Blue and brown watercolor-like drawing of six birds, three unknown animals and one person

Birds of a Feather

November 3, 2026–March 21, 2027
Across cultures and centuries, birds have served as messengers of environmental shift, seasonal change, and human experience. Built from public votes, "Birds of a Feather" gathered a communal "nest" of artworks from the SCMA works on paper collection. These votes determined a display that reflects our shared local voice onto the walls of SCMA.
Print in blue, green and orange of an elaborate boat with four people in it on water with greenery and a building on shore in background

Border Crossing: Asian Art at Smith

1:45–3:45pm
Cunningham Center, Smith College Museum of Art

The natural and urban landscapes of Asia have long been a source of inspiration for artists. Oftentimes shaped by memories, imagination, and contested narratives, artistic representations of these landscapes transcend cultural, temporal, and spatial boundaries. Drawn from the collection of the Smith College Museum of Art, this pop-up exhibit features artworks that invite us to rethink human borders through their deep engagement with landscape. 

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Art After Hours: Sensory Serenade

6–8:30pm
Smith College Museum of Art

Unwind with a night of guided meditation in the galleries and art making inspired by the exhibition Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Customize your own scent palette with DIY sachets or craft a mosaic coaster inspired by Alma Thomas. Specialty tea and treats provided! For all Smith students. Co-sponsored with the Botanic Garden.

 

Three images in a row, on left is a brick building behind a vertical outdoor banner that reads Second Friday, Middle of a group of people making art at tables from bird's eye view and on the right a smiling person with dark hair in a brightly patterned robe with hands close together in front of their face

October Second Friday: Ghost Stories

4–8 p.m.
Smith College Museum of Art

Celebrate spooky season at SCMA with an evening of art, storytelling, and hands-on making. SCMA is free and open to all.
 
October Second Friday celebrates the spooky season and marks the opening of the installation Beyond the Floating World: Viewing Japanese Prints with Smith Faculty. Selected by eight Smith College faculty members, these 35 Japanese woodblock prints invite viewers to consider how works of art can speak across disciplines. 
 
4–7 p.m. | Art Making

Graphic that has green scarf, earring, blue socks, necklace of metal circles, circular designs with moon and stars on them and text that reads: Friends Fall Sale, November 5–8

Friends Fall Sale

Onsite and in-person
Museum Shop at the Smith College Museum of Art

Thursday, November 5–Sunday, November 8
Online and in-person

Stop by the Museum Shop at the Smith College Museum of Art from Thursday, November 5–Sunday, November 8 to receive a 20% discount all SCMA Shop purchases for active museum members!  
This event is in-person and online. Museum Shop Hours: 11 a.m–4 p.m., Tues–Sun
 

Loveis Wise photo of a person with hand on chin looking at camera

New Narratives Lecture with Loveis Wise

7pm
Neilson Library

The Campus School of Smith College presents Loveis Wise. An award-winning, New York Times bestselling illustrator and art director, Loveis is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores liberation, reimagines futures, and celebrates community. 

The keynote lecture is free and open to the public.

Follow this Zoom link to view the lecture on November 17 from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center presents Ama Codjoe / 2026 Cromwell Day Poet

7pm
Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College

The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center presents Poet Ama Codjoe. 

Ama Codjoe’s 2022 debut, Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, was described by Ada Limón as “sensual, sound-driven, and brimming with a necessary truth…pulsating with both grief and beauty.” Codjoe’s other work includes 2020’s Blood of the Air (Northwestern University Press), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. 

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