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The Botanic Garden of Smith College

Temporary Exhibits

Our temporary exhibits serve as an educational opportunity through art that features a variety of botanical and horticultural themes, as well as on social and environmental issues. Here you can see past exhibits that have been on display in the Church Gallery as well as throughout Lyman Plant House.

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Coming Soon: Pollination Investigation

Pollination Investigation is a new poster exhibition from The Smithsonian Institution Exhibits Traveling Services and Smithsonian Gardens coming to the Church Gallery in Lyman Plant House this fall. The exhibit invites visitors to explore profiles on types of pollinators including, bees, beetles, butterflies, hummingbirds, flies, moths, and the wind; and the essential role that pollinators play in the natural world. 

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Past Exhibits

Botanic Garden - Exhibit

A REIMAGINING: What is a label?

This exhibit showcases the work of Gretchen Hammell ’24, and is the result of her second practical e...

  • Botanic Garden - Exhibit
  • January 29, 2024
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Botanic Garden - Exhibit

Between Bloom and Breadth

This show boasted the visionary imagination and interpretation of three of Smith’s studio art majors...

  • Botanic Garden - Exhibit
  • March 1, 2023
art in bloom
Botanic Garden - Exhibit

Papermaking with Plants

Featuring student work from the 2023 J-Term Course, "Papermaking With Plants: Material Explorations,...

  • Botanic Garden - Exhibit
  • February 1, 2023
papermaking with plants
Botanic Garden - Exhibit

Into the Glasshouse

Over three semesters, students in Susan Montgomery’s Studio Art Foundations and Drawing I classes ob...

  • Botanic Garden - Exhibit
  • January 20, 2023
into the glasshouse