SCMA Playdates—FULL
9:30–10:30 am
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Smith Students: Meet Your Museum!
4 pm
A tour of the Smith College Museum of Art for Smith students
Join artist Deborah Jack for a film screening and discussion with Simone Cambridge (UMass) on Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 5pm in Graham Hall.
This event is part of Art Stockings: Dialogues on Art, Gender, and Cultural Theory. Created by Professor Alex Callender, Art Stockings invites a diverse group of women-identified and nonbinary artists to talk about their work, ideas and process.
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 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 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.
Explore the special exhibition Sum of Its Parts: Multi-Panel Works on Paper from the Collection from multiple perspectives. Try your hand at printmaking and make your own multi-part artwork to take home.
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.