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SCMAinsider offers dynamic perspectives on the diverse collections and visions that shape the
Smith College Museum of Art.
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Outside the Box: Frames to Focus on During Your Next SCMA Visit
Kay Horak ‘24 is a self-designed Art Conservation Major with a Mathematical Sciences Minor and Museums Concentration.
SCMA History: Jere Abbott's Russian Diary
Both Alfred H. Barr and Jere Abbott kept diaries during their time in the Soviet Union, which lasted from January through March 1928.
Student Perspective: Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographs
When I decided to complete my college education at nearly 50 years of age, Julia Margaret Cameron became my inspiration.
Something wicked this way comes
With the approach of Halloween, and the days getting shorter and darker, I got inspired to investigate the story behind one of the more grotesque and interesting Italian prints in our collection.
Bruegel and the Art of Ambiguity
No artist was more attuned to complexity than the Flemish master Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
El Muro (The Wall)
Hernández Santos’s project strives to represent, in his words “the inner essence of a people who struggle to define and defend their right to be themselves, to have a space of their own.”
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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.
Announcing Student Picks Winners 2011-2012
Congratulations to the Student Picks winners for the 2011–2012 academic year!
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.
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.
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.
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.