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March 15, 2024

9:30–11:30 am
Smith College Museum of Art

Register here: https://bit.ly/4aHvLGG
Artful adventures in and around the museum for 2–5 year olds and their caregivers!  Explore a different theme each session, offered on selected Fridays through the year, plus a Sensory-Inclusive Saturday session. Registered families can join us in the Atrium of the Smith College Museum of Art for open play and art experiences from 9:30–11:30. 

Upon arrival, sign up for a museum tour slot for 9:45, 10:15, or 10:45 am. These interactive experiences in the galleries for up to ten children and their caregivers will be led by museum educator Gina Hall. Families can connect, play, and create in the Atrium with NPS early childhood educator, Ashley Miller, when not in the museum. Participation will be capped at 30 children.

March 28, 2024

5–7pm
March Art After Hours: Smithies in the Wild
Smith College Museum of Art

This event is free and open to all Smith students.

Celebrate the start of spring with your fellow Smithies at the art museum! Make a pom-pom animal, take it into the galleries, and snap a selfie to win a special prize. There will be snacks, face painting, and more!

March 29, 2024

5 pm
Klingenstein Browsing Room, Neilson Library

This event is free and open to the public. 
 

The Kahn Liberal Arts Institute and the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) welcome Dr. Charmaine A. Nelson, Provost Professor of Art History and director of the Slavery North Initiative, University of Massachusetts Amherst, to deliver the lecture, “Allegory, Race and the Four Continents: Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Les quatre parties du monde soutenant la sphere céleste (The Four Parts of the World Supporting the Celestial Sphere).”
 

April 12, 2024

4–8pm
Smith College Museum of Art

Join us for an evening of sensory experiences inspired by nature!

Drop in for hands-on! art making activities in the museum’s atrium and enjoy light refreshments from 4–7pm. Explore still life paintings and landscapes in the galleries, and then bring the sweet smells of spring to life with “scratch and sniff” scented paint on watercolor paper. April showers bring May flowers!
 

Start at the top level of the museum to explore nature and its forms in the third floor reinstallation Worlds in Process: Art from the SCMA Collection and then look for representations of flowers, fruit, and other “scentsory” delights in each floor of the museum. 
 

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