Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs has announced the return of their popular Family Saturdays workshops. The workshops take place at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, located on the campus of Skidmore College.
The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College is a pioneer of exploration and learning. A cultural anchor of the Capital Region, the Tang has become a model for university art museums across the country. The museum hosts exhibition programs that bring together visual and performing arts with interdisciplinary ideas from history, economics, biology, dance, and physics, to name just a few. The Tang has one of the most rigorous faculty-engagement initiatives in the nation. Along with this, a robust publication and touring exhibition program that extends the museum’s reach far beyond its walls.
The Tang Teaching Museum’s award-winning building, designed by architect Antoine Predock, serves as a visual metaphor for the convergence of art and ideas. The Museum is open to the public on Thursday from noon to 9 pm and Friday through Sunday from noon to 5 pm, with expanded hours beginning July 5 to include Tuesday–Wednesday, noon–5 pm.
Family Saturday programs include touring of the gallery for selected sculpture and painting. Participants will then discuss the artwork with guides and create their own sculpture. Family Saturdays are free for all, with no registration required. The program runs from 2-3:30 PM and will officially kick off on February 3. For more information, visit the Tang website at Tang.Skidmore.edu.
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College invites the public to its February programs, featuring tours, screenings, workshops, and special guests, including the acclaimed multimedia artist Mickalene Thomas, composer-drummer Makaya McCraven, and the artists Antonius-Tín Bui and Theresa-Xuan Bui.
All events are free and open to the public. Regular gallery hours are Tuesday–Sunday, noon–5 pm, with extended hours until 9 pm on Thursdays. Some events will take place outside regular gallery hours.
FEBRUARY EVENTS
Saturday, February 3, 2 pm
Family Saturday: Floating Sculptures
A multigenerational art-viewing and art-making workshop, for children 5 and older with an adult companion, inspired by the art on view by Steven Roden. Also February 17.
Sunday, February 4, 2 pm
Tang Guide Tour with Jess Bauder
Join us each Sunday for a docent-led tour. Also February 11, February 18, and February 25.
Thursday, February 8, 6 pm
Winter/Miller Lecture with Mickalene Thomas
The seventh annual lecture features acclaimed multidisciplinary artist Mickalene Thomas, lauded for her bedazzled portraits of Black women. Her work is on view in the exhibition Studio/Archive. Her appearance is by invitation of Abigail Svetlik ’24, the 2023-24 Eleanor Linder Winter ’43 Intern.
Saturday, February 10, 5 pm
2024 Spring Opening Reception and Special Performance
Join us as we celebrate our current exhibitions with a reception and a drop-in interactive performancein the elevator entitled together you’re home, now where are we? by artists Antonius-Tín Bui and Theresa-Xuan Bui in their exhibition Elevator Music 48: Alone, only in flesh.
Monday, February 12, 6 pm
Whole Grain: Films Curated by Emily Abi-Kheirs
Emily Abi-Kheirs, part of the team that organized the 2023 Flaherty NYC program “MAKA: Many Eyed Vessel,” will present a selection of experimental documentary films. A discussion follows. Whole Grain is the Tang’s ongoing series of screenings of experimental film and videos.
Thursday, February 15, 6 pm
Beat Science: A Conversation with Makaya McCraven
Drummer-composer Makaya McCraven will be in discussion with Angus McCullough, musician and MDOCS Instructor, in advance of McCraven’s Zankel performance on February 17. The New York Times called McCraven “one of the best arguments for jazz’s vitality.” His latest album, In These Times, emerges as a polytemporal collection of compositions, drawing inspiration from broader cultural struggles and the artist’s personal experiences within a multinational, working-class musician community.
Thursday, February 22, 6 pm
Whole Grain: Young Soul Rebels (1991)
See an early work by artist Isaac Julien, his delightfully rebellious debut feature about sex, politics, music, and friendship in 1977 London. During the week of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee, a young black London DJ, who together with his gay partner operates a pirate radio station, becomes implicated in the murder of a mutual friend. Julien’s Lessons of the Hour is on view in the Malloy Wing.
February 26 and 28, and March 1
Inscribing the Sacred: Creating Torah and Art
Rabbi Linda Motzkin, the former Jewish Chaplain at Skidmore College, returns to campus for a series of events on Jewish culture and sacred arts. Motzkin delivers the Perlow Lecture, “Women and the Making of Torah,” Monday, February 26, 5:30 pm; gives an artist’s talk, “Art and the Sacred,” on Wednesday, February 28, 5:30 pm; and leads a workshop, Community Torah Project: Making Parchment from a Local Deerskin, Friday, March 1, 1 pm.
Thursday, February 29, noon
Curator’s Tour of Studio/Archive
Join Dayton Director Ian Berry for a tour.
EXHIBITIONS
- Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour A tour-de-force, ten-screen video installation explores the life of Frederick Douglass. Opens February 3.
Studio/Archive An ambitious selection of photographic works from the Tang collection by artists who span the globe. Opens February 3. - Elevator Music 47: Xenometok for Mutualism An experimental, multimedia artwork explores the Tibetan diaspora through music, video, and dance, featuring artist Valentina Demicheli, activist Paelden Tamnyen, and musician YESH. Closes February 4.
- Abject Anatomy Photographs, prints, drawings, and paintings from the Tang collection in which the human body is transformed ask us to reflect on fears about our own bodily nonconformance and that of those around us. Opens February 10.
- Elevator Music 48: Alone, only in flesh This site-specific, collaborative meditation on three diasporic artists’ experiences melds the work of Antonius-Tín Bui, Theresa-Xuan Bui, and MIZU to engage all five senses with spoken word poetry, experimental cello, traditional Vietnamese áo dài (garments), Southeast Asian home goods, and Asian snacks. Opens February 10.
- Hyde Cabinet #23: Contre Le Sexisme A photograph of Kim Gordon by Chris Cuffaro with the album insert from a CD edition of A Thousand Leaves by Sonic Youth to explore seemingly contradictory concepts of girlhood and femininity. Closes February 25.
- Yvette Molina: A Promise to the Leaves The Mexican-American artist Yvette Molina transforms the Tang mezzanine into a community space. The two-year project, currently in its first iteration, also features work by the artists Bel Falleiros and Cinthya Santos-Briones.
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