Please join us for the opening reception of Artist in Residence Susan Montgomery's exhibit of original work, 'Fatal Flora: Poisonous Revenge Narratives'.

Navigating the line between medicine and poison has always been tricky. Historically, women have transformed household botanicals into vital remedies and fatal toxics to shape the fate of their own lives. Fatal Flora: Poisonous Revenge Narratives asks how, in the hands of knowledgeable women, the natural world can be transformed from medicinal to murderous in a pinch, dash, or splash of ingredients. Artist in Residence, Susan Montgomery, blends history, memory, and the imagination on her canvases to recall real and mythical women who change their lives by harnessing the powers of the natural world.

Susan Montgomery teaches drawing in the Smith College Department of Art. She is a recipient of the Blanch E. Coleman Award, Mellon Foundation and a Sustainable Artist Foundation Grant. She has exhibited at venues including the Fuller Art and Craft Museum, Lyman Museum of Springfield History at the Springfield Quadrangle Museums, Five College Women’s Resource Center at Mount Holyoke College, Historic Northampton Museum, A.P.E. Ltd. Gallery and the Trustman Gallery at Simmons College.