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Outside the Box: Frames to Focus on During Your Next SCMA Visit
Yong Soon Min (1953-2024)
By Aprile Gallant, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs
SCMA and the larger contemporary art world lost a leading light this month with the death of Korean American artist Yong Soon Min.
Min’s work, in the words of curator and art historian Hong-hee Kim, “explores post-colonial discourses of immigration, exile, loss and confusion, as well as the ironies of dual identity. [...] Her multi-media art practice encompassing words, texts, drawing, photography and video is conceptual yet concrete, private yet political.”
New Acquisition: Hayal Pozanti's "A Liquid Echo" (2023)
Silken Threads: A Journey Through Local History with a Student Museum Educator
The Perceptions and Perspectives of Artist David Andrews
Kamala GhaneaBassiri, the Bodnar Curatorial Fellow at the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA).
If you’ve visited the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) before, there's a decent chance you’ve noticed David Andrews at the front desk, hunched over a piece of paper, pulling out words from a tin box or shading in amorphous forms. David started working at SCMA as a Gallery Assistant (GA) over twenty years ago, shortly after moving to Western Massachusetts from Chicago.
Human Flourishing in Art Museums
Josie Wong ‘26 is a sophomore Art History major and Museum Studies concentrator. Here, she shares her experience in the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA)’s interterm course MUX222: Art Museums as Institutions of Human Flourishing.
In the Aftermath: Humanizing Mass Tragedy
Caitlyn Brabo '27 is a Cunningham Center Assistant at the Smith College Museum of Art
By Caitlyn Brabo
Welcome Marketing and Communications Fellow Julia Giguere!
Countless times in my life I have said, “I love going to museums!” When I travel, I always try to find a new museum to see. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts or the Sandwich Glass Museum on Cape Cod. Big or small, art or history, I just love seeing culture displayed.
Welcome Museum Education Fellow Chaia Leibowitz!
Hi, I’m Chaia (she/they) and I will be working as the Sacerdote Post-Baccalaureate Fellow in Museum Education. I am thrilled to be joining Kamala GhaneaBassiri (they/them), the new curatorial fellow, and Julia Giguere (she/her), the new marketing and communications fellow, at SCMA! I love Western Mass and am a University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) Alumni (‘22). At UMass, I double majored in the Individualized Concentration in Film Studies focusing on Experimental Video Production and in Communications concentrating on the impacts of mass media.
Welcome Curatorial Fellow Kamala GhaneaBassiri!
Hi! I’m Kamala GhaneaBassiri (they/them), the new two-year Bodnar post-baccalaureate curatorial fellow at SCMA. I am joined by museum education fellow Chaia Leibowitz (she/they) and marketing and communications fellow Julia Giguere (she/her) who will introduce themselves in separate blog posts in the next couple of weeks.
Do the Clothes Make the Man?
Z Stevens ‘25j is an English Major and Museum Concentrator. They are a Student Museum Educator working with K-12 school groups.
Interviewing Contemporary Artists from the SCMA Collection
Indigo Casais ’23 is an art history and English double major. Indigo is also the 2022-23 Kennedy Museum Research Fellow in Art History at SCMA, working with Emma Chubb, Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art.