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A World Class Museum

The Smith College Museum of Art (SMCA) is now open on all floors for the first time since 2020! The renovated third floor features Worlds in Process: Art from the SCMA Collection, which includes artworks from a range of time periods, cultures, materials, and perspectives alongside places to gather and reflect. Visit the museum soon to see it for yourself. The SCMA is free to everyone and welcomes about 35,000 visitors a year. The museum’s collection comprises more than 27,000 objects, representing the diversity of art and material culture across periods and geographies. 

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“The Remnant and The Echo”

Ligia Bouton

On view through May 8, 3026

Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Hall

On November 11, 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and his sister Sophia noticed a bright star, later identified as supernova SN1572. For almost 500 days, they observed and documented the dying star until it disappeared. In 2008, astronomers discovered a light echo of the original supernova bouncing off a dust cloud. This exhibition explores the unique form of time-travel made possible by the SN1572 light echo. Through a video installation combined with photographs and sculptural objects, Bouton traces the story of the supernova and presents possibilities for how we might hold a multiplicity of moments in time simultaneously.

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Now in Circulation

Smith College Libraries are pleased to announce their first-ever circulating zine collection in Hillyer Art Library! The new collection features primarily contemporary works and explores themes of futurism, racial and social justice, and student activism.

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Brown Fine Arts Center Galleries

Jannotta Gallery

The Jannotta Gallery showcases student artwork throughout the academic year, concluding with multiple exhibitions by senior studio art and architecture majors.

Oresman Gallery

The Oresman Gallery is an exhibition space within the Smith College Department of Art that is dedicated to showing recent work by professional artists.

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