Staff Picks: Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder "The Coronation of the Virgin"

Cunningham Center Assistant Grace Ettinger '22, asks Autumn Guntor who joined the Museum as part of the SCMA safety team in 2021 about their favorite work of art at SCMA.

The central scene portrayed here is the Coronation of the Virgin, which is drawn from the Apocrypha, a group of Christian texts not found in the Bible. The side panels depict Saint Ivo, the patron saint of lawyers, and Saint Anne, the mother of Mary. When the side panels are closed, the figures of Mary and the Angel Gabriel painted on their exterior form a scene of the Annunciation, when Mary was informed that she would give birth to Jesus.

La Cuisinière, from Paysages et Intérieurs

Straddling the line between cultural appreciation and appropriation; Grace Ettinger a student assistant at the Cunningham Center at SCMA investigates a work by the French artist Vuillard.

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Henriette Kets de Vries investigates a truly nightmarish Italian print which will keep you up at night.

Witches riding a carcas; nude women; goats; witches hunt; procession

A hand holding a bag, with a golden sun on it, by a strap handle.

Bag Day at the SCMA Shop

November 20, 2021

11am–4pm

Museum shop

Onsite ONLY
Receive 20% off your entire purchase

Shop hip stuff at the SCMA Shop 2021 Bag Day event. Creative holiday shopping not to be missed!

Read more about Bag Day at the SCMA Shop

Pop-up Shop Sale graphic with a necklace, bracelets, dragonfly pin, HERE WE ARE handle bag and vase.

Pop-Up Shop Online Only Sale

November 11, 2021

11am–4pm

Online

November 11–14, 2021

FREE shipping for all. SCMA Members receive 20% off their entire order.
New this year, SCMA Member Only Preview November 10th.*

Read more about Pop-Up Shop Online Only Sale

Karl Hubbuch Joins the SCMA Collection

Henriette Kets de Vries Cunningham Center Manager and assistant curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs introduces works from the newly acquired Carol O. Selle drawing collection.

Drawing of young boy next to print version of similar drawing

What Does It Mean to be American?

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.

The artwork, question, and community responses are displayed in the Talk Back Space.

A hand is holding an open notebook with pressed flower petals and notes on planting tulips.

Amanda Williams Tulip Planting

November 1, 2021

8am–4pm

Smith College campus

“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.