Smith Colledge Museum of Art Exhibition ~Beyond the Floating Prints~with faculty in attendance. October 9, 2026-April 4,, 2027 All Details below

 Bring your curiosity this is an interesting retrospective of Japanese art in printing making form the 1830-1975. 

Smith College Museum of Art Announces Beyond the Floating World: Viewing Japanese Prints with Smith Faculty Sekino Jun-ichiro. Japanese (1914–1988). Bin-gata, 1975. Woodblock print in eleven colors on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream paper. Gift of Lucio and Joan Noto

NORTHAMPTON, MA — The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) opens Beyond the Floating World: Viewing Prints with Smith Faculty, an exhibition bringing together 35 Japanese woodblock prints selected by eight Smith College faculty members. On view October 9, 2026–April 4, 2027, the installation explores how works of art can generate connections across disciplines, inspire new questions, and become active resources for teaching and learning.  Faculty participants from art history, East Asian studies, history, and chemistry selected works from SCMA’s collection based on their teaching, research, scholarship, and personal experiences. Seen together, their selections offer multiple ways of approaching Japanese prints and demonstrate how close looking can create unexpected intersections across fields of study. Japanese woodblock prints have long been a strength of SCMA’s Asian art collection. Today, the museum holds more than 700 Japanese prints dating from the 18th through the 21st century. As an important resource for teaching at Smith, the collection gives faculty and students opportunities to study original works of art together through firsthand observation, extending learning beyond the classroom and into the museum. “Discussing and selecting Japanese prints from the SCMA collection with faculty members was an illuminating experience. The questions and stories we shared showed how Japanese prints can contribute to discussions in various disciplines,” said Clara Cho Wun Ma, Jane Chace Carroll Associate Curator of Asian Art at SCMA. The exhibition grew out of a Japanese Print Study Day organized by SCMA in the fall of 2025. The intensive faculty program brought participants together with museum staff and two specialists in Japanese prints for sustained close looking and conversations. Guest speakers were Sarah Thompson, Terrie and Bradley Bloom Curator of Japanese Prints at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Jennifer Perry, Mary and James Wallach Family Conservator of Japanese Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. During the study day, participants examined prints firsthand, shared expertise from different disciplines, and considered ways the collection could inform future teaching, research, and scholarship. Faculty participants included Marnie S. Anderson, Payal Banerjee, Kimberly Kono, Sujane Wu, Elizabeth Jamieson, Yanlong Guo, Yuri Kumagai, Yuko Mizutani, Elizabeth “Betsy” Rock, and Atsuko Takahashi. “Faculty and staff really benefited from these curated-looking exercises with the help of two experts in the field. It also fostered great conversations among participants, and the exchange of ideas created the perfect lead-in to the installation that organically grew out of the study day,” said Henriette Kets de Vries, Cunningham Center Manager and Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at SCMA. The project reflects SCMA’s role as a teaching museum and its commitment to making the collection an accessible resource for faculty and students across academic disciplines. The study day was designed not only to deepen participants’ knowledge of Japanese prints but also to encourage collaborative learning, foster new relationships with the collection and plant seeds for future teaching, installations and programming. “The impetus for the study day grew from many years of academic, interdisciplinary class visits to the museum in which sustained looking, visual analysis, and interpretation of Japanese prints sparked curiosity and deep critical thinking, leading to lively group dialogue and active collective learning with art in the museum,” said Charlene Shang Miller, Educator for Academic Programs and the Museums Concentration at Smith College Museum of Art. Rather than presenting a single interpretation of Japanese printmaking, Beyond the Floating World makes visible the range of ideas that can emerge when people approach the same collection from different disciplines and experiences. Visitors are invited to consider what draws each faculty member to a particular work and how an artwork might prompt questions about history, literature, materials science, culture, artistic practice, and personal experience. The exhibition also highlights the museum collection as a laboratory for inquiry. Through direct encounters with original objects, faculty and students can look closely together, test ideas, and make connections that may not emerge through reproductions alone. About SCMA / Smith College Museum of Art As a teaching museum affiliated with Smith College, the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) connects people to art, ideas, and each other. SCMA collects, researches, presents, and preserves an expansive collection of art in the service of learning, teaching, and critical dialogue, fostering an inclusive and accessible environment that welcomes diverse perspectives and inspires imagination. Open year-round Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m., SCMA invites the public to explore four floors of galleries and the shop. Visitors encounter a world-class collection that spans ancient times to the present and encompasses the arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings and Photographs houses one of the region’s most comprehensive collections of works on paper. In 2023, generous gifts from Smith College alumnae Jan Fullgraf Golann ’71 and Jane Timken ’64 enabled SCMA to eliminate admission fees. Later that year, SCMA received support from the Art Bridges Foundation through its Access for All initiative, which provided additional resources to expand access to art, including extended hours, innovative programming, and student outreach. An accredited member of the American Alliance of Museums, SCMA is a founding member of Museums10, a regional cultural collaboration, and is also a member of the College Art Association and the New England Museum Association. Smith College Museum of Art | 20 Elm Street at Bedford Terrace | Northampton, MA 01063 US #smithcollegemuseumart#fineartmagazineblog.blogspot.com #sunstormfineartmagazine.com#artfunnow#artfunjapan#artfunprints#artfuninternational#artfunnow

In the Bronx? Oh this is great! Lehman Colledge Art Gallery: Free Inclusive Programs for the family below.

 This is my weekly up date for Lehman College. They do a terrific job providing user friendly family programs for everyone. 

Free Inclusive Family Programs Children of all ages and abilities are welcome!  FREE TICKETS REQUIRED Does this Taste Funny? Humor in Contemporary Art September 9 - January 16, 2027 Inclusive Family Program Collage Sunday October 18, 2026 10:30 am – 12:30 pm   Make a Mash-Up Creature! Elizabeth Murray Do I Love You from Rooftops With Flying Geese, 2003 Courtesy of GEMINI G.E.L. Tour the exhibition and participate in an artmaking workshop. Artists in this exhibition combine unexpected ideas, images, and materials to create surprising and humorous works of art. Invent a brand-new creature by combining two very different animals, then give it a name, special abilities, and a story. CLICK HERE FOR FREE TICKETS Inclusive Family Program Drawing Sunday December 13, 2026 10:30 am – 12:30 pm Roz Chast Inside-Of-Body Experience, 2026 Courtesy of Kathryn Markel Fine Arts Create a Comic Strip Story!  Tour the exhibition and participate in an artmaking workshop. Inspired by cartoonist Roz Chast, discover how artists find humor in everyday life. Create a four-panel comic featuring a character, a problem, a surprise, and a funny ending. CLICK HERE FOR FREE TICKETS Inclusive Family Program Printmaking Sunday January 10, 2027 10:30 am – 12:30 pm John Vasquez Meijas  The Puerto Rican War (Detail), 2026 Create a Relief Print!  Tour the exhibition and participate in an artmaking workshop inspired by artist John Vasquez Mejias’s playful installation. Learn the basics of relief printmaking as you carve, ink, and print your own funny images and ideas. Experiment with shapes, textures, and unexpected combinations to create a one-of-a-kind print! CLICK HERE FOR FREE TICKETS ALL PROGRAMS TAKE PLACE AT LEHMAN COLLEGE ART GALLERY 250 BEDFORD PARK BLVD WEST BRONX, NY 10463 Lehman College Art Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building Enter at Gate 5 on Goulden Ave Our programs are generously funded by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation; Milton and Sally Avery Foundation; Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation; Edith and Herbert Lehman Foundation; The Keith Haring Foundation; and New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund.  Website

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Oh Boy Did the Hampton"s have rain from the Nor'easter all week end! The Hamptons International Film Festival Tickets on sale. See Below!!!

The Hamptons International film fest felt the effects if the Nor'Easter this past week end. The weather has cleared !!!See all films you may want to catch in the post below. 

NEW FILMS, NEW SCREENINGS AT HIFF34 ⭐

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Amy Harder's recap of the New York Climate Change Weeks events. Links to videos and news to read belwo!!!

My Personal favorite is the photo Gallery&  the Zen moment video. I will follow up to see if change really happens. Jamie Forbes, Publisher of the FineArtMagazineblog.blogspot.com, and SunStormFineartmagazine.com  

At New York Climate Week, co-existing with multiple realities

Plus: Photo gallery from the big 🍎 and a moment of zen

AMY HARDER SEP 28

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Top to bottom, Axios House interviews, NYCW 2026: Patagonia CEO Ryan Gellert, Nvidia sustainability head Josh Parker, Amazon chief sustainability officer Kara Hurst, White House Energy Dominance Council executive director Jarrod Agen and renowned marine biologist Sylvia Earle. Photos: Sam Popp for Axios

What’s in here ⤵️

🍎 Recap of New York Climate Week 

📸 Photo gallery!

🧘‍♀️ A moment of NYC zen

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At New York Climate Week, co-existing with multiple realities

Our minds like a clear hierarchy. Life rarely provides one.

That was especially true at New York Climate Week this year.

Yes, the overriding conversation has increasingly evolved away from climate and net-zero and toward affordability, the AI boom and energy security.

But it’s ALSO true that within and beneath that topline debate, hundreds of conversations took place on topics near and dear to people’s passions and livelihoods — including climate itself, biodiversity, conservation, sustainable food and much more.

My week was similarly all over the Manhattan and topic map: 

At Axios House:

• Josh Parker of Nvidia, Varun Sivaram of EmeraldAI and energy expert Jigar Shah all agreed that connecting data centers to the grid — and making them flexible — will be best for everyone. Meanwhile, Kara Hurstdefended Amazon’s plan for a massive natural-gas plant initially disconnected from the grid (read more about that here.)

• Democratic lawmakers Mike Levin and Brian Schatz said a permitting deal requires the Trump administration to change course on wind and solar. Jarrod Agen of Trump’s White House was cool to that idea. I also pressed him on high oil prices and the media outlets then banned from the White House.

• Jason Grumet of the American Clean Power Association described the sector’s “best of times and the worst of times.”

• Ryan Gellert of Patagonia told me he was more worried about unbridled AI than unbridled capitalism.

• And Sylvia Earle, the legendary marine biologist, warned that we have five years left to salvage our oceans.

🎥 That’s just a snippet. See all our interviews on the Axios YouTube page:https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLM2Saptl1n7k

Elsewhere in New York:

• At Dynamo Energy Hub, Octopus Energy’s Greg Jackson compared our power grid to an airline flying too many empty planes: We should get more out of the infrastructure we already have.

• At The Nest Campus, Fervo’s Tim Latimer reflected on lessons from becoming a publicly traded company, while investor Joshua Posamentier of Congruent Ventures wished he’d put even more money into it.

• With Carter Roberts of WWF, Jennifer Morris of TNC and Hank Paulson, we confronted a staggering imbalance: For every $1 that goes toward protecting nature, $30 goes toward destroying it.

• And with Hannan Happi of Exowatt, we posited a future based on abundance rather than scarcity — while wrestling with AI’s impact on both humans and the environment.

Shhhhh…some off-the-record conversations covered everything from China to salmon (though not simultaneously, to be clear).

🙏 There was another kind of co-existence for me this week, too.

I was grieving the very recent death of a loved family member.

I kept most of my speaking commitments, but declined many evening events and bowed out of a breakfast briefing so I could fit in a run instead. The professional commitments mattered to me. But grief mattered more.

I don’t usually share much of my personal life publicly. But leaving this out of a post about my biggest professional week of the year would leave out something more fundamental about what the week actually was for me.

Whether professional or personal, life rarely gives us the luxury of experiencing one thing at a time.

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1-3: Axios House! 4: Jigar Shah interview with Axios House crowd; 5: Octopus CEO Greg Jackson at Dynamo Energy Hub; 6: Fervo’s Tim Latimer and Congruent’s Joshua Posamentier at Nest Campus; 7: Hank Paulson, TNC’s Jennifer Morris & WWF’s Carter Roberts, 8: me at the Hawthorn Club’s annual summit; and 9: Hannan Happi from Exowatt. Axios House stage photos: Sam Popp for Axios

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Your moment of Manhattan zen: Paley Park

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