Artful Afternoons: Collection Highlights with SCMA Curators
1 PM
Grounded: Experiencing the Work of Younes Rahmoun at Smith and Abroad
Indigo Casais ’23 writes about the work of artist Younes Rahmoun, both on Smith's campus and abroad.
Lorenzo di Credi's "Portinari Tondo": A Painting for a Medici Banker
Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Painting and Sculpture, highlights a recently acquired Italian Renaissance painting.
Installing Brought to Life: Painted Wood Sculpture from Europe, 1300–1700
Kelly Holbert, Exhibition Manager, gives a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of preparing and installing an exhibition.
On September 16, an exhibition opened at the SCMA that was different in appearance that most of the exhibitions that had preceded it. This time light was controlled and altered on every surface, from glass windows to partition walls, creating an inviting, dappled, green world filled with color and sound.
Artful Afternoons: Collection Highlights with SCMA Curators
I:00 pm
Featuring the theme Bodies and Abstraction.
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Join Emma Chubb, Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art, for a look at how abstract artworks in our collections evoke and engage the body. This themed tours will last between 30 and 45 minutes and highlight works of art across the museum’s galleries.
Northampton Bag Day @ SCMA
11 am–4 pm
Stop by the SCMA Shop on November 19 during museum hours (11 a.m.–4 p.m.) and receive 20% off your entire purchase! This event is in-person only.
SCMA Stroller Tour
9:30 am
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SCMA, partnering with Northampton Public School's Early Childhood Center, is pleased to offer this new series of thematic stroller tours. The December 8 tour theme is LIGHT and is for caregivers, with infants in tow, to connect to other caregivers and build community through art.
SCMA Stroller Tour
9:30 am
SCMA, partnering with Northampton Public School's Early Childhood Center, is pleased to offer this new series of thematic stroller tours. This November 10 tour's theme is CARE and is for caregivers, with infants in tow, to connect to other caregivers and build community through art.
Family Weekend: Student Art Spark Talk at the Smith College Museum of Art
3:00 pm
Take a look at some of the art on view at the Smith College Museum of Art with Smith College Student Workers. This is the first in a series of short student-led talks that will highlight some of the research and learning students are doing to contribute to the museum's collections.
Agano Machiko: Untitled
November 4, 2022–July 9, 2023
Trained as a weaver, Agano Machiko is known today for fiber art installations that capture the invisible forces of nature. In the late 1990s, she began knitting fishing line and steel wire together in garter stitch with oversized needles.