In January 2020, Emma Chubb, SCMA’s Charlotte Feng Ford ’83 Curator of Contemporary Art, sat down with Patricia A. Banks, Associate Professor of Sociology at Mount Holyoke College. They discussed Dr. Banks’s research into what motivates people to participate in cultural life and her new book, Diversity and Philanthropy at African American Museums: Black Renaissance (Routledge, 2019).
In keeping with Smith College protocols related to COVID-19, we regret that the following program has been cancelled. Learn more
Spiritual Wholeness is about finding and exploring brokenness and value. This workshop will provide space for Smithies to create their own peace, forgive and fulfill and reflect on aspects of spirituality and/or religion that are relevant to them.
Rand's statement: I chose the pieces within this show based on instinct and intuition. Something in me resonated with the feeling, emotion, or sense of each work, and I was able to recognize something familiar from my own lived experience in the faces of the individuals portrayed here. Each work references and encapsulates a moment in time, a feeling or state of being, that despite different lives, cultures and histories, is completely human.