Honoring Kurt Lang (January 25, 1924—May 1, 2019)
Henriette Kets de Vries is the Cunningham Center Manager and Assistant Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the SCMA. She worked closely with Kurt Lang and featured works from his collection in the exhibition No Man's Land: Prints from the Front Lines of WWI.
Taj Diffenbaugh Worley ’69 and the Hopi prophecies
Guest blogger Sandy Lillydahl '69 was Taj Diffenbaugh Worley's senior year roommate and fellow religion major at Smith. She retired from curating the Map Collection in the library of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 2016.
The 2018-2019 Student Picks Lottery Is Now Open!
Enter by September 21st for a chance to curate your own pop-up art show in the Cunningham Center for Prints, Drawings and Photographs. Student Picks exhibitions take place on the last Thursday of every month from 4-8pm as part of SCMA's Thursday evening student programming.
Hijacked Art, Continued.
Anyone can parody a work; these artists truly transform their inspirations, often turning them into activist symbols.
Transforming Dish Towels: Anne Ryan's Collages
Anne Ryan didn’t start making collages until she was 58, but once she found the medium, she embraced it eagerly.
A History of Handwork | Giant Woman (Empire State)
Gripping a paintbrush in one hand and the Empire State in the other, the woman dominates a space synonymous with male-centric corporations and class inequality.
STUDENT PICKS | Whole Encounters: Partial Impressions
In application, what an artist chooses to depict in an encounter with their sitter is only an impression, not representative of the whole person being captured.
Reunion Class Gifts
Welcome back, reunion classes!
New York's Most Famous Unknown Artist
Two collages by “New York’s most famous unknown artist,” Ray Johnson, have recently arrived at SCMA as part of a promised gift. These are the first works by Johnson in the Five Colleges.
