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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

August 27, 2025

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

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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.

“It was the Best of Times”: American Prints of the Great Depression

The decade of the Great Depression was seen not only as a time of immense strife and hardship, but also as a time for people to come together.

A woman playing a harp for a group of men

The Iconography of Constance Pott

The writer expressed what was abundantly clear: Constance Pott was a true master. But today, she is largely forgotten.

An old dock. Sailboats line the shore in the background. There is a barrel in the water, at left. Seagulls fly overhead.

Collecting the Past: Kenojuak Ashevak

This pencil drawing on wove paper by Kenojuak Ashevak, one of the most well-known modern Inuit artists, represents two human figures encircled by animals and sea deities against a blank background.

man and boy in snow suits between two mermaid-like creatures, with animal and two birds

Collecting the Past: Kannibalen Bioethicists

Enrique Chagoya is currently a professor of Art and Art History at Stanford University, but was born and raised in Mexico City, Mexico. It was here that he became more aware of ancient indigenous beliefs, imagination, and history.

image of a man in the center, with various drawings above his head and text below that reads, "Abenteuer Der Kannibalen Bioethicists"

Collecting the Past: Marilyn Bridges

In 1976, during a trip to Peru, Marilyn Bridges flew in a small plane for the first time over the Nazca lines. She had previously taken photographs for travel publications but had now discovered a type of photography that would define the rest of her career.