Children and Childhood 2010
Under the Horse Chestnut Tree
Ann Musser, Assc. Dir. for Academic Programs & Public Education, SCMA
Ordinary extraordinary. How is it that Shakespeare never wrote the sonnet to this love? My heart soars. My heart aches. Our love is utterly
Boon Companions
Kevin Quashie, Study of Women and Gender and Afro-American Studies, Smith College
“An Impossible Reflection” I will not remember this fall evening of play, the red strip of cloth securing my enthusiastic body. I will n
Portrait of a Youth
Taiga Ermansons, Program Planner, Smith College Museum of Art
I immediately knew this face. I have seen it for nearly six decades in American film. Is this 200 year-old portrait (that predates Byron) th
The May Queen
Ann Musser, Assc. Dir. for Academic Programs & Public Education, SCMA
This sculpture irritates my mind just below active awareness, like a pebble in my shoe. I try to rid my mind of it, or maybe make peac
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Under the Horse Chestnut Tree
Michele Wick, Psychology
Imagine the texture of skirt fabric rubbing against tiny feet, the sweet smell of grass, or the delight of looking at a resplendent blue shi