Museum From Home
Experience, Read, Do, Watch, View, Explore, Listen + Learn = Museum from Home with SMCMoA!
What's New: Academic Resources
Explore curated resources and watch past programs created in dialogue with 2021 and 2022 exhibitions.
Re-narrating a Master: Craft Reflections on Keith + Kari
Explore the past exhibition Keith + Kari through the research lens of Dr. Suzanne Schmidt. Suzanne Schmidt examines realist and literary craft narratives and the role of crafting labors in domestic fiction and multi-ethnic American literature.
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Resource Guide
The Power & Purpose Resource Guide is designed to contextualize African art from day-to-day reading to structured lessons. Explore documentaries, podcasts, lesson plans, and more.
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View: Selected Artworks from the Permanent Collection
The William Keith Collection
A 19th-century leading artist and visionary in San Francisco, William Keith (1838-1911) is most known for his impact on preserving and sharing the California landscape through paint and brush.
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Feminizing Permanence
features forty historical and contemporary artworks by forty women artists from the Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art’s permanent collection.
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![Milton Komisar (b. 1935) United States, Tectonic Plates, 2003, Acrylic and concrete on canvas, Gift of the Artist [4.2006.2]](https://prod.stmarys-ca.edu/sites/default/files/4.2006.2_tectonic_plates-komisar_0.jpg)
Aesthetic Forces
Aesthetic Forces: Nature in the Modern California Landscape, 1915–2015 invites the viewer to reimagine the aesthetic concepts of the sublime and picturesque through a 100-year span of California paintings, photographs, and prints.
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Collective Memories
Created in the 1960s and 1970s in Nunavut, Canada, this collection features contemporary graphic prints crafted by Inuit artists and printmakers during a transitional decade in the arctic region.
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Read: Stories + Insights to the Collection
Comb through stories and histories that connect with objects and voices represented in the collection
Discover: The Wild Flowers of California
The Wild Flowers of California represents a collaborative project between the two artists and naturalists Mary Elizabeth Parsons and Margaret Warriner Buck.
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Mary McHenry Keith: The Suffragist Behind the Portrait
Learn more about Mary McHenry Keith and her role in advocating for women's rights and founding SMCMoA
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![Untitled (Bay Area Hills), William S. Rice (1873-1963), n.d. watercolor on paper, 13 x 15 5/8 inches. Collection of Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art Permanent Collection [2006.7.2]](https://prod.stmarys-ca.edu/sites/default/files/2006.7.2.%20untitled.%20William%20S.%20Rice.jpg)
Art Through Our Eyes
Created in collaboration with Justice, Communication, and Leadership (JCL) Course 150, these interpretations examine art through a social justice lens rooted in students' lived experiences.
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Do: Activities for Home
Dive into activities that bring to life elements of our collection.
Digital Puzzles
Piece together four digital puzzles selected from images of architecture, sculptures, and paintings in the SMCMoA collection and around the SMC campus.
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Coloring Pages
Selected from over 100 illustrations and flora descriptions, the SMCMoA is asking you to bring these plants to life! Download five of the selected coloring pages
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![Elizabeth Emerson Keith (1838-1882) Still Life with Tazza and Fruit, n.d.,24 x 20 inches, oil on canvas, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art Permanent Collection [2014.4]](https://prod.stmarys-ca.edu/sites/default/files/2014_4%20Elizabeth%20Keith.jpg)
Still Life Pairings: Recipes from History
A pairing of two still lifes from the SMCMoA collection with period recipes and publications.
Make recipes
Watch: Bay Area Artists Dialogues
Many of our exhibitions highlight and promote the voices and expressions of artists living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. Watch some of the Museum's previous dialogues + programs to learn more about their experiences, techniques, and creative expressions.
Beyond Landscape: Art, Identity, and Mindfulness
Bay Area artist, Foad Satterfield discusses his ongoing exploration of nature, his formative years in the Jim Crow South, and how meditation informs his artistic practice.
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Words: R&D Collaborative
Artists Diane Rosenblum and Joe Doyle (R&D) discuss their artistic practice and collaborative approach to digital painting in the exhibition, New Formalism in Painting and Photography, on November 21, 2019.
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Feminizing Permanence: Artists Discussion
Three artists represented in the exhibition Feminizing Permanence: Jessica Dunne, Diane Rosenblum, and April Funcke share their experiences.
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A Conversation with Michael Collopy
Director for the Museum of Art, Lauren M. MacDonald, moderated a conversation with one of the nation’s preeminent portrait photographers, Michael Collopy ’82. that explored art, peace, and their intersection together.
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Explore: Political Agency through Print + Collaboration
Below are highlighted programs + interdisciplinary collaborations aligned with past exhibitions exploring political voice and agency.
Darker Shades of Red: Art Lecture Series
Explore our public program series, Art Chats centered around Soviet propaganda posters from the Cold War era. Contributing voices and academics include: Susan Weissman, Scott Schonfeldt-Aultman, Alex U. Inn, and Dan Leopard
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Graphicanos: Programs + Dance
Explore our series of public programs and collaborations with the Davalos Dance Company, Bay Area Latinx poets, and Art Chats.
Explore
IRAN|USA
Explore the multi-language exhibit through video art and supporting art chats that re-envision key moments in the politically charged history between two countries through the lens of an experimental artist.
Experience
Listen: Poets + Writers in the Galleries
From horror fiction to multidimensional poetry, the Museum invites voices from the literary world and SMC MFA program + English department to share their creative words in our galleries.
Mirrors In Every Place
In collaboration with SMC MFA craft talk, Tongo Eisen-Martin leads a conversation that explores poetry existing in the multidimensional overlap of two spheres of insight.
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Dark Harvest
Author Norman Partridge read from his award-winning book, Dark Harvest at Saint Mary's College Museum of Art on October 30, 2019.
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Writing the World: Beyond Myth and Violence
Leanne O'Sullivan and fellow Irish writers shared one poem each, then reflected on what myths reveal about power and violence.
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How to Read a Poem
Using a short selection from Matthew Zapruder’s book Why Poetry, two distinguished Saint Mary’s poets shared strategies for unpacking poems in Seminar
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Learn Local: Regional History + Identity
Below are highlighted programs + events aligned with themes of past exhibitions + artists collaborations central to identity, histories, + experiences living in the East Bay.
This is Hip-Hop
In collaboration with SMC Theater, DJ Agana demonstrates graffiti art during November 8 program "This is Hip-Hop."
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Muir + Keith
Park Ranger Matthew Schulzinger of the John Muir Historical Site to discuss Muir, Keith, and the Hetch Hetchy Valley.
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Strawberry Creek | Artist Response
Machine artist Kal Spelletich speaks to his installation work, Strawberry Creek Harp, created in response to SMCMoA's William Keith Collection.
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Behind-the-Scenes Exploration
Watch the behind-the-scenes scope of an exhibition featuring California landscapes. Art historian Britt Royer facilitated a live-hour discussion sharing the process, artwork selection, and themes guiding the Aesthetic Forces exhibition.
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Contact Us
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1928 St Mary's Road, PMB 5110
Moraga, CA 94575
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