b'visiting artistsBetween fall 2018 and summer 2019, SCMA invited Inas Halabi, Nell Painter and Amanda Williams to campus. As artists whose multidisciplinary engagements with the contemporary world underscore the importance of history, their time at Smith inspired stirring conversations and collaborations across campus. SCMA partnered with Middle East Studies, the Global Studies Center, the Botanic Garden and the Narratives Project to host Halabi, Painter and Williams for class visits, lectures, gallery talks, and one-on-one meetings with students and staff. We invite you to get to know them on the pages that follow.visiting artist of European colonialism while also attending to the fusion of personal and collective memory, fact and fiction, pastINAS HALABI and present.In October 2018, Halabi traveled to Northampton THERE IS A LINE IN INAS HALABIS VIDEOfrom Amsterdams prestigious De Ateliers artist residency. Letters to Fritz and Paul (201618) that sticks: BodiesHer week on campus was an exceptional gift to the Smith remember histories, even when we forget them. As ancommunity. She lectured in Graham Hall; shared new work artist working across media but often in moving imagewith students at the Lewis Global Studies Center; and with text, Halabi dives into, and dwells with, questionspresented in the course Museums in Society, the of how to access the forgotten histories that bodiesgateway to the Museums Concentration; and conducted remember. Letters to Fritz and Paul, which SCMAstudio visits with seven senior art majors. Colleagues32 exhibited in fall 2018, addresses this topic by imaginingat Smiths Botanic Garden and Special Collectionsan epistolary exchange between Halabi and two Swisswelcomed her for research in Smiths unique collections. men who photographed, catalogued, collected and stole their way across the Dutch and British colonies ofThis exhibition was supported by the Suzannah J. Fabing Programs Fund Celebes (Sulawasi, Indonesia) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka)for the Smith College Museum of Art with additional support from The between 1893 and 1907. The resulting artwork connectsSams Fund, Middle East Studies; the Lewis Global Studies Center; Film and Media Studies; the Museums Concentration; the Department of Art; museum collections and scientificesearch to the violenceand the Lecture Committee.visiting artist: Inas Halabi'