Support SCMA
SCMA is free and open to all. Your support sustains teaching, learning, and community engagement.
What you're making possible:
- Discovery: With admission already free, transportation subsidies bring thousands of local K–12 students to SCMA for meaningful tours and often first-time museum visits
- Access: From sensory-friendly resources to wheelchairs and gallery stools, accessibility is at SCMA's core, so visitors feel welcome and supported
- Connection: Late museum hours for free events like Second Fridays, pop-up exhibitions, and gallery talks bring us together to make art and explore SCMA
- Reimagining: Curatorial research, artist collaborations, and costs associated with new acquisitions and loans, expanding the stories in our galleries to reflect our time and elevate voices across cultures
- Empowerment: Student positions that build skills, career readiness, and networks, linking students, museum staff, and alums to launch the next generation of arts professionals
SCMA Friends Program
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Friends of Smith
Explore museums nationwide with reciprocal memberships
As an SCMA Friend, your benefits travel with you. Through the College & University Reciprocal Program, NARM, and ROAM, you can visit hundreds of museums across the country for free or at a discount—while supporting SCMA's mission at home. Every visit helps sustain our programs, exhibitions, and community initiatives.
Matching gifts
Double or triple your impact through employer matching programs.
Mail matching employee forms to:
Smith College Museum of Art, Gift Accounting, 33 Elm Street, Northampton, MA 01063
Tryon art trips
Take your love of art beyond the museum with exclusive, upper-level trips led by SCMA’s museum director. Explore world-class exhibitions, experience cultural landmarks, and engage in in-depth discussions. For more information about upcoming trips, email lsheawarner@smith.edu.
Past trips include:
- Venice Biennale, Italy
- Marfa, Texas
- Des Moines, IA
Louisville, KY - Naples, Italy
- Boston and the Berkshires, MA
- West Palm Beach, FL
- London
- Phoenix, AZ
- Milwaukee, WI
- San Francisco, CA
- Detroit, MI and Toledo, OH
- Seattle, WA
- The Netherlands
Gifts of art
Donate select works to SCMA’s permanent collection. Tax benefits may apply.
Email: artmuseum@smith.edu | Phone: 413-585-2760
Planned giving
Planned gifts can benefit you and SCMA by leaving a legacy and securing the museum's future. Smith College’s planned giving staff will be pleased to provide you with information about and support in making a bequest, charitable gift annuity or charitable trust. They can also help you designate gifts of artwork for SCMA in your will. Learn more about making a planned gift.
The Hillyer Society
The Hillyer Society recognizes friends of SCMA who have made a commitment to the future of the institution by including the museum in their estate plans with a promised gift of art that the museum has agreed to accept. The Hillyer Society is named for Winthrop Hillyer, the first benefactor of the museum, whose gifts in the 1880s funded acquisitions and the construction of new galleries for the growing collection. The commitment of gifts of art continues a distinguished history of philanthropy that has built SCMA into what it is today.
For further information, please contact Jessica Nicoll, Director and Louise Ines Doyle ’34 Chief Curator or Sam Samuels, Director of Planned Giving.
Endowments
An endowed gift is a significant sum of money that is managed by Smith College. The principal is never spent, but the income it generates is used for a purpose agreed upon by the donor and the college. Because SCMA depends on endowment support for the long term, creating an endowed fund is a way to ensure that what you value most about SCMA will extend beyond your lifetime.
Museum donors have established endowed funds that support art acquisitions, staff positions, internships, and post-graduate fellowships, conservation, exhibitions, publications, research, academic initiatives, lectures, and symposia. Endowed gifts can be made either during the donor’s lifetime or by a bequest.
For information about establishing an endowment at SCMA, please contact Jessica Nicoll, Director and Louise Ines Doyle ’34 Chief Curator or Sam Samuels, Director of Planned Giving.