SCMA is free and open to all!
From 4–7pm: Hands-on! Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view. Design and draw your own special place inspired by architectural forms in Younes Rahmoun’s Ghorfa series, in Hubert Robert’s Pyramids, and in Lilly Martin Spencer’s painting Reading the Legend.
SCMA Smith Student Event!
Smithies, join us in the Atrium on Thursday, February 20, from 6–8pm for Sweet Treats & Tango!
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the museum and its galleries are closed until future notice. The Atrium will be open and we will still have sweet treats (6–8pm) and the tango workshop with dance artist Laura Grandi (7–8pm). Open to all Smith students (and their guests).
Come enjoy a treat, dance, and connect with friends at this abbreviated Art After Hours!
Clara Cho Wun Ma is the Jane Chace Carroll Associate Curator of Asian Art
At the end of January 2025, billions of people across the world, from China to Vietnam to
diaspora communities in the U.S., celebrate the Lunar New Year, the beginning of a new year on
the lunisolar calendar. How do people use this calendar to measure time? And in Chinese art,
how does artwork tell us about Chinese perception of the movement of the universe?
Aprile Gallant is Mary Walcott Keyes 1931 Curator of Prints, Drawings and
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Artful adventures in and around the museum for 2–5 year-olds and their caregivers! Explore a different theme in each session on selected Fridays throughout the year.
Registered families can join us in the Atrium of the Smith College Museum of Art for open play and art experiences from 9:30–11:30 a.m. Upon arrival, sign up for a museum tour slot for 9:45, 10:15, or 10:45 a.m.
Join us for an evening of art, making, and community at the February 14 Second Friday at the Smith College Museum of Art. SCMA is free and open to all!
4–7pm Hands-on! Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view. Use stamps and collage materials to create an artistic representation of a loved one or of yourself in the form of valentine or mini-portrait to gift, inspired by fascinating faces on view on the second and third floor permanent collection galleries.
4–8pm Explore and enjoy four floors of art!
Yarra Berger is a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in the History of Art and Architecture. Her research focuses on organized labor, decolonial movements, and identity formation in 19th to early 20th century American art and visual culture.
Z Stevens, 25J, is an English Major and a Museum Concentrator. They are the student Collections Assistant.
A museum’s collection comes with an archive of information surrounding it. And for just over one whole calendar year, I, Z Stevens, have had the financial and source information of the entire SCMA collection at my mercy!
That might be a slight exaggeration.
Join us for an evening of art, making, and community at the January 10 Second Friday at the Smith College Museum of Art! SCMA is free and open to all.
From 4–7 p.m., participate in hands-on art making for all ages. How many different ways can you make a snowflake? Inspired by the repetitions of forms in the art of Younes Rahmoun, create one-of-a-kind snowflakes in all different shapes and textures by cutting, folding, tracing, and painting. Light refreshments will be served in the atrium.
From 4–8 p.m., enjoy and explore four floors of art!