49 HIGHLIGHT MEREDITH S. MOODY COLLECTION IN 1997, THE MOODY FAMILY ENDOWED A RESIDENCY at Yaddo, the famed artists’ retreat in Saratoga, NY, to be awarded annually to a female photographer. The residency was named in honor of the late Meredith S. Moody, a photographer of promise who died suddenly in 1995 at the age of 37. Since the first award, Hiram Moody and Sarah Goulard ’67 have acquired a work by the artist selected for the residency, with input from other family members. In 2016, Hiram and Sarah made the decision to donate the collection to SCMA, and to establish a fund for the future purchase of works by recipients of the Meredith S. Moody Residency at Yaddo. SCMA is working with the Smith art department to develop an ongoing program that will allow Smith students to participate in the selection of a photograph for the collection. This will expose students to the process involved in collecting for a museum, as well as give them access to female photographers at different stages of their artistic careers. The first work from the Moody collection donated to SCMA in early 2017, was Celda #11 (Prison Cell #11) by the 2015 residency recipient, Alma Leiva. Born in Honduras, Leiva moved to the United States as a teenager, and was trained in photography in Florida and Virginia. Her interdisciplinary practice, which includes elaborate, evocative photographic setups, explores the psycho- logical effects of systemic violence and its lingering effects on immigrant communities. On visits to her native country, Leiva was struck by the surreal nature of life in Honduras, with its uneasy mixture of ordinariness and frequent brutality. “My cross-disciplinary practice is inspired by Magical Realism and the aesthetics of violence. . . [I]t seeks to address the particular experience of alienation, fear and displacement suffered by Hondurans as a consequence of the unspeakable violence that has taken over much of the Central American region, and as immigrants in contemporary United States, triggered especially by anti-immigrant sentiment.” Celda #11 juxtaposes comforting domestic touches such as a lace tablecloth, family pictures, a crocheted blanket and images invoking divine intercession with an unsettling mass of folded paper airplanes covering the floor. The room, while cozy, seems airless and hermetically sealed, as if to ward off the unpleasantness of the outside world. ABOVE LEFT: Members of the Moody Family, 2017. ABOVE RIGHT: Alma Leiva. American, born Honduras, 1973. Celda #11 (Prison Cell #11) 2013 (printed 2017). Archival pigment print. The Meredith S. Moody Collection. Gift of Hiram Moody and Sarah Goulard, class of 1967