SCMAinsider

SCMAinsider offers dynamic perspectives on the diverse collections and visions that shape the
Smith College Museum of Art.

We welcome contributions from all members of our community and seek to cultivate a range of
voices and experiences. If you want to contribute to the blog, please contact us at scmacuratorial@smith.edu.

January at SCMA: Museums and Meditation at MacLeish

Anna Ziegler is a senior Art History major and works at the Cunningham Center at SCMA.

Jo Ortel ’83 on the Work of Truman Lowe

"I have to say, I have very little time anymore for art that hangs politely in museums. I really think that there has to be some connection with the current issues, and the environment seems, to me, to be among the most important."
freestanding sculpture; blue painted wood base, two sticks rising up out of the base, smaller colorful sticks balanced on top of those two sticks

About That Narrative: Hương Ngô

As the only audiovisual piece in my series on artworks addressing memory, the video poses a compelling question: how do speaking and listening contribute to our recollections of the past?
three side-by-side screens appear with two sisters in black shirts, the artist on the right, her sister on the left, with the artist's young niece in a white shirt in the center, wearing white headphones against a light background; all three have long dark hair

From the archives: Never Exhausted

From the archives: Cunningham Center Brown Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow Maggie Kurkoski '12 on master wood engraver Paul Landacre.
Nude woman with long hair holding onto mane of a rearing black horse, dark clouds in sky, dark spiky grass below horse.

From the archives: T. Frantisek Simon

We hope you enjoy this historic post from 2015 by Maggie Hoot '16 about the prolific, intriguing, but little-known Czech printmaker T. Frantisek Simon.
a street lined with stores on both the left and right; horse-drawn carriages and carts in the middle of the street

About That Narrative: Joanne Leonard

Leonard’s interest in questioning photographic “truths” might serve as a way to tell a more accurate version of her family’s story by fracturing the materials at hand. 
images of women and children interspersed with handwritten text in white, images of red scissors, and handwritten and typescript diary notes

Expanding the View

'South Pass Wind River Mountains, Wyoming' came into SCMA's collection nearly 70 years ago, and our view keeps changing.
Desert mountain landscape; foreground of browns; midground of oranges, golds, and yellows; mountain horizon of golds, yellows, and blues. The sky is nearly cloudless.Groups of people – the size of ants – can be found in the valleys and mountainsides of the landscape.
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