May 9 Second Friday
SCMA is free and open to all!
Join us from 4–8pm for an evening of art, making, and community at the Smith College Museum of Art. Galleries are open until 8pm.
From 4–7pm Hands-on Art Making
Layers upon layers upon layers! Inspired by Younes Rahmoun’s Zahra-Saghira (Flower-Small) and Markib (Boat), celebrate spring by mindfully creating multilayered flowers. Draw with a spirograph tool or fold origami to build upon simple steps to make complex and vibrant botanical shapes. This project was developed by SCMA STRIDE scholar Maeve Stanford as part of her 2023-2025 research project on family learning in museums.
From 5:30-6pm Curator talk
Join the curator of Temporarily Ours: Contemporary Photography and Film to discuss the film Hashti Tehran in the lower level gallery, followed by a full film screening in the Cunningham Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
From 6–7pm Film screening
In the Cunningham Center
Hashti Tehran is a film and discursive project initiated by filmmaker Daniel Kötter in collaboration with environmentalist Shadnaz Azizi, architect and urban designer Kaveh Rashidzadeh, urban planner Pouya Sepehr, and sociologist Amir Tehrani.
Based on the idea that Tehran itself represents a house, so to speak, the inner circle of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the outskirts of the city become the space of transition between inside and outside, between urban and non-urban. Thus Hashti Tehran looks at four very different areas in the outskirts of Tehran: the mountain of Tochal in the north, the area around the artificial lake Chitgar in the West, the construction of social housing called Pardis Town in the far east, and the neighborhood Nafar Abad at the southern edges of the city.
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Photo by Derek Fowles Photography for SCMA