Left image of 5 or so people sitting at a table making art, right image of two people looking closely at an artwork hanging on a wall

November Second Friday at SCMA

4–8pm
Smith College Museum of Art

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 Drop in for hands-on art making in the museum’s atrium and build your own mini-gallery! All ages welcome. Make your own museum at this month’s drop-in art making program! We will provide pop-up gallery walls, you add the artwork. Add miniature reproductions of art from the SCMA collection or add your own masterpieces to your take-home museum. 
 

Northampton Bag Day at SCMA!

Online: 24/7—In store: 11am–4pm
Smith College Museum of Art

This sale runs November 22 through November 23, 2025.

Visit the SCMA Museum Shop for Northampton Bag Day at SCMA and get 20% off your entire purchase, both in-store and online! Find creative holiday gifts for everyone on your list. Use code Holidays20 online at checkout.

 

Yellow graphic poster including text that says Looky HereZine Lab, and workshop stations are listed as collaborative mini-zines, zine challenges, binding experiments, (folds, tabs, weaves, and stitches), to the right is an illustrated image of a storefront with botanical themes

Student Zine Lab with Looky Here

3–6pm
Hillyer Hall/Museum Atrium

The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) and Hillyer Art Library are excited to co-sponsor Zine Lab with Looky Here, on October 9th from 3–6pm. This workshop is a collaboration with Looky Here, a Greenfield-based arts non-profit, gallery, and event space that features a community Risograph print shop, an art book press, and a thrift store for art supplies.

Blue beaded bracelet and necklace

Member Double Discount Days

October 30–November 2, 2025
Museum Shop at the Smith College Museum of Art

Join us Thursday, October 30 through Sunday, November 2 for Member Double Discount Days at the SCMA shop! Museum Members get 20% off purchases by showing their valid SCMA Membership Card. The SCMA Shop is open 11am–4 pm Tuesday through Sunday. This sale is also online. 

Smith Students, this includes you!
Bring your current Smith Student ID and give us your email at the register to get the same discount (we take cash, credit or tap- no OneCard purchases). Think ahead to holiday shopping!

Figure in a car on the phone behind gold streamers

Garrett Bradley: AKA (2019)

September 12, 2025–February 1, 2026

On view for the first time at SCMA, the video installation AKA by artist and Smith College alumna Garrett Bradley addresses how colorism and upward mobility affect the relationships between mothers and daughters.

People sit around a conveyor belt interacting with art as it moves around.

Don't mind if I do

January 30–June 28, 2026
"Don’t mind if I do" is a collaborative experiment demonstrating how temporary changes in power structures create pathways of access for visitors, artists, and staff. Anchored by a conveyor belt that brings artworks to visitors who are invited to sit around comfortable furniture and engage with the objects, the exhibition features artworks by a selection of artists who have influenced Shannon’s practice.
Faded figure with words written over their body

Fresh Perspectives: Celebrating 25 years of "Meridians" at Smith

September 26, 2025–March 29, 2026

For 25 years, Meridians journal has published scholarship and creative work at the intersection of feminism, race and transnationalism on Smith’s campus. In its 25th anniversary issue, themes of identity, perception, and spirituality connect across different contexts and cultures. In the words of featured author El-Sherif, these works allow us “to see ourselves more clearly, to know ourselves better in order to live better.”

Welcome Lilly Watson, Our New Assistant Museum Educator

Hello everyone! My name is Lilly Watson (they/them) and I am the new Post Baccalaureate Assistant Museum Educator here at SCMA. I’m also excited to be a part of a new post-bacc cohort with Grace Sinclair (she/her) in the marketing department and Lucy Montgomery (she/her) in the curatorial department. 

 

Lilly standing in a black and white tile bathroom and pulling a white, amorphous full-body suit up and over their head.
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