Artist Yu-Wen Wu sits at the head of the table ready to address the fellows of the Democracies Redux group with the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute. As an interdisciplinary artist working closely with the leaders of this Kahn group, professor Sujane Wu and professor Payal Banerjee, Wu has spent this year with the Smith community to address anti-Asian hate through art, archives, and storytelling.
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On Thursday, I dressed for an outing, put on makeup, and blow dried my hair. This is something I do not get to do very…
“Defiant Vision: Prints & Poetry” by Munio Makuuchi will be exhibited until December 8 at the Smith College Museum of Art. As a Japanese-American artist and poet, Makuuchi’s work represents an important perspective on a moment in American history that was ignored during his lifetime.
As the year progresses, we will see many campus institutions respond to Smith’s “Year on Climate Change.” The “Fragile Earth” installation, located in the Nixon…
This past Friday, I attended “Night at Your Museum 2019,” hosted by the Smith College Museum of Art. The event could be described as a party, an art exhibit and an educational experience combined.
Walking through SCMA’s newest exhibit, I couldn’t get the chorus of The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” out of my head: “Don’t cry / don’t raise your eye / it’s only teenage wasteland.” The song’s otherworldly warning seems to be woven throughout the artwork in “Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials,” an exhibit that documents the past, present and future of plastics and human existence. The 20th century got to enjoy the thrilling innovations of plastic, inadvertently creating an archive of the costly convenience of daily life. Now, the upcoming waves of youth will inherit what is left of this material’s legacy: an impending wasteland. “Entanglements” confronts the viewer with the medium’s metamorphosis, asking whether the possibilities of plastic can ever make up for the destruction it wreaks.
As the spring semester starts and the temperature continues to drop, it’s tempting to never leave your dorm room. Take a break from studying and venture out to Smith’s Museum of Art, where several of this month’s exhibits will take your mind off of the freezing weather outside.
Upon opening the doors to the exhibit, you immediately lock eyes with a pale woman in a turquoise robe who looks out from her ornate frame with a small smile. She is one of the few in the gallery who will actually make eye contact with you; the rest of the women gaze demurely at things out of sight as if they are wishing for something their gilded world cannot give them.
When she was eleven, Yao Wu was pulled aside by her mother and faced with the critical decision that every Chinese student has to make.
If one walks through the mustard, Smith College-aesthetic walls of Graham Hall within Brown Fine Arts Center, one will stumble upon Hillyer Art Library, where the restrooms and cubicles even feel like artistic installations. The lobby of Brown Fine Arts Center, home of Smith College’s Department of Art, communicates an artisanal atmosphere with its muted carpets and just the right amount of gray.