Free Admission ALL DAY, activities from 11:30–3:30 PM

Join us for a Community Day with music and dance performances, drop-in artmaking, and workshops (limited space; sign up on site), inspired by the exhibition 体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia. Free light refreshments, plus a food truck (bring $cash$)! All ages welcome.

SCHEDULE

11:30 AM—Story time with Forbes Library, Winslow Teaching Gallery

12:30 PM—Taiko drum performance, Atrium

1–2 PM & 2:30–3:30 PM—Art+Story comics workshop | Space limited; sign up at the Welcome Table

• ONGOING ACTIVITIES
• Welcome Table, First Floor, outside Sacerdote Gallery—Stop by to pick up a schedule of activities as well as Discovery Cards and sign up for our workshops. Also, let us know what you think about Community Day and help us plan for future family-friendly community programs. Share your thoughts and get on our mailing list for future events.

• Flipbook Photobooth, Atrium—Step into the mobile photo booth and get your body in motion to become the star of your own keepsake flipbook. While waiting for your flipbook to print, check out our campus and community partner booths and enjoy complimentary light refreshments!

• Make your Mark!, L18 Studio Classroom, Lower Level—Collaborate and get messy in the art studio (plastic aprons provided). Play with line and texture for a bold exploration using washable black paint.

• Calligraphy, Atrium

• Food Truck—Looking for more than a snack? Visit the food truck Sun Kim Bop parked outside the Museum doors for yummy Seoul Street Food! (Bring cash).

Join printmaker and Smith College Professor of Art Dwight Pogue, for a private gallery talk in Flowering Stars: Prints by Dwight Pogue before the exhibition opens to the public. Flowering Stars celebrates and commemorates his retirement, showcasing the progression of his work in print over his almost 40-years at Smith.

Read more about the exhibition here.

This exhibition is supported by the Louise Walker Blaney, class of 1939, Fund for Exhibitions. 

Meet in museum lobby.

FREE

Space limited | Reservations required

Questions: SCMAmembers@smith.edu or 413.585.2777

Co-sponsored by the Museums Concentration

Emma Chubb, Curator of Contemporary Art, and Yao Wu, Curator of Asian Art, will share their perspectives and illuminate their roles as curators of art across cultures in a conversation inspired by the exhibition 体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia. Moderated by Nicole Bearden ‘19, Museums Concentrator and Charlene Shang Miller, Associate Educator for Academic Programs.

4–7 PM Hands-on! Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view

Botanical Printmaking

Make beautiful block prints drawn from real flowers and leaves from the Smith College Botanic Garden and inspired by FLOWERING STARS: Prints by Dwight Pogue.  

6 PM Open Eyes: Guided conversation exploring a different art object each month

Museum Shop open + complimentary light refreshments

Join printmaker and Smith College Professor of Art Dwight Pogue, for a private gallery talk in Flowering Stars: Prints by Dwight Pogue before the exhibition opens to the public. Flowering Stars celebrates and commemorates his retirement, showcasing the progression of his work in print over his almost 40-years at Smith.

Read more about the exhibition here.

This exhibition is supported by the Louise Walker Blaney, class of 1939, Fund for Exhibitions.

Meet in museum lobby.

FREE

Space limited | Reservations required

Questions: SCMAmembers@smith.edu or 413.585.2777

Let your voice be heard. Explore themes of identity, belonging and culture in visual and written art during an open mic night inspired by SCMA's Un/American installation. The Writer's Flock invites students, faculty, and staff to attend and share stories, poems, spoken word pieces, and other forms of art.
Reception and sign-ups begin at 6:30 PM in the Brown Fine Arts Center Atrium, followed by the perfomances inside the SCMA galleries.
Event organized by the Writer's Flock and sponsored by the Smith College Museum of Art.