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Exhibits 9/16-12/13
🪟Synecdoche @malcolm.kenter
🇺🇸Choreographies of Calamity
🪞Fix Your Face
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🍁 Happy October 🍁

Join the MoA for a program this month, or drop in during regular hours - Wednesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Sign up for select happenings by accessing our program page online. We look forward to seeing you! by @smcmoa

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2 days ago

🤲 Happy Monday! We hope you can join the MoA this week for a program.

✏️ Sketch Session: Wednesday, September 30, 1:00-2:00 p.m.

Open to visitors of all skill levels, these sessions invite you to slow down, observe works on display, and create original drawings inspired by your surroundings. Materials will be provided.

🎨 Artist & Student-Curator Led Tour: Thursday, October 1, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.

Join the MoA for an artist talk and exhibition walkthrough of ‘Choreographies of Calamity’ featuring Art Hazelwood in conversation with student-curator William Fraser.

✍️ Crafternoon: Thursday, October 1, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Join the MoA & Library for Crafternoon! During this session we will be creating linocut prints based on the engravings and etchings in exhibition ‘Choreographies of Calamity: Art Hazelwood and the Media of War’

🪩 MoA Gala: Friday, October 2, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Join the MoA, IC, and CWGE for an elegant evening celebrating art and community featuring a red-carpet arrival with a photographer, live music, small bites, and refreshing mocktails. Click the link in our bio to register. by @smcmoa

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5 days ago

Register for Cut, Paste, Behold - an immersive, day-long retreat that invites SMC students into a deeper engagement with faith in public life through art, contemplation, and creative practice - by clicking the link in our bio.

This retreat in partnership with @smcmmc @sundaytosundayproductions @porsia_phd @smcmoa will take place on October 10, but registration closes next Friday, October 2. For more information visit our website.

Thank you so much to Kira Tippit (‘27) and Aidan Phimister (‘27) for sharing their experiences on making faith-based creations! by @smcmoa

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8 days ago

Join the MoA for a program this week!

📖Quiet Book Club: September 23, 1-2 PM
Co-hosted by the SMC Library and Museum of Art, Quiet Book Club is a cozy hour set aside just for you to relax with a book, enjoy some refreshments, and take a break from your day. We’ll have soft music, comfy seating, and a selection of books to borrow, or you’re welcome to bring your own (print or digital).

🍀 Yoga in the Galleries: September 26, 11:45AM-12:45PM
Join the Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art for a Vinyasa style yoga flow class led by Ellie Keating. Bring a mat, leave the past week at the door, and get ready to reset by syncing breath to movement while surrounded by art. by @smcmoa

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11 days ago

Last week the SMCMoA opened our Fall 2026 Exhibitions with a wonderful celebration!

Thank you to all who came out to experience first looks at ‘Synecdoche: Malcolm Kenter,’ ‘Choreographies of Calamity: Art Hazelwood and the Media of War,’ and ‘Fix Your Face: Representations of the Female Gaze.’

We are so grateful to be a part of our community here, and look forward to sharing these exhibitions throughout this semester until December 13. We are open from Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-4pm. For programming and updates, visit stmarys-ca.edu/museum or follow us @smcmoa

📷 Photos by Will Barsotti by @smcmoa

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12 days ago

Tomorrow is the day to venture into the SMCMoA’s Fall 2026 Exhibitions!

Join us for our opening celebration (9/17) from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Enjoy light refreshments and get an exclusive first look at ‘Synecdoche: Malcolm Kenter,’ ‘Choreographies of Calamity: Art Hazelwood and the Media of War,’ and ‘Fix Your Face: Representations of the Female Gaze.’

🪟 ‘Synecdoche: Malcolm Kenter’ features the San Francisco-based Kenter’s (b. 1987) architectural paintings that speak to the urban environment, providing pauses for meditative consideration and care for the utilitarian components and worn markings of San Francisco’s built architecture and urban symbolism.

🇺🇸 ‘Choreographies of Calamity: Art Hazelwood and the Media of War’ explores the nonsensical nature of warfare through printmaker and activist Hazelwood’s (b. 1961) art practice. Student-curated, this exhibition presents work from the early 2000s to the present, inviting visitors to consider the cyclical and puppeted components of the USA’s involvement in war.

🪞‘Fix Your Face: Representations of the Female Gaze’ is a student-curated exhibit featuring select works from the permanent collection exploring how female photographers, painters, and printmakers have turned to their media to reclaim agency and transform power dynamics.

Fall Exhibitions are on view through December 13, 2026 during regular operating hours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. (Closed Monday and Tuesday) Visit the MoA website for special programs. Admission is free and open to all.

Gallery installation photographs by Francis Tatem, 2026. by @smcmoa

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17 days ago

❗️SMCMoA Fall Exhibitions Open this Week❗️

On view is “Fix Your Face: Representations of the Female Gaze” featuring select works from the Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art Permanent Collection. This student-curated exhibition explores how female photographers, painters, and printmakers have turned to their media to reclaim agency and transform power dynamics.

Join us this Thursday, September 17 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm for the Opening Celebration of Fall 2026 Exhibitions! by @smcmoa

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19 days ago

MoA Student Assistant superstars are back!

We welcomed our student team back into the galleries for a curatorial and operational walkthrough of Fall Exhibitions today - be sure to say hi once we open next Wednesday on September 16! by @smcmoa

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22 days ago

❗️Mark your calendars❗️

Next Thursday, September 17 from 5:00pm - 8:00pm is the Opening Celebration of Fall 2026 Exhibitions!

San Francisco-based artist Malcolm W. Kenter constructs architectural paintings that respond to the urban environment and conflicting aesthetic discourses. Framed through the Arts & Crafts pursuit of 19th-century architect and collateral descendant Reverend Joseph Worcester, this exhibition presents Kenter’s development over the past 10 years alongside select works from SMCMoA’s permanent collection. Through the lens of craft and meditative care, Kenter compiles from the utilitarian components and worn markings of San Francisco’s built architecture and urban spaces to draw attention to the narrative of the city from the 1800s to today.

Be sure to also join us for Kenter’s Artist Talk on November 19 at 10:00am. by @smcmoa

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23 days ago

🔪 Horror? ❤️‍🩹 Self-help? 💥 Manga? 🐉 Romantasy? It’s your choice at Quiet Book Club! Bring your own book, or borrow one of ours. Grab a snack, cozy up in the peaceful vibes of the @smcmoa, and spend an hour escaping into another world, surrounded by fellow readers. Save the dates! taken in Saint Mary's College Museum of Art by @smcmoa

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25 days ago

🎉 Happy first day of the Fall 2026 semester Gaels!

🌳 As you return to campus, take some time to appreciate the beautiful nature and architecture around you, and be sure to check out our temporary installation of last Spring’s exhibition “Walking the Quiet” a collaborative commission with Zach Clark (@zachclarkis) documenting spaces of spirituality on campus currently on display in the Power Plant Library.

🏡 Welcome to your home away from home!

Image: Zach Clark (b. 1983) “Belltower Steps” 2026; risograph print on paper. 11 x 17 in. SMCMoA permanent collection.

#gogaels #smcmoa #omgsmc #fallsemester2026 by @smcmoa

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One of the most beloved works in the permanent collection is a Polaroid of Dolly by Andy Warhol. Dolly once reflected on Warhol, saying, “He was the only person I’ve ever met who’s weirder than me, that dressed worse and looked stranger — and didn’t care: just like me.”

[Dolly Parton, 1985, Polacolor ER Polaroid photograph, Saint Mary’s College Museum of Art Permanent Collection, Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.2008.3.10; FA04.02086] by @smcmoa

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