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Smith College Museum of Art.

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The intro text for the show is on the far left and a portrait of a person with gilded gold frame to the right of the intro text.

Thinking Through Drawing: On View through September 7, 2025

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

Death Intoxicates

Like many soldiers who would keep a diary or write poetry to help make sense of the utter madness and atrocities of war, Smith wanted to record his experiences on the battlefield.
skeleton wearing cloak stands in a desolate landscape, admiring a pair of soldier's boots with protruding bone shards

Fighting Injustice on a Cultural Front

This fall, the Smith College Museum of Art is showing an exhibition of second wave feminist artists, among them a group of artists known as Guerrilla Girls
white sheet, black text: THE ADVANTAGES / OF BEING / A WOMAN ARTIST: / Working without the pressure of success. / Not having to be in shows with men. / Having an escape from the art world in your 4 free-lance jobs. / Knowing your career might pick up after you're eighty. / Being reassured that whatever kind of art you make it will be labeled feminine. / Not being stuck in a tenured teaching position. / Seeing your ideas live on in the work of others. / Having the opportunity to choose between career and mot

José Luis Cuevas

Instead of focusing on a heroic vision of Mexico’s past and present, Cuevas and artists of “La Ruptura” (Rupture) turned their attention toward psychological states and the seamier sides of contemporary life.
black and white faded print of various male figures; text across the top reads "QUEVEDO"

Dislocation/Urban Experience

"Dislocation/Urban Experience: Contemporary Photographs from East Asia" is the first exhibition in SCMA’s new Carol T. Christ Gallery for Asian Art which opened Friday, October 9.
photographs of traditional Asian architecture against modern apartment buildings

Student Picks: SHE

How did women evaluate themselves? How did the photographer define the women through the lens? What kind of role was expected to be played by women? And how did women respond to the social expectations that already existed?
bust portrait of woman in fencing uniform, holding sword vertical over right eye and mask beside that

Books of Hours

The Book of Hours was a type of Christian prayer text that was extremely common in the Middle Ages.
woman in blue dress seated on right with baby; man kneeling on left; text below

Internal/External

Henry Spencer Moore is best known for his monumental sculpture, but his two-dimensional work is likewise compelling.
page of sculpture designs of abstracted figure-like shapes inside larger amorphous shapes

Your claim to frame.

It's time for the Student Picks Sweepstakes again! Every year, six Smith students get the chance to curate a one-day show at the Museum, using works from our very own Works on Paper collection.
woman in white holds gold picture frame up to two women in crowd

“Art Defeats Oven”

When Ganso was unable to take on any full-time employment, he began taking on shifts in bakeries to make ends meet.
Two nude women recline on a beach. On is partially shielded by an umbrella. There is a rowboat in the water.
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