Prizes Awarded by the Department of Art
Students may compete for four prizes awarded annually by the Department of Art. Detailed application information and submission deadlines for each of the individual prizes are posted below early in the spring semester.
In addition to the four prizes awarded by the Department of Art, the Smith College Musuem of Art also offers the Tryon Prizes for Writing and Art.
The Megan Hart Jones Studio Art Prize was established in 1987 by family and friends in memory of Megan Hart Jones ’88. The prize is awarded annually to one undergraduate for outstanding work in drawing, photography, painting, sculpture, architecture, printmaking, or the graphic arts. Normally announced on Ivy Day, winners of the Megan Hart Jones Studio Award receive a substantial cash prize.
How To Apply
The Megan Hart Jones Studio Art Prize is no longer accepting applications for the 2023 Academic Year. Please check back in early 2024 for the 2024 Application.
2022-2023 Recipients
- Calvin Morriss ’25 - Comfort
- Lily Watson ’25 - Last Supper
- Kloe Keidel ’25 - The Uninvited Guest (or “Sick Bird”)
Established in 1978 by friends and former students of Professor Lehmann, this prize is awarded annually to seniors majoring in the history of art to support educational travel opportunities. Preference is given to students interested in pursuing the study of art history, especially classical antiquity, at the graduate level. Classical studies majors and archaeology minors are also encouraged to apply.
How To Apply
The Phyllis Williams Lehmann Travel Award is no longer accepting applications for the 2023 Academic Year. Please check back in early 2024 for the 2024 Application.
2022–2023 Recipients
Flora Arnsberger ’23, Sally (Xiaomeng) Zhang ’23
Established in 1990 by family and friends in memory of Elizabeth Killian Roberts ’45, this prize is awarded annually for the best drawing. Entries are judged by faculty in the Department of Art. Normally announced on Ivy Day, winners of the Roberts Award receive a substantial cash prize.
How To Apply
The Elizabeth Killian Roberts Prize is no longer accepting applications for the 2023 Academic Year. Please check back in early 2024 for the 2024 Application.
2022–2023 Recipients
Ava Harper ’24J
The Enid Silver Winslow ’54 Prize in Art History is awarded annually for the best student paper completed for an art history course taught at Smith. A student can submit only one paper for consideration. Papers are judged anonymously by a committee of art history faculty. Traditionally announced on Ivy Day, winners of the Winslow award receive a substantial cash prize.
How to Apply
The Enid Silver Winslow ’54 Prize in Art History is no longer accepting applications for the 2023 Academic Year. Please check back in early 2024 for the 2024 Application.
2022–2023 Recipients
Dinah Rogers ’26
Form, Function, Fragment: Content within Structural Context in Taddeo di Bartolo's Death of Saint Peter Martyr
Tori Currier ’23J
Distinguishing Sham Gothic Ruins: Political Monuments and Art Objects
The Toledo Museum of Art and Smith College offer a paid summer internship for two qualifying students interested in exploring a career in art museums. The recipients of the Alice Williams Carson '34 Endowed Internship work in the Collections area on the development of major curatorial projects.
All Smith students are eligible; however, coursework in Art History is essential. Art and Museum Concentration students are encouraged to apply. Internships generally begin in mid-June and run for eight weeks; the exact start and end dates may vary, depending on students' schedules and the needs of the museum.
How to Apply
The Alice Williams Carson Endowed Internship at the Toledo Museum of Art is no longer accepting applications for the 2023 Academic Year. Please check back in early 2024 for the 2024 Application.
2022–2023 Recipients
Nora McGarry ’24, Lulu Wang ’26
The Elizabeth Schroeder Hoxie ’69 Memorial Fund provides financial support for Department of Art majors and minors (current sophomores and juniors only) who undertake a summer internship of approximately 35 hours of work per week.
How to Apply
The Elizabeth Schroeder Hoxie ’69 Memorial Fund is no longer accepting applications for the 2023 Academic Year. Please check back in early 2024 for the 2024 Application.
2021–22 Recipient
Paige Oliveira ’22
We recognize that these are challenging times to find and confirm internships and that many opportunities have been cancelled, postponed or significantly modified due to the new coronavirus pandemic. We are working to identify new and updated opportunities as they emerge and will be maintaining this information in the dropdown lists below. Please note that the information provided here is for general information purposes only and does not necessarily reflect our endorsement or recommendation.
In addition to the resources provided in the dropdown lists below, Smith College provides numerous additional resources including those available through the Lazarus Center for Career Development, Praxis Program and Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).
- The Walter Feldman Fellowship for Emerging Artists
- College Art Association opportunity listings
- New York Foundation for the Arts
- Rhizome.org
- Mass Cultural Council ArtSake
- New Museum
- Hampshire College-Institute for Curatorial Practice
- Creative Capital professional development for artists
- Artjobs - Open calls and opportunities, including internships.
- Smithsonian Internships
- Capsule: Graphic Design / Illustration / Animation Internship Opportunity
- ST culture advocacy: Video Editor Intern for Film & Arts Festival
- Campus Theatre: Projectionist / Cinema Engineer Internship
Studio Assistantship/Work Study/Skill-Building Opportunities
- Penland School of Crafts (Penland, NC) - Studio assistantships, classes, scholarships, residencies, fellowships
- Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (Gatlinburg, TN) - Studio assistantships, work study, classes, residencies
- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Deer Isle, ME) - Residencies, classes, scholarships
- Peters Valley School of Craft (Layton, NJ) - Studio assistantships, studio manager positions, residencies
- Pilchuck Glass School (Stanwood, WA) - Studio assistantships, scholarships, classes, residencies
- Frogman's Print Workshop (Council Bluffs, IA) - Studio Assistantships, scholarships, classes, academic credit
- Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (NYC)
Printmaking
- Printeresting Classifieds
- SGC International
- Women's Studio Workshop (Rosendale, NY) - Paid 6 month studio or arts administration internships w/ housing and studio access; residencies, classes
- Zea Mays Printmaking (Florence, MA) - Unpaid internships, studio membership/residencies/workshops
- Frogman's Print Workshop (Council Bluffs, IA) - Studio Assistantships, scholarships, classes, academic credit
- Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop (NYC)
Photography
Architecture Competitions
Artist Residencies
- Association of Art Museum Curators internship listings
- College Art Association opportunity listings
- American Alliance of Museums
- New England Museum Association
- Global Museum
- Katzenberger Art History Internship at the Smithsonian
- Vose Galleries (Boston) Scholarship—For undergraduate or graduate students studying historic American art
- Boston Society of Architects/AIA—The Boston chapter of the AIA has an annual undergraduate architectural history symposium.
- Cleveland Museum of Art Opportunities
- Historic Northampton Museum
- Historic Deerfield Summer Fellowship Program—Historic Deerfield, Inc., is dedicated to the heritage and preservation of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and the Connecticut River Valley
- Fulbright Program—For art historians with some language ability, the Fulbright is a great opportunity
- Studio Museum in Harlem
- MoMA Internships
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Internship
- Guggenheim Museum Internship
- New Museum
- Whitney Museum Internship
- Phillips Collection Internship (Washington D.C.)
- The Barnes Foundation Careers and Internships (Philadelphia)
- Get Published!
Remote & Virtual Art Opportunities
The following museums and galleries are offering virtual tours, videos, talks, archives and access to digital collections. Please note that the information provided here is for general information purposes only and does not necessarily reflect our endorsement or recommendation.
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY, USA)
The Clark (Williamstown, MA, USA)
The Courtauld Institute of Art (London, England)
The Frick Collection (New York, NY, USA)
Google Arts & Culture (offering virtual experiences at many museums around the world)
Henie Onstad (Oslo, Norway)
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Copenhagen, Denmark)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, USA)
The Met 360° Project This award-winning series of six short videos invites viewers around the world to virtually visit The Met's art and architecture in a fresh, immersive way. Created using spherical 360° technology, it allows viewers to explore some of the Museum's iconic spaces as never before.
MetCollects MetCollects celebrates works of art new to the collection by borrowing the fresh eyes of photographers and the enthusiastic voices of curators, conservators, and, at times, the living artists, collectors, and supporters.
The Modern (Fort Worth, TX, USA)
Musée du Louvre (Paris, France)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, USA)
The National Galleries Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland)
National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, USA)
National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washinton, DC, USA)
The Palace Museum (Beijing, China)
Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan Italy)
Platform: New York, featuring 12 New York-based galleries (New York, NY, USA)
The Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam, Holland)
Smith College Museum of Art (Northampton, MA, USA)
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Holland)
Tallinn Art Hall (Tallinn, Estonia)
Walker Center (Minneapolis, MN, USA)
The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD, USA)
Wellcome Collection (London, England)
Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY, USA)
The Vatican’s Museums (Vatican City, Rome, Italy)
Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland)
This list provides some ideas for opportunities to enjoy remote and online events, lectures and interviews made available by other arts organizations. Please note that the information provided here is for general information purposes only and does not necessarily reflect our endorsement or recommendation.
Visualizing Abolition (Institute of the Arts & Sciences, UC Santa Cruz)
Visualizing Abolition is an online event series featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. The series highlights the creative practices and critical dialogue currently underway to imagine and create a world beyond prisons and policing. A conversation with noted activists and scholars Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent will launch the online event series October 20, 2020, 4–5:30pm PST. Events will follow on a regular basis until May 11, 2021. The events are all free and open to the public. Advanced registration is required.
Carpenter Center Online Programming (Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts)
The Carpenter Center's fall online programming includes conversations between Cauleen Smith and curator Amber Esseiva; Ja’Tovia Gary and Frank B. Wilderson III; David Reinfurt and Larissa Harris; and Kemi Adeyemi with Jessica Bell Brown, Lauren Haynes, and Jamillah James. For each of these conversations, the Carpenter Center will also publish a limited-edition booklet with an edited transcript of the exchange. These booklets will be available for free both as digital downloads and in hard copy upon request.
Women Leaders in the Arts (Brooklyn Museum)
The directors of three major metropolitan museums—Nathalie Bondil (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts), Kaywin Feldman (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), and Anne Pasternak (Brooklyn Museum)—come together to discuss the changing role of museums in the 21st century. The three leaders reflect on their experiences at the helm of encyclopedic museums, explore the challenges museums will face in the future, and consider how cultural institutions can become more accessible, inclusive spaces for community engagement and social justice.
Art Chat @ Five (National Museum of Women in the Arts)
Jumpstart your weekend with art: Every Friday at 5 p.m. (EDT), join NMWA educators for informal art chats about selected artworks from NMWA’s collection. Each week a new sampling of artworks will be considered.
The Artist Project (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
The Artist Project asks artists to reflect on what art is and what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art. Their ways of seeing and experiencing art reveal the power of a museum and encourage all visitors to look in a personal way.
Connections (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Connections asks curators, conservators, librarians, educators, editors, designers, photographers, security personnel, and others to offer personal perspectives on the collection. The series introduces an illuminating means of access to The Met collection.
Viewpoints: Body Language (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
How does the sculpted body communicate? Hear from Met experts, leading authorities, and rising stars, each with a diverse perspective on the language of gesture, facial expression, and pose.
82nd & Fifth (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
82nd & Fifth asks 100 curators to talk about 100 works of art that changed the way they see the world. One curator, one work of art, two minutes at a time. This series demonstrates that the voice of authority, up close, is inspirational.
Audio Interviews (Museum of Modern Art)
Listen to artists, curators, and others speak about the Museum’s collection and special exhibitions.
Penny Stamps Speaker Series (University of Michigan)
In a partnership designed to keep the community curious, engaged, and connected, the entire Penny Stamps Speaker Series video archive is available to stream online.
Watch + Listen (Hammer Museum)
The Hammer's lectures, symposia, film series, readings, and performances aim to spark meaningful encounters with art and ideas.
Video + Audio (Institute of Contemporary Art / Boston)
Explore videos and audio recordings including exhibition previews, artist interviews, studio visits, and talks between artists and curators.
Clark Connects (The Clark Art Institute)
While The Clark Art Institute’s galleries are closed and public programs temporarily suspended, the Clark is presenting new virtual programming as part of the Clark Connects project. New content is added every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at noon.
Public Art, Private Vision: bell hooks with Theaster Gates and Laurie Anderson (The New School)
bell hooks, Theaster Gates and Laurie Anderson discuss art in popular culture today in this talk presented by Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at The New School.
RAP in the Archives (The Clark Art Institute)
In honor of The Clark’s regular Tuesday evening lectures, every Tuesday they offer a lecture from a previous season.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series (VALS) 2020 (Syracuse University School of Art)
VALS is co-presented with In Plain Sight (IPS), a public collaborative artwork of 80+ artists and organizations dedicated to the abolition of immigrant detention and the United States culture of incarceration, and is led by artists Cassils and rafa esparza. IPS includes artist voices who are established and emerging, artists who have been detained, undocumented artists, indigenous artists, and artists descended from those who survived Japanese American incarceration, the Holocaust, and the afterlife of the AIDS crisis. Lectures take place each Thursday, September 3 - November 19, 2020, at 6:30pm (EST).
A Conversation Between ZHENG Bo, Artist and Yao Wu, Jane Chace Carroll Curator of Asian Art
The Lewis Global Studies Center had planned to host the artist Zheng Bo as our Spring 2020 Leader-in-Residence. Though that residency was necessarily postponed, the artist agreed to co-create a video interview, discussing his art, his activism and his unique vision of what he calls “our inter-species relations” with the world. A self-described “eco-socialist conceptual artist,” Zheng Bo has created award-winning installations and workshops throughout Asia and Europe, highlighting the impact of climate change and offering an alternative, responsible strategy for living on earth.
Art History From Home (Whitney Museum of Art)
These weekly online talks by the Whitney's Joan Tisch Teaching Fellows highlight works in the Museum's collection to illuminate critical topics in American art from 1900 to the present. During each thirty-minute session, participants are invited to comment and ask questions through a moderated chat.
Whitney Screens (Whitney Museum of Art)
Engage with art in the Whitney's collection with Whitney Screens. Every Friday, they’re featuring special screenings of video works recently brought into the collection, all by emerging artists, in keeping with the Whitney’s long tradition of supporting artists at the beginning and during key moments of their careers. Screenings will be live-streamed from Vimeo, beginning at 7 p.m.
Glasstire {Texas Visual Art}, Five-Minute Tours
Video tours of art exhibitions in Texas.
Critical Bounds Podcast
Critical Bounds is a podcast founded, produced, and hosted by Nicole Bearden (Smith ’19), which considers contemporary art, global issues, and current events that influence and are in turn manifested in artistic practice, through critical conversations with emerging contemporary artists and curators.
Sculpting Lives
This podcast series explores the lives and careers of five women (Dame Barbara Hepworth, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Kim Lim, Phyllida Barlow, and Rana Begum) who worked (and are still working) against preconceptions, forging successful careers and contributing in ground-breaking ways to the histories of sculpture and art.
Serpentine Galleries Podcast
Seasonal podcast on art and ideas featuring thematic episodes that bring together artists, writers and thinkers of our time to explore timely questions around technology, ecology and equality.
Talk Art
Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament host Talk Art, a podcast dedicated to the world of art featuring exclusive interviews with leading artists, curators & gallerists.
FIELD TRIP: Art Across Canada
This online platform delivers arts experiences with some of Canada’s most celebrated artists in a national partnership with leading arts organizations. From children’s programs to artist talks and workshops, these activities are designed to advance the work of our nation’s organizations through digital platforms for different age groups, on a range of subjects, that engage communities and support artists, particularly during the challenges presented during a pandemic.
Yale Photo Pop-Up Lecture Series
In each Q&A, Yale School of Art’s Director of Graduate Studies in Photography, Gregory Crewdson, asks a set list of questions to engage each artist in conversation about their practice, as well as how they’re adapting and responding to the current crisis. While the recordings of all of these online events cannot be made publicly available, select clips and full segments are published. The final talk in the series was hosted on Sunday, May 10, 2020.
Virtual Public Lecture Series Archive (Harvard University Graduate School of Design)
This list provides some additional resources for identifying remote and online arts opportunities. Please note that the information provided here is for general information purposes only and does not necessarily reflect our endorsement or recommendation.
MCN Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning and Online Collections
Provides links to numerous digital archives and libraries, museums providing virtual tours, online exhibits and collections and e-learning opportunities.