The Tryon Prizes for Writing and Art, 2020

The Tryon Prizes for Writing and Art, 2020

Each year, two juries award monetary prizes to current Smith students for outstanding writing and art related to the collection at the Smith College Museum of Art. Writing may take any form, including a thesis, essay or poem. Art submissions may be an installation, performance, video, sound, digital, internet, and interactive art. Jurors seek a high level of artistic expression and presentation.

Unrecorded Kota artist; Gabon Reliquary Figure (Mbulu Ngulu) Late 19th-early 20th Century SC 2000.12.4 Gift of Cecilia (Cecilia Sahlman, class of 1950) and Irwin Smiley
Close up of cookie with frosting and rainbow sprinkles by Martin Parr.

Summer tea and conversation with curators: the five senses | taste

3-3:30pm
virtual live Zoom event | Part II, "Taste"

Join SCMA curators as they explore the fives senses through the lens of the museum's collection. We invite you to stay for the Q&A immediately following the curators' presentations with Danielle Carrabino, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Aprile Gallant, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs.

Register here for this live virtual Zoom program | Facebook Event

Remembering Iwami Reika (1927-2020)

Today's post is from Aprile Gallant, Senior Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs.  

I was saddened to hear of the recent death of the Japanese printmaker Iwami Reika. Hilary Tolman, Smith class of 1987, in whose honor twenty-three of the artist’s works have been donated to the SCMA collection, gave me the news, as she knew of my particular interest and high regard for Iwami’s work.

Reika Iwami. Japanese, 1927-2020. Autumn Waves, 1981. Woodcut printed in black and metallic ink with embossing on medium thick, slightly textured, cream-colored paper (50/50). 15 ¾ x 12 inches. The Hilary Tolman, class of 1987, Collection. Gift of The Tolman Collection, Tokyo. SC 2014.12.16

Staying Inside | Present Preoccupations

Staying Inside is a series on SCMAinsider, the museum’s blog, that regularly features contributions from SCMA staff and students about what we are into right now ...
Still from Hopinka's "Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer": slightly cloudy blue sky filling top of frame with ocean water below the horizon line.

Remembering the Images of Rome

Guest blogger Margaret Adams Groesbeck is a retired Amherst College librarian and enthusiastic member of the Smith College Museum of Art. She is a longtime student and sometime translator of Italian.
La pianta grande di Roma (The Large Plan of Rome)
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