Carol O. Selle '54 (1932-2019)
Meredith Diamond is a junior Computer Science major and currently working as a Cunningham Center intern.
SCMA Conversations: African Art
5-6pm
Installing the Arts of Africa
Kelly Holbert Exhibition Manager at SCMA takes us through the African art installation process.
Online
What Makes Medieval Art Sing?
Hear from guest blogger Cecily Hughes, graduate student intern and MA candidate at UMass Amherst, about her work this past summer at SCMA. Find out what interests her most about Medieval art and how she contributed to an upcoming exhibition featuring some of the works in the collection. In this blog post, Cecily discusses Blessing of Saint or St. John the Evangelist by an unknown French artist.
SCMA Conversations: Equestrian Portraiture
5–6pm
Online
Free. Space limited, registration required.
Register here
Families with children ages 5 and up are invited to join a walking tour of outdoor art on the campus of Smith College. SCMA museum educators will bring sculpture to life with interactive activities that engage children and their grown-ups through close-looking, drawing, writing, and movement. Tours depart from the museum at 11am.
Rain date: 11/7
This event has been cancelled due to weather.
Free for all. Drop-in. No registration required. Masks welcomed and encouraged.
Location: Smith College Museum of Art and tent on Seelye Lawn (between Neilson Library and SCMA). In the event of rain, this outdoor program will be cancelled.
Join us for an artful afternoon of outdoor artmaking, scavenger hunts, and special guests from Lifting Spirits Miniature Therapy Horses.
SCMA Reopening
11–4 pm
The Smith College Museum of Art will be reopening on August 27 and offering free admission through August 29.
Visit scma.smith.edu to plan your visit!
Arts of Africa, c. 1825–1960
July 6, 2021–May 28, 2023
This installation, guest-curated by Dr. Christa Clarke, features a selection of African art from SCMA’s collection. They are displayed prominently on the third floor and in proximity to works from Europe and the United States, with a shared thematic emphasis on tradition and transformation. This framework highlights the entangled histories of these regions and centers African visual culture within a broader art history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, enriching the stories we tell about art.
The Ancient World Gallery
Ongoing
In 2019, the display of SCMA’s ancient art collection was reimagined to provide a more global view of the ancient world. Previously, this gallery’s scope had been limited to Egyptian, Greek and Roman art. The gallery now includes ancient objects from China, Japan, Korea, Persia and the Americas. Arranged in thematic groupings, these artworks span several millennia and encompass a wide range of media.