current, upcoming & past

The third floor galleries are closed for renovations and upgrades. Visitors can enjoy the new, reimagined space starting in early 2024. Learn more!

Grid 4 rectangles wide by three rectangles tall of collage in palette of sea green when together, look like a map of the earth

Sum of Its Parts: Multi-Panel Works on Paper from the Collection

September 1, 2023–January 7, 2024

This installation includes multi-panel photographs, prints, and collages from the SCMA collection made between the 17th and 21st centuries. This selection highlights the long history and many approaches to making modular works of art.

vertical multi colored woodcut print of young child wrestling with a huge fish

Figuration and Abstraction: Asian Art at SCMA

July 28, 2023 through May 2024

Drawing from the SCMA's holdings of Asian art collected over more than a century, this exhibition features paintings, sculptures, prints, and religious and decorative arts that engage with the discourse of figuration versus abstraction.

Person standing on the side of a road next to a car, in a leather jacket with scarf over their face with a hat that reads: Make America Indigenous Again, holding cardboard sign over their head that reads "Water is Life," No DAPL

Multiplying Power: Image as Protest in Prints and Photographs

March 24, 2023–January 2024

This installation displays a range of prints and photographs from the SCMA collection whose circulation documents and sparks social change.

Photo of the Ancient Gallery Installation

The Ancient World Gallery

Ongoing

In 2019, the display of SCMA’s ancient art collection was reimagined to provide a more global view of the ancient world. Previously, this gallery’s scope had been limited to Egyptian, Greek and Roman art. The gallery now includes ancient objects from China, Japan, Korea, Persia and the Americas. Arranged in thematic groupings, these artworks span several millennia and encompass a wide range of media.

Beyond the Museum: Art on Smith's Campus

Ongoing

Smith College is home to more than a dozen publicly accessible, mostly outdoor artworks that you can visit anytime you are on campus. Discover them all!

Still from movie with abstract image of a woman in foreground with colorful sleeveless shirt and reflection on her face

Deborah Jack: the water between us remembers, so we carry this history on our skins, long for a sea-bath and hope that the salt will heal what ails us (2018)

June 30, 2023–February 4, 2024

How do memory, place, nature, and the afterlives of slavery and colonialism connect? What possibilities do video (as a medium) and beauty (as an aesthetic approach) offer artists interested in these connections?