Upcoming Exhibitions

Scents and Medical Sensibility
Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa, MD
Exhibition Dates: March 3 – May 1
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 11, 6:00PM-8:00PM

It's timely for the olfactory sense to be acknowledged from its historical base position to its primacy in hotwiring human brains to our memories and emotions. Newer studies reveal the diagnostic values of detecting certain infections, metabolic diseases and malignancies through the amplification of the sense of smell through electronic noses. The painters, designers, explorers, physicists, sculptors and mathematicians selected for this special exhibition explore fragrances as they pertain to health and aesthetics. It is the sense for our times; it realizes the ineffable.

Upstairs Gallery

Hiroshima Children's Drawings: Finding Hope in War's Aftermath
Presented by All Souls Unitarian Church as part of the National Cherry Blossom Festival 2010
March 27-April 24

In response to a request in 1947 to send school supplies to the children of the Honkawa School in Hiroshima, the children of All Souls Church, Unitarian in Washington, DC collected over a half-ton of materials.  Several months later using the art supplies they had received, the children in Hiroshima sent 48 watercolor and crayon drawings that reflected not the devastation of war, but vibrant depictions of the abundant life they hoped for.  This is a story of healing and reconciliation between societies that had once been bitter enemies.

How to Get Off a Well-Traveled Road…
Featuring the works of Alex Todorovich
Exhibition Dates: May 5 – June 12
Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 6:00PM-8:00PM

Alex Todorovich (1950-2009) was an untrained, or naïve, artist, who first turned to art when she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 54.  Her diverse body of work—collage drawings, assemblage sculptures and beaded jewelry—integrates years of experience in folk art, decorative arts, and ornamentation.  By giving form to her internal dialogs and philosophical tips on life she addresses not only the existential and cultural experience of cancer, but also the social body of love, celebration, and connection that comes with healing.  She challenges us to walk with her as she attempts to answer her own questions: How do you leave a life before you are ready? How do you let go, to die? This intimate collection moves us through Alex’s outer struggle with the physical cancer to the inner passage of the Self as it prepares to leap off the well-traveled road of a precious life. 

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Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts is a Washington DC-based, non-denominational, 501(c)3 nonprofit. We welcome people of all races and religious traditions. Smith Farm Center has been awarded the Susan G. Komen Cancer Foundation Virginia Kelly Award for Excellence in Cancer Survivorship in 1997 and 1998, the 2004 Innovations Award by the Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center and has been designated as a Catalogue for Philanthropy Charity. Smith Farm Center provides scholarship assistance for our programs on a needs basis, whenever possible.