SMFA at Tufts Library

SMFA Library Fall 2024 Hours, September 3rd to December 23rd, 2024*

Mondays to Thursdays, from 9am to 9pm
Fridays, from 9am to 6pm
Saturdays and Sundays, from 1pm to 6pm

~~~ We hope you visit us frequently this semester ~~~

*Exceptions will be posted for Holidays

The City Studio Program is a free art program for Boston Public High School students during the academic year. Boston Public School students who attend the program will learn art techniques in painting, drawing, print-making, sculpture, and digital art.

This year's City Studio Program students are exhibiting their wonderful work at the SMFA LIBRARY, now until 5/4/2024!

The SMFA Library will be closed for carpet replacement starting Saturday, May 18 and will reopen on Friday, June 14.

During this time, library staff will be working remotely and will be available by email and Zoom, but the library's physical space and collections will be inaccessible.

If you need study space between May 18 and June 14, we recommend visiting Tisch Library, Lilly Music Library, Ginn Library, or Hirsh Health Sciences Library.

All SMFA items with due dates during the closure will be automatically renewed, and you'll receive an email with the new due date. If you are planning to return any checked-out items, please do so by 5 pm on Friday, May 17. If you need to return SMFA items during the closure, you can return them to one of the Tufts libraries listed above. Please return interlibrary loan items to Tisch Library.

We ask that you pick up any requested items from our hold shelf by 5 pm on Friday, May 17. The SMFA Library will not appear as a pickup location for requests in JumboSearch, and our items will not be available for request, starting May 15. You can place requests on materials from other Tufts libraries and choose another Tufts library as your pickup location.

If you need to request interlibrary loan items during the closure, please change your pickup location in ILLiad to Tisch Library. Note that this is only necessary if you want to borrow physical items. You can continue requesting scans without changing your pickup location.

Please visit our website to see full hours for the end of semester and summer. We hope you'll stop by before we close to check out books, take seeds from our Seed Library, and say goodbye to our 40-year-old carpet!

Happy Earth Day!

We have a broad selection on ecology, Earth, and sustainability in our collection. Featured here are some of the newest items to our Stacks.

*Re/sisters : a lens on gender and ecology
*Emerging ecologies : architecture and the rise of environmentalism
*Garden futures : designing with nature
*Dear earth : art and hope in a time of crisis
*Humane ecology : eight positions
*Spirit in the land
*Sensing Earth : cultural quests across a heated globe
*El futuro es fungi

Fiber artists in our community, in collaboration with .tufts , created a sweater out of granny squares for Bessie! The fit is (fire emoji)!!

Maybe you can help make the next change of clothes for Bessie. Brush up on your fiber skills with the books featured and highlighted below.

*Vitamin T : threads & textiles in contemporary art
*Yarn, thread, string : up close with fibre : making manufacturing and creating
*The colorwork bible : techniques & projects for colorful knitting by Jesie Ostermiller
*Punched : techniques and projects for modern punch needle art by Stacie Schaat
*J.J. Pizzuto's fabric science
*Fray : art + textile politics by Julia Bryan-Wilson
*Techno textiles 2
*Mrinalini Mukherjee
*I don't know : the weave of textile language
*Lenore Tawney : mirror of the universe
*Marilyn Pappas : a retrospective
*Crochet coral reef : a project by Margaret Wertheim + Christine Wertheim
*Crafting textiles in the digital age
*Fibre-fixed : composites in design by Lut Pil & Ignaas Verpoest
*Olga de Amaral : to weave a rock
*Selvedge Magazine

Yesterday may have been the last solar eclipse visible from the US until 2044, but you can always find eclipses in our Stacks!

Featured here:

* James Turrell: Eclipse
* Jeff Cowen: Capturing Eclipse
* Eclipse de Sol: Rotched-Odagled
* The Eclipse Will Not Be Visible to the Naked Eye

Happy Library Week!!

There are many kinds of libraries today. Most of them serve as third places where more than books and research can be found. We want to be places where everyone can be respected, and libraries strive to meet the needs of the communities we serve.

Support your local and public libraries by getting a library card and using its many resources and services!

Happy Pi(e) Day, from our Stacks to your stomach!

Happy International Women's Day with this month's swap with !!

March is National Reading Month

"Reading" can mean many things, and the SMFA Library has a great selection of readings on Reading for anyone to dive into the concept. We have other (maybe more fun) things to read, too!

* The Spaces of Reading: object, image, word, event
* Reading the Object: three decades of books by Julie Chen
* On Reading by Steve McCurry
* Reading by Osmosis: nature interprets us
* Reading as Art by Sabine Schlüter
* What We See When We Read: a phenomenology by Peter Mendelsund
* Reading the Public Space: a conversation with Gabriel Sosa

Celebrating Black History Month with items from for our February swap!

The SMFA Library closes at 5pm today (12/21) for the end of the year.

Our Winter Break hours are:
*January 2-12, 2024
Mondays to Fridays: 9am to 5pm
Saturdays & Sundays: closed

*January 13-15, 2024: Closed
*January 16, 2024: 9am to 5pm

Semester hours resume on January 17, 2024

Did you know you could check out current and back issues of periodicals/magazines from the SMFA Library*? Our holdings cover current news coverage to architecture to cinema/film to fibers and many more!

Featured, in no particular order:
- Frieze, n.239
- Lux, n.8
- Pressing Matters, n.24
- American Craft, v.83 n.4
- Artasiapacific, iss.134
- Canvas, iss.109
- The Art Newspaper, v.320 n.361
- Poetry, v.223 n.3
- Surface Design, v.47 n.3

*limit 3 issues at a time

Highlighting newer Native Indigenous voices in our collection.

In no particular order:
- Indigenous Futurism: transcending past/present/future
- Miradas: indígena originaria campesinas
- Moving the Museum: indigenous + Canadian art at the AGO
- Making History: IAIA museum of contemporary Native arts
- Riopelle: the call of northern landscapes and indigenous cultures
- Robert Houle: red is beautiful
- Larger than Memory: contemporary art from indigenous north America
- Fish-ins & Black/Native Solidarity in the 1960s
- Shifting Grounds: landscape I'm contemporary Native American art
- Shuvinai Ashoona: mapping worlds
- Dana Claxton: fringing the cube
- Matt Magee: works 2012-2018
- Jean LaMarr
- Survivance: vol III indigenous poesis
- Visual Voices: contemporary Chickasaw art
- Art for a New Understanding: Native voices, 1950s to now
- Exposure: Native art + political ecology

Throwback to this past weekend! The table at The Boston Art Book Fair hosted by

Which SMFA era do you resonate with most?

Printed Navigations Through and Beyond SMFA: Selected Course Catalogs, Student Publications, and Alumni Magazines (1877-present)
- on view in the Well Gallery until 11.03.2023

We continue to celebrate National Hispanic-American Heritage with a swap from . These publications usually held at the Music Library can currently be found and checked out at the SMFA Library!

Celebrating National Coming Out Day with select readings from our collection:

Spinning by Tillie Walden (GV850 .W25 A3 2017)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (PS3622 .U96 O52 2019)
Gender Q***r by Maia Kobabe (PN6727 .K646 G46 2022)
When I Came Out by Anne M. K. Lorentzen (HQ75.4 .L67 A3 2020)
The Gay Agenda by A. Molesso & C. Needham (HQ76.8 .I-5 M65 2020)

featuring: Gay Blanket by Leslie Hall (SMFA Alum)

New signage! 💅🏻

In 1998, SMFA's Grossman Gallery and Fantagraphics Books published Art School Superstars, a project by artists Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio. According to the back cover, "As initiated by artists Grennan and Sperandio for the SMFA's Grossman Gallery, Art School Superstars presents a near random sampling of the cartoon portraits and opinions of students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Are they the ART STARS OF TOMORROW?"

In 1998, SMFA's Grossman Gallery and Fantagraphics Books published Art School Superstars, a project by artists Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio. According to the back cover, "As initiated by artists Grennan and Sperandio for the SMFA's Grossman Gallery, Art School Superstars presents a near random sampling of the cartoon portraits and opinions of students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Are they the ART STARS OF TOMORROW?"

In 1998, SMFA's Grossman Gallery and Fantagraphics Books published Art School Superstars, a project by artists Simon Grennan and Christopher Sperandio. According to the back cover, "As initiated by artists Grennan and Sperandio for the SMFA's Grossman Gallery, Art School Superstars presents a near random sampling of the cartoon portraits and opinions of students at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Are they the ART STARS OF TOMORROW?"

The first blooms of the season in the !
🥬 Collard greens (Brassica oleracea) on the atrium balcony
🌿 Red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) and
🍓 Common strawberry (Fragaria virginica) on the library balcony
Visit go.tufts.edu/smfagarden to learn more!

Event alert! 🧶🌱 Stop by for the dynamic duo of plants and fiber arts as we host a sowing/sewing double-header on Tuesday, April 11 from 12:30 to 2 pm! Join Fiber Arts Club for knitting, crochet, and embroidery, and plant seeds or houseplant cuttings with Plant Club! Both events are in room B303 and supplies will be provided. Sow seeds from our Seed Library to take home or to grow in the SMFA Garden. We’ll have soil and small containers to plant in, or bring your own — like an empty plastic cup with holes poked in the bottom, or even a toilet paper tube! To see the list of seeds available, visit go.tufts.edu/smfaseedlibrary or find the link in our bio.

Next Friday, April 7, we're excited to host a presentation by the Tufts Silklab! Professor and Silklab Director Fiorenzo Omenetto will give a talk about the lab's research with this incredible natural material, reimagining and repurposing silk for myriad uses across the arts and sciences. Join us from 10 - 11:30 am in room B303!
This talk is organized by the SMFA Sustainability Committee 🐛 Email [email protected] to RSVP and follow for more about sustainability at SMFA!
Pictured books from our collection:
1 & 2) Silk and Colour from the Collezione Antonio Ratti
3 & 4) Kumihimo: Japanese Silk Braiding Techniques by Catherine Martin

One week from today, join us for an afternoon of crafts and snacks inspired by our own Floridian librarian Carrie! Help us make a big alligator out of paper (because why not), bring your own project to work on, or just hang out and pretend it’s still spring break! 🦩🐊🌺✂️🧶

Calling all plant lovers! Join us for the first meeting of the ✨new✨SMFA Plant Club! Stop by on Tuesday, March 28 between 1 and 2 pm for a general interest meeting and plant giveaway in room B303. And check out the Plant Club’s Propagation Trading Post in the library window, where you can swap cuttings from your houseplants for NEW PLANTS! 🌱🌿🪴