Two people sitting at a tablemaking art, both are smiling

August Second Friday

4–8pm
Smith College Museum of Art

Join us for an evening of fun at the August 9 Second Friday! SCMA is free and open to all.

From 4–7pm, participate in Hands-on! Art making for all ages. Collaborate on banners to decorate our artmaking space. Scribble, mark up and doodle on table-length coloring sheets, using a variety of art supplies.

From 4–8pm, visit The People's Pop-up exhibition, created by the public and located on the second floor! The People’s Pop-up is SCMA’s first exhibition curated by and for our audiences. Using digital polling, visitors voted on food-themed “potluck” artworks.

Welcome to the People's Pop-Up!

Julia Giguere is the 2023-2025 Post-bacc Fellow in Marketing and Communications.

Why can’t I select works for an exhibition? 
Why can’t I be a documentary filmmaker? 
Why can’t I design signage?  

These questions echoed in my head as I started research for my fellowship capstone project.

To answer one, I can select works for an exhibition, and so can you. I designed the People’s Pop-up, SCMA’s first exhibition curated by and for our audiences. Using digital polling, you can choose the pieces included in this food-themed “potluck”.

Red and white I voted for sticker for the people's pop-up at the smith college museum of art
Stuffed fox plushy toy with red striped shirt

Sidewalk Sales @ SCMA

Thursday, July 25 to Sunday, July 28 | 11am–4pm
Smith College Museum of Art

In-Store Only!

Join us for Northampton Sidewalk Sales 2024 and enjoy 40-60% off original prices.
Shop Hours are 11am–4pm.

Where?
SCMA, 20 Elm Street, Northampton, MA
 


 

Remembering Jay Bolotin (1949-2024)

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. 

Man drawing on gallery wall
Two people about to kiss

Pride Pop-Up: Queer Identities in the SCMA Collection

4–8pm
Smith College Museum of Art

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. 

Translating an Amharic Inscription on an Ethiopian Silver Cross in the Collection

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. 

An image of a silver cross on display at the Smith College Museum of Art

Outside the Box: Frames to Focus on During Your Next SCMA Visit

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.

Colorful painting of a man dressed in black sitting in a chair
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