We will be celebrating the opening weekend of Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem by offering free admission all weekend, January 17–19, 2020.
The opening weekend will also feature our annual Free Community Day on January 18 (details below)
Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem will be on view at SCMA from January 17–April 12, 2020
All Ages Welcome!
Free Admission ALL DAY
Activities from 11am to 3:30pm
Featuring...
Join guest speaker Whitley Hadley, Smith College director of multicultural affairs, who will share a personal response to a single work of art in the exhibition Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Refreshments in the museum atrium immediately following.
Join guest speaker Daphne Lamothe, Smith College associate professor of Africana Studies, who will share a personal response to a single work of art in the exhibition Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Refreshments in the museum atrium immediately following.
From 4–8pm, participate in hands-on art-making and a guided conversation in the galleries.
4–7pm Hands on! Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view. An assemblage is a work of art made by grouping found or seemingly unrelated but personally meaningful objects. Collage a three-dimensional valentine inspired by the assemblages of artist Betye Saar in the exhibition Black Refractions.
6pm Open Eyes: Guided conversation exploring a different art object each month.
Museum shop open + complimentary light refreshments
Join Miranda Massie, Director of the Climate Museum, New York for a conversation facilitated by Museums Concentration students about her work as the founder of the Climate Museum after leaving a career in social justice law.
Presented by the Smith College Museums Concentration.
Join Kiara Hill for historical insight into cultural forces in the 1960s and 70s that helped give shape to The Studio Museum in Harlem, and will focus on the role of women in the Black Arts Movement.
Hill is a Ph.D. candidate in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at UMass Amherst.
Wee the People presents a workshop for educators and caregivers.
Join Kymberly Newberry, PhD Student, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst, for a personal response to a single work of art in Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Refreshments in the museum atrium immediately following.
From 4–8pm, participate in hands-on art-making and a guided conversation in the galleries.
4–7pm Hands on! Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view.
Dragons and Tigers and Buddhas, Oh My!
Explore representations of Buddhist deities, tigers, dragons, and more in Buddhas | Buddhisms: Across and Beyond Asia, and then stamp your own narrative hand scroll of repeating images.
6pm Open Eyes: Guided conversation exploring a different art object each month.
Museum shop open + complimentary light refreshments
Join our speakers for glimpses into their memories of artist Benny Andrews.
Benny Andrews is featured in the exhibition Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem. As an artist, his art was never separate from his life and activism. Speakers include: Jonathan Bruce, Former Director of the CRT Craftery Gallery (Hartford, CT) and Artistic Director for former Huntington House Museum, Rosemary Tracy Woods, Executive Director, Art for the Soul Gallery (Springfield, MA).
Tea, coffee, and treats provided following the program.
Join guest speaker Camille Ollivierre ’20, a Vincentian-American writer/poet and founder of Dey Magazine, for a personal response to a single work of art in Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.
Refreshments in the museum atrium immediately following.
From 4–8pm, participate in hands-on art-making and a guided conversation in the galleries
4–7pm Hands on! Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view. Inspired by Glenn Ligon’s neon ME/WE , play with text, glowsticks and glow-in-the-dark paint to create your own concise poetic message
6pm Open Eyes: Guided conversation exploring a different art object each month.
Museum shop open + complimentary light refreshments.
From 4–8pm, participate in hands-on art-making and a guided conversation in the galleries
4–7pm Hands on! Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view. April showers bring May flowers! Explore still life paintings and landscapes on the second and third floor, and then bring the sweet smells of spring to life with scratch and sniff paint.
6pm Open Eyes: Guided conversation exploring a different art object each month.
Museum shop open + complimentary light refreshments
From 4–8pm, participate in hands-on art-making and a guided conversation in the galleries
4–7pm Hands on! Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view.
6pm Open Eyes: Guided conversation exploring a different art object each month.
Museum shop open + complimentary light refreshments