Jo Ortel ’83 on the Work of Truman Lowe

"I have to say, I have very little time anymore for art that hangs politely in museums. I really think that there has to be some connection with the current issues, and the environment seems, to me, to be among the most important."
freestanding sculpture; blue painted wood base, two sticks rising up out of the base, smaller colorful sticks balanced on top of those two sticks

About That Narrative: Hương Ngô

As the only audiovisual piece in my series on artworks addressing memory, the video poses a compelling question: how do speaking and listening contribute to our recollections of the past?
three side-by-side screens appear with two sisters in black shirts, the artist on the right, her sister on the left, with the artist's young niece in a white shirt in the center, wearing white headphones against a light background; all three have long dark hair

About That Narrative: Joanne Leonard

Leonard’s interest in questioning photographic “truths” might serve as a way to tell a more accurate version of her family’s story by fracturing the materials at hand. 
images of women and children interspersed with handwritten text in white, images of red scissors, and handwritten and typescript diary notes
Makuuchi 1991

Panel discussion: Munio Makuuchi

5–6pm
weinstein auditorium | wright hall
talks
exhibition related

"Panel discussion: Reclaiming Munio Makuuchi, an American artist" 

Panelists will explore why Makuuchi wasn't more recognized during his lifetime, and the relevance of his poetry and prints 20 years after his death. Speakers include Curator Aprile Gallant, Professor Floyd Cheung, Printer Andrew Balkin and art historian Margo Machida.

Lee Ann Roripaugh

Poetry reading: Lee Roripaugh

7:30–9pm
campus center
talks

The Smith College Poetry Center and SCMA are pleased to present Lee Roripaugh, poet laureate of South Dakota. Roripaugh, a second-generation Japanese American, created a series of portraits in Beyond Heart Mountain (1999), in the voices of Japanese American internees at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. In Year of the Snake (2004), she explored issues of mixed-race identity, myths, Japanese fairy tales, and metaphors of transformation.

Visitors making art at the hands-on activity at Second Friday

Free Second Friday

4–8pm
museum of art
second fridays

From 4–8pm, participate in hands-on art-making and a guided conversation in the galleries. 

4–7pm Second Friday Hands on! art making for all ages, inspired by works on view. Spatial Relations—Combine drawing and collage to express your vision of imagined landscapes inspired by climate justice and equity. 

6pm Open Eyes: Guided conversation exploring a different art object each month.

Museum shop open + complimentary light refreshments. 

December 12 Second Friday

4–8pm
Smith College Museum of Art

Join us from 4–8pm for an evening of art, making, and community at the Smith College Museum of Art.  Galleries are open until 8pm. SCMA is free and open to all!

  • From 4–7pm Drop in for hands-on art making in the Museum’s atrium! 
    All ages welcome.

    Fold paper stars inspired by Younes Rahmoun’s sculpture Markhaba (2016/2024), and create a twinkling garland to hang in your home for the holiday season.

Art as Archive: Curating Germany, 1918-1945

Rebecca McClung is a Ph.D. student in the history department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her work focuses on modern Germany and the memory of the Holocaust in a divided postwar society.

Charcoal drawing on cream paper of a woman with bobbed dark hair sitting cross-legged in a chair. She wears a button-up shirt, tie, knee-length skirt, and heeled boots with tiny buttons up the side.

Pop-Up: French Prints of the 17th-century: Art Nature, and Politics

11am–3:30pm
Smith College Museum of Art

The Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies 44th Annual International Conference present a pop-up exhibition that includes a selection of prints at the Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the Smith College Museum of Art.

Co-sponsored by Smith College, the Five Colleges and Villa Albertine-Consulat Général de France a Boston. 

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