"Panel discussion: Reclaiming Munio Makuuchi, an American artist"
Panelists will explore why Makuuchi wasn't more recognized during his lifetime, and the relevance of his poetry and prints 20 years after his death. Speakers include Curator Aprile Gallant, Professor Floyd Cheung, Printer Andrew Balkin and art historian Margo Machida.
The Smith College Poetry Center and SCMA are pleased to present Lee Roripaugh, poet laureate of South Dakota. Roripaugh, a second-generation Japanese American, created a series of portraits in Beyond Heart Mountain (1999), in the voices of Japanese American internees at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. In Year of the Snake (2004), she explored issues of mixed-race identity, myths, Japanese fairy tales, and metaphors of transformation.
Poetry Reading & Book Launch: Six Smith Alums, in Celebration of the publication of The Map of Every Lilac Leaf: Poets Respond to the Smith College Museum of Art. Readings by Rebecca Foust, Gina Franco, Laurie Anne Guerrero, Jessica Jacobs, Gail Mazur, and Abe Louise Young
Free and open to all: Zoom Webinar Registration
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.
Members tour of Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem. Led by Emma Chubb, Charlotte Feng Ford '83 Curator of Contemporary Art.
Tour with Connie Choi, Associate Curator of the Permanent Collection, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and curator of Black Refractions.
Artist Lorraine O’Grady will be joined in conversation with Stephanie Sparling Williams, Associate Curator at the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum. O'Grady is an artist and critic whose installations, performances and texts address issues of diaspora, hybridity and black female subjectivity.
This program is presented in association with the exhibition, Black Refractions: Highlights from The Studio Museum in Harlem.
In keeping with Smith College protocols related to COVID-19, we regret that the following program has been cancelled. Learn more
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.
In keeping with Smith College protocols related to COVID-19, we regret that the following program has been cancelled. Learn more
Join our speakers for glimpses into their memories of artist Benny Andrews.
In keeping with Smith College protocols related to COVID-19, we regret that the following program has been cancelled. Learn more
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.