To the left three women pose in matching dresses and handbags. To the right a gondola floats in the distance on water, and a building sits at the shoreline.

SCMA Fall Opening Reception

September 19, 2025

5–7pm

Smith College Museum of Art

Join us for a celebration of SCMA’s two fall exhibitions: Michel Kameni: Portrait of an Independent Africa and A City in Flux: Reflecting on Venice.

Explore four floors of galleries, connect with friends and enjoy refreshments in the atrium! Be sure to stop by the Museum Shop as well. This event is free and open to all!

LEFT: Michel Kameni, Cameroon (1935–2020). Untitled (three women, hand dresses), 1970s. Vintage gelatin silver print.© Studio Kameni, Courtesy the Solander Collection. RIGHT: Jane Peterson, American (1876–1965). Venice Scene, c. 1922. Oil on canvas. Collection of Andrea Henderson Fahnestock ‘80, in memory of my husband, George Andrew Hambrecht (Yale‘67) who was my partner in putting together our gift of paintings of Italy, and elsewhere, by American artists.