b'connecting people to ideasART EMBODIES COMPLEX AND LAYERED IDEAS Smith students think with us about the work and every individual who visits SCMA brings their ownand meaning of museums through coursework in the memories and experiences to encounters with art inMuseums Concentration and in the reflective opport -our galleries. We connect people with art, ideas andnities with peers that staff design for them. In the public each other through exhibitions, programs, facilitatedevents we offer, ranging from intergenerational art-mak-group visits and digital strategies, but they also connecting opportunities to lectures by visiting scholars and art-with us. Our campus and local community membersists, creative thinking is sparked and new conversations are thought partners in the work of revealing multiplebegin to unfold. All of this is made possible through the meanings in art across time and place. It is through ouractive participation of our audiences. shared experiences that the museum is fully activatedAs we look back and reflect on the yea , it is as a center for ideas and creativity.incredible to observe the continued growth of activity What does this look like in action? Collegeacross our academic and community engagement faculty from across disciplines utilize the museum as an ex- efforts. We are grateful to students, faculty, staff and tension of their classrooms, and SCMA staff lead studentsmembers of our local communities for coming to visit 30 in looking closely and deeply. Student Museum Educatorsusand then coming again. We value what you bring develop learning activities for visiting elementary schoolwith you to your experiences here, and we look forward students that get them talking, moving, drawing andto discovering and creating new ideas together. having funcreating memories that will stick with them. above:Maggie Newey (left) with Smith students Libby Keller 20 (center), a Student Museum Educator (SME) and Bea Oyster 23 (right), a student in MUX 119 in the exhibition, Object Histories: From the African Continent to the SCMA Galleriesconnecting people to ideas'