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.

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

Surreal Dreams and Nightmares

Though he was a contemporary of the Realists and Impressionists, Redon took a very different path, both in becoming an artist and what he created.
Seated figure with a floating hollow orb above him and a solid dark orb next to him

What’s your ART STORY?

This upcoming weekend, Smith College will formally welcome Kathleen McCartney as the 11th President of Smith College. The Museum is celebrating her inauguration with ART STORIES, a special exhibition featuring art that has left a lasting impression on the widespread Smith community.
two women stand in front of a painting of a girl on a swing, looking at the painting and talking to one another

Eye on the Street: Joel Meyerowitz

While at first Meyerowitz shot both black and white and color film, in 1972 he made the unconventional decision to devote himself exclusively to color photography.
street view of a sidewalk with a bridge in the distance, staircase ascending along the right side of the image with grass and trees behind it

Student Picks Highlights

To celebrate the new year of student exhibitions, we’re highlighting pictures and blog posts from past Student Picks shows.
students standing in an art gallery. prints propped up on a table and on a cabinet

A Look at SCMA's Digitization Project

The Smith College Museum of Art has just completed a two-year digitization project, funded by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
man sitting at a desk with a bookshelf behind him. to the right are two large box lights projecting onto an easel with an artwork on it. man stands with a camera in front of the easel.

Native American Tribe Culture in Psychedelic Art

In my research for the current exhibition Summer of Love: Psychedelic Posters from the SCMA Collection, I came across an interesting undertone motivating counterculturists in 1960s America: tribe culture.
brown ground, black text around central photo of young man with long hair, feather in hair, wearing three bead necklaces

Mary Cassatt: The Fitting

European collectors and artists alike became fascinated by what they viewed as the novelty of Japanese art.
woman with hair in a bun, wearing a dress and reflected in a mirror behind her

Animal Locomotion

Muybridge’s work revolutionized the way scientists studied locomotion and physiology.
two rows of images of man riding horse; each image is at a slightly different stage in the horse's run

Paper + New People

Big news for the Cunningham Center: Julie Warchol, our 2012-2013 Curatorial Fellow, has started her M.A. in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago!
girl with brown hair and bangs standing in front of an Italian cathedral

Eye on the Street: Garry Winogrand

Winogrand created a multitude of frank and honest photographic studies that explore how people interact with their social environment.
dark interior, men in tuxedos and bow-ties dancing, in the center is a woman in white halter dress with jeweled earrings and short blond hair
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