SARATOGA SPRINGS — The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College reopened to the public on Feb. 3 and announces 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. These 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:
• Friday, February 11, Noon: Tang Student Advisory Council member Paige Meade ’22 gives a tour of Hyde Cabinet #15: Doomsday.
• Thursday, February 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 gives 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: Assistant Director for Curatorial Affairs and Malloy Curator Rachel Seligman on Thursday, May 12, at noon, for a tour of Lauren Kelley: Location Scouting
All tours are free and open to the public. 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, call 518-580-8080, or visit tang.skidmore.edu or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
