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Hello, I’m Grace Sinclair, and I’m excited to join the Smith College Museum of Art as the new Post-Baccalaureate Assistant in Marketing and Communications. I am starting this position alongside two other Post‐Baccalaureates, Curatorial Assistant Lucy Montgomery, and Assistant Museum Educator Lilly Watson, and am looking forward to working with them.

Hi! My name is Lucy Montgomery (she/her) and I am the Bodnar Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Assistant at SCMA until 2027. I’m excited to join the entering cohort of SCMA post-baccs with Grace Sinclair (she/her) in Marketing and Communications and Lilly Watson ‘25 (they/them) in Education.

Marcela Pareja-Araujo is a second-year MA student specializing in colonial and postcolonial Latin American art. Her research interests include the Quito School, Baroque art, and the interplay of indigenous and European influences.

Danielle Carrabino is the Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SCMA.

Julia Sumpter ‘27 is a History and Italian Major and Museums Concentrator. She works at the SCMA as a curatorial research assistant to Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Painting and Sculpture. 

So, what exactly is Frederic Church 200 and why is the Smith College Museum of Art participating with a label and blog post?

Henriette Kets de Vries is the Associate Curator and Manager of the Cunningham Study Center for Prints, Drawings and Photographs.

Art has always been instrumental in challenging the establishment. Historically, well-known European artists such as Francisco Goya or Honoré Daumier tackled hard issues by holding up a mirror and calling people out. Making art like this is never without danger. These controversial artists risk censure, imprisonment, or banishment, often working in total obscurity for the good of the cause.

Anna Ziegler is a senior Art History major and works at the Cunningham Center at SCMA. Here, she shares a day spent at MacLeish for the January-term course MUX222: When Contemporary Art Goes Outside.

As a community health organizer, I worked with SCMA over the J-term to develop and refine mindfulness projects in the museum space. Bridging wellness and art at Smith has been on my senior year bucket list! This opportunity refreshed and added on my perspectives, as a peer health educator, a museum visitor, and a museum staff member. As SCMA is working towards diverse ways to interact and engage the student community, I am excited to see how mindfulness experiences change visitors’ perspectives on wellness, artworks, museum spaces, and more!

Olivia Sarno ‘25 is a World Literatures and Spanish Double Major, and a Museums Concentrator. She has worked as a Student Museum Educator at the SCMA since 2022. 

Claire Enerson (‘27) is an Anthropology and Italian Double Major, and a Museums concentrator. She works at the SCMA as a Student Museum Educator.

What if museum education strategies used on artworks could also apply to plants?

At Smith College, two student educator groups work to engage visitors with collections on campus. The Student Museum Educators lead K-12 school group tours in the SCMA galleries and the Botanic Garden Student Educators support student involvement in Lyman Plant House. I organized a collaborative workshop with these two cohorts in February.

Clara Cho Wun Ma is the Jane Chace Carroll Associate Curator of Asian Art

At the end of January 2025, billions of people across the world, from China to Vietnam to
diaspora communities in the U.S., celebrate the Lunar New Year, the beginning of a new year on
the lunisolar calendar. How do people use this calendar to measure time? And in Chinese art,
how does artwork tell us about Chinese perception of the movement of the universe?

Aprile Gallant is Mary Walcott Keyes 1931 Curator of Prints, Drawings and