July Second Friday
July's Second Friday's thread is Blue. Join us from 4–8 p.m. for an evening of art, making, and community at the Smith College Museum of Art. Galleries are open until 8 p.m. SCMA is free and open to all.
From 4–7 p.m.
Drop in for hands-on art making in the Boeckman Sculpture Court (Museum Atrium). All ages welcome.
Feel the flow this Second Friday and come create abstract paintings inspired by the artist Amanda Williams’ painting,Typographical Lapse in Territorial Judgement. Williams worked with scientists to recreate George Washington Carver’s patent for blue pigment using soil in Alabama. She used the developed paint to create and map out ideas of place, memory, and Black culture using methods of abstraction on the canvas.
Now, we invite you to come to the museum to experiment with natural pigments. Take home a palette of watercolors created with natural pigments created by artist and SCMA Assistant Museum Educator Lilly Watson. If you need a place to start, pick up a set of questions inspired by Amanda Williams’ work to guide your art making.
Aprons will be provided. Plan on wearing clothes you don’t mind getting stained.
At 5:30pm Gallery Talk with Curator Danielle Carrabino.
Join SCMA Curator of Painting and Sculpture Danielle Carrabino on a journey through the color blue. This program is presented in commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the United States. Highlighting American paintings on view at SCMA, the tour will trace the history of blue pigment in Western art. We will investigate the reasons artists selected certain types of blue pigment and the many associations this color carries.
Danielle Carrabino is Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SCMA. Her purview of the collection encompasses art from the ancient world until 1950. A specialist in 16th- and 17th-century European art, her recent book, Caravaggio in Early Modern Sicily, was published earlier this year by Routledge Press.
From 4–8 p.m. Enjoy four floors of art.
