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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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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.
Käthe Kollwitz: Darkness and Light
Empathy suffuses Kollwitz’s work, as though art were a way of identifying faces among the masses, drawing them out of anonymity.
Pictures of the Floating World
The word Uikyo-e means “pictures of the floating world.”
Albrecht Dürer: Genius and Fame
Over the course of the semester, I had the wonderful opportunity to not only learn about the fascinating world of Renaissance printmaking, but also to apply my new knowledge to writing the labels for our exhibition at the Smith College Museum of Art entitled "Albrecht Dürer: Genius and Fame."
Traveling through Pictures
A recent and favorite discovery of mine in the Cunningham Center’s collection is this complete collection of American travel stereographs of Egypt made during the early twentieth century.
Boom BOOM! by Dread Scott
Art isn’t always going to make you feel comfortable; in fact, most of the greatest masterpieces have been the cause of upheaval and revolution.
Collecting 101
Designed to be an introduction to the issues and practical matters of collecting for an institution, “Collecting 101” allowed students to directly participate in researching and purchasing a work on paper for the SCMA collection.
David Becker Day
December 11, 2010 was declared “David Becker Day” by the outgoing Governor of Maine John Baldacci.
The Guerrilla Girls
Far from being irrelevant, this 1995 print made me feel that my disappointment in the lack of diversity in museums was validated.
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.
