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Smith College Museum of Art.

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Olivia wearing a denim jacket with a bright pink background and framed with flowers.

Summer Curatorial Research Intern: Olivia White ’20 (UMass MA ’25)

As a master’s student in the History of Art & Architecture Department at the University of

Questions and answers from Defiant Vision: Prints & poetry by Munio Makuuchi

In this series, Aprile Gallant, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs answers visitor questions about the SCMA exhibition Defiant Vision: Prints & Poetry by Munio Makuuchi. Visit the exhibition to pose a question in the comment book, then check the book and SCMA Insider for the answers! Our first question explores Makuuchi's selective use of color in his work.
Munio Makuuchi American, 1934–2000. On Boys day I 'I.D.' with Rocky Mountain Salmon . . . / . . . So where’s the Salmon?, 1985.

Honoring Kurt Lang (January 25, 1924—May 1, 2019)

Henriette Kets de Vries is the Cunningham Center Manager and Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the SCMA. She worked closely with Kurt Lang and featured works from his collection in the exhibition No Man's Land: Prints from the Front Lines of WWI.

Kurt Lang in the 1940s while he was home on leave from U.S. Army basic training during World II

"When this you see remember me": Embroidered Samplers at SCMA

Girls worked on their first samplers when they were as young as six or seven. These first samplers were called marking samplers, and they often featured the alphabet and numbers along with demonstrations of basic embroidery techniques. If girls attended secondary school, they might also make another more decorative embroidery, called a pictorial sampler.
Adam and Eve standing under and reaching up toward large Tree of Life with small plant on either side of each figure and two clouds in sky on each side of tree, child's name and date underneath surrounded by stylized flowering vine

Vanguards of Ukiyo-e: The Women of Modern Japanese Printmaking

These women, who have embraced the art of ukiyo-e in the 20th and 21st centuries, differ widely in style from both the works of the famed forefathers of Japanese printmaking and one another. However, the influence of those who came before left a definite imprint, while the global exchange and rights gained for women after World War II allowed for development of the individual styles developed by these contemporary print makers.
Sheets of paper and hats swept up in the wind as travelers struggle with the wind under bare trees. Silhouette of Mt Fuji in distance.

Theresa Bernstein at the SCMA: Armistice Day Parade

In 1918, the war ended on the eleventh day of the eleventh month at 11 am, when the armistice between Germany and the Allied forces went into effect. One year later, Bernstein watched the Armistice Day parade as it made its way down Fifth Avenue in New York City.
city square teeming with people watching a military parade in front of large stone monument, bare park trees behind them with tall buildings on the opposite side

The 2018-2019 Student Picks Lottery Is Now Open!

Enter by September 21st for a chance to curate your own pop-up art show in the Cunningham Center for Prints, Drawings and Photographs. Student Picks exhibitions take place on the last Thursday of every month from 4-8pm as part of SCMA's Thursday evening student programming.
Colorful swirling sky with Saint Nicholas, cats, faces and swimming fish, quarter moon face on either side. At the bottom is a sepia toned table and people seated around it.
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