FROM EXHIBITION PREVIEWS AND TALKS WITH curators and artists, to reserved seating at lectures, members-only programs and benefits provide meaning- ful and valuable ways for our members to engage and connect with SCMA. This year we were fortunate to offer several First Look programs—exhibition previews for members and other special guests that provided “insider access” to curators and other experts who shared highlights and anecdotes about the exhibition process. During First Look: A Dangerous Woman: Subversion & Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer, Jessica Nicoll presented a private gallery tour of the work of Honoré Sharrer (1920–2009), who was named “Woman Artist of the Year” in 1949 by Mademoiselle magazine. The exhibition was the first to fully reveal the formidable voice of this artist. Yao Wu led the First Look for her exhibition, 体 Modern Images of the Body from East Asia. And printmaker and retiring Smith College Professor of Art Dwight Pogue shared his artistic process and technical prowess during a First Look for Flowering Stars: Prints by Dwight Pogue. Education director Maggie Newey presented a First Look for She Gone Rogue, a video by trans artists Zackary Drucker and Rhys Ernst. Another screening, this one for students, was led by contemporary art curator Emma Chubb and several Smith faculty members. Another highlight and headline from the past year included the Tryon and Director’s Associates opportunity to travel to Des Moines, Iowa, with Jessica Nicoll. Participants enjoyed an especially vibrant, diverse and culturally rich experience, visiting art in public and private collections around the city under the leadership of Amy Worthen ’67. MEMBER ENGAGEMENT For more information on membership please visit www.smith.edu/artmuseum/membership-matters SCMA’S MEMBERS PROVIDE ESSENTIAL support for many aspects of the museum’s operations. Here’s a snapshot of some of the key ways in which members helped to sustain the museum this year. Student– Patrons provided crucial contributions to exhibition support, program promotion, as well as bus subsidies for K–12 school visits Contemporary Associates donated essential funding for two video purchases for the museum’s growing contemporary art collection: The Voice is an Archive by Hu’o’ng Ngô and Playground by Yto Barrada Tryon Associates provided critical support for operations, including curatorial research and collections care and management Director’s Associates supported the expansion of expertise for new initiatives through professional development opportunities for staff and provided support for security operations ABOVE: Members participating in a First Look at A Dangerous Woman 41