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Pop-Up Student Sale: Cards & Art at SCMA

Museum Hours: 11 a.m–4 p.m.
SCMA Shop

This sale runs September 8 to September 13th.

Decorate your Dorm with art! 
Come to the Smith College Museum of Art September 8–13th for cards, catalogs, and other ephemera to beautify your living space.

Show your Student ID to get SCMA cards for $1, deep discounts on select other SCMA-made items and 10% off on everything else. Cash, credit card or tap accepted. 

Museum is closed Mondays and otherwise open 11am-4 pm daily, and open until 8pm on the 11th for our monthly Second Friday events. Stop in & enjoy the art!

Behind the Scenes: Inside SCMA’s Collection with SCMA Friends

1–2 p.m.
Smith College Museum of Art

Curious where artworks hang out when they’re not on view? Join us for an SCMA Open House just for SCMA Friends, including Smith Students, and get a behind-the-scenes peek at our collections storage. Tour the climate-controlled spaces where thousands of works live and hear from the Collections Management team about handling, housing, and conservation.

Streetscape with a baby blue old car in foreground with street in foreground, then an empty plaza and then buildings in background, two that have silhouettes of men on them

Coco Fusco: The Empty Plaza/La Plaza Vacía

August 31, 2026–February 26, 2027

Coco Fusco’s The Empty Plaza/La Plaza Vacía (2012) layers sound and image as a way to reflect on Havana’s Plaza de la Revolución and its shifting meaning in Cuban public life. Combining contemporary footage with archival recordings, still photography, and poetic narration by Cuban journalist Yoani Sánchez, Fusco traces the plaza’s transformation from a symbol of revolutionary optimism to a site associated with surveillance, repression, and unfulfilled promises.

On view in the New Media Gallery on the Lower Level. 

Print of a Seated person in a Kimono with elaborate images of houses and palm trees all around the person

Beyond the Floating World: Viewing Japanese Prints with Smith Faculty

October 9, 2026–April 4, 2027

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.

Educator Open House

10 a.m–-4 p.m.
Botanic Garden of Smith College and Smith College Museum of Art

Register by emailing: museduc@smith.edu for more information and to RSVP for individuals or groups. 
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? 

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Miller Lecture in Art History with Dr. Tiffany E. Barber

5 p.m.
Carroll Room at the Smith College Campus Center

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.

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