizations into dialogue with Alma Thomas's luminous abstractions, tracing a shared commitment to visualizing Black life beyond statistical reduction or representational constraint. Together, Du Bois and Thomas reveal how data can function as both evidence and imagination, expanding the possibilities of aesthetic practice, historical interpretation, and collective liberation.
A special visit for caregivers and children under two.
Artist Sydney Mieko King seeks new ways of imaging the body and its trace through continuous material exploration.
Open to all Smith undergraduates. Only 15 students selected.