Ways to Give

Annual Appeal 2013

SCMA's Collection: A New Interpretation and Installation (GIVE)

SCMA aspires to deepen our visitors’ engagement with the permanent collection by providing refurbished, reinstalled, and reinterpreted galleries throughout the Museum. This year’s Appeal seeks support for the first phase of this project, which will address the second and third floor galleries. At its core, this project exemplifies the Museum’s mission, to “… educate and engage our academic and broader communities through meaningful and memorable encounters with exceptional art.” Staff members from all Museum departments are actively engaged in a comprehensive, creative planning process. What’s needed now is the funding that will make it possible to move forward with implementation.

Your generous contribution TODAY  will enable the Museum to move forward with this essential project.

Jessica Nicoll ’83, Director and Louise Innes Doyle ’34 Chief Curator

Annual Appeal 2012

Deepening Visitor Engagement: Innovative Experiences for All Ages (GIVE)  

Contributions to the 2012 Annual Appeal are still needed to broaden and deepen our visitors’ capacity to engage with the Museum’s permanent collection as well as with special exhibitions and programs – whether the experience occurs as part of a gallery visit or as a result of visiting the Museum’s website.

Membership

By becoming a member of SCMA, you help fund exhibitions, enhance the permanent collection, ensure public programming, and sustain special initiatives. Members also enjoy many valuable benefits. Join today. Membership Levels

Gifts of Art

Gifts of tangible personal property—such as art, jewelry, antiques, rare books, and gold or silver—offer the donor an immediate tax deduction. The amount depends on the value of the gift and whether it is related to the college's educational mission.

Gifts related to Smith's educational mission generate a tax deduction for the full market value of the object, as determined by a qualified independent appraiser. The Museum is not permitted to appraise works of art or to recommend appraisers. However, the Museum can supply donors with names of appraisal services to consider.

The Smith College Museum of Art accepts gifts of works of art for its permanent collection. Gift offers are reviewed by the Curatorial Council, which considers the quality of the work, its appropriateness to our holdings and value for teaching purposes, and the artwork’s provenance (its history of legal ownership). On rare occasions, the Museum accepts gifts of study objects and works that are offered with the understanding that they will be sold, with the sale proceeds used to purchase other works of art for the permanent collection.

If you are considering a gift of art, please contact the Smith College Museum of Art at 413.585.2760, or contact:

Planned Giving

Planned gifts can benefit you and the Smith College Museum of Art by securing the Museum's future and leaving a legacy. The Smith College planned giving staff will be pleased to provide you with information about and support in making a bequest, charitable gift annuity, or charitable trust, or help you include in your will gifts of artwork designated for the Art Museum.

Planned Giving Web site
Contact Planned Giving

Endowments

Ordinary gifts help the Museum now; endowment gifts help the Museum forever. An endowed gift is a significant sum of money that is managed by the college. The principal is never spent, but the income it generates is used year after year for whatever purpose the donor and the college agree upon.

Because the Smith College Museum of Art depends on endowment support for the long-term, creating an endowed fund is a way you can ensure that what you value most about SCMA will extend beyond your lifetime. Museum donors have established endowed funds that support art acquisitions, staff and curatorial positions, internships, conservation, exhibitions, publications, research, academic initiatives, lectures, and symposia.

Endowed gifts can be made either during the donor’s lifetime or by a bequest.
For information about establishing an endowment at SCMA, please contact:

  • Jessica Nicoll, Director and Louise Ines Doyle ’34 Chief Curator
  • Sam Samuels, Associate Director of Gift Planning, Development Office

Tax Facts

All gifts to the Smith College Museum of Art are tax deductible to the extent allowed by the law. All donors receive a mailed gift receipt.

Matching Gifts

With matching gifts, you can sometimes double, triple, or even quadruple your gift. More than 1,000 corporations, foundations, and other organizations will match their employees’ charitable contributions either dollar-for-dollar, or at a ratio of up to four to one. Learn more about matching gifts.