Each year the Museum welcomes over 33,000 visitors who enjoy the permanent collection, a wide range of changing exhibitions, educational programs, special events, and amenities that include the Museum Shop, artist-designed restrooms, and hand-crafted gallery benches.
Hours
Tue to Sun 11am–4 pm
closed Mondays and major holidays
Join us for an evening of sensory experiences inspired by nature! Drop in for hands-on! art making activities in the museum’s atrium and enjoy light refreshments from 4–7pm. Explore still life paintings and landscapes in the galleries, and then bring the sweet smells of spring to life with “scratch and sniff” scented paint on watercolor […]
Artful adventures in and around the museum for 2-5 year olds and their caregivers! Explore a different theme each session, offered on selected Fridays through the year, plus a Sensory-Inclusive Saturday session. Registered families can join us in the Atrium of the Smith College Museum of Art for open play and art experiences from 9:30-11:30. […]
Miller Lecture in Art with Shahzia Sikander Reckoning: Shahzia Sikander from Manuscript Painting to Contemporary Animation Artist’s talk: 5:00 p.m., Carroll Room, Campus Center, Smith College This in-person event will be live streamed on Facebook. Reception to follow: 6–7:30 p.m. Brown Fine Arts Atrium, Smith College Museum of Art Shahzia Sikander (b. Lahore, Pakistan) is […]
Enjoy a special visit for caregivers and pre-walking babies through SCMA's new exhibition Painting the Persianate World: Portable Images on Paper, Cloth and Clay. Meet other grown-ups while enjoying conversation about art and activities. Drop-ins welcome! This program will take place in-person in the SCMA galleries, and begin in the entryway of the museum. Light […]
Stop by the SCMA Shop on Northampton Bag Day weekend, November 18–19 from 11a.m.–4 p.m. and receive 20% off your entire purchase! This event is in-person as well as online! For online purchases, user code Holiday20. Check out all the SCMA Shop has to offer! SCMAshop.smith.edu About the SCMA Shop Located just beyond the visitors’ […]
Stop by the SCMA Shop on Northampton Bag Day weekend, November 18–19 from 11a.m.–4 p.m. and receive 20% off your entire purchase! This event is in-person as well as online! For online purchases, user code Holiday20. Check out all the SCMA Shop has to offer! SCMAshop.smith.edu About the SCMA Shop Located just beyond the visitors’ […]
Lunchtime Talk: Artist Carrie Schneider Join us to hear from SCMA's 2023 Meredith S. Moody Program artist, Carrie Schneider. Lunch provided for the first 40 attendees Schneider will speak about her work in photography and film, her career as an artist, and her latest body of work which was recently featured in a solo exhibition […]
Today, come to the art museum and discover something new! Sum of Its Parts: Multi-Panel Works on Paper from the Collection September 1, 2023–January 7, 2024 This installation includes multi-panel photographs, prints, and collages from the SCMA collection made between the 17th and 21st centuries. This selection highlights the long history and many approaches to […]
Pop-Up Exhibition: Finding Joy on Our Road to Racial Justice Cromwell Day Pop-up Exhibition curated by the Smith College Black Student Alliance Students from the Black Student Alliance selected artworks from SCMA’s collection in honor of Cromwell Day, an annual tradition that provides dedicated time and space for reflection and education about diversity, racism and inclusion. Students […]
Deborah Jack Screening and Conversation Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Hall Join artist Deborah Jack for a film screening and discussion with Simone Cambridge (UMass) on Thursday, October 12, 2023 at 5pm in Graham Hall. This event is part of Art Stockings: Dialogues on Art, Gender, and Cultural Theory. Created by Professor Alex Callender, Art Stockings invites […]
Sum of Its Parts: Multi-Panel Works on Paper from the Collection September 1, 2023–January 7, 2024 This installation includes multi-panel photographs, prints, and collages from the SCMA collection made between the 17th and 21st centuries. This selection highlights the long history and many approaches to making modular works of art. Artists choose to make artworks […]
Queer Identities In the SCMA Collection Drop-by the museum's Cunningham Center for Prints, Drawings and Photographs on SCMA’s second floor to see a special installation of art by and of LGBTQIA+ artists and subjects from the museum's collection. This pop-up exhibition is open to all. Co-Sponsored and organized in partnership with the Office of Equity […]
