Exhibitions

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.

See what’s going on at SCMA today

A monochrome fine-art print depicting the Spain–Morocco border barrier. The image features detailed, repeating textures of chain-link fencing, razor wire, and tall mesh barricades stretching dynamically across undulating, mountainous terrain.

“Documenting Border Barriers”

Pamela Dodds

On view October 28–December 10, 2026

Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Hall

This exhibition addresses the exponential rise in the building of fences and walls between nations and territories to keep people out. It is a compendium of etchings and texts that portray anti-migration border walls and is displayed as a wall installation. As the number of people on the move has risen in recent years, so has the building of physical barriers. Wall-building and the tightening of immigration regulations have escalated on numerous borders worldwide. People fleeing war and economic and environmental crises are met with fences, walls, and violence. Since 2000, the number of physical border barriers in the world has risen from about 15 to 70+.

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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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