The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College announces Tang at Home Studio series for the summer. These online art activities bring the Tang experience into participants’ homes every Sunday from July 18 to August 15 starting at 11:00 AM.
Tang at Home Studio gives kids and their families the chance to explore their creativity, make new things, and share their artwork with peers! Each online session lasts one hour and includes a guided exploration of an artwork, information about the artist, and a hands-on art project led by Sunny Ra, The Laurie M. Tisch Educator for K-12 and Community Programs, with assistance from Skidmore College student interns.
How does it work?
To ensure a fun sharing environment, registration is required. The live Sunday sessions are best suited for kids ages 5-12 and their adult companions, but everyone is welcome!
Registration opens on the Tang website on the Monday before each Sunday session. Then you can explore, learn, and prepare materials. On the Sunday from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, we will gather on Zoom to discuss our ideas about the artwork, engage in an art-making activity, and share our creations!
For the best experience, log in via computer instead of a mobile device, if possible. This will enhance each participant’s ability to view artwork and videos, and to engage in conversations with one other.
How do I register?
Registration will be available through a link posted on the Tang website at http://tang.skidmore.edu on Monday for that week’s session. Registration is free. To register, you will be asked for your name, email address, the number of participants, the name or names of your child or children, their ages, and your ZIP code. Once you register, you will receive project instructions, a list of materials, and a link to Sunday’s Zoom meeting. Register early, as space is limited.
Questions?
Contact Sunny Ra, The Laurie M. Tisch Educator for K-12 and Community Programs, via email at sra@skidmore.edu.
TANG AT HOME STUDIO SCHEDULE
July 18: Scrolled Stories
We will explore artworks by Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander and discuss how she combines Indo-Persian manuscript painting with contemporary art practice in a wide range of forms including painting, drawing, animation, and installation. After looking at her works, we will create our own scroll-styled artwork that tells our own unique story.
July 25: Check Your Mailbox!
We will take a look at the postcards in the exhibition Ellsworth Kelly: Postcards, and see how Kelly created these collaged works and how they influenced his abstract paintings, sculptures, and prints. Afterward, we will create our own collages postcards that we can post to a friend with a special message.
August 1: What’s in a picture?
We will look at and discuss the artwork by Nigerian born artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose works explore her multicultural background. After taking a close look at her large body of works and her use of a wide range of media such as collage, digital images and paint, we will create our own multilayered artwork that expresses our identity.
August 8: Colorful Music
This week, we will look at different pages of Sarah Cain’s music book, in which the artist paints with gouache right on sheets of music! After thinking about possible relationships between how we experience color and music, we will create our own music sheets that continue to explore how color and music can influence and change the way we experience the world.
August 15: Magical Abstraction
This week, we will explore Ouattara Watts’ Wait Until Tomorrow and jazz musician Sun Ra’s album covers. Both artists push the boundaries of art in their own mediums, creating imaginary, symbolic and magical experiences. Let’s explore their worlds together and improvise our own artworks that uses symbols, rhythm, lines, shapes, color and sound as starting points of inspiration.
Family Saturdays
We’re also excited to announce the return of in-person Family Saturdays. Each 90-minute session features a close-looking exercise at a work of art, an art-making activity, and a moment to share new creations. These multigenerational events are for children 5 and older with a parent, grandparent, or other guardian. Family Saturdays will run from July 17 through August 14. There will be two sessions each week starting at 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM, with each session capped at five children with one adult each. Reservations are required. For more information, visithttps://tang.skidmore.edu/calendar/category/17-family-saturdays.
About the Tang Teaching Museum
The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College is a pioneer of interdisciplinary exploration and learning. A cultural anchor of New York’s Capital Region, the Tang’s approach has become a model for university art museums across the country — with 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, and 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 Tang closed to the public in March 2020, due to the coronavirus, though it remained opened online and opened to the Skidmore campus community. July 10, 2021, marks the museums official reopening to the public. The Tang is a Blue Star Museum and welcomes active military and their families. Museum hours: Thursday to Sunday, Noon to 5pm. http://tang.skidmore.edu
