Every year, the Smith College Museum of Art awards the Tryon Prize in Art and Writing. These prizes recognize the work of current Smith College students in installation, performance, video, sound, digital, internet and interactive art or writing related to a work at the museum.
Join us for an evening of fun at the July 12 Second Friday! SCMA is free and open to all.
Aprile Gallant is Mary Walcott Keyes 1931 Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs.
Jay Bolotin was a handful. To his credit, I think he would be pleased to be described as such. He was also multi-talented, generous, a brilliant storyteller, and a lot of other things besides. Like his art, trying to describe Jay is an exercise in the complete limitations of language.
Drop-by the museum's Cunningham Center for Prints, Drawings and Photographs on SCMA’s second floor to see a special installation of art by and of LGBTQIA+ artists and subjects from the museum's collection. This pop-up exhibition is part of June Second Friday and open to all!
Co-Sponsored and organized in partnership with the Office of Equity and Inclusion and Smith College’s LGBTQIA+ Staff & Faculty Affinity Group.
Hildana Shiferaw ‘25 is an Engineering and Biology student. She helped translate an Amharic inscription that appears at the base of an Ethiopian Silver Cross from the 19th century that is currently on view in the installation Worlds in Process on SCMA’s third floor. Here, she shares her experience translating the inscription.
Join us for a Spring semester Smith Student Art Sale at SCMA featuring items made by Smith students, including jewelry, artwork, ceramics, accessories and more.
Dance to the music, enjoy the galleries with your friends, and support Smith’s talented student artisans!
Kay Horak ‘24 is a self-designed Art Conservation Major with a Mathematical Sciences Minor and Museums Concentration. She is the 2023-2024 Kennedy Museum Research Fellow in Art History at SCMA, working with Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Painting and Sculpture. Here, she shares some of what she’s learned about frames in the museum’s collection through her fellowship.
This sale runs Thursday, April 18 through Sunday, April 21!
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Show your current SCMA Membership Card or enter a code online to receive a 20% discount on ALL of your Museum Shop purchases. Members, check your email for the code!
Enjoy an evening of fun at SCMA’s June 14 Second Friday! Drop in for hands-on! art making activities from 4–7pm in the museum atrium along with refreshments. Explore ways that late afternoon light interacts with nature and then create your own representation of shadows and lights inspired by Alma Thomas’s painting