Member Preview—Painting the Persianate World: Portable Images on Paper, Cloth and Clay
11am
Museum admission and programming is free to all!
Member Preview—Sum of Its Parts: Multi-Panel Works on Paper from the Collection
11am–12pm
Museum admission and programming is free to all!
Join us for a special member preview of the upcoming exhibition Sum of Its Parts: Multi-Panel Works on Paper from the Collection (opening September 1).
Painting the Persianate World: Portable Images on Paper, Cloth and Clay
February 2–July 7, 2024
Despite the mountain range that divides them, Greater Iran and the Indian subcontinent have long been in contact through trade and migration. Painting the Persianate World explores the circuitous histories of painted portable images from these regions across three mediums: paper, cloth and clay. Showcasing manuscript illustrations, dye-painted textiles and decorated ceramics, the exhibition draws primarily from the Smith College Museum of Art’s collection and also includes select key works from other local institutions, and is the first comprehensive project at SCMA to examine the Persianate world from a trans-media perspective.
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.
When: Thursday, July 27 through Sunday, July 30!
Everything from scarves and jewelry to ceramics will be discounted, 40-60% off.
The SCMA shop is participating in Northampton's annual Sidewalk Sales, happening Thursday July 27–Sunday July 30. This year, sale goods will be displayed inside the Atrium (adjacent to the Museum), and in the Shop itself.*
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.
Figuration and Abstraction: Asian Art at SCMA
July 28, 2023–October 5, 2025
Drawing from the SCMA's holdings of Asian art collected over more than a century, this exhibition features paintings, sculptures, prints, and religious and decorative arts that engage with the discourse of figuration versus abstraction.
DJ’s in the Museum! A Student-Centered Collaboration with Music and Art with the Smith College Radio Station
Maegan “Cloud” Osmond ‘24 is an Art History major with a Museum Concentration. They were the Program and Interpretation Assistant at the Smith College Museum of Art in Spring 2023 where they partnered with student organizations across campus and helped plan for future student collaborations.
Re-Imagining SCMA’s Third Floor
Aprile Gallant is Mary Walcott Keyes 1931 Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs.
Deborah Jack: the water between us remembers, so we carry this history on our skins, long for a sea-bath and hope that the salt will heal what ails us (2018)
June 30, 2023–February 4, 2024
How do memory, place, nature, and the afterlives of slavery and colonialism connect? What possibilities do video (as a medium) and beauty (as an aesthetic approach) offer artists interested in these connections?