Free admission all day

Hands-on Activities from 12:30-3:30 pm

Free admission all day

Free snacks

Wheelchair accessible

Experience the artist's extraordinary optical lens boxes and stone pictures in the exhibition Mary Bauermeister: The New York Decade, and join us for a day of artistic expression and reflection inspired by the experimental use of found and natural objects in her assemblages!

A sampling of activities include:

• Zentangles
  • Try your hand at drawing Zentangles inspired by the artist’s calligraphic scribblings
• Pebble Meditation
  • Museums can be a place to reflect and find your calm place. Using pebbles like those in Bauermeister’s stone pictures, practice Mindful Meditation for all ages with Ryūmon H. Baldoquín, sensei, Soto Zen Buddhist priest and Dharma teacher, community religious adviser with Smith’s Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, and co-founder of Two Streams Zen. 
• Opti-Art
  • Explore how lenses distort and magnify by creating your own eye-popping optical art using paint and glass gems.
• Plus much more!

Hands-on! 4–6 PM
Art making for all ages, inspired by works on view
Looking Boxes
Check out Mary Bauermeister’s Optical Lens Boxes for inspiration and
assemble your own world in a box.
 
Open Eyes 6 PM
An informal, guided conversation about an art object

Refreshments by Tryon Common
 
Museum Shop open 10 AM–8 PM

Register in advance: ghall@smith.edu or 413.585.2773

Free and open to all

This program will be presented in conjunction with Mary Bauermeister’s residency at Smith, March 23–29, 2015. The concerts are part of Smith ArtsFest 2015 and are co-presented by the Festival of Sound & Space, Smith College Music Department, and SCMA. 

Program will include a vocal duet by Mary Bauermeister and soprano Kate Soper (Smith College faculty); plus performances by featured musicians Ayano Kataoka and Christopher Bartz; Judith Gordon; Liza Stepanova; and Joseph Baldwin, choral conductor (Smith College faculty)

Joseph Baldwin: http://www.josephbbaldwin.com/about/
http://www.smith.edu/music/faculty_baldwin.php

Christopher Bartz: http://www.christopherbartz.com
http://music.usc.edu/christopher-bartz/

Judith Gordon: http://www.smith.edu/music/faculty_gordon.php

Ayano Kataoka: http://www.ayanokataoka.com, 
http://www.umass.edu/music/faculty_kataoka.php, 
http://nyti.ms/1M9Rvur

Kate Soper: http://www.katesoper.com/home.htm
http://www.smith.edu/music/faculty_soper.php
http://nyti.ms/18kiWRP
http://www.smith.edu/insight/stories/soper.php

Liza Stepanova: http://www.liza-stepanova.com
http://www.smith.edu/music/faculty_stepanova.php
http://nyti.ms/1EgY10l

The following programs will be presented in conjunction with Mary Bauermeister’s residency at Smith, March 23–29, 2015. The concerts are part of Smith ArtsFest 2015 and are co-presented by the Festival of Sound & Space, Smith College Music Department, and SCMA. 

Bauermeister by Johann Camut | Moderated discussion with Mary Bauermeister and Johann Camut

PLEASE BE SEATED: Members’ reserved seating available.
Reserve by Monday, March 23: scmamembers@smith.edu or 413.585.2777

Free and open to all.

The following programs will be presented in conjunction with Mary Bauermeister’s residency at Smith, March 23–29, 2015. The concerts are part of Smith ArtsFest 2015 and are co-presented by the Festival of Sound & Space, Smith College Music Department, and SCMA. 
 
Performance: Hymnen

A major electroacoustic work by Karlheinz Stockhausen (1966–67; elaborated in 1969)
Gregory Brown, founder and director of the Festival of Sound & Space at Smith, will facilitate
this two-hour program.

Free and open to all.