Public Art

Watzek Library has many beautiful art pieces, both outside the building and within.

This monumental sculpture is outside the Olin Center for Physics and Chemistry.

Located in the trees just east of the Fields Center for the Visual Arts, the Experimental Art Research (EAR) Forest is a space where professors, students, and visiting artists can create sound walks, auditory experiences, storytelling, musical compositions, and more!

The JR Howard Hall Art Project is the result of a two-year dialogue with members of the Lewis & Clark community and Smith’s own communion with the college environment, an idyllic and historic property on the fringe of the urban core.

The Hoffman Gallery’s exhibitions are mounted in 3,500 square feet of modern and highly flexible space, located across a beautiful plaza from Fields Center for the Visual Arts.

The 7-foot-tall bronze sculpture shows Sacagawea carrying her son, Jean Baptiste, on her back. The Lemhi Shoshone Indian was an important translator and member of the Corps of Discovery. Despite Meriwether Lewis and William Clark recognizing her significance to the expedition, she received nothing when it concluded.

Flanking the front entrance of the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art are two bronze sentries created by Montana artist John Buck.

Lewis & Clark’s permanent memorial to York honors a key member of the Corps of Discovery too long ignored by history. An enslaved man who was a crucial contributor to the expedition, York shared in none of the fame and fortune after the journey concluded and was denied his freedom by his enslaver, William Clark.