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Jackie Walker ‘26 is a Psychology major and Studio Art Minor. They have worked as an Academic Programs Assistant at the SCMA since 2025.

In February, the SCMA Academic Program Assistants (AcPros) celebrated the first complete iteration of the SCMA sensory map with mentor, Charlene Shang Miller, and the Education Department. In conjunction with the accessibility goals of SCMA’s current exhibition, Don’t mind if I do, the museum began offering more sensory-friendly resources. Work on the sensory map began in fall 2025, and was completed in early spring 2026.
 

Neva Smith ‘29 is a Student Assistant in the SCMA’s Cunningham Center.

Z Stevens ‘25 is a graduate student at the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science. They have worked at SCMA in various capacities since 2023 and are currently the Collections Assistant.

1875: Smith College welcomes its first class of fourteen students.

1879: First purchases for the College Hall art gallery begin. The first recorded purchase is made in February, and Thomas Eakins’ In Grandmother’s Time, SCMA’s first accessioned object, is purchased in May.

Kaia Austin ‘26 is an Art History Major with a Museums Concentration. They have worked as an Academic Programs Assistant at the SCMA since 2022.

A dilapidated enclosure. A grungy white wall.  Ominous spillage of light. The haunting shadow of a cross that once was. These are the hallmarks of the official 2025 Meredith Moody Purchase photograph Saint Peter by S. Billie Mandle.

Gengwei Guo (he/him) is a second-year M.A. student specializing in Chinese painting and calligraphy at UMass Amherst. His current research interests include Ming and Qing dynasty bird-and-flower painting, Qing dynasty material culture, and women artists of the Qing period.

Rebecca McClung is a Ph.D. student in the history department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work focuses on modern Germany and the memory of the Holocaust in a divided postwar society.

Zoey Ochieng ‘28 is a Statistical and Data Science and Economics Major. She has worked as a Student Engagement Assistant at the SCMA since 2024 and as an Interpretations Intern last summer.

Hello everyone! My name is Lilly Watson (they/them) and I am the new Post Baccalaureate Assistant Museum Educator here at SCMA. I’m also excited to be a part of a new post-bacc cohort with Grace Sinclair (she/her) in the marketing department and Lucy Montgomery (she/her) in the curatorial department. 

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.