Smith College Museum of Art, lecture: Miller Lecture: Dr. Nicole Fleetwood on Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration!

March 2023 Museum + Shop hours: Tue–Sun | 11am–4 pm closed: Mondays and major holidays Miller Lecture: Dr. Nicole Fleetwood on Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration Wednesday, March 29 | 5:30 pm Weinstein Auditorium, Wright Hall, Smith College Join us for the lecture on campus or via livestream. Register here to access the livestream link: https://bit.ly/3JX8d5c This program will not be recorded.  Celebrated writer, cultural theorist, curator, and art critic Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood will discuss her project, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, which explores the impact of US incarceration on contemporary visual art. This project highlights artists who have been incarcerated alongside artists whose art examines US institutions and systems of confinement. Based on interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated artists, prison visits, and the author’s own family experiences with the penal system, Marking Time shows how the imprisoned turn ordinary objects into elaborate works of art. LEARN MORE SCMA programs featured in the Daily Hampshire Gazette PLAN YOUR VISIT SCMA e-news is produced and issued monthly by the Marketing and Communications Office of SCMA. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of content. Questions? email scmagen@smith.edu; Images: Photo of Nicole Fleetwood courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

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Smith College Museum of Art, "An Imposing Number of Times", by Amanda Williams is inspired by student-made Black Lives Matter banners. On displat now!

Northampton, MA—July 6, 2021: Two black-and-white banners by artist Amanda Williams have been unfurled on the Elm Street and campus-facing facades of the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA). The banners represent the first part of Williams’ An Imposing Number of Times, a series of site-specific campus installations commissioned by the museum. Further installations are scheduled for fall 2021 and spring 2022.

The banners’ design and composition were inspired by student-made Black Lives Matter banners displayed on several residential houses on campus. First created by Smith students in 2017 and redone each fall, the house banners prompted Williams to reflect on language and self-determination at Smith College, a place where campus traditions and the house system play a large role in student life. Williams built the abstract composition of her banners emphasizing the texture, materiality and painterly qualities of the house banners. In one of her banners, Williams layers six words over details of three faded house banners. It reads: “live / matterful / black / lives / allies / matter.”   According to Williams, “Unfolding over space and time, An Imposing Number of Times transforms the legibility of the glyphs of the handmade BLM banners into something unrecognizable as a means of establishing their potency and liberatory potential.   “The meaning of the phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ seems straightforward at first, yet it is elusive, ephemeral and shifting. The recitation, fragmentation and deconstruction of this phrase and its physical presence on campus via a series of installations will produce a collective bearing witness to how Blackness is navigated and valued in the specific institutional context of Smith.” #smithcolledge

Eco-art and artists on deisplay at Smith Colledge Museum

Mid-April / 2019 Smith College Museum of Art what's new / what's next museum hours upcoming programs Public Talk Re:Fuse by Artist Aurora Robson Tuesday, April 16 | 5 pm Weinstein Auditorium Wright Hall Contemporary multi-media artist Aurora Robson, whose sculptures are featured in Plastic Entanglements, will discuss her art practice as well as her ongoing dedication to intercepting the waste stream. She will help illustrate the nature and complexity of the plastic pollution problem while offering a specific model for academic inquiry that takes place at the intersection of art and science.   Please Be Seated: Reserved Seating for current SCMA members Reserve by April 15 scmamembers@smith.edu or 413.585.2777 click to learn more about Re:Fuse Reducing our Plastic Footprint: Experiences from the European Union Thursday, April 25 | 7 pm Stoddard Auditorium What lessons can we learn from the recent European Union plastic ban? How can we implement similar efforts in the U.S.? Giuliana Torta, Counsellor for Environment, Fisheries and Ocean policies at the E.U. Delegation to the U.S. in Washington DC will discuss the European plastic ban, compare the E.U. and U.S. political environments, and share strategies we can implement. Sponsored by Connecticut River Conservancy |   Open to all click to learn more about Reducing our Plastic Footprint  Smith College Museum of Art 20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace Northampton, MA 01063 413 585 2760 smith.edu/artmuseum Hours Tuesday through Saturday 10-4 Thursday 10-8 Sunday 12-4 Second Friday of the month 10-8 Closed Mondays and major holidays #fineartmagazine

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March 2019 Smith College Museum of Art what's new / what's next

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featured exhibition Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials

Visitors enjoying Plastic Entanglements

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Vision and Meaning in My Art: Nell Painter, artist and author Free public talk & book signing March 5 | 6:30 pm Carroll Room, Smith Campus Center SCMA and the Smith College Narratives Project, part of Smith's Wurtele Center for Leadership, are pleased to co-sponsor a visit to Smith by artist and author Nell Painter on  Tuesday, March 5. Nell Painter will speak about her book, Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over, and sign copies. SCMA recently acquired a series of eight prints by Nell Painter entitled, You Say This Can't Really Be America, 2017. These art works are currently on view on the Lower Level of the museum. This program is free and open to all | No reservations |Presented in collaboration with the  Smith College Narratives Project, part of Smith's Wurtele Center for Leadership

smith college museum of art 20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace Northampton, MA 01063 413 585 2760 smith.edu/artmuseum hours Tuesday through Saturday 10-4 Thursday 10-8 Sunday 12-4 Second Friday of the month 10-8 Closed Mondays and major holidays #fineartmagazineSmith Colledge