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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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A T-shaped cyanotype textile tapestry in shades of indigo blue, featuring layered, silhouetted evergreen trees and a house against a snowy landscape, with a gridded lower section marked by muted gray and brown stains.

“An Absent Presence: The Woman Doctor of Mount Desert”

Chloe Sailor

On view September 8–October 22, 2026

Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Hall

This exhibition reimagines the life of Chloe Sailor’s seventh great-grandmother, Susanna Beal Milliken, the first recorded “doctoress” of Mount Desert Island, Maine. Like countless women’s histories, Susanna’s story survives only in fragments, scattered among archival documents and overshadowed by the narratives of men. In this exhibition, Sailor gathers these delicate threads to mend and illuminate her story through quilting, painting, and cyanotype on reclaimed Maine textiles.

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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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