SmithArts Weekly April 2, 2026
Thursday, April 2 – 5-7pm – Nolan Art Lounge, Campus Center
Opening Reception: Collection of Memories
Collection of Memories brings together a group of multidisciplinary artists to explore the sentiment of memory as both a personal and collective force. Memory is the brain’s ability to encode, store, and retrieve information, existing in the mind but also in the body and the soul. These fractured moments are carried across generations and shape who we are today. In this exhibit, a group of artists reflect on the temporality of lived experience and consider how memory is constructed, embodied, preserved, passed down, and transformed over time. Josie Wong, Curator, Isa Otero, Sound Curator, Exhibiting artists: Olivia DeTraglia, Ilana Diddams, Alex Herrera, Suha Khan, Nikté Lopez-Aleshire, Eloise Silver Van Meter. Free and open to the public.
The exhibit runs April 2-26 – M-F 7am-12am & Sat-Sun 9am-12am. – Nolan Art Lounge, Campus Center.
Friday, April 3 — 1:00 - 5:00 pm — Campus Center/Carrol Room
The annual spring Smith Student Art Sale featured items made by Smith students, including jewelry, artwork, ceramics, clothing, accessories and more! Support student makers and creators and get gifts for friends and family at the same time. Presented by the Smith Office for the Arts (SOFA).
Friday, April 3 — 7:30 pm — Acting Studio 1
New Play Reading Series: Partitioned Prayers by Aria Ramanathan
The Department of Theatre’s New Play Reading Series presents Partitioned Prayers by Aria Ramanathan. Tusli and Gavi share everything: classes, secrets, and even a backyard in their small town in Indiana. But when the pressure from a family wedding, soccer season, and trying to survive high school cause a rift in their friendship - they must turn to the history that has been taught divides them for answers before they lose each other, forever.
Friday, April 3 — 7:30 pm — Graham Auditorium, Hillyer Hall
Documentary: Lesbians in Boystown - Screening/Q& A with Betsy Kalin, filmmaker
The Film & Media Studies Department presents a screening of LESBIANS IN BOYSTOWN a documentary film that reveals the forgotten history of lesbians and queer women in West Hollywood, the first “gay city” in the US. Betsy Kalin is an award-winning director/producer/writer at Itchy Bee Productions who believes in the power of storytelling to create change by inspiring dialogue and challenging perceptions.
Sunday, April 5 — 3 pm — Sweeney Concert Hall
Quartetto Mosso: Beethoven and T.S. Eliot
The Smith College Department of Music presents a concert highlighting the commonality between Beethoven’s late string quartets and TS Eliot’s final poems, the Four Quartets with chamber ensemble Quartetto Mosso featuring Ron Gorevic and Beth Welty, violins, Delores Thayer, viola, Yoonhee Ko, cello with Marty Kluger narrating. Free, open to the public, wheelchair accessible.
Monday, April 6 – 12:30-1:30 pm – Sweeney Concert Hall
A preview of some of the musical numbers from the Smith College production of Into the Woods performed by understudies for the lead roles.
Wednesday, April 8 – 12:30 pm – Sweeney Concert Hall
Chamber Singers: Back from Spain
The Smith College Department of Music presents the Chamber Singers, conducted by Jonathan Hirsh and Hanif Lawence. This select group of 24 singers will present repertoire from their concert tour to Spain.
April 9, 10, 11 – 7:30 pm – Hallie Flanagan Studio Theatre - $
The Smith College Department of Dance presents the Senior Dance Concert featuring the choreography of Sadie Arundale, Addie Bowen, Audrey Garfinkel, Dahlia Riddington, and Isa Skare. Tickets $5-10 at smitharts.ludus.com.
Fri, April 10 – 5 pm & Sat, April 11 – 10:30 am–4:30 pm – Graham Hall/Hillyer
Performance+Architecture Symposium
An exploration of the relations between performance and architecture—performing architecture, performance as architecture, and architecture as performance—to see how they affect our understanding, imagination, and habitation of physical and discursive space. Presentations by Jane Sawyer, Founder/Director, Cook County Arts Collective; Ross Elfline, Art and Art History, Carleton College; Claire Grace, Art History, Wesleyan University; Andrea Moore, Music, Smith College; and Mechtild Widrich, Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Coming Up
Saturday, April 18 – 4:00–9:00 pm – Conference Center
Gamelan Spring Concert: 30th Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, April 18 – 10 am–8 pm – Various locations across campus
Smith Arts Day
Sunday, April 19 – 4:00 pm – Earle Recital Hall
Spring Cabaret: The Golden Age
Monday, April 20 – 1:00 pm – Sweeney Concert Hall
MUSIC MONDAY 6: Schubert’s Trout Quintet
Current Exhibitions
April 2-26 – M-F 7am-12am & Sat-Sun 9am-12am. – Nolan Art Lounge, Campus Center
Collection of Memories brings together a group of multidisciplinary artists to explore the sentiment of memory as both a personal and collective force. Memory is the brain’s ability to encode, store, and retrieve information, existing in the mind but also in the body and the soul. These fractured moments are carried across generations and shape who we are today. In this exhibit, a group of artists reflect on the temporality of lived experience and consider how memory is constructed, embodied, preserved, passed down, and transformed over time. Josie Wong, Curator, Isa Otero, Sound Curator, Exhibiting artists: Olivia DeTraglia, Ilana Diddams, Alex Herrera, Suha Khan, Nikté Lopez-Aleshire, Eloise Silver Van Meter. Free and open to the public.
March 27–May 8, 2026 – 8:30 am–4:30 pm – Oresman Gallery, Hillyer Hall
The Remnant and The Echo, Ligia Bouton
On November 11, 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and his sister Sophia noticed a bright star, later identified as supernova SN1572. For almost 500 days, they observed and documented the dying star until it disappeared. In 2008, astronomers discovered a light echo of the original supernova bouncing off a dust cloud. This exhibition explores the unique form of time-travel made possible by the SN1572 light echo. Through a video installation combined with photographs and sculptural objects, Bouton traces the story of the supernova and presents possibilities for how we might hold a multiplicity of moments in time simultaneously. Opening reception and artist talk Thursday, April 9 5-7pm.
The Oresman and Janotta Galleries are open Monday to Friday from 8:30am - 4:30 pm. Note: The most College departments are closed for the holidays December 20-January 5
