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.

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.

Art from Cape Dorset

The Cape Dorset printing workshop emerged from an unusual seed: a pack of cigarettes.
Figure in canoe being chased by a monster in the water. Block of text under the image.

Paris

This was a city alive – everyone was going somewhere, doing something. Paris was the first city I fell in love with.
grey table top with white used coffee cup and saucer, used spoon and open black and white checked sugar packet

Arise Ye Dead

Ann Parker and Avon Neal captured dozens of these unique gravestones from all around New England through stone rubbings.
figure with wings and round face, surrounded by floral designs. text above figure's head reads "memento mori"

Mary Rogers Williams

While doing research on the early art faculty of Smith College for the Cunningham Center’s reinstallation of the works on paper collection, I came across Ms. Mary Rogers Williams.
Landscape with buildings, water and trees

BOW DOWN

There are fewer queens in the world than a century ago, but our fascination with royal women has continued.
woman in elaborate dress, carrying a fan, feathers in her hair. four other people stand behind her, attending to her. in the background, two figures talk amongst themselves.
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