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.