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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.
Join SCMA Curator Emma Chubb and Landscape Curator at the Smith Botanic Garden Lily Carone for a virtual SCMA Conversations program exploring the connections between Alma Thomas's vibrant abstract paintings and landscape design. Through conversation and close looking, they'll examine how rhythm, pattern, color, and the natural world shape both gardens and abstraction.
Registration required.
Painting Nature: 19th-century American and French Landscapes brings together a group of paintings from three influential 19th-century movements: the Hudson River School, the Barbizon School, and French Impressionism. Though each developed independently, all shared a deep engagement with nature at a time of rapid industrialization and urban growth.
VIRTUAL EVENT