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.

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. 

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. 

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.