Courtesy Tang Museum
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College has reopened and will host a series of upcoming tours that are free and open to the public.
Tang guide tours, Sundays at 2 p.m. during the spring semester through May 1, provide visitors with an overview of the museum and what’s on view. The tours are given by Tang Guides, Skidmore College students and visitor services associates who are part of a program that introduces them to the Tang and the museum world, trains them how to be gallery ambassadors and tour guides, provides guidance in how to talk about art, and gives them valuable experiences interacting with visitors.
Curator’s tours feature the organizing curator or curators providing in-depth information of an exhibition. They are set for:
Thursday, Feb. 17, noon: assistant director of curatorial affairs and Malloy curator Rachel Seligman; assistant professor of art history Nancy Thebault, and students from the Scribner Seminar; “Outsiders? Folk and Self-Taught Artists in the United States” give a tour of On Their Own Terms.
Thursday, March 24, noon: associate curator Rebecca McNamara give a tour of Radical Fiber: Threads Connecting Art and Science, which includes the community-created crochet coral reef Saratoga Springs Satellite Reef.
Thursday, April 14, noon: Dayton director Ian Berry gives a tour of Opener 34: Ruby Sky Stiler—New Patterns.
Thursday, May 12, noon: Seligman on Thursday, May 12, at noon, leads the tour of Lauren Kelley: Location Scouting.
The museum is open Thursdays noon to 9 p.m., and Fridays through Sundays noon to 5 p.m. All visitors are asked to follow Skidmore College protocols for COVID-19, which include wearing high-quality KN95 masks (or the equivalent, such as N95 or KN94) and showing proof of vaccination plus booster shot via a vaccination card, a copy of a vaccination card, or the Excelsior Pass.
For more information, contact the Visitors Services Desk at 518-580-8080, or visit tang.skidmore.edu or email tang@skidmore.edu.