Featuring the theme Bodies and Abstraction.
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Join Emma Chubb, Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art, for a look at how abstract artworks in our collections evoke and engage the body. This themed tours will last between 30 and 45 minutes and highlight works of art across the museum’s galleries.
Stop by the SCMA Shop on November 19 during museum hours (11 a.m.–4 p.m.) and receive 20% off your entire purchase! This event is in-person only.
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SCMA, partnering with Northampton Public School's Early Childhood Center, is pleased to offer this new series of thematic stroller tours. The December 8 tour theme is LIGHT and is for caregivers, with infants in tow, to connect to other caregivers and build community through art.
SCMA, partnering with Northampton Public School's Early Childhood Center, is pleased to offer this new series of thematic stroller tours. This November 10 tour's theme is CARE and is for caregivers, with infants in tow, to connect to other caregivers and build community through art.
Take a look at some of the art on view at the Smith College Museum of Art with Smith College Student Workers. This is the first in a series of short student-led talks that will highlight some of the research and learning students are doing to contribute to the museum's collections.
Trained as a weaver, Agano Machiko is known today for fiber art installations that capture the invisible forces of nature. In the late 1990s, she began knitting fishing line and steel wire together in garter stitch with oversized needles.
Henriette Kets de Vries the Manager of the Cunningham Study Center and the Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at SCMA went to Northern Europe last summer to learn more about our German drawing collection.
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Activities are ongoing at SCMA from 1–3pm.
Join Danielle Carrabino, SCMA’s Curator of Painting and Sculpture, for a first look at the Brought to Life exhibition. Danielle will share an overview of the exhibition highlighting the multisensory history of painted wooden sculpture, and offer insights into the process of the exhibition’s development. Audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions.
Isabel Cordova graduated from Smith College in 2019 with a degree in Studio Art, American Studies, and a concentration in Museum Studies. In this post, she reflects on her and Sydney Nguyen’s collaboration with Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) as the Post-Baccalaureate Assistants for the Indigenous American Collections at Five Colleges Inc.
This post refers to the installation of pieces by Indigenous artists from SCMA’s permanent collection on view in the Art after 1800 America, Europe, Africa Gallery (third level).
