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Free Second Friday

4–8pm
second fridays
museum of art
From 4–8pm, participate in hands-on art-making and a guided conversation in the galleries. 

4–7pm Hands on! Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view. Light up the Night—Create luminous treasure boxes to light up the dark days of winter, inspired by the shape and colors of the reliquary box on the 2nd floor of the museum
 
6pm Open Eyes: Guided conversation exploring a different art object each month.
 
Museum shop open + complimentary light refreshments. 

Dancing the museum: Practice and performance

4:30–7pm
talks
museum of art

This event focuses on the increasing presence of dance programs in museums and galleries. The program will feature a 4:30pm performance by the Five College Dance Department in the museum, followed by a panel discussion in Graham auditorium at 5pm. This international trend has fostered unprecedented collaboration between dancers and curators, catalyzed new modes of spectatorship for dance and museum, and opened fresh possibilities for intermedia, site-specific projects at the intersection of dance and the visual arts.

collection 

highlights

The museum’s collection includes more than 27,000 artworks dating from antiquity to the present and created by artists from around the world. Select objects from the collection are below and all objects are accessible online through the Five College database.

Art meets you

Discover artworks from across periods and geographies in our permanent collection galleries and our temporary exhibitions. Engaging people with first-hand experiences of art, artists and museum practice is core to SCMA's mission. 

Collection: The museum's collection ranges from ancient Greek vases to contemporary video art. The works in our permanent collection galleries are rotated regularly, so there's something new to see each time you visit.

Alma Thomas, American, 1891–1978. Morning in the Bowl of Night, 1973. Acrylic on canvas.

Alma Thomas: The Light of the Whole Universe

July 27, 2018–December 1, 2019
This gallery installation centers on a recent SCMA acquisition, Alma Thomas' 1973 painting Morning in the Bowl of Night, and features artworks from the permanent collection that are largely from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.
Ci Wara Mother and Child

Object Histories: From the African Continent to the SCMA Galleries

August 2018–June 2020

This special installation, from SCMA's collection, traces the unique histories of over 20 of the Museum’s most important works of African art. New research has connected artists with objects that were previously unattributed, while the roles of collectors and donors are examined in conjunction with the objects’ own cultural histories and meanings.

Honoring Kurt Lang (January 25, 1924—May 1, 2019)

Henriette Kets de Vries is the Cunningham Center Manager and Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the SCMA. She worked closely with Kurt Lang and featured works from his collection in the exhibition No Man's Land: Prints from the Front Lines of WWI.

Kurt Lang in the 1940s while he was home on leave from U.S. Army basic training during World II
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