Beyond the Museum: Art on Smith's Campus
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A Memory of Emma Amos (1937–2020) and the acquisition of One Who Watches
May 6, 2021
In 2001, the Smith College Black Students Alliance gave a painting, One Who Watches, by Emma Amos to SCMA. Alona C. Wilson, former Curatorial Assistant and Manager of the Cunningham Study Center, recounts her memories of this collaborative… read more
New Acquisition: Saloua Raouda Choucair
April 9, 2021
Curator of Contemporary Art Emma Chubb discusses sculptor Saloua Raouda Choucair's Dual, a recent acquisition on view in SCMA Then\Now\Next.
Returning to the SCMA Galleries
March 25, 2021
Ariella Heise ‘22 recounts her first visit to SCMA since the galleries closed a year ago.
Divine Nature: Two Dutch painted landscapes side by side, part I
February 18, 2021
Henriette Kets de Vries discusses two paired Dutch landscape paintings from the Then\Now\Next exhibition. This week, part one with Jan van Goyen's Landscape View Of Rijnland (1647).
A Pair of Paintings in SCMA Then\Now\Next
January 21, 2021
One of my favorite pairings from 'SCMA Then\Now\Next' is separated by nearly five centuries: a Cubist painting by Picasso and a small Renaissance panel painting.