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.

This pot is cream in color, with a black scene of animals (deer, bird) and plants (trees, cactus) painted onto the vessel. Mountains and clouds are also featured. A black line encompasses the rim. Like other Tohono O'odham ceramics, a large portion of the vessel is left painted white with little decoration.

Always Been Here: Indigenous Artwork Reemerges from Storage

September 7, 2022

Isabel Cordova graduated from Smith College in 2019 with a degree in Studio Art, American Studies, and a concentration in Museum Studies.

Odd Couples: Venus vs. Eve

The correlation between Adam and Eve and Venus and Adonis is not as farfetched as it may seem at first glance.

Adam and Eve, side by side, heads turned toward each other; next to trees and animals

Announcing Student Picks Winners 2011-2012

Congratulations to the Student Picks winners for the 2011–2012 academic year!

woman stands next to a red bucket reading a slip of paper

Student Picks: Women, Woodblock Prints and Words

The staff of the Cunningham Center gave me an opportunity to develop, shape and curate an exhibition that was a transformational experience for me.

upper half of image with partial sun and radiating beams; lower half line drawing of sideways face with eye, nose, and mouth all connected with one line; small specks emanating from eyelashes

Student Picks: Who Is She, Really?

I decided to center my show on “questions”: questions the artists ask, questions I posed, and questions the viewer might ask.

black woman seated on bed wearing white dress and holding a cigarette, legs spread open, text between her legs: "Portrait of a woman who has / fallen from grace and into / the hands of evil."

Teaching: Language classes in the Cunningham Center

My classes and I have been fortunate to benefit from the Cunningham Center for many years and in many ways.

group of people (mostly men) walking from left to right; man in center middle ground carrying scythe, two other men carrying axes; woman in center foreground carrying sleeping child on her back

A Double Take on Edward Hopper

Hopper's prints, like his paintings, are subtle vignettes of urban experience, rendered with psychological acuity and an eye to formal abstraction.

girl kneels in a bed, facing away from the viewer toward a window with blowing curtains

Introducing Student Picks

Our students help us see the collection fresh, through new eyes; they light on objects we rarely use or pair works we never would have thought of pairing.