April Second Friday: Art and Nature

Drop in for hands-on art making activities in the museum’s atrium and enjoy light refreshments from 4–7 p.m. Explore still life paintings and landscapes in the galleries, and then bring the sweet smells of spring to life with “scratch and sniff” scented paint on watercolor paper. April showers bring May flowers!

Start at the top level of the museum to explore nature and its forms in the third floor reinstallation Worlds in Process: Art from the SCMA Collection and then look for representations of flowers, fruit, and other “scentsory” delights in each floor of the museum.

SCMA’s Second Friday on April 12 is a culminating event of Northampton’s Week of the Young Child programming (April 6–12, 2024), and will also kick off the weekend of Smith Arts Day, a celebration of the artistic and creative community at Smith College, bringing the arts together—across disciplines and across campus.

Note: all art supplies will be derived as much as possible from natural sources, with no perfumes, colognes, or chemical fragrances, to make this program as accessible as possible for scent-sensitive guests.