Kayara Hardnett-Barnes 23' is currently working in the museum as a Student Museum Educator. She is studying Sociology and Film and Media Studies at Smith. Read about her experience creating and installing the interactive exhibit currently in the Talk Back Space.
“How do you bring closure to something that lingers?
How do you memorialize an injustice that is ongoing?”
SCHEDULE:
Monday, November 1 (rain day: Wednesday, November 3)
8am–10:30am: Happy Chace ’28 Garden (next to the President’s House)
10:30am–1pm: Chapin Lawn
1–4pm: Seelye Lawn
Join Amanda Williams, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the Botanic Garden of Smith College on Monday, November 1, when we will collectively plant more than 4000 tulips along three desired or remembered paths.
Meredith Diamond is a junior Computer Science major and currently working as a Cunningham Center intern.
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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.
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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.
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!