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SCMA is a registered PD Provider for the state of Massachusetts.

What can plants and artworks teach us about ourselves and our communities? How do artists play a role in helping us to understand the natural world and our place in it? 

Data Consciousness and Luminous Abstraction 

Public reception to follow.

This lecture brings W.E.B. Du Bois's pioneering data visualizations into dialogue with Alma Thomas's luminous abstractions, tracing a shared commitment to visualizing Black life beyond statistical reduction or representational constraint. Together, Du Bois and Thomas reveal how data can function as both evidence and imagination, expanding the possibilities of aesthetic practice, historical interpretation, and collective liberation.

A special visit for caregivers and children under two. Meet other grown-ups, enjoy conversation about art and activities led by art museum and Northampton Public Schools Early Childhood Center staff. We'll be the only ones in the galleries during these special hours, with no worries about gurgles, gagas and crying over the art -- from the adults or the little! This tour will focus on the new SCMA exhibition, Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas from the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.

Artist Sydney Mieko King seeks new ways of imaging the body and its trace through continuous material exploration.  
Open to all Smith undergraduates. Only 15 students selected.

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Join SCMA curator Emma Chubb and Lily Carone, landscape curator at the Botanic Garden of Smith College, for a virtual SCMA Conversations program exploring connections between Alma Thomas’s vibrant abstract paintings and landscape design. Through conversation and close looking, they’ll examine how rhythm, pattern, color, and the natural world shape both gardens and abstraction.

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