Educators 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? 

Person sitting in front of a table with curly hair, wearing a silvery dress, a large ring on hand resting on the table and has other hand resting on her cheek as they look at the viewer

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.

SCMA Conversations: Alma Thomas and the Language of Landscape

12:15 p.m.
Virtual

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.

Wooded landscape painting in forest with people and path

Painting Nature: 19th-century American and French Landscapes

Ongoing

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. 

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