Smith College Museum of Art, Exhibit
Michel Kameni: Portraits of an Independent Africa
This exhibition features portraits by the Cameroonian studio photographer Michel Kameni (c.1935–2020) made at Studio KM in Yaoundé. The 55 prints featured were made during the 1960s and 1970s in the years following Cameroon’s independence.
Image: Michel Kameni, Cameroon. Untitled (three women, hand dresses) 1970s (c.1935–2020). Vintage gelatin silver print © Estate of Michel Kameni. Courtesy the Solander Collection.
A City in Flux: Reflecting on Venice
This installation celebrates the enduring but ever-changing allure of Venice in art. Curated by undergraduate students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, it draws from the Five Colleges’ vast collections of historic and contemporary drawings, photographs, prints, and paintings.
SCMA is free and open to all!
Open 11am–4pm, Tues-Sun. Closed Mon.
Image: Dwight William Tryon, Venice, 1879
Crafting Worlds: Japanese Decorative Arts from the 18th through 21st Centuries
Crafts are functional objects creatively made by skillful artisans using specialized knowledge and techniques. As our world increasingly embraces modes of making that are ever more detached from the human hand and mind, what is the significance of making crafts?
This installation explores how artisans in Japan utilized materials and handcrafted techniques to forge social relationships and engage with the world around them. It features lacquerware, ceramics, bamboo baskets, and metalwork from the eighteenth- through twenty-first centuries, when Japan shifted from a feudal society to a modern nation.
