Exhibitions
An Expansive Installation
August 30, 2024–July 13, 2025
Younes Rahmoun: Here, Now is the first North American exhibition devoted to the art of Younes Rahmoun, one of Morocco’s leading contemporary artists. The exhibition takes place at four locations at Smith: SCMA, Lyman Plant House, Paradise Pond, and the Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station. It features new site-specific commissions alongside a selection of major sculptures, drawings, videos, and installations that Rahmoun has made over the last 25 years.
Botanical Bodies
January 31–May 30, 2025
Botanical Bodies: When Identity Blossoms on Skin explores the intimate relationship between nature and personal identity through photographs and stories of individuals adorned with botanical tattoos that celebrate the beauty and diversity of plant life as a form of self-expression. Each image tells a story of connection to nature, heritage, and personal meaning.
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.
Brown Fine Arts Center Galleries
