Stack Town and the Floating Files: A Comic Adventure Through Storage
Ariella Heise '22 shares her experience at the Cunningham Center inspired by the artwork of Trenton Doyle Hancock.
Red Hook at Bedford Terrace
March 11, 2022–April 2, 2023
During the 1980s, Sheila Pepe worked at SCMA in multiple roles, beginning as a gallery guard before working as a preparator’s assistant and a curatorial and administrative intern. In 2008, she returned to SCMA, to make Red Hook at Bedford Terrace. For Pepe, Red Hook at Bedford Terrace is a celebration of intersections and connectivity, of places, people, and their labor.
A Brief History of Mohan Samant's "Three Queens"
In this post, Brooklyn Quallen '25 discusses her research of Mohan Samant's Three Queens. Brooklyn is a STRIDE scholar currently working with Emma Chubb, Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art.
Ghosts in the Streets: Whistler and Photography
Amanda Shubert was the 2010-2012 Brown Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow at SCMA. This article was originally published in the summer of 2012.
Online/Virtual Program
SCMA members are invited to hear an overview of the Maya Lin: Mappings exhibition and to vote on three works they would like to learn more about. Live Q&A in the gallery to follow.
This program will feature Aprile Gallant, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Smith College Museum of Art.
A New Perspective: Visiting the SCMA Through my Parents' Eyes
Meredith Diamond '23, a computer science major and Cunningham Center student assistant, explores her experience of visiting the SCMA with her parents. She meditates on her own experience with two specific paintings her parents enjoyed.
A J-term Class about Painted Wood
In a recent J-term course inspired by a forthcoming exhibition at SCMA, Smith students learned about historic painted wood sculpture and tried their hand at painting on wood using traditional materials and techniques. Danielle Carrabino, curator of painting and sculpture, shares her experience teaching this class.
FX Harsono: NAMA
February 18–October 23, 2022
This installation focuses on the historical erasure and oppression suffered by Indonesia’s ethnic minority Chinese community, who were forced to change their names. The mournful collective performance indicates the artist’s choice of healing and reconciliation over anger or protest when dealing with injustice and trauma.
Isaac Julien—Lessons of the Hour
Free and open to all.
Online via Zoom. Register Here to receive the webinar link.
Please note that this lecture will be live and accessible via Zoom only; it will not be possible to watch it at a later time.
Individuals enrolled in the Smith College testing program are invited to a watch party in the Campus Center Carroll Room. Lunch will be provided. Doors open at noon.
Visiting the Crystal Palace with the Dickinson Brothers
Grace Ettinger '22 is a student assistant at SCMA's Cunningham Study Center. In this blog post, she explores the complicated colonial legacy of the 1851 World's Fair in London using a print by the Dickinson Brothers from the collection.
