Collecting 101

Collecting 101: acquisition of Deborah Jack’s ‘the water between us remembers, so we wear this history on our skin, long for a sea-bath and hope the salt will cure what ails us’

SCMA has acquired Deborah Jack’s single-channel video ‘the water between us remembers, so we wear this history on our skin, long for a sea-bath and hope the salt will cure what ails us’ (2018) with the input and effort of students in Collecting 101.

a young Black girl wearing sandals and a white dress holds green branches with bright red flowers; view of her legs and feet walking from behind

Boom BOOM! by Dread Scott

Art isn’t always going to make you feel comfortable; in fact, most of the greatest masterpieces have been the cause of upheaval and revolution.

front page of New York Times for October 29, 1997 overlain with figures shooting guns printed in red and and BOOM in bright gold over them

Collecting 101

Designed to be an introduction to the issues and practical matters of collecting for an institution, “Collecting 101” allowed students to directly participate in researching and purchasing a work on paper for the SCMA collection.

group of students sit around a table, man stands at the front of the table speaking to them