Sandy Skoglund is an American photographer and installation artist. Her contributions to photography have advanced the medium as a form of conceptual art. She is well known for her intricately designed environments, which utilize painterly and sculptural techniques within staged and performative scenes. Photography critic Andy Grundberg notes that Skoglund’s work contains “all the hallmarks of the new attitude toward photographs: they embrace blatant artificiality; they allude to and draw from an ‘image world’ of endless pre-existing photographs, and they reduce the world to the status of a film set.”

The Smith College Museum of Art, abbreviated SCMA, is the art museum of Smith College, located in Northampton, Massachusetts. First established in 1870, the museum is part of the American Alliance of Museums, Five College Consortium, and Museums10 consortiums.