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Smith College Museum of Art.

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Lilly standing in a black and white tile bathroom and pulling a white, amorphous full-body suit up and over their head.

Welcome Lilly Watson, Our New Assistant Museum Educator

Hello everyone! My name is Lilly Watson (they/them) and I am the new Post Baccalaureate Assistant Museum Educator here at SCMA.

Student Picks: Workers in the Shadows

Cities are a subject that continue to fascinate artists. Urban photographers have long been trying to capture the “essence” of the city by emphasizing qualities such as scale, speed, and connectivity. There are some features, however, that go very much unnoticed. 
horse drawn trolley; man wearing hat and coat with back to viewer in center; word "Harlem" on top of trolley

T. Frantisek Simon

Simon was known as a painter, but became intrigued by the new methods of printmaking—etching, aquatint, dry point, and woodcut— which were just starting to gain popularity in Bohemia
a street lined with stores on both the left and right; horse-drawn carriages and carts in the middle of the street

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
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