Behind the Scenes with SCMA and the Botanic Garden
12–1 pm
This is an on-line only event.
Spring Student Art Sale
2–5 pm
The Smith Office for the Arts will be hosting the Spring Student Art Sale as a kickoff event to Smith Arts Day. This event is a chance for student makers to share (and sell) their work—including ceramics, prints, photographs, fashion, jewelry, and more. Presented by Smith Office for the Arts in partnership with the Smith College Museum of Art. Learn more about Smith Arts Day! https://bit.ly/3XLIN0Z
Smith Arts Day
Learn more about all Smith College campus events here: www.smith.edu/smithartsday
Smith Arts Day events at SCMA include:
Member Double Discount Days at the SCMA Shop!
11 am–4 pm and online 24/7
Thursday, April 24 through Sunday, April 27
Join us Thursday, April 24 through Sunday, April 27 for Member Double Discount Days at the SCMA shop!
Museum Members get 20% off purchases by showing their valid SCMA Membership Card. The SCMA Shop is open 11am–4pm daily except Mondays. This sale is also online. Shop here! scmashop.smith.edu
‘Excavating Hung Liu’s Archive: The Refusal of Historical Erasure’ by Dorothy Moss ’95
5pm
This lecture and free and open to all.
Learn more about this lecture: https://bit.ly/3Y4sRr1
Join us for this 'Excavating the Image' lecture with Dorothy Moss ’95, founding director of the the Hung Liu Estate. For over ten years Dorothy Moss was a curator of painting and sculpture at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Mindful Museum Meanderings
As a community health organizer, I worked with SCMA over the J-term to develop and refine mindfulness projects in the museum space. Bridging wellness and art at Smith has been on my senior year bucket list! This opportunity refreshed and added on my perspectives, as a peer health educator, a museum visitor, and a museum staff member. As SCMA is working towards diverse ways to interact and engage the student community, I am excited to see how mindfulness experiences change visitors’ perspectives on wellness, artworks, museum spaces, and more!
SCMA is free and open to all!
Join us from 4–8pm for an evening of art, making, and community at the Smith College Museum of Art. SCMA is free and open to all!
Elevating Living Female Artists and Student Voices: On the Moody Purchase Program with Artist Ayana Evans
Olivia Sarno ‘25 is a World Literatures and Spanish Double Major, and a Museums Concentrator. She has worked as a Student Museum Educator at the SCMA since 2022.
Galleries & Gardens: Applying Museum Education Strategies to Botanical Learning
Claire Enerson (‘27) is an Anthropology and Italian Double Major, and a Museums concentrator. She works at the SCMA as a Student Museum Educator.
What if museum education strategies used on artworks could also apply to plants?
At Smith College, two student educator groups work to engage visitors with collections on campus. The Student Museum Educators lead K-12 school group tours in the SCMA galleries and the Botanic Garden Student Educators support student involvement in Lyman Plant House. I organized a collaborative workshop with these two cohorts in February.
The Trans Agenda is an Full Life Span: Selected portraits of Trans and Nonbinary Elders and Young People
4–8pm
This pop-up exhibition is open to all.
Drop by the museum’s Cunningham Center for Prints, Drawings and Photographs on SCMA’s second floor to see a special installation of portraits by and of Trans and Non-Binary people from the museum’s collection.